whats Steam Achievement Manager?

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Hi guys, a friend of mine told me about an application called "Steam Achievement Manager". He told me that you can unlock all achievements and I was skeptical so I didn't try it. If i would use it would i get a VAC ban?

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

No VAC bans, but it will make you look like a jackass.

[The Commendatore]

It's a tiny 1% who apparently care if others use it. Ironically, I know one of them uses it himself which is just funny.

The rest don't care.

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its really good if you have achievements that wont drop
as there are more than a few games on steam with this problem....

always best to get 99% before you use SAM as it will
give you the same date for all achievements you unlock
at that point... which is a give away that you have used SAM.

but its really up to you how you uses it... no big deal.. and steam dont care...

[peppermint hollows]

Originally posted by ragefifty50:

its really good if you have achievements that wont drop
as there are more than a few games on steam with this problem....

always best to get 99% before you use SAM as it will
give you the same date for all achievements you unlock
at that point... which is a give away that you have used SAM.

but its really up to you how you uses it... no big deal.. and steam dont care...

I've never used it but I was under the impression SAM allowed you to unlock (and even re-lock) individual achievements. So unless you choose to unlock them all at once, there is actually no way to know if someone used SAM or not.

[JVC]

Originally posted by peppermint hollows:

Originally posted by ragefifty50:

its really good if you have achievements that wont drop
as there are more than a few games on steam with this problem....

always best to get 99% before you use SAM as it will
give you the same date for all achievements you unlock
at that point... which is a give away that you have used SAM.

but its really up to you how you uses it... no big deal.. and steam dont care...

I've never used it but I was under the impression SAM allowed you to unlock (and even re-lock) individual achievements. So unless you choose to unlock them all at once, there is actually no way to know if someone used SAM or not.

Or unless someone unlocks them in an order that doesn't make sense, like unlocking an achievement for a level 3 before unlocking the ones for levels 1 and 2.

[Lithurge]

Originally posted by JVC:

Or unless someone unlocks them in an order that doesn't make sense, like unlocking an achievement for a level 3 before unlocking the ones for levels 1 and 2.

Even that doesn't necessarily mean anything, there are bugged achievements that don't unlock retrospectively when 'fixed'. I've also seen early access games where achievements are added late in development, where you can unlock ones for the part your playing, but have to restart to unlock earlier ones.

[BJWyler]

Steam Achievement Manager is a third party app that can unlock, or relock any unprotected achievements in a game. It has been around for many years, and used without issues (for the most part). The same functionality that SAM provides is actually baked in and available through the Steam Console itself, therefore Valve has no issues with people manipulating achievements in this way.

At one point in history, there were a couple of game development studios that banned people from their Steam forum communities for cheating achievements. However, they stopped this practice not long afterwards as it caused some blowback and it can't always be definitively proven if any particular achievement was cheated or not in most cases.

If you join an achievement hunting community, they tend to frown upon the use of SAM, although there are many ways to cheat achievements other than the use of SAM or the Steam Console. However, outside of that niche audience, SAM is perfectly safe to use, and is a handy little app for broken or impossible achievements, or for those who want the dopamine hit of getting all the achievements again on a new playthrough of a game.

[swordsmanoftime3001]

Does SAM also unlock items behind certain achievements? For example: I'm playing Resident Evil HD remaster and there's achievements for beating the game in less than 3-5 hours and you get bonus guns for that. If I unlock the achievements with SAM, Do I also unlock the bonus content that goes with it?

[[☭]-Soviet-Triumph-]

Originally posted by swordsmanoftime3001:

Does SAM also unlock items behind certain achievements? For example: I'm playing Resident Evil HD remaster and there's achievements for beating the game in less than 3-5 hours and you get bonus guns for that. If I unlock the achievements with SAM, Do I also unlock the bonus content that goes with it?

If that game's unlocks works in the way of that game scanning your userdata from Steam then it will work, I dunno how that game process unlocks though. most games just use the save data.

[blunus]

Originally posted by swordsmanoftime3001:

Does SAM also unlock items behind certain achievements? For example: I'm playing Resident Evil HD remaster and there's achievements for beating the game in less than 3-5 hours and you get bonus guns for that. If I unlock the achievements with SAM, Do I also unlock the bonus content that goes with it?

Those items in Resident Evil are save-specific SAM can't unlock. Only if any game has a steam inventory such as TF2, these items can be unlocked.

[JOSHUAB0943]

Originally posted by The Commendatore:

It's a tiny 1% who apparently care if others use it. Ironically, I know one of them uses it himself which is just funny.

The rest don't care.

I can understand, if people use it for games they already 100% on console, but if the person hasnt yet, than yea i can see how it becomes an issue. Another reason I can see the use of it, is if a game has an online achievement, and that is no longer obtainable, for example if the game was shut down or vice versa.

[leo_man4u2000]

if feels right up there with PS Vita "hax" which unlocks trophies that haven't been unlocked, like Ratchet and clank vita games (couple of them wouldn't unlock or were too difficult)

[Ionut Catalin Frasineanu]

SAM= low cheater. Nothing more!

[Amelia]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.