Lost achievements

[cf.barbossa]

For some reason, all of a sudden my achievements have reset- which is annoying considering their in-game-effects. And while I can live without most of them, I was really looking forward to getting top-of-the line spectre gear on lvl 50 with "rich" achievement.

Is there any way to restore that?

I tried the console, but was unable to make it work (I don't use a US-keyboard).

[T02my]

Why in the first place you are playing for in-game achievements?

[Cerberus Shepard]

Originally posted by T02mySeriousSite.ru:

Why in the first place you are playing for in-game achievements?

becuase they unlock higher difficultys and have an effect when you import the save to Mass Effect 2...

[cf.barbossa]

Wait, what? Achievements in one game influence the experience of another?! That is plain unfair.

Does anyone know a solution, though?

[T02my]

Well I used Yandex and it did say:

Enable the console
Go to My Documents\Bioware\Mass Effect\Config
Open the BIOInput.ini file with a text editor
Under the [Engine.Console], add the ConsoleKey=Tilde line
Unlock achievements
Start the game
Open the in-game console by hitting the ` key
Type unlockachievement n where n is a number between 1 and 47. They will unlock the achievement with that number. The site I linked has a full mapping between the number and the achievement, but I just went through and enabled them all.

[AbedsBrother]

You don't need to be level 50 to obtain Spectre gear.

Completing a game on higher levels of difficulty and / or achieving Level 60 will provide you with additional bonus XP and credits when importing your save-file to Mass Effect 2. But it's not the achievements that grant the bonuses.

[cf.barbossa]

Firstly, let my thank you all for you input!

Originally posted by AbedsBrother:

You don't need to be level 50 to obtain Spectre gear.

Oh, I thought I needed lvl 50 and the "Rich" achievement in order to buy lvl 10 Spectre gear.

As for ME2- phew, that's a relief. 60 seems doable, achievements or no. And if not, well, no bonus XP... no big deal, I guess.

@T02mySeriousSite.ru: Thanks for the description. My trouble is, I'm using a German keyboard and after having edited the .ini, I don't find the correct key while running the game, the console just won't open.

As for mapping another key to the command- I don't which one will work and which string entered in the file will work. "Hash" certainly doesn't, I've tried.

Gosh, I hate this, it feels like cheating, even though strictly speaking I have been cheated by some bug. Is this a known issue, btw? Couldn't find anything on it yet, but the game isn't stricly new...

[cf.barbossa]

Ok, I've been stupid. In the .ini-file, the line "ConsoleKey=[whatever]" is not the first line in the [Engine.Console] section, but the last (if you don't add TypeKey=[whatever] after that).

Console works fine with the CapsLock-Key now.

However, achievements are not saved and get purged on every restart.

[AbedsBrother]

Originally posted by cf.barbossa:

Firstly, let my thank you all for you input!

Originally posted by AbedsBrother:

You don't need to be level 50 to obtain Spectre gear.

Oh, I thought I needed lvl 50 and the "Rich" achievement in order to buy lvl 10 Spectre gear.

As for ME2- phew, that's a relief. 60 seems doable, achievements or no. And if not, well, no bonus XP... no big deal, I guess.

You'll always get some bonus XP and credits for importing a save to ME2. Higher difficulties and levels provide higher bonuses, that's all.

All you need are credits to purchase Level X Spectre gear. The way the game's economy works, you probably won't have enough credits until around Level 35 or so. They're not level-locked or achievement-locked. You can always use the console (as you're trying to do).

Btw, best armor in the game - the Jormangund stuff - is only available via console. Devs decided not to make it generally available in the game for some reason.

[T02my]

Do people really enjoy the gameplay of first ME so you could care what gear to buy or etc?

[cf.barbossa]

Well, yes, I mostly enjoy the gameplay, although to my taste, it's a bit shooter-y for an RPG. And yes, I do care for the gear, although I haven't bought that much.

Nah, I'm not to eager to cheat, I just want my achievements back. Not that they were terribly hard to get, but what's mine is mine :-) Seriously, there seems no other way to get them back and they won't stay connected to my profile, so I guess I can forget about the bonus in ME2. Seems thats really not a problem- as long as everything else is imported.

Btw- I've had a look on the wikia and I think that the overpowered "cut" stuff should stay cut- some of it seems more like items for testing game mechanics.

[austincovello]

Originally posted by Blitz vas Grunwald:

Why in the first place you are playing for in-game achievements?

...says the person who obviously never played the game.