RealRtCW: Achievements Relock

Instructions for freeing up the achievement slots once held by Victors campaign.

Background

Achtung achtung! The instructions given in this guide are strictly meant for those who played the mod Victors either to completion or to some extent between Dec 2021 and Feb 2022. As such, if you are not of the target audience, there is no need to follow the process outlined below.

A lengthy custom campaign for RtCW, Victors, was released to much fanfare back at December 2021. Its RealRtCW version also featured fifteen achievements. Owing to various complications, however, the mod in question was withdrawn from distribution around a month after its release (and never officially came back). Following the delisting, the achievements tied to the mod were also removed from the game.

When the first additional mission for Enemy Territory: SP, Warbell, was released in June 2023, it came with its own achievements of five. That is where things got interesting. Those who played Victors to 100% completion back in its day were not even notified of those ET achievements, as the then new ones basically refilled the first five slots left over from Victors'.

Come June 2024, the release of RealRtCW v5.0 took things further with a brand-new interlude map, Malta HQ, and another set of fifteen achievements were added to the game. Once again, ten of these filled the remaining slots left over from the removal. Of the players returning to the game thanks to the update, those who got 'Victors shenanigans' (as the dev calls it) saw that they only have five to unlock, instead of the full set of fifteen.

If you are of the said group and do not like the situation at hand, follow the instructions below to relock those achievements without any involvement from a third-party tool, so that you may go ahead and regain them... properly, so to speak, with refreshed date and timestamps.

Instructions

1) Whether Steam is running or not, open your browser of choice and go to steam://open/console.
2) Copy and paste one of the relocking commands given below into the text box and hit enter.
3) If you get the message 'achievement_clear failed' the first time around, either switch between
    a few tabs or relaunch in console mode and keep trying.
4) Once you get the message 'achievement_clear success' in return, that means the achievement
    in question is relocked. The others should follow suit.
5) Relock your achievements as needed and then restart Steam to confirm.

RELATION    ACHIEVEMENT                        RELOCKING COMMAND
ET:SP M7     Warbell                              achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_WARBELL_MAP
             Operation Destruction                achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_WARBELL_WATERS
             Blavats-Kill                         achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_WARBELL_BLAV
             Hells Bells!                         achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_WARBELL_OLARIC
             It Ain't Over Until the Bell...      achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_WARBELL_HEIN
RealRtCW     This Belongs to You Sir              achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_AGENT1
             Airborne Training                    achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_MALTA_LEAP
             Whatever You Do - Don't Fall...      achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_MALTA_NIGHTMARE
             Espionage Warfare                    achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_MALTA_OSA
             The Dots and Dashes...               achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_MALTA_RADIO
             That Belongs in a Museum!            achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_MALTA_EGYPT
             The Black Goat of the Woods          achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_MALTA_GOAT
             Song for Elise                       achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_MALTA_WIDE
             How the Muppet Like You...           achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_MALTA_COURSE
             Wolf's Lair                          achievement_clear 1379630 ACH_MALTA_LAIR

Mind that relocking these achievements do not subtract them from your total number of Steam achievements or result in a recalculation of your average game completion rate. Unlocking them once more, on the other hand, adds to your total number of achievements.

Figuring these out required combining one of the Steam dev commands (i.e. achievement_clear) with RealRtCW's App ID (1379630) and the API names of the achievements in question, both of which can be found over at the game's SteamDB page.[steamdb.info]

There are more dev commands of similar nature but those are out of the scope of this guide. The given syntax can be applied to other games of course, so long as the ID / API names are known.

Took long enough. Now go explore Warbell Abbey or Malta Headquarters to your heart's content.