Why are achievements necessary before running?
6 years ago

I gather that they set a flag somewhere, but I can't tell why that is necessary.

Italy

In short, that flag allows you to make paint spawn faster than otherwise possible.

Full explanation: paint unlocks when you unlock five different 'paintable' lines. Reading all QRs and collecting all the time capsules unlock two of such lines; however, the progress on those is saved globally across your game and is not save dependant, so on a fresh file you just need to make the game check the time capsule / QR counter to make it realize the flag for unlocking the achievements is active and you will therefore get that paint line.

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