Wondering if anyone else is having this problem... I just completed Come Fly with Me and recruited ED-E, and neither achievement unlocked for me. It may just be the steam cloud being down, but in that case will these achievements unlock once it comes back up, or will I have to do another playthrough to get them?

I thought people said Steam never went down? How come people are having so much trouble with Steam? I would assume once Steam is back up, that you will get your achievements. I don't know 100% though.

I'll see if I can get any insight on the problem. Might be because we disabled Steam cloud while we work on some things. More details soon.

Well it's not Steam that went down, I'm just assuming it could be the Steam Cloud that went down due to all the new activity with FNV. The cloud is just a server hosted by Steam (Valve really) that stores game info for players so they can access game saves and whatnot on multiple computers. I've seen it go down before either for updates or just crashes, and I'd assume that with everyone flocking to play FNV it could cause a crash or a lag, I'm just concerned about having to redo these things in order to get my achievement (even though they basically mean nothing)

Another developer mentioned to me that if you're using the tilde key while playing, you Steam achievements could become disabled.

Is this permanent? How long does it last for? I did use the godmode code for a short while when I ran out of ammo, but I have since turned it off. Does this hinder my ability to gain achievements throughout the entire save file? Or does that hinder me for the entire game?!

That would be frustrating indeed, since I've used tcl to get myself out of a boulder.

Do the achievements actually do anything?

I, personally, don't care about them if they don't.

Have they ever? Neither Steam nor Xbox achievements carry any reward other than a sense of pride.

Haha! It should do ya cheater, you're not earning the cheevos!

I can confirm that you get achievements still if you've used a cheat. You won't get any achievements if you use a cheat or open the ` console, but if you restart F:NV you'll get achievements.