How to get "Gift Grab" achievement? (WORKS AS OF 18/02/2025)

Now that this achievement has been finally fixed, I will show how you can obtain it.

SOME INFORMATION

Gift Grab achievement was unobtainable for 13 years until Valve fixed it in 2025. Prior to that, it required a modded server (cheated of course). This guide will cover the instructions on how to earn the achievement legitimately below.

INSTRUCTIONS

1) Before booting/launching the game, change your PC's date to December 2011 (any year works or you do not need to change the year, only PC date must be in December). Or you can wait till December so that you do not have to change the date!
2) Then launch game and click on "CREATE SERVER" and have bots. Make sure not to equip them with any weapons except knife by unmarking all weapons so that you can kill them easily. Here is how to:


3) Once you created a server and are in the map now, buy any weapon and find bots to kill for gift drops. Keep in mind that the gifts have a 20% drop rate so keep killing bots until they drop gifts and collect them. Repeat this 2 times and the achievement is yours. :)

MUCH EASIER METHOD

Make a bot session with 32 bots spawning in any team. Then type "bot_kill" in console when you can freely move. (To open/enable the console, go to Options -> Keyboard and click Advanced. Select(tick) the checkbox for Enable Developer Console. Once it is enabled, press (~) key to open the console.)
Collect the gifts and repeat this if you didn't make it on time. (Collect 3 gifts)
It's faster than going to bots and killing them. Note that you don't even need to set their weapons to anything.
Thanks to Vellerm0 for providing the fastest method.

CONCLUSION

Thanks for reading my guide and I hope it helped! (Awards are welcomed although it's optional)
Leave a comment if you have any more questions.

[SAM]

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[FBA]

Roger that, just like how it used to be when it worked, good to know for any readers!

Have a good year

True MVP

[Mado4SXT]

well u have to change date to any December to make gifts drop or u can wait till December

[FBA]

Epic! - I tried it without changing date but didnt see any gifts drop, but maybe if I changed date, but I wont try that

either way

tysm for sharing!

[Mado4SXT]

yes it works i can confirm

[FBA]

Daym, if this is true they finally fixed it! :O (According to Feburary 18 patch they did)

[ https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/240/view/689716592460694165?l=english ]

I did this back in 2011 or 2012 or something by changing date to 20th december 2011 I believe

but if this does not work for some weird reason, this is an alternative method




If the Easier Version Below does not work, I recommend trying this - a little weird how it works on this server, but if as said below works, maybe it was not the forceupdate at all, maybe they finally just fixed it?

https://steamcommunity.com/app/240/discussions/0/4637114871638402200/ - Here is the original I found it from

https://steamcommunity.com/app/240/discussions/0/583876502953711541/#c583876502953713304 - and here is my version if u want more insight

[Mado4SXT]

oh wait ur right
but again i implied that any year works

[Mado4SXT]

Only if it's December then yes.
I changed the date to test whether the gifts drop or not.

[lambups]

you don't need to change the year

[Mado4SXT]

thanks!