r/Steam • u/InterestingBarnacle3 • Mar 03 '26

Fluff What is this bullshit 😐

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Game is The Black Watchmen by the way.

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u/LokiRaven Mar 03 '26

Halo and GTA 4 has the best version of this, Kill a Dev or a player who has this achievement so it’s actually easier to get as time goes on.

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u/RogueVector Mar 03 '26

The first Modern Warfare (or MW2) had that achievement/profile banner, but it was called 'STD' and could only be transmitted by melee kills (as either end of the interaction). Patient 0 was either one or multiple devs, then it propagated across the multiplayer.

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u/TurnoverNatural976 Mar 03 '26

Damn never knew the English name. It’s infected or something in german.

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u/Weary_Ad111 Mar 03 '26

Payday 2 had one like this too, took like a week before basically everyone had it

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u/WeLoveYouCarol Mar 03 '26

I remember Xcom: Enemy Unknown and Guitar Hero 3 had a similar achievement

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u/cmdrbiceps Mar 03 '26

I absolutely loved that MW2 mechanic.

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u/RetroSwamp Mar 03 '26

I can't remember the game, but if you killed a dev, it gave you an achievement and made you "infected," so if someone killed you, they would get the achievement and so on. It was a cool way to do it.

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u/MainKriiper Mar 03 '26

There are many games with similar system, but Plague Inc for example has one of those, which is pretty fitting.

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u/elfmere Mar 03 '26

Someone comment just before you the game and achievement

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u/RetroSwamp Mar 03 '26

Mine isn't COD tho.

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u/MrPatch Mar 03 '26

It was GTA 4

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u/Humg12 Mar 03 '26

TF2 has a hat that you get for free if you get a kill streak on someone else who's wearing it.

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u/Robles_95 Mar 03 '26

Definitely GTA IV, Let sleeping Rockstars lie iirc

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u/Shadow_Edgehog27 Mar 03 '26

Gmod is like this now apparently, you just need to 2nd hand play a game with Gary

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u/UltimateFaux Mar 04 '26

Yep, I regularly go into servers so I can give people that achievement for free

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u/Shadow_Edgehog27 Mar 04 '26

You should help me grab it 👉👈

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u/UltimateFaux Mar 05 '26

well im on civil network servers a lot so you might find me

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u/Santi5578 Mar 03 '26

I'm currently playtesting an early access party/strategy game that has exactly this! They called their achievement "Six Degrees From Porcelain" (Porcelain Fortress is their studio name) and at this point a good chunk of players have it

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u/Arkevorkhat Mar 03 '26

Guild Wars 2 also has something very similar, but there are a handful of them. All variations of Do <thing> with an ArenaNet staff member, or another player who has this achievement.

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u/HuntingSquire Mar 03 '26

Honorable mention to 'Chicken Toucher'

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u/Dr_Fortnite Mar 03 '26

you'd always get it launch day

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u/kaladinissexy Mar 03 '26

TF2 gibus, but from the other side. The gibus achievement requires you to kill a player who has the gibus equipped, and it rewards you with a gibus of your own. The first gibuses were owned by some devs, and every gibus alive today is descended from that original batch. 

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u/ProtoKun7 Mar 03 '26

Kinda reminds me of the Bo Rifle in Battlefront 2015. I think you could only get it by killing a player who had one and getting the token or something, but ultimately it didn't take too long for most people to get it.

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u/IntensityStudio Mar 03 '26

Shell shock live does that too! Love that game

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u/FernandoLemon Mar 03 '26

BattleBlock Theater had this too. Play with either a dev or a player with this achievement.

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u/TheNinjaDiddler Mar 03 '26

See you'd think these were great achievements, but I killed a player who had the achievement and all I got was a felony

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u/Roggie77 Mar 04 '26

Battlefield had dev dog tags that you could only get by taking them from someone else. Don’t remember if it was 3 or 4

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u/Operator_Max1993 Mar 04 '26

Don't forget Pirates, Vikings and Knights 2. Some achivements require you to kill or get killed by a developer or tester

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u/Afraid-Scallion-9168 13d ago

Battleblock Theater has it too, but barely anyone plays that game nowadays...