Achievements Issues?

[LeoChris64]

Is anyone else having issues with the achievements? I saved right before the Bryce fight but no matter how many times I defeat him in under 60 seconds, Steam isn't registering the achievement at all. Even tried relaunching Steam itself, but nothing. (For the record this is with several grade shop boosters turned on, but a NG+ playthough didn't block trophies on PS3)

I don't really wanna progress further and be stuck with an out-of-order achievements obtation order.

[ShinkuTear]

I've been seeing mention elsewhere that Steam was having issues yesterday, and possibly is still having them. This may be why achievements aren't popping.

I didn't get the 60 Second Bryce or Childhood's End achievements, and the latter is purely story based so it shouldn't be missable in the first place.

[Ragnara]

Yeah, made a thread about it earlier. No one could help. I am 5 hours in and still 0 achievements. I thought it was maybe because I downloaded and started the game right when it came out. Suspiciously, achievements were not even part of the game page at that moment. So let us just hope they will load in later and - more importantly - retroactively check for the triggers....

[Bill]

I got both the Bryce and CH1 achievements Thursday night so they were at least working before the outage.

[Melodia]

I somehow got the Bryce achievement twice.

[Tripster369]

Turn steam overlay on. Fixed it for me.

[LeoChris64]

Originally posted by Tripster369:

Turn steam overlay on. Fixed it for me.

That worked! Thank you so much!

[Ragnara]

That was it, thank you!!! After all the things we tried this finally fixed it. I had it disabled in general, since I don't like the pop-ups and no game seemed to mind. But this game will not let you get the achievement without the overlay for some reason.

[Kaldaien]

I have fixed this bug for the dummies who did this port, BTW :) Special K 25.1.29.1 includes the fix, so you don't have to enable the Steam overlay.

25.1.29.1
=========
 + Fixed a SERIOUS screwup in the Tales of Graces f Steam port, where ALL
     achievement-related code is contingent upon the end-user having the
       Steam overlay enabled!

    * Bad Bandai Namco, Bad!  Pay me to review your QA test next time? :)

Here's a snippet of the code that makes this a problem. Grabbed it by disassembling Assembly-CSharp.dll

	public class TrophySteam : global::Noble.TrophyPlatformBase.ITrophyPlatform
	{
		public void Update()
		{
			if (this.bInitialized)
			{
				if (!this.bRequestedStats)
				{
					this.bRequestedStats = true;
					if (global::SteamManager.Initialized && global::Steamworks.SteamUtils.IsOverlayEnabled()) /* Ooopsies? */
					{
						this.bRequestedStats = global::Steamworks.SteamUserStats.RequestCurrentStats();
						this.m_GameID = new global::Steamworks.CGameID(global::Steamworks.SteamUtils.GetAppID());
						return;
					}
				}
			}
			else if (!this.bCreateTrophyFlag && global::SteamManager.Initialized && global::Steamworks.SteamUtils.IsOverlayEnabled()) /* Ooopsies again?! */
			{
				this.bCreateTrophyFlag = true;
				this.CreateUnlockTrophyBitFlag();
				this.m_UserAchievementStored = global::Steamworks.Callback<global::Steamworks.UserAchievementStored_t>.Create(new global::Steamworks.Callback<global::Steamworks.UserAchievementStored_t>.DispatchDelegate(this.OnAchievementStored));
				this.bInitialized = true;
			}
		}

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2530980/discussions/0/510695968495164525/

[stingray]

the fix from 25.01 does not work for me, whether with or without overlay

[Kaldaien]

There's no 25.01.

If you're talking about Special K, then it was fixed in 25.1.29.1

        SK_ImGui_CreateNotification ( "TalesOfGraces.CriticalSteamBug",
                                            SK_ImGui_Toast::Warning,

                  "This game normally requires the Steam overlay to be enabled to unlock achievements\r\n\r\n\t"
                  "Special K has fixed the problem -- but -- you will not retroactively unlock missed achievements!!\r\n\r\n"
                  " * This is a serious bug, please report it to Bandai Namco ASAP!",
                  "Steamworks Achievement Bug (Partially) Fixed",

                                              25000UL,
                                            SK_ImGui_Toast::UseDuration |
                                            SK_ImGui_Toast::ShowTitle   |
                                            SK_ImGui_Toast::ShowCaption |
                                            SK_ImGui_Toast::ShowOnce );

You won't retroactively earn missed achievements, you have to play the game a second time.

[stingray]

i haven't installed special k, i'm just wondering why i don't get any achievements
if i want to play without overlay, what else do i need besides special k and where can i find the latest version? on github i can only find this one: 25.1.27.2

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by stingray:

i haven't installed special k, i'm just wondering why i don't get any achievements
if i want to play without overlay, what else do i need besides special k and where can i find the latest version? on github i can only find this one: 25.1.27.2

The thread links to the installer for the latest version, which is now 25.2.6.1

https://sk-data.special-k.info/SpecialK-test.exe

Nothing else is needed, it will patch the problem out of the game and let you unlock achievements while the Steam overlay is disabled.

[stingray]

okay,thanks

[stingray]

strange.
I have installed special k and also start the game via it, steam overlay is inactive. the first achievements came without any problems. but the completion of chapter 4 and chapter 5 were not registered.
do i have to make any settings for this with SK?

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by stingray:

strange.
I have installed special k and also start the game via it, steam overlay is inactive. the first achievements came without any problems. but the completion of chapter 4 and chapter 5 were not registered.
do i have to make any settings for this with SK?

The code I linked above explains that you don't retroactively earn achievements.

_Some_ achievements will immediately unlock, but those are triggered by, for example, the game counting the number of items in your inventory, titles earned, etc. For story progression achievements, you have no choice but to replay the game :(