Ideas for achievements

It's only a contradiction if you assume I don't care if the Xbox players enjoy the game and get nice achievements. But I do care.

As PC gamer however I'm more interested in balance, bug fixes (if required) and modding/mapping possibilities for myself. I have created a bunch of maps for Supreme Commander and enjoyed it very much. Hopefully it will be possible to mod some stuff in MNC too.

Hopefully the xbox version isn't moddable. Usually the first week a XBLA game is released alot of ppl hack the leader boards, but I like it when people mod the maps and stuff but alot of people complain so it usually gets fixed so you can't mod.

Yup, there is a fine line between modding and cheating sometimes. In Supreme Commander that wasn't much of an issue for a long time because you can't really change the unit values. Its netcode was based on p2p which means giving one unit an ber powerful weapon on your side would immediately desync the game in multiplayer (unless everybody has the mod installed). It's different for shooters of course since they often use a server-client based netcode.

I have never modded an online shooter so far and I will have to find something fun to mod first. Maybe I can have some fun with the advertisements in the arena or textures of the classes. There is some empty space on the Tank's suit that screams: mod me...

lol yea changing the advertisements would be funny I'm sure lots of people will come up with some crazy funny ideas for them.

i was thinking this for one:
one man army: win the game when all your team-mates are dead

I say for achievments you should do 6 achievments on each individual character (like for the support build X turrets) then like 3 on blitz mode(defend your money ball for X minutes) and then the last 3 on random stuff (win a game) ( kill an enemy which is in the middle of a grapple) and try to include 1 secret achievment PLEASE TY

If you were doing one achievement for each of the Pros/Classes, i think it would be best to do something like: Unlock these specific five Support ProTags (A, B, C, D and E)
And then three or four correspond to easy Pro specific challenges that will teach the player essential skills that aren't obvious - like kill an enemy Pro with the healgun, or take a headshot as a level 3 gunner - because a lot of players like achievements it will act as a sort of advanced tutorial. Then the last one could be something more challenging but still class specific, because people do like some challenge in the achievement list.

XBLA games have 12 achievements.

Little info there for everyone.

Hey I thought I would throw a suggestion in.

If there is a leader board for MNC, You could have a leader board for the ingame trials, You could have like never ending trials.

Example: Get 10 grapple kills

When you get 10 the trial finishes but you can continue to still get kills to add to you leader board total.

You could also have milestone trials, Kinda like once you finish 10 you unlock the next trial which would be 100 then 1000 and so on, And looking at the leader boards would show who is at the most points on a certain trial.

I just thought this might be a good idea for people who would spend alot of time playing MNC and still have a reason to shoot for when they finish the achievements and most of the trials, Its probably best to keep the achievements simple and then have some hardcore trials for the players that want a challenge.

Knew that thats why i suggested 6 character achievments 3 blitz ones and 3 genneral ones (put in a secret 1 please)
Have you finished deciding wat achievments u r puttin in

Yes, unfortunately the achievements for MNC are already done.

However, that doesn't mean we can't be looking into achievements for future content. (DLC/Sequels/etc)

I fixed it for you.

I wonder if there's a maximum achievement number on Steam or other online digital dist services.

I hope the obvious achievement is in there:

MONEY SHOT - Get the last hit on the money ball

Heh, I can already imagine having the argument with the ESRB.

Oh but it would be epic.

so if you guys already know the achievements.............when do you plan on making such privileged information available to the general public? Or are they still being approved by M$?

There is an approval process... and it's good to dole out the info slowly, can't tell you everything all at once!

Dunno about a maximum number but lets see how many achievements some of the other Steam games have:
SupCom 2: 47
Modern Warfare II: 50
Unreal Tournament III: 57
Left 4 Dead 2: 60
Team Fortress 2: 326

Since the PC achievements are not linked to any monetary value you can probably have as many as you want. Oh, since you are using the Unreal Engine you will basically get Steamworks build in.

Demigod had 279 achievements on Impulse but GPG screwed it up and never fixed them... :S

I like it alot (reference to MW2 AS WELL)