All Achievements category?
1 year ago
California, USA

I thought this would be a cool category to start. A bit longer runtime, and would show a more combo-oriented style.

A few concerns though, first being that the Switch version (and I'm guessing the other console versions) has 2 more achievements than PC. One is "Masterful Descent," which is completing an entire area/world with no damage. The Steam version only has "Careful Descent," which is only 1 level. The other is "Done Well," which is just getting every other achievement, so that's not really an issue.

Also, as far as I know there's no official way to reset your achievements on PC, since they're linked to Steam, so even if you delete your save your achievements remain. I've read that you can use Steam Achievement Manager (SAM) to reset them, though.

But what do yall think? Would we just have a PC achievements category and console achievements category, or pick one of the versions?

Scotland

I'm willing to discuss this idea, if anyone else is interested.

To my understanding PC is the most common platform for speedrunning the game, so I think it makes sense to use the PC achievement list. That said you're right in that being unable to reset achievements is a problem: verifying the whole list from an unmarked run would be really tough. It could be possible that the runner tracks achievements as they collect them so the verifier knows where to look, but that's a lot to ask. It's a shame the game doesn't have any sort of internal achievement system that you could more easily reset.

So I'm admittedly on the fence about it for that reason, but if someone finds a suitable solution I'd be interested. At the very least I'd probably want runs to be timestamped for when each achievement's collected.