I have only 11 achievements in steam. It has not changed over the past 40 hours of play. Is this broken?

What achievements you think you already accomplished that you didn't get credit for? Sometimes people don't get certain achievements when they should, but get others.

Also, did you use Offline Mode?

I think in fallout 3 and new vegas the achievements would be disabled if you used ANY type of console command, you would have to restart the game before they were activated again, maybe the same in skyrim.

The Master Criminal achievement is reported as bugged by many players (or nobody has really figured how it is triggered).

I for myself didn't get Dungeon Delver and Hard Worker. I've got all other 47 achievements and Steam wasn't online since 11.11.11.

Many other achievements seen to take up to some minutes to register correctly. Maybe something can disrupt this registration process (fast travelling?).

False. Using the console in Fallout 3 and New Vegas did not disable achievements, and just like in Skyrim, you can use the console to gain achievements.

I really wish Bethesda would add something to a sticky to help quash this rumor. It's been around since Oblivion/FO3 and it's always been false.

Some things that may have been done for performance or stability (that have been recommended in the forums) can disable achievements. For example, I disabled the Steam Overlay because every time I got a notification it hard-locks my computer (cold reset required). Obviously this disables achievements.

That's set as a checkbox in the main preferences screen for the game (in Steam) - as in right-click-preferences, not the Skyrim launcher.

Disabling the Steam Overlay isn't suppose to disable achievements, as Steam is still tracking in the background; it just won't notify you in-game. Did you actually check your profile on Steam to see if you have any achievements for Skyrim? https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4462-UIOB-0425 doesn't mention the Steam Overlay as being required.

_{I've complained about this a few weeks back and here's Steam's BS reply.....}


My issues was posted here - http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/198691-discuss-skyrim-34.html#post1695168

To this day Unbound, Bleak Falls Barrow, The Way of the Voice, and Gatekeeper still show locked, despite the fact that I've completed them. I've also bought a two houses but have gotten no credit for that as well. Anyway not sure what's going on because quests behind those are showing unlocked so......

No mods or off-line play was used or done. No tweaks to the game whatsoever was used. Just straight vanilla play.

I can confirm using the console does not disable achievements. Remember you need to have the Steam overlay enabled to get achievements, and need to be online.

What's the Steam overlay? In case I missed something. And yeah you definitely need to be on-line, which I always am.

The little thing that when you launch the game pops up in the bottom right. It allows you to Shift Tab and have that overlay thing which shows the time, achievements, browser etc.

Yeah I figured it out. I actually never used it before and have never had issues with my achievements. The last Steam achievement game's I played Deus EX: HR, and FEAR3 had no issues with it being disabled. So.....

Anyway I've toggle it on and see what happens.

It does disable them, it doesn't track them, and I did check.

I even re-enabled it and added an achievement, and then the machine hard-locked and I had to reboot. So I disabled it again.

Without the Steam Overlay I get CTDs on occasion, but it only hard-locks with the Overlay running (AFAICT).

It's possible that this behavior is buggy, and some people have it and some don't, I put *nothing* past Steam and Bethesda in the "creative bugs" department.

Well enabling it doesn't work. BTW as I said before I've never enabled this service and some of my Achievements are recognized, as well as the ones for Deus EX and FEAR 3. Point being that these in theory shouldn't work either if that service is needed. And why are some Skyrim achievements being unlocked while some stay locked?

That said, you have a link that says it needs to be enabled for achievements to work, cause I agree with the other poster who says it doesn't matter.

Thanks.

I played with the option disabled over the last week and my achievements did register. You just don't see the notifications in game (as was posted above).

I think they can sometimes get bugged. For instance, I have completed all achievements except for the "Unbound" one, which of course is a bit rediculous...

I play in Online mode without the Steam overlay (never used it, never will) and my achievements have been working fine. Not sure if that helps anyone but there it is. Oh, and I use the console all the time without any disabling of the achievements either.

