PSA: "Mr. Two Million Dollars" achievement is NOT broken

[[R] Nerva]

I see a lot of people posting that they're having trouble completing the "Mr. Two Million Dollars" achievement. It's not broken; you just need to be careful collecting and handling the money.

Some tips:

1 - Use a guide. This one is good, I used it when I went for the achievement.

2 - Go to your office and empty your trunk completely. Make sure there's nothing in it when you put the money in. Do not put anything other than money into the trunk. Don't move the trunk - you can potentially still get the achievement even if you do, but not moving the trunk reduces the likelihood of Catastrophic Physics Accidents that can cause wads of money to get lost.

3 - Many, but not all, pieces of money fall out of large body parts, like torsos or hips, when those parts are picked up. Usually the part will cough up its money immediately, but to be sure, shake the part gently and turn it around (hold down left mouse and drag to rotate what you're holding) to ensure you've dislodged any money.

4 - Make sure you scour the display cases, at least one piece of money rests atop one of them. Be careful when mopping stains on the cases so that you don't accidentally knock the money flying. Be careful when mopping in general; mop stains away from objects so that you don't bump them and potentially cause a Catastrophic Physics Accident.

5 - There are 22 pieces of money in total. When you think you have them all in your trunk, pull them out one at a time and count them, then count them again as you put them back in to double-check. Don't close the trunk until all 22 pieces of money are inside.

[The Undeceased]

Can I just clarify point 2. Are you saying to makes sure the trunk in the janitors office is empty after finishing a game and before starting a new one? It's definitely empty in the hall (not the janitors office) each time I start a new game.

(I've totally completed the requirements for the $2mil achievement, have a screenshot as proof, but still no achievement. I deleted the registry files to clear any residual data and validated game file integrity but still not getting the achievment.)

[[R] Nerva]

If you leave stuff in the Janitor's Trunk while in your office, it may show up when you start a new game, leading to duplicate items that can throw off your money count. In your office between games, clean out the trunk completely, make sure there are no items inside, then leave your office. This ensures that you do not start the map with any items in the trunk.

[The Undeceased]

Ah, ok. Thanks. That did happen the first time, I collected 1.875mil and it showed up in the trunk in the next game. It's empty every with each subsequent game, but I'll try emptying it out while still in the janitors office. I haven't tried not shutting the lid yet. I think I'll try just not moving the trunk at all.
Ta for the PSA, it's good to use as a checklist.

[The Undeceased]

Just got it.

For anyone else reading this having troubles, use the checklist above, and this is my trial and error/variables report:

Cleared office before every playthrough to make sure there was nothing in the trunk interferring and nothing in the office possibly interferring. Double checked trunk was empty before starting each time. Got 22 pieces, didn't move trunk once, double counted the money and screencapped it where all 22 can clearly be counted (just to be sure I wasn't going mad). Was still getting the message at end of every session that I had all the money.

One playthrough I left the trunk lid open, another I closed the lid, and two more with the briefcase with trunk lid closed and open.

Tried all of the above with a clean temple and a messy one. Used the little meter thingo to check there was no mess left and each time I was getting 100% clean anyway.

Was honestly about to try an uninstall/reinstall when I went through and cleaned up everything except all the USBs and cleaning tools and it popped. That's really the only thing I did differently -
leaving all the non-viscera/weapons/casings.

I'm definitely at the point where I'm quite certain this achievement is extremely buggy. I've seen people saying they collected 1.8 mil on one run and 1.8 on another and it popped. I've got over 6 hours now, 4.5 were just trying to make this achievment pop. I feel like it more a case of tricking the game into allowing us to have the achievement.

Thank you for the chekclist though, it was immensely helpful to have a clear & concise set of directions.

[[R] Nerva]

Yeah, I can't say it's not extremely finicky about when it considers money 'collected' or not - this game's hit-detection and physics can be incredibly wonky, especially considering that its devs basically treat it as a throwaway project and don't really develop or fix it beyond what's strictly necessary.

My goal with this checklist is to kill just as many variables as possible between success and failure.

