Description of issue
Several of the achievements can be easily cheated
What platform do you play on?
Steam
Game Version
1.12.2
Enabled DLC
Do you have mods enabled?
No
Description
There are several achievements that are coded in such a way that they can easily be exploited.
One such example is Montezuma's Revenge.
The issue is that it's coded to give the achievement regardless of who controls the states, provided the game was started as Mexico.
It's possible to start a game as Mexico, exit to menu, take a copy of the ironman save file, start a new game as the USA, exit to menu, rename the Mexico save file to the USA save file and drop it in the save game folder replacing the new game started as USA so that it has the contents of the Mexico save, then click Single Game and Continue to continue playing as the USA in the game started as Mexico. Once it loads, advance the game one hour and the achievement pops up because you control the required states and the original tag is Mexico.
There are several achievements with this same issue.
Example: the one where Spain takes Gibraltar.
There are others with similar issues, like starting a game as Communist China and switch to the USA and build up factories to get the achievement for 100 factories.
Later achievements seem to be better coded to stop this exploit, like the achievement for the USSR taking Rome, it cares that the Soviets control Latium specifically.
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Several of the achievements can be easily cheated
What platform do you play on?
Steam
Game Version
1.12.2
Enabled DLC
Do you have mods enabled?
No
Description
There are several achievements that are coded in such a way that they can easily be exploited.
One such example is Montezuma's Revenge.
The issue is that it's coded to give the achievement regardless of who controls the states, provided the game was started as Mexico.
It's possible to start a game as Mexico, exit to menu, take a copy of the ironman save file, start a new game as the USA, exit to menu, rename the Mexico save file to the USA save file and drop it in the save game folder replacing the new game started as USA so that it has the contents of the Mexico save, then click Single Game and Continue to continue playing as the USA in the game started as Mexico. Once it loads, advance the game one hour and the achievement pops up because you control the required states and the original tag is Mexico.
There are several achievements with this same issue.
Example: the one where Spain takes Gibraltar.
There are others with similar issues, like starting a game as Communist China and switch to the USA and build up factories to get the achievement for 100 factories.
Later achievements seem to be better coded to stop this exploit, like the achievement for the USSR taking Rome, it cares that the Soviets control Latium specifically.
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