You do not have to be online. I wasn't online since 11.11.11 but I've got 47 achievements.

From this thread it seems rather random if one gets an achievement or not. Maybe reloading a save from before the achievement (ans doing it again) will help.

do you run as administrator? i had to the first time for la noire and didn't get the first mission achievement (but got its live equivalent)

since then, i got the impression that running as administrator can disable the achievements.

Not sure this is true since the informations is pulled from the game then uploaded to the server. You might not have to be online initially, but to get the achievements, you need to be online so the system can gather the info an upload it to the server.


Administrator privileges wouldn't affect achievements as long as the game can go online. Just because one doesn't have admin privileges doesn’t mean they can't go online. I run a small network and the PC my wife and kids use has them with limited access as they just use it to surf the net, email and stuff like that. Anyway this pretty much says the game needs to be online to get your achievements - https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4462-UIOB-0425

If you play in OFFLINE mode... you do not get achievements. (They are uploaded as they happen. Thus, any activity offline will lock-out any progress on that save-game. EG, you can't get achievement C because you got achievement B offline, and B is a requirement for C. No further progression will be recorded for that game. You have to start a new one, or re-load from the point where it stopped recording.)

If you ever used a console-command that counts as "Cheating", and disables all future achievement logging.

But, in reality, does it actually matter? If you find it critical to your life, you can start a new game, and that should UN-CHEAT your game. The cheat is recorded in the save-game, so it will follow you forever. Even if it is just a game-error, and you didn't actually cheat. (Not that you cheated, you may have used the console to fix your game, unsticking yourself from being stuck, or removing a quest item, or forcing a quest to complete which was not working due to a bug. Or, just simple game-save corruption, which is 100% common in this game. Though you may never actually see any corrupt issues in the game. Depends where the file got corrupted.)

Not sure this is necessarily true as stated as I used to console command to fix an issue I was having with one of my companion's weight issue bug - http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=26546424&postcount=10 Anyway since doing that, I was still able to get an achievement for finishing a quest for the Thieves Guild.

With regards to not getting an achievement while playing offline, you might have a point. However Steam does try and synchronize with the game when it comes back online, but it might not gather all files. Not sure here as I've never played offline.

Anyway it seems that my issue - http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/198691-discuss-skyrim-34.html#post1695168 may be due two the fact that some small requirements still have not been met or completed. Even though I've completed the main quest and the civil war I'm just discovering certain conversations about the execution in Helgen from NPC's in Solitude. Could the be why "Unbound" still shows locked???? Don't know.

As I said earlier I still have Unbound, Bleak Falls Barrow, The Way of the Voice, and Gatekeeper (join the mage guild) still showing locked despite being done. Now I'm begginning to wonder if there aren't some small tasks that need doing with these that aren't evident?

Why do you say "Future Logging"? Even in Fallout: New Vegas, using the console only disabled achievements for that play session.

Edit: I just re-confirmed that you can not only use the console, but also use it to GET achievements by giving myself the 100000 gold for the "Golden Touch" achievement.

player.additem f 100000

This command is safe to use because quest scripts normally use the "additem" command. 'f' is the base ID of gold in TES games.

Steam said I got the Golden Touch achievement and it's on my Steam profile.

While Fallout: New Vegas may have been different, in Skyrim there's no "cheat protection" whatsoever. So go nuts.

And yes I guess I did cheat to get this achievement...but it was in the name of SCIENCE! (well, QA)

Well if you feel that bad about it you can always go back to a save before the cheat code was used. Somehow though I'm guessing you'd rather keep it for "science" sake

So all we've established is that there's no consistent rule about how this works.

Some people are getting achievements without the overlay, using the console, or offline.

Other people are getting no achievements without the overlay, using the console, or offline.

It's ridiculous, but it's also par for the course for the last two months.

Does anyone actually *know* how this is supposed to work? Since Bethesda has apparently added no info?

Or is this like the endless iPresentinterval debate?

Yes, bro, I'm mad.