So The Commentary and Achievements

[seala]

So can someone tell me how to get Achievements while playing with Commentary.I'm playing The Original HL2 Edn,so i downloaded HL2U to check out the commentary,when i launched it, HL2U says Cannot get acments in commentary,So is there any chance dev's are working on it or a hack to get achievements

[Filip Victor]

Sorry that's hard coded in the source engine.

[seala]

Oh! Then i better start speed running this game

[LordJedi]

Commentary mode turns on cheats, hence why achievements aren't possible when in commentary mode.

[seala]

if i type sv_cheats 0 in console?(Assuming the Cheats works like CS games)

[JeffMakesGames]

Nope. You have to play the game normally. You cannot earn achievements at all during commentary mode.

[DirtyFishy]

Or you could just open the files and go straight to the commentary mp3s

[Dark Redshift]

The nodes seem to have disappeared in Route Kanal. There were none in the Station 12 map and none in the seesaw room even though I turned them on. Is this a bug or are there no nodes in those specific areas?

[emceeMC]

question: the [code|https://github.com/nillerusr/source-engine/blob/29985681a18508e78dc79ad863952f830be237b6/game/shared/achievementmgr.cpp#L1057-L1062] says that the reason achievements are disabled in commentary mode is "can't be in commentary mode, user is invincible". However in my playthrough I can definitely die while in commentary mode! What gives?

[Filip Victor]

Originally posted by emceeMC:

question: the [code|https://github.com/nillerusr/source-engine/blob/29985681a18508e78dc79ad863952f830be237b6/game/shared/achievementmgr.cpp#L1057-L1062] says that the reason achievements are disabled in commentary mode is "can't be in commentary mode, user is invincible". However in my playthrough I can definitely die while in commentary mode! What gives?

Player is invincible only when a commentary node is active/playing.

[emceeMC]

Originally posted by Filip Victor:

Originally posted by emceeMC:

question: the [code|https://github.com/nillerusr/source-engine/blob/29985681a18508e78dc79ad863952f830be237b6/game/shared/achievementmgr.cpp#L1057-L1062] says that the reason achievements are disabled in commentary mode is "can't be in commentary mode, user is invincible". However in my playthrough I can definitely die while in commentary mode! What gives?

Player is invincible only when a commentary node is active/playing.

TIL. Thank you :)

Then they should only disable achievements when the commentary node is playing! :D

[emceeMC]

For anyone seeing this, I developed a workaround.

If you PROMISE you've actually beaten the game with commentary enabled, you can run this mod @Poloi and I made https://www.nexusmods.com/halflife2/mods/74/ . This will unlock all the achievements in Half-Life 2: Update.