[1.6.1](b38e) Steam Achievements not working (and never did)

[Just No.]

Hello.
I'm new to this forum, but not new to Stellaris (244 hours played and counting).
I purchased the game in May 2016 (year ago), and no matter what I do - can't unlock any Steam achievement. Yes, I was playing Ironman, no mods. My Paradox account is linked to Steam account. And never got a single achievement, tried on 3 different computers already.

Opening a "case" as this becomes frustrating:
- just got a brand new laptop (just so you don't suggest "uninstall / reinstall"),
- installed Steam from scratch, installed Stellaris from scratch,
- verified all DLCs are on, and no mods are downloaded/installed,
- in-game set up new Ironman game, got "achievements available" message (yay!),
- ... and didn't get any achievements.

Version of Stellaris: Nova edition.
List of DLCs: Leviathans, Anniversary Portraits, Arachnoid Portait Pack, Digital OST, Horizon Signal.
List of mods: none.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Gruntsatwork]

Hi @Just No. thanks for the report and the save, I will take a look at it and see about adding it to our database if there is something we can do. Also, just to make sure, could you please tell me your checksum?

 

[Just No.]

If I only knew where to find it...? In "How to write bug report" it says I will be able to find it in launcher (? Adams 1.6.1, b38e - but I already put it in topic subject), or in-game -- but the picture where to find it is no longer available (see https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...idelines-on-how-to-write-a-bug-report.925911/)

 

[Gruntsatwork]

@Just No. Yes, you did, you totally did -_- Sorry about that. Sometimes you just miss the most obvious things even though they are directly in front of your eyes. Checksum is correct so no easy answer for us I'm afraid.

 

[Just No.]

Hello. Any update on my "case"? Were you able to replicate the issue and hopefully find what is wrong?
Thanks.

 

[Gruntsatwork]

@Just No. I'm afraid not, this is going to take longer than a few days to resolve.

 

[Cirsphe]

I'm having the same issue.

I contacted support directly where they instructed me to completely reinstall the game after deleting all game files. I loaded up my pre-existing ironman save and I still didn't get credit for having a 100K+ fleet.

My game started in 1.6 and I had upgraded to 1.7 on release and upgraded to 1.7.2 on Friday to continue my game in hopes that it was fixed there but no dice.

I too have all the DLCS and no mods.

 

[jose2534]

My game started in 1.6 and I had upgraded to 1.7 on release and upgraded to 1.7.2 on Friday to continue my game in hopes that it was fixed there but no dice.

Oh... it is possible that that it’s the problem. Friend, try a new game (using the version 1.7.2), in a super small galaxy, with only one AI and not FE, no advance starts either, no crisis (that if you want), and iron mode on obviously (if you want, I recommend you to create a really week species, a F-pacifist spiritualist of sorts and force spawn it so you only have to worry about him and no one more), and go to specifically hunt small/easy to get achievements. It should work, please try a short game this way and reply.

 

[Gruntsatwork]

@Cirsphe and @jose2534 that seems indeed like the most likeable culprit in this case. Sadly, saves spanning different patches have been very unstable when it comes to achievements lately.

 

[Just No.]

Wait, what?
I am playing (4 new starts) since May 2016 (1.1?), and you're saying "start again, wimp mode"?
Come on, you can do better. First of all, I *always* start a new game when new release comes out. So that part of the proposed "solution" is out anyway.

The fact we upgrade has nothing to do with lack of Steam achievements. If anything, it's our national-regional Windows settings or anything else (FWIW, Polish settings). Not sure about @Cirsphe experience here though. I even changed OSes and laptops, so that's out of the window (read "don't say 'reinstall Windows'"), and my previous OS was English-UK settings (so forget "don't use Polish").
Please don't be script-reading-machine "delete/reinstall/again". Truly counterproductive, as we've just proved.
Help us.

Coming back to my .sav file - were you able to find out what's wrong? If not - as a paying customer - whom shall I contact to escalate? (and I'm old, please don't treat this as a 19yo dude asking Qs).
(I'm used to escalations at work, very different process , shit gets done)
So if I could ask for escalation engineer, I'd appreciate. As now we're going nowhere it seems.
Or perhaps I wasn't properly informed what's the official legal way of settlement?

 

[Just No.]

Just _won_ the game (domination), still no achievements.
This is frustrating. Is anyone even looking at it? As right now it seems I paid full-price for 80%-working product.

 

[Simoom]

I started a new game in 1.6.1 and have gotten achievements.

I know there was an achievement bug with 1.5 though and my old 1.5 save wasn't unlocking achievements when played in 1.6.