It seems that completely cleaning the pagoda is part of the requirement here. If I understand you right, you didn't get the achievement until you'd cleaned everything and collected the money, which jives with what happened when I got it (at no point when I played did I not clean everything to the best of my ability, and the run where I got the achievement scored 99%).

Despite this, there's a few screenshots I've seen where people have gotten this achievement doing no cleaning whatsoever, so I can't be certain if that's part of the achievement's triggers or not.

[margotbean]

FYI, they changed the requirement that you have to clean the level to earn the achievement in a recent update: http://store.steampowered.com/news/externalpost/steam_community_announcements/2442505391483513341

[The Undeceased]

Originally posted by margotbean:

FYI, they changed the requirement that you have to clean the level to earn the achievement in a recent update: http://store.steampowered.com/news/externalpost/steam_community_announcements/2442505391483513341

Thank you for the update info.

I definitely have that update (I bought the game 9 days after the update was released) so I guess I'm one of the "rare cases where it doesn't work normally" and could maybe have used the 'RetryAchievementUnlocks' console command to reset it. I figured I didn't have to clean the level at all or thoroughly as I'd seen a number of screencaps and videos of people collecting the achievement with an untouched level.

'Shadow Warrior:
Decreased Speedrun par-time for Shadow Warrior by 10%.
Made it possible to get "Mr. Two Million Dollars" achievement without cleaning the level.
Added "RetryAchievementUnlocks" console command for retriggering "Mr. Two Million Dollars" check. For use in rare cases where it doesn't work normally.
Fixed trigger in doorway accepting collision hits from the player's Mop.'

I love that so long after releasing VCD they are still looking after it and after us.

[margotbean]

You're quite welcome for the update! I own the main VCD game, and noticed the "News" link found there doesn't exist under the standalone game.

For what it's worth, I think the achievement bugs frustrate the 3 devs as much as they frustrate players. If RuneStorm was a huge studio with dozens of programmers then.... they'd probably still have achievement bugs. *cough* Dishonored *cough* lol

[The Undeceased]

Originally posted by margotbean:

You're quite welcome for the update! I own the main VCD game, and noticed the "News" link found there doesn't exist under the standalone game.

I was wondering how I didn't notice that update. Probably wildly off the mark here, however, I wonder if the update only applies to VCD:SH if you have the main game too - that might explain why it's misbehaving. It was after I installed main VCD that the achievement did pop.

I'm really impressd with the effort and time so many little devs put into their games. It's almost as though they make games because they have a passion for making games rather than a passion for being the biggest, richest company on earth

Excuse me now, I'm off to clean up some guts.

[Drago The Dragon]

Apparently the mentioned update doesn't apply to this standalone DLC as that console command doesn't work and I still had to clean the whole temple to unlock this achievement (I got both at once).
I tried to just collect money and clock out at first but nothing happened. So I collected all 22 pieces and locked them in that big box and then just cleaned the place. As suggested here I only didn't turn in these USB devices and I ended up with 98%lvl completion and both achievements.
I reloaded the save to check if something happens after turning them in but only progress jumped to 99%

[topolskiego]

I ended up on 1950000 cash (I must have burned one stack of cash or game glitched when I was moving the box) and I didn't want to clean all stuff again (you need to collect 2 millions and clean all mess to get achievement 2 millions) so here's what I did.
1. Start new game
2. Press ~ button (above tab)
3. Write "setbind mousescrollup killnearestmess"
4. Without " " marks of course
5. Scroll up for few seconds (look around as the mess is cleaning itself)
6. For me only one piece of cash was left on the map - 50000 near incinerator, I put it in the box and left game through terminal at beggining of the level. You need to collect your remaining cash probably.
7. I ended with 2000000 and 95% of cleaning which granted me achievement.

[Stryker]

It is broken, i've collected the 2 million and got the post game message but it still doesnt appear

[pastaz]

wow

[Pilotz]

guys, u need to get 2 million and get promoted!!!

[DJHeroMasta]

I literally just got mine a few minutes ago from my 2nd play through.