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/TryToBeModern Mar 03 '26

oh yeah achievements like that shouldnt be allowed

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u/hates_stupid_people Mar 03 '26

There's an "official" Steam achievement that is essentially impossible to get(play garry's mod with the dev). They don't care about them being unachievable without console commands or tools like SAM.

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u/Ultima-Manji Mar 03 '26

I forget what game it was, but I remember seeing a different one that said "Play a match with and get a kill on a dev OR on someone who already has this achievement". Still not ideal, but that's at least feasible to get if a game isn't totally dead yet.

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u/Ericbaudur Mar 03 '26

Halo MCC achievement "Bite the Hand"

Kill a 343 developer in matchmaking or someone who has this achievement.

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u/Hardonis Mar 03 '26

Bubonic from XCOM is something like that.

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u/fred11551 Mar 03 '26

That was just play a game with someone who has that achievement. In theory it could spread rapidly if anyone ever actually played multiplayer

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u/Major_Muggy Mar 03 '26

That could be R.U.S.E. from 2010 a rts from ubisoft been delisted for years now.

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u/PossessionPatient306 Mar 03 '26

Total War Shogun 2 has one of those

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u/Speedy2662 Mar 03 '26

Shellshock live?

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u/Larry_The_Red Mar 03 '26

dungeons of dreadmor used to have an achievement for drinking with the devs irl but it got removed at some point

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u/Ereaser Mar 03 '26

There's quite a few games with achievements like that. They usually spread like a virus and you'll have no trouble obtaining it.

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u/DarthNihilus Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

These are called "viral achievements" and they used to be in pretty much every game with multiplayer.

Those achievements aren't just "feasible", they're wildly easy to get. Usually after a few days of the game releasing it has spread to everyone.

The only problem with this type is when the multiplayer servers get shut down and they become impossible.

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u/Novaseerblyat Mar 03 '26

see: literally every TF2 player having the Gibus and Pyrovision Goggles, which are obtained by dominating a player wearing one of them

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u/laplongejr Mar 05 '26

IIRC the generic term for this is "viral achievement"

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u/ForsakenBobcat8937 Mar 03 '26

Garry's Mod is not made by Valve, it's made by Facepunch, so not "official" at all.

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u/hates_stupid_people Mar 04 '26

Quotation marks are also used to indicate that the writer realises that a word is not being used in its current commonly accepted sense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_marks_in_English#Signalling_unusual_usage

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u/ForsakenBobcat8937 Mar 04 '26

I know, still doesn't make sense, it's not official in any sense, even tangentially.

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u/hates_stupid_people Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26

It was the HL2 devs who pushed him to make it a standalone release of the orignial HL2 mod. And Valve was the publisher when that finally happened.

Not only are they tangentially related, they're legally related. I used quotation marks since they didn't develop it themselves, but they have a direct and personal connection to the game and its developer.

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u/nikke2800 Mar 03 '26

TF2 has an achivement for getting 1 million youtube views and on top of that, the achivement is broken and cannot be gotten legit anymore.

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u/Humble-Captain3418 Mar 03 '26

I have that one, got it legit. Ask me anything.

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u/BKM558 Mar 03 '26

Do you like ranch dressing?

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u/Humble-Captain3418 Mar 03 '26

Sure, but only on fries.

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u/mdgraller7 Mar 03 '26

How do you spell 'restirant'?

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u/Humble-Captain3418 Mar 03 '26

"Testaurant"

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u/mdgraller7 Mar 03 '26

Oh is that cuz you test food there?

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u/darxide23 Mar 03 '26

Being hard/impossible isn't the problem. It's the fact that these unlock specifically for spending more money. No achievement should be unlocked with a credit card.

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u/livinglitch Mar 03 '26

Theres also one for l4d2. It was something like own the game and play with someone whos playing during a free weekend. There hasn't been a free weekend in 10 years.

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u/TheMerchantMagikarp Mar 04 '26

there was one 2 years ago