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Achievement Demonstrations on own YouTube channel
Weapon demonstrations are very helpful in letting newer players know how a weapon fires or how an unlock's attributes affect standard gameplay, while keeping older players up-to-date on balance changes. But what if we assisted players of all kinds in learning how to earn TF2's 520 achievements? Introducing Achievement Demonstrations! (Video)
"Why demonstrate achievements?"
TF2 has hundreds of achievements, with many having rather vague descriptions. Thus, actively attempting to earn them may seem daunting to many players. Demonstration videos would provide clarity and encouragement to both newcomers and achievement hunters alike.
"How should achievements be demonstrated?"
Any achievements showcased should be earned in intended ways, utilizing simplest methods. This page should serve as a general guide. Weapon unlocks and cosmetics should be avoided unless essential to earning the achievement. General achievements that are earnable by any class should feature the Scout by default. Demonstrations should be primarily versus bots, though versing another player will be necessary at times.
- Taunt kill and Deathcam-related achievements: Should feature the victim's Deathcam perspective of the player earning the achievement.
- Achievements involving performance of a repetitive task over a lengthy period of time: Should be presented with a fade effect representing a time lapse, with only the start and earning of the achievement needed to be shown.
- Milestone achievements: Could be accomplished with either a brief compilation of the prerequisite achievements being earned, or with a simple showing of only the final achievement popup, along with the associated achievement item being claimed from the notifications menu.
- Achievements requiring Steam friends: These will require alt accounts or coordination amongst contributors.
- Unobtainable achievements (ie certain Replay achievements): Should be presented with a note informing watchers the achievement is currently unable to be earned.
- Joke achievements: A demonstration should not be necessary for these.
"Where should achievements be demonstrated?"
Achievements should generally be showcased on tr_karma_wiki, tr_karma_event_wiki, or a variant edited in Hammer with altered bot spawn locations.
- Arena achievements: arena_karma_wiki.
- Capture the Flag achievements: ctf_karma_wiki.
- Control point achievements: cp_karma_wiki.
- King of the Hill achievements: koth_karma_wiki.
- MvM achievements: mvm_karma_wiki. Can utilize custom waves.
- Payload achievements: pl_karma_wiki.
- Map-specific achievements: The official map associated with the achievement. MvM maps can utilize custom waves.
- Event-related achievements: tr_karma_event_wiki or an edited variant.
- Replay achievements: Should only use replays taken from one of the maps listed above.
$ɪʀ ₱ʀɪᴢᴇ (talk) 19:45, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- I think this won't add much, if an achievement is extraordinarily difficult (see: Merasmus TV one) it may be worth making a video in the form of just a link. Otherwise, I think most of the achievements explain themselves pretty well. For confusing ones, though, feel free to turn this discussion into some confusing achievements that may benefit from videos.
| s | GrampaSwood
(talk) (contribs) 22:25, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
"An applause sound"
Just to confirm, is this the applause sound that is played when achievement is earned? (And btw, regarding disguised and cloaked spies, is it specifically that these spies are unaffected by both the achievement sfx and vfx, or is it that they cannot see other players with achievement sfx/vfx? Or both?) Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 14:43, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah, it is. I'm assuming that cloaked/disguised Spies indeed get no applause/particles.
| s | GrampaSwood
(talk) (contribs) 14:44, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
"The progress of unobtained cumulative achievements is reset when a player resets their stats." bug
assuming stats refers to performance report, why exactly would a bug that's been in the game for so long not be fixed, especially given how frustrating it is? that said, as annoying as the bug obviously is, isn't there some kind of reason this occurs? for instance, are stats and achievement progress perhaps linked in some way? Guoyui (talk) 09:46, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
- Interestingly enough, this bug is listed here since this edit in 2011. Has anyone ever replicated it, especially since the addition of an achievement reset button? Regarding missing bug fixes: This is a wiki run by the community, not by Valve. You won't find an answer to that here. But there's plenty of bugs that have been in the game for ages. — shots fired by: Nikno {Talk | Contribs} 11:56, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
- Pretty sure that resetting stats was always tied to resetting achievements too, now there's just a way to only do it for achievements. I don't believe it has been re-tested, though I wouldn't be surprised if they still did it both. I can't re-test it because I prefer not to reset all my achievements, but if anyone has an alt then they possibly could.
| s | GrampaSwood
(talk) (contribs) 11:58, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
- Pretty sure that resetting stats was always tied to resetting achievements too, now there's just a way to only do it for achievements. I don't believe it has been re-tested, though I wouldn't be surprised if they still did it both. I can't re-test it because I prefer not to reset all my achievements, but if anyone has an alt then they possibly could.
- Oh I thought it was both. Seems like they might just be tied to the same type of tracker internally, though I have no idea where to check that in the source code.
| s | GrampaSwood
(talk) (contribs) 12:01, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
- Oh I thought it was both. Seems like they might just be tied to the same type of tracker internally, though I have no idea where to check that in the source code.