How to fix bugged achievements

[-HALNOK-]

So I am seeing a lot of people have trouble with achievements popping on this game. I had same experience but fixed the problem. I thought I would create a guide to fix the issue.



Step one:

Exit out of game. Open steam. Turn off the enabled steam cloud setting by going to Steam, settings, disable steam cloud.

Step two:

Create a random new folder on your desktop and name this “STEAM ACTUAL SAVE DATA THPS”.

You will only use this folder to store your actual save data and game progress while you start a new save to pop the achievements.

Step 3

Go into
Windows+R / write "%localappdata%" VicariousVisions\THPS\

In this folder there is a folder called “SavedGames”

Open this folder… highlight and drag all of these files in this folder to the new folder created in step 2 that is on your desktop. Do not delete these files. You will want to drag these back to this folder once you are done with achievements you were having issue with. Once the “SavedGames” folder is now empty and the files moved to new folder “STEAM ACTUAL SAVE DATA THPS“ proceed to next step.

Step 4: Open game and complete the achievement you have been trying to unlock: example: complete high as a kite (1,000,000) combo in single session on crew tour. You should be able to pop achievements on this new save created.

Once you have obtained achievements you are seeking proceed to next step.


Step 5 - Exit out of game. Go back to “SavedGames” by doing Windows+R / write "%localappdata%" VicariousVisions\THPS\

Now in this folder highlight and delete all of the files in it. Open up previous save files in the folder we created named “STEAM ACTUAL SAVE DATA THPS”. Once you see those files highlight them all again and drag them back into the original “SavedGames” file. Once this is completed exit out of folder and steam. Proceed.

Step 6: Turn steam cloud back on and if asked about which save file to use choose the previous save (that we added back to “SavedGames” folder. Restart the game. This should load your previous progress save file and you should be able to resume gameplay as you were before seeking the glitched achievements.



Disclaimer: Be careful to not lose prior save data. This is the process that I used that worked. I did sometimes have to repeat the process two times to get certain achievements to recognize my progress I made in new save file. Additionally, be sure to not delete prior save file and if you do restore it from recycle bin. Hope this helps people that were having the unlocking achievement issue. Good luck!

[DOS32]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Casper in MeowmeowLand:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gamergeo:

I guess he's saying to use SAM to unlock these bugged achievements.
If for one reason or another the level 100 doesn't pop out, i will have no remorse to SAM it instead of any other solutions.

SAM only the bugged ones or the ones you can't do? Who can even tell? Hence looks like you cheat for achievements. If it makes you feel good at night to hit a button and get something for free, so be it. I work for everything I earn.

Why does it bother you so much what I, or anybody else does with their account. weirdo.

[2BoBcNuT]

tried this method lots of times but still cant unlock 50,000 combo?

[Purple Monkey]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DOS32:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Casper in MeowmeowLand:

SAM only the bugged ones or the ones you can't do? Who can even tell? Hence looks like you cheat for achievements. If it makes you feel good at night to hit a button and get something for free, so be it. I work for everything I earn.

Why does it bother you so much what I, or anybody else does with their account. weirdo.

I have no dog in this fight. I just wanted to compliment you on your avatar.

Hottest and coolest pro wrestler = Big Poppa Pump

[DOS32]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Purple Monkey:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DOS32:

Why does it bother you so much what I, or anybody else does with their account. weirdo.

I have no dog in this fight. I just wanted to compliment you on your avatar.

Hottest and coolest pro wrestler = Big Poppa Pump

You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Samoa Joe and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another wrestler, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, at beat me. Then you add Kurt Angle to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See the 3 way at Sacrifice, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning, because Kurt Angle KNOWS he can't beat me and he's not even gonna try!
So Samoa Joe, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. But then you take my 75% chance of winning, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got 141 2/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. See Joe, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice.

[-HALNOK-]

Glad to see it worked well. Added to guides.

[soft damage]

achievement hunting is a disease of the mind. i have it as well.

some people feel like SAM trivializes the entire hunt, but truthfully, we could all be using SAM and no one would ever know. achievement hunting is about the person doing the hunting. i have used SAM to unlock bugged achievements before. it's kind of like working out--only you know if you're cheating yourself with bad form, cutting corners, etc. if you're working your ass off, if you got all the "hard to get there's" in THPS and you can't pop 100% because of a bug, then SAM seems fine in my book. i have been itching to use SAM to unlock the CAP achievement but i will give them some more time to fix it before i go there.

the point is, is that you have to be your own sensei with this ♥♥♥♥. honor system ♥♥♥♥. SAM is backend surgery for fixing bugs. if you use it because you can't beat something or have a skill issue, you bring disgrace to the practice. if you use it to close the book on a game because the devs lack ambition to fix their broken achievements, then it's on them.

