Achievements and the console...

[Nevander]

So just now I completed Ultra Nightmare without even opening the console at any point or using any commands, but as soon as I pressed the final button it gave me this message:

"Achievements have been disabled due to the console being enabled during this game."

In the guide for the console commands, it says that "achievements work fine." Well CLEARLY NOT. The part of this that doesn't make ANY sense is these two points:

1) I had the console enabled during the ENTIRE first playthrough where I got ALL achievements except for the harder settings and 100% completion. Why didn't it ever give me this message during this playthrough?

2) It waited until I pressed the button at the VERY end to tell me this. Why didn't it give me the message as soon as I was able to walk around inside the Ark?

The only thing I can think of is that this message only appears if you are on Ultra Nightmare and you have it enabled. That's the only thing that even makes sense right now.

I'm extremely pissed at the moment. Over eleven hours on that save wasted because the game couldn't tell me the achievements were disabled at the beginning.

TIME TO START OVER

[kRIEG_elf]

Hours wasted because of something pointless as achievements?

[Nevander]

Originally posted by Aoyagi Aichou:

Hours wasted because of something pointless as achievements?

Go away.

[Clifford the Big Red Dong]

Dude, That really sucks. I haven't used console commands at all and at times my achievements don't unlock until a second playthrough. On a side note, sounds like you're an achievement hound like me.

[Hudson 826]

My condolences.

[Icy]

huuu

[Nevander]

I think I figured out what triggers this message, maybe.

My theory is:

a) The game doesn't care about Easy. You can use the console, use commands, cheats, whatever you want on Easy and you will get all achievements just fine.

b) The game does care about Ultra Nightmare (and possibly Normal and above, not sure) and will lock you out of ANY achievements during that playthrough only on those difficulties.

c) The message appears when an achievement condition is fufilled on a playthrough in which the console was enabled and you are on a difficulty in which the message would show.

Some examples:

You are on Easy, console is enabled, you can unlock anything during that run fine.
You are on Ultra Nightmare, console is enabled, everything is blocked.

In my case, I only needed to beat the game on Normal through Ultra Nightmare, so I saved those four achievements for last. No message appeared during the whole run until the very end when I pushed the last button, and that also happens to be WHEN those last achievements WOULD unlock. So because the console was enabled, but I only could get those four in that playthrough, the message never showed until I met an achievement condition.

You follow me?

So for people who want to avoid this problem on Ultra Nightmare if that's all you have left to do, disable the console for good during your entire Ultra Nightmare playthrough. This way you won't get screwed out of the achievements at the very end like I did.

[Hudson 826]

Makes sense to me.

May I ask what exactly does the console do good? I did not care about it.

[Nevander]

Originally posted by Himuton:

Makes sense to me.

May I ask what exactly does the console do good? I did not care about it.

It's good for tweaking things in-game and using commands like hiding your HUD and gun model for screenshots or something. As far as actual in-game usefulness, not much, that is unless you use it to add max of everything or use cheats like god mode or noclip, which could ruin it for you if it's your first playthrough.

Apparently even having the damn thing enabled blocks achievements on those settings. I know I didn't once open the console during the run. If the game runs fine for you as-is, ignore the console.

One last note, Ultra Nightmare isn't really that hard to beat. It's just annoying to think you'd have to do it all again because of something like this.

I don't mind achievements being disabled due to using the console, but for the love of God game, tell me this BEFORE I beat the whole game please?

[BrewBearBeats]

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[sin psa]

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[Hudson 826]

I beat Ultra Nightmare tonight. Nowhere as tough as Doom 3 Nightmare (constant HP loss until 25).

[Mister Torgue Flexington]

Originally posted by Himuton:

I beat Ultra Nightmare tonight. Nowhere as tough as Doom 3 Nightmare (constant HP loss until 25).

the only 2 hard parts in the Ultra-Nightmare Difficulty, is both the Time Trials (where several seconds has been shaved off) and where your health regeneration takes several seconds to officially kick in if it dips too low.

[GasBraai]

oh no cheevos!

[pedro]

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[Nevander]

Originally posted by DrQuagmire1:

your health regeneration takes several seconds to officially kick in if it dips too low.

And if you have a lot of bandages, you can just spam them every second. Plenty of time to be able to stay alive, especially if you can get your health up with some infusions as early as possible.