Achievement reset

[Biskveeet [Stop russia]]

Dear devs,

I think me and plenty of gamer would like to see the option to reset the achievement progress or, even better, add the additional profile to go through the game again with clear achievements score. Please consider adding this feature in the future updates. Thank you in advance.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

Developers can already add this feature into their games.

They choose not to.

[Reaper]

SAM already exists

[Crazy Tiger]

Game developers can create a reset of achievements in-game, it's a function build into Steamworks. It also resets achievements on Valves backend then. Games like TF2, Factorio and Terraria have that, for example.

It has to be done in-game. When it's only done on Steams end, it can break achievements for that game as the in-game triggers don't reset then. It can result in achievements being unable to gain again, or achievements re-unlocking on game opening.
That all depends on how the game developers coded everything, but it's best if it's on their side. Which already is possible.

[Lambros]

How about no

[Biskveeet [Stop russia]]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Game developers can create a reset of achievements in-game, it's a function build into Steamworks. It also resets achievements on Valves backend then. Games like TF2, Factorio and Terraria have that, for example.

It has to be done in-game. When it's only done on Steams end, it can break achievements for that game as the in-game triggers don't reset then. It can result in achievements being unable to gain again, or achievements re-unlocking on game opening.
That all depends on how the game developers coded everything, but it's best if it's on their side. Which already is possible.

Oh I see, thanks for the info

[MoonC A T]

Originally posted by Biskveeet Stop russia:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Game developers can create a reset of achievements in-game, it's a function build into Steamworks. It also resets achievements on Valves backend then. Games like TF2, Factorio and Terraria have that, for example.

It has to be done in-game. When it's only done on Steams end, it can break achievements for that game as the in-game triggers don't reset then. It can result in achievements being unable to gain again, or achievements re-unlocking on game opening.
That all depends on how the game developers coded everything, but it's best if it's on their side. Which already is possible.

Oh I see, thanks for the info

You can always create an alt account and share the game to it if you want to start out fresh. Of course this doesn't work for unshareable games, though.

[HikariLight]

Originally posted by Reaper:

SAM already exists

SAM only effects Steams side of the achievements, not in the game itself.

[JPMcMillen]

Originally posted by Biskveeet Stop russia:

Dear devs,

I think me and plenty of gamer would like to see the option to reset the achievement progress or, even better, add the additional profile to go through the game again with clear achievements score. Please consider adding this feature in the future updates. Thank you in advance.

Not only can devs do this (but most chose not too), there's nothing preventing a developer from tracking achievements in game on a per save/character basis. That way you could see which ones have been earned in each play through.

I remember in the old MMO City of Heroes that most badges (achievements) were earned on a per-character basis. Only a small handful of them were account wide and automatically awarded to all your characters.