Achievements not unlocking? (Crafty, No Tumbler Fumbler, Jury Rigger)

[MeanJim]

I've had the game since release (pre-ordered CE), but I'm actually still on my first game after stopping several times. It's a long story involving bugs and losing a lot of time to corrupt saves.

I bought all of the DLC during the past winter sale, and got back into playing recently. At first I was going to continue my current game without the DLC enabled, but decided to go ahead and enable it. I was level 24 when I stopped playing. Since I started playing again, I'm now up to level 44, and I've completed two of the DLC, OWB and Dead Money.

I just noticed that I don't have the Crafty, No Tumbler Fumbler and Jury Rigger achievements, but I've met the requirements. On the Stats/General page of the Pip Boy, it shows I have repaired over 500 items, crafted over 10,000 items and picked 100s of locks. According to the Fallout Wiki, ammo counts toward the Crafty achievement, and I craft custom ammo all the time. I also have the Jury Rigger perk and repair my equipment constantly. I just finished Dead Money over the weekend, and picked enough locks, crafted and repaired enough items over the weekend alone to get these achievements.

I am using some mods, but nothing that should block these achievements, and I have unlocked other similar achievements (Hack the Mojave) since using these mods. I'm using the MMUE bug fix and the rest are texture replacements, weather and environment mods, nothing that changes the core game.

I know opening the console disables achievements. A few times I've accidentally opened it, but when I did, I saved the game, quit and restart.

I'm not an achievement hunter, as I don't go out of the way to get achievements. Most of the achievements for FNV are ones you will unlock during normal game play anyway, and it kind of bugs me that I have done these and haven't gotten credit for them. It's not going to bug me enough to stop playing or grind for them, but I would like to figure out why they aren't unlocking.

[Igor the Bear]

dont use TGM

[MeanJim]

What is TGM?

[Dosbilliam, Boring but Practical]

They only unlock when you get the first ingame challenge tied to them. You'll need to start a new character to get those.

[Dosbilliam, Boring but Practical]

Originally posted by jimnms:

What is TGM?

The console command that enables god mode.

[❤ Racist against couches 🦄]

yeah if you use cheats then it disables achivments

[MeanJim]

I don't use cheats.

[Mauno]

You still used the console. That disables all achievements, even if you're not exactly cheating with it.

As Dosbilliam said, they only unlock when you get the corresponding in-game challenge.

[MeanJim]

I'm aware that the console disables achievements, that's why I wrote in the original post; "I know opening the console disables achievements. A few times I've accidentally opened it, but when I did, I saved the game, quit and restart." Using the console only disables the achievements for that session, saving and restarting will re-enable them.

Anyway, I managed to unlock them by loading old saves. I keep all of my saves, so I have them going all the way back to the beginning of the game. All I did to get the Crafty achievement was to load the first save after completing the "tutorial" (which was about an hour into the game), go to the reloading bench and break down 20 rounds of ammo and it popped up. Jury Rigger was easy to get as well, I loaded another save not long after that one where the Pip Boy showed I had repaired 27 items. I was using the Goodsprings School house to stash stuff, and I had enough extra guns in there to repair three things and get that one. That save was 4 hours into the game.

The No Tumbler Fumbler was harder to get as the closest save I had where I had not already picked 25 locks had me at 20 locks. This save was about 12 hours into the game with my character at level 3. I found 5 unpicked locks at the NCRCF, but 4 of them required a Lock Pick skill of 50 and I was at 42. I could get the skill to 50 with a magazine, but I only had one. Two of the locks were impossible to pick without being seen, and it took me a few tries to do it without getting killed.

The Crafty and Jury Rigger achievements were both achievements that should have been unlocked within the first few hours of the game, but they weren't. I do remember having to disable the Steam overlay in FNV until the first patch for some reason, but disabling the overlay doesn't stop achievements.

[Mauno]

Originally posted by jimnms:

The Crafty and Jury Rigger achievements were both achievements that should have been unlocked within the first few hours of the game, but they weren't. I do remember having to disable the Steam overlay in FNV until the first patch for some reason, but disabling the overlay doesn't stop achievements.

It might, depending on the exact implementation of the fix. If it disables all the community features along with the overlay, you won't get any achievements either.