Can you "Cheat" and get the legendary achievements using mods?

[Dawson]

Just asking because I wantto try and get the legendary campaign achievement without mods but it won't really matter if everyone can just cheat it. I heard mods do work, which seems pretty stupid if so =P

[dt Walter Robinson]

Achievements are largely meaningless, and mods can make the campaign much harder too so you and everyone else can play the way you want - mods or no mods, ez mode or hardcore.

[Muerte]

You know people can get every achievement in any game with one click in SAM right?

[Dawson]

Originally posted by The Ayatollah of Rock n' Rollah:

Achievements are largely meaningless, and mods can make the campaign much harder too so you and everyone else can play the way you want - mods or no mods, ez mode or hardcore.

How are achievements meaningless? It's a way to show off your progress in the game to your friends or players online. If everyone can cheat it with mods then the game just becomes boring after a while with nothing to aim for. Also I don't like mods in general, I prefer using the base game rather than trusting a player for 'balancing' the game. I'm not saying you're wrong about the difficulty but mods ruin the game for me personally. Btw you didn't answer my question =P

[Dawson]

Originally posted by Wulfrik the Wanderer:

You know people can get every achievement in any game with one click in SAM right?

I'm talking specifically about mods. Not other ways of cheating achievements.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by Dawson:

Just asking because I wantto try and get the legendary campaign achievement without mods but it won't really matter if everyone can just cheat it. I heard mods do work, which seems pretty stupid if so =P

Most games disable achievements with mods. Warhammer total war 2 is one of the few that allow achievements with mods.

However as Wulfrik mentioned you can use other methods to get every achievement even if they disable achievements with mods, so steam achievements are indeed kinda meaningless.

[dt Walter Robinson]

Cheevos are nothing but a form of behavioural conditioning; the little "ding" activates the reward centres of your brain giving you a bit of a highly addictive rush.

People buy games just to get achievements, so I guess manipulating human psychology to generate sales continues to demonstrate it's efficacy.....

[Dreagon]

Those "remove AI cheats" mods would be able to easily get you those achievements.

[zacharyb]

Tbh it's not that hard to tell people who earned the achievement to people who cheated to get the achievement.

[Dawson]

Originally posted by zacharyb:

Tbh it's not that hard to tell people who earned the achievement to people who cheated to get the achievement.

Yeah it depends what method they used to achieve it I guess. Do you know if theres a way to find out if players have cheated using the game mods?

[Elitewrecker PT]

There isn't. Plus, it wouldn't discriminate between infinite movement auto win, and giving the AI 20 extra stacks. So, you wouldn't know if it was "cheating".

[Dawson]

Originally posted by The Ayatollah of Rock n' Rollah:

Cheevos are nothing but a form of behavioural conditioning; the little "ding" activates the reward centres of your brain giving you a bit of a highly addictive rush.

People buy games just to get achievements, so I guess manipulating human psychology to generate sales continues to demonstrate it's efficacy.....

Not really. Achievements are just goals for some people so they can show other people that they completed the game on hard mode. Let's take World of Warcraft for example, if they didnt have achievements for showing what rank people got to in arena nobody would do it, it would become stale and boring after a while.

[dt Walter Robinson]

Originally posted by Dawson:

Not really.

Yes really. Everything else you said is nothing but an extended rationalization.

[Dawson]

Originally posted by The Ayatollah of Rock n' Rollah:

Originally posted by Dawson:

Not really.

Yes really. Everything else you said is nothing but an extended rationalization.

How is it? I gave you a relevant example that you completely ignored because you know it's right. but if you're just going to reply with 'Yes really' then have a good day you're no help to me lol

[dt Walter Robinson]

Originally posted by Dawson:

How is it? I gave you a relevant example that you completely ignored because you know it's right lol but if you're just going to reply with 'not really' then have a good day you're no help to me lol

Were you even a gamer before achievements were introduced?

Everything you said to support your position are things that existed before achievements.

I won't directly address points that people raise when they are being disingenuous or are otherwise misleading, as in general that would typically give oxygen to half-truths and outright fabrications.

Some things I hold to be self-evident.

[Dawson]

Originally posted by The Ayatollah of Rock n' Rollah:

Originally posted by Dawson:

How is it? I gave you a relevant example that you completely ignored because you know it's right lol but if you're just going to reply with 'not really' then have a good day you're no help to me lol

Were you even a gamer before achievements were introduced?

Everything you said to support your position are things that existed before achievements.

I won't directly address points that people raise when they are being disingenuous or are otherwise misleading, as in general that would typically give oxygen to half-truths and outright fabrications.

Some things I hold to be self-evident.

Knew you wouldn't answer it xD