The Three Mountains UNLOCKED!!!!!

[renny55]

I had a bet with a 13 year old friend of mine to get the Three Mountains Achievement. He agreed and I borrow him the game on Steam.
So, in less than 12 hours he unlock the achievement, along with:

World Conquerer
That's a Silk Road
No Pirates in my Caribbean
A Protected Market
Etc.

He is very intelligent, but that intelligent?
In so short time, is that even possible?

I'm thinking he might have cheated.

He may had used a program to unlock achievements.
What do you think?
An if he cheated how can I prove it?

Thanks

P.s This is my first post and I don't know where to put this.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

It's pretty hard to prove someone cheated. At the same time, it's not difficult to cheat to get it using a save editor, steam achievement manager, or even some kinds of save scumming.

12 hours is pushing it a bit, but yes it is in theory possible (albeit difficult) to do it in that timeframe.

 

[thErgonomic]

Look at his save file.
The country History will tell the tale of his grand conquests.

 

[grumphie]

that sounds very fishy to do in 12h

 

[kitemasaki]

Don't believe it till I see it.

 

[Panzerschiffe]

What were the stakes?

 

[durvas]

Can you play offline or with your time not steam tracked while still in local Ironman?

 

[Rudolph]

No.
The in-game time required even for a seasoned player is 20+ hours, guessing between 40-60 hours. That is ignoring the fact your friend has to learn the mechanics and how to exploit them, hence no. SAM or CE.

 

[Lord Finnish]

Faaaake

 

[Mortheim]

He lies. You can't do this in 1.8 patch in 12 hours.

 

[Kirikano]

yeahhhh no. Even if you know the mechanics perfectly, to finish a WC playthrough in 12 hours is impossible.

 

[GNozaki]

If he got all achievements at almost the same minute, it was most likely unlocked using something like an steam achievement manager or something like that.

 

[Stategem161803]

I don't believe it, but I don't really care either.

That being said, if you bet me $$$$ that I couldn't get the achievement, I wouldn't be opposed to taking a Gordian Knot approach.

"You said get the achievement."

"I meant play the game and get the achievement."

"You should say what you mean"

 

[TheMeInTeam]

yeahhhh no. Even if you know the mechanics perfectly, to finish a WC playthrough in 12 hours is impossible.

I strongly doubt the accuracy of this statement, even if I also doubt the OP's friend did it legit.

 

[Mr. Slade]

Tell him that you want to see how he did it so you can do it too. You'll find out somehow.

But I doubt he did it by playing the game.

 

[Te. Kenzo]

Steam achivement hack

 

[Panzerschiffe]

Maybe he can take a screenshot to show you his game.

 

[Pornek]

Highly doubt it, without prior knowledge of the game doing it in 12h seems very fishy.

 

[zodium]

It's impossible to do in 12 hours. He should have waited maybe 48 hours, but 12 hours is basically an unpaused run on speed 3.

 

[BarrosRodrigues]

12 hours? It has cheating written all over it.