"More Challenge, Please" progress (difficulty achievements)

[Skinner]

Because you can change the difficulty while playing, is there a way to check what achievements are eligible (More Challenge, Please, Forged in Blood, Iron King)?

Let's say you aim to get Forged in Blood, but soon realize that it's too much so you'll lower the difficulty to challenging. Or you want to check some respecs, but you're not sure if you accidentally saved the game after lowering and increasing the difficulty back up.

What events must be played to get those achievements? :) Thanks!

[InEffect]

You won't get em if you change the difficulty during the game. If you want unfair achievement you have to beat the whole game on unfair. And if you ever drop to custom you won't ever get the difficulty achievement for that run.

[Skinner]

But can I change the difficulty, fool around a bit and load back a previous save file?

[InEffect]

if you load the save where you never changed the difficulty by the time of the save you'll be fine.

[Mork]

If you load a save file before the moment you have changed the difficulty is like nothing happen. You could get difficulty achievements again.

Changing the difficulty and reloading a save where the difficulty has already been changed will do nothing.

To get the challenging achievement, you can change at anytime the difficulty between challenging <> hard <> unfair. You cannot change it to custom or lower setting.

For the unfair achievement, it's start to finish on unfair.

The last Azlanti achievement Iron King is not affected by the overall difficulty setting. The difficulty can be customize at anytime.

[Dixon Sider]

There are a few difficulty settings that you can change which will not impact achievements. I would suggest setting kingdom to never fail if you are new. There are a lot of little quirks with kingdom management that can brick a save (although you can just change the setting once it is bricked and be fine too).

[Skinner]

Originally posted by Dixon Sider:

There are a few difficulty settings that you can change which will not impact achievements. I would suggest setting kingdom to never fail if you are new. There are a lot of little quirks with kingdom management that can brick a save (although you can just change the setting once it is bricked and be fine too).

Oh, thanks, I'll keep this in mind as I'm about to get to that step.

Thanks to everyone else and I hope I never saved AFTER I played with the difficulty!
Shame there's no way to check this.

[Dixon Sider]

Originally posted by Skinner:

Originally posted by Dixon Sider:

There are a few difficulty settings that you can change which will not impact achievements. I would suggest setting kingdom to never fail if you are new. There are a lot of little quirks with kingdom management that can brick a save (although you can just change the setting once it is bricked and be fine too).

Oh, thanks, I'll keep this in mind as I'm about to get to that step.

Thanks to everyone else and I hope I never saved AFTER I played with the difficulty!
Shame there's no way to check this.

You can test something out. Try this:

1) Create a new manual save of your current game

2) Change the difficulty
if the game does not warn you about the achievement, you are not capable of getting it

3) Start a new game on easy (don't save after step 2)

4) create a NEW manual save

5) change the game to unfair

6) overwrite save from step 4

7) change the difficulty back to easy
if the game gives you the same warning as in number 2, this experiment was inconclusive
if you had a warning in step 2 but not 7, the achievement is still available

[Furry Wrecking Crew]

I probably screwed myself by using Custom to make my game MORE difficult, but I doubt it recognizes that.

[InEffect]

I highly doubt you play above unfair.

[Furry Wrecking Crew]

Originally posted by InEffect:

I highly doubt you play above unfair.

No, you misunderstand. I put it on Challenging and then tweaked some stuff to make it harder, and it went to Custom. So I probably won't get the Challenging Achievement I heard about because I changed it to Custom.

[InEffect]

Ah, that, yeah moving most of those sliders drops it to custom, making difficulty achievements unobtainable. You can avoid it by using preset difficulties or at least making sure it doesn't drop to custom before you press apply.

[Furry Wrecking Crew]

Eh, no biggie. I'm going for Unfair for my Lawful Good run.

[Skinner]

Originally posted by Dixon Sider:

You can test something out. Try this:

1) Create a new manual save of your current game

2) Change the difficulty
if the game does not warn you about the achievement, you are not capable of getting it

3) Start a new game on easy (don't save after step 2)

4) create a NEW manual save

5) change the game to unfair

6) overwrite save from step 4

7) change the difficulty back to easy
if the game gives you the same warning as in number 2, this experiment was inconclusive
if you had a warning in step 2 but not 7, the achievement is still available

I tried this and didn't get a warning in any case (except that it's too hard on Unfair). I even started an Unfair difficulty game, did the corresponding steps in lowering and increasing it back, but still no warning.

I guess I'll just have to see if I manage to finish it.

Thanks!

[Mentally Unstable]

Just a heads up, setting kingdom management to "auto" will disqualify you from achievements associated with it.