[Sarge the Comfy Gaming Doggo]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DOS32:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Casper in MeowmeowLand:

SAM only the bugged ones or the ones you can't do? Who can even tell? Hence looks like you cheat for achievements. If it makes you feel good at night to hit a button and get something for free, so be it. I work for everything I earn.

Why does it bother you so much what I, or anybody else does with their account. weirdo.

Why do that when your profile is private anyway tho? That's what makes no sense

[Gamergeo]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sarge and the Spooky Skeletonz:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DOS32:

Why does it bother you so much what I, or anybody else does with their account. weirdo.

Why do that when your profile is private anyway tho? That's what makes no sense

Cause like a lot of people doing achievements, they do it for themselves, not for others.

[Sarge the Comfy Gaming Doggo]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gamergeo:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sarge and the Spooky Skeletonz:

Why do that when your profile is private anyway tho? That's what makes no sense

Cause like a lot of people doing achievements, they do it for themselves, not for others.

I understand that but using SAM to do that kind of defeats the whole purpose no?

Like what good feeling do you get about going into SAM and turning on an achievement? What feeling does it invoke? Help me understand its rather baffling.

[Gamergeo]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sarge and the Spooky Skeletonz:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gamergeo:

Cause like a lot of people doing achievements, they do it for themselves, not for others.

I understand that but using SAM to do that kind of defeats the whole purpose no?

Like what good feeling do you get about going into SAM and turning on an achievement? What feeling does it invoke? Help me understand its rather baffling.

As i've already said, twice, I've never used SAM myself.
But if some achievements are bugged and doesn't trigger, I won't have any remorse. Cause i've done the achivement, it's just bugged. I won't restart a game just because an achievement is bugged.

I won't cheat level 100 grind, or any achivements. But if I reach level 100 and achievement doesn't pop, I won't create another save just to have it trigger. You can call me a cheater for that (even I've never needed to use it) and I don't care, cause my achievement hunting is my problem.

I can't answer for people cheating achievements with SAM cause I don't.

[-HALNOK-]

Also after completing this… may want to skip tutorial. It sounds like doing the tutorial may make this not work to some people.

[Elthrael]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sarge, Turkeyorkie Gobble Gobble:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gamergeo:

Cause like a lot of people doing achievements, they do it for themselves, not for others.

I understand that but using SAM to do that kind of defeats the whole purpose no?

Like what good feeling do you get about going into SAM and turning on an achievement? What feeling does it invoke? Help me understand its rather baffling.

If you do it for normal achievements just to seem like you're hot stuff, no idea. Must be a vapid, empty feeling.

If we're talking bugged achievements, SAM is just a way to offset frustration from being unfairly denied a mental checkbox.

I don't know if you're familiar with Dark Souls 1, but there's an achievement which has you collect "legendary weapons" which you make from items that drop from bosses. That achievement is impossible to obtain unless you complete at least two full playthroughs and another, say, half a playthrough. You also need to either grind Souls to buy materials or grind the materials themselves to upgrade the weapons before you can upgrade them to "legendary", and the drop rates aren't great. You're looking at about... I don't know at least 40-50 hours of playtime if you aren't super familiar with the series. Imagine that achievement not popping. And the only "fix" is doing it all over again while backing up your saves and hoping it pops this time.

You get the sense of achievement and pride because you know all the weapons are in your inventory. You've done the leg work, you've beaten all the bosses twice or even three times. Nothing to do with Steam, really. But it feels like crap to not have that checkbox there even though you know you've jumped through all the hoops. Kind of like getting 1st place and not getting a medal at the podium. Most people feel it's a waste of time to invest another 40-50 hours into something they've already done. That's not your fault, it's the dev's. So you can either live with that achievement not registering (which I guess is possible), or you can just make it right and click it in SAM (in case that isn't possible, like for me, I'm a completionist, I want the damn checkbox).

Luckily, that particular achievement actually has the opposite problem - it sometimes pops too fast. I'd argue that's even worse because the game gave it to you unfairly after you tried so hard.

[neonhaus]

I’ve reset my progress twice and 10 Downing Street just refuses to unlock.

[Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

Plenty of bugged achievements for me.. But I will try this.

[mjhcsta]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Casper the Cat:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DOS32:

just use SAM without all that faffing around

does it feel good cheating achievements? you must cheat IRL too

Achievement's aren't real...go outside and touch some grass, maybe try talking to a girl jeez