WARNING: Achievements are still broken in 2023 (abandoned)

[Snowmind]

No achievements have been triggered, even after 9hrs gameplay and having progressed the storyline a fair bit (no spoilers). Tried on PC and Steam Deck, to make sure.

Traditionally, storyline achievements should be, by default, unlock automatically when reaching or accomplishing a particular story event or task; but even something as simple as the unavoidable 1st achievement "Sudden Awakening" (Come to your senses after the Big Sleep), for some reason has only a 43% success rate in the global achievements table???

Unfortunately, INSOMNIA: The Ark seems to have been abandoned, as the last patch deployed was on 12/05/2020, so avoid if achievements matter to you.

[Vasquez]

Yes. Sadly.

[Antiga]

I never understood this. To avoid this PURELY because arbitrary meaningless achievements are not registered? There are a lot of reason to avoid this game, but I cannot say that this is one of them, or should ever be one of them, from one gamer to another. Then again, achievement hunters probably aren't actual gamers. Most likely the largest overlap would be with console peasants playing CoD on a controller, far as they can be called gamers. Nothing wrong with being any of this, but dare not attempt to speak for me, or other actual gamers.

Fun and jokes aside, there is a special game underneath all this. If one can deal with the kind of bugs this game throws at you, then this achievement issue shouldn't keep anyone from enjoying the game for what it is.

[BowShatter]

I played this game twice and while it is somehow even more janky than the Gothic games it does has its charms. Couldn't defeat the ultimate final boss no matter what though.

Back then I did some modding and there's some interesting that could be done like making NPC equipment obtainable or making non-combat zones combat zones.

Also sad that it didn't reach its full potential based on the original traliers.

[urdnot_wrecks]

Originally posted by BowShatter:

Couldn't defeat the ultimate final boss no matter what though.

I normally play games on the easiest possible difficulty (Story if it's available), so I have to use a trainer to play INSOMNIA: The Ark. Should you feel happy to use one too, I can recommend the WeMod one; "Unlimited Health" works very well on that. Good luck!

[BowShatter]

Nah I'd rather accept the loss. This game was always more about the journey than the destination anyway.

I am however trying to modify certain character files and experience progression to unlock more content (NPC equipment drops, there are a lot of clothing items that are set to have a 0% chance to drop) and faster levelling to make full use of the skill system.