Achievement Guide: How to unlock "These Guys Are Awesome" in 2021!

Are you tired of subscribing to 40 mods and not having any of them trigger that last achievement you need to get 100%? Well you're in luck, at least for now. As of 20 minutes ago, someone found out how to make the game appear to have 5 mods downloaded in your Cortex Command game files. This might not work for very long, so try to get this achievement as soon as you see this guide, just in case it stops working in the near future!

Here's all you need to do:

Make sure that Cortex Command is CLOSED.
Then head over to Steam, right-click on Cortex Command, hover your cursor over Manage, and click on "Browse local files".
This image is here just in case you couldn't understand the first set of instructions for some reason.

After that, you're gonna wanna follow this path: Contents > Resources > Base.rte > Settings.ini
Do note that if you're on Mac, before Contents you'll have to right-click the Cortex Command game icon and click "Show Package Contents", and then follow the path I set above.

Now that you're here, open "Settings.ini" with any text editing software you like, on Windows use Notepad/Notepad++ and on Mac use TextEdit or whatever you want, it doesn't matter, just make sure it's a text editing tool like the aforementioned ones.

Open up Settings.ini and scroll down until you find "MusicVolume = x" where x is the volume of the music you set in-game, if you couldn't already tell lmao. Make a new line right under that by literally just pressing Enter on your keyboard after the volume number, and copy-paste these exact lines.

SteamWorkshopMod = peepee
SteamWorkshopMod = peepoo
SteamWorkshopMod = poopee
SteamWorkshopMod = poopoo
SteamWorkshopMod = peepeepoopoo
SteamWorkshopMod = peepee1
SteamWorkshopMod = peepoo2
SteamWorkshopMod = poopee3
SteamWorkshopMod = poopoo4
SteamWorkshopMod = peepeepoopoo5

Just in case you need to see it in action, here you go:

Now that's done, don't forget to save the file's changes before you close it, and launch Cortex Command.
Congrats, now you got that pesky achievement and can safely uninstall the game.

Now that that's out of the way...

If you found Cortex Command interesting but were dissatisfied with how the game played out, please don't hesitate to check out a community project that is keeping the game alive with active modders, developers, and RTS enjoyers in the Cortex Command Community Project discord server. Here's a link just in case you're interested :) https://discord.gg/TSU6StNQUG
And this one is the general Cortex Command discord server because that one is kinda active too: https://discord.gg/3trkVPYyv5.

And I wanna give the biggest shoutout to MaximDude, who is the person that came up with this little band-aid solution to the problem! Literally couldn't have done it without you lol! Okay, that's all folks!

[Colonel Clutch]

Can confirm that this still works perfectly! I used vscode as my text editor and it went without a hitch.

[MaximDude]

It's been a while but I guess there is an important piece of info I forgot to mention for those who never messed with the files directly.
The indentation in the file is important.

The 'SteamWorkshopMod' lines MUST be indented by exactly one TAB character, not 4 spaces, or any number of spaces that makes it "look right" in your editor.
This old version is stupid and will silently fail and skip loading the rest of the settings file if you don't indent it right.
At some later point it just overwrites the bad settings file with defaults.

An editor like N++ or VSCode will just match the indentation automatically when you newline, but notepad will not.

Also, uninstalling the game does not delete the settings file, it will linger in 'Base.rte'.
You need to delete it manually.
You can do that at any point and it'll just regenerate with defaults when you run the game again, you don't need to reinstall unless you messed up your vanilla modules.

[Rakan]

Thanks for the input, I feel like actually going into program files and deleting everything manually is what did the trick, but I appreciate that you shared that in case it helps someone else!

[Dubble618]

After tons of testing, I finally got this to work as of 7th August 2024. My advice is Use notepad++ as regular notepad edits wouldn't be recognised by the game. sometimes the game doesn't actually uninstall when uninstalled on steam, so check Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Cortex Command to see if it's still there.
I don't know if it ended up helping, but also putting a line break immediately after Settings in the settings.ini file could be necessary for the achievement to proc. I also deleted Benchmark.rte in the Cortex Command files in case that was overwriting my changes.

[Kordyus]

Can confirm, still works in 2024

[MyxoMop42]

Thank you very much!

[Sly BluePaw]

It works. Didn't have to do a uninstall either.

[♥Rawr XD PuppyGirl]

I think it's broken now I can not get the Achievement to pop at all

[Rakan]

Nothing changed since I uploaded this, make sure you're following the comment I sent to Slim, it's 2 comments below the one you posted! Make sure you completely uninstall the game, like after Steam says you uninstalled it go into your Steam folders and delete any file/folder that may be left over, and then try again!

[Wrontler]

Anyone that has done this in 2022? I can't seem to get it to work...