What if? Quake achievements

[Akumadevil]

Hi all.

As a bit of a mental exercise: if Quake (i.e. Darkplaces, Qrack...) added XBOX/Steam style achievements, what would you have?

Singleplayer

• Beat game on Easy or harder
• Beat game on Normal or harder
• Beat game on Hard or harder
• Beat game on Nightmare
• Nightmare 100% kills
• 100% secrets
• Various speedruns (entire game, individual levels)
• Kill a vore with the axe on Nightmare (no pent, no quad)
• Kill a shambler with the axe on Nightmare (no pent, no quad)
• Achieve a certain speed (500 units?) by bunnyhopping
• Achieve a certain height (?) by rocket jumping
• Achieve a certain height (?) by grenade jumping
• Achieve a certain height (?) by ogre grenade jumping
• Achieve a certain height (?) by vore ball jumping
• Activate the dopefish easter egg message
• Kill all the spawned enemies on last level
• Get 100 monsters to kill each other

Multiplayer

• 1,000 frags overall
• 500 frags overall
• 100 frags overall
• 50 axe kills
• 10 frags in 10 seconds
• 5 frags in 5 seconds

I feel that the achievements should introduce the player to experience every facet of the game. I would be particularly interested in reaching hard/interesting places (via rocket jumping etc) or manipulating the enemies to do interesting things.

Cheers.

[Phenom]

I'd love to see achievements in Quake! Make it so!

[Baker]

Your mom can pat you on the head and say "Good Job!" if that serves as motivation, I guess ...

I dunno, any true Quake player doesn't need a pat on the head ...

Maybe I'm old skool and therefore no fun.

[Phenom]

I dunno, any true Quake player doesn't need a pat on the head ...

Obviously that statement is true, but I'd still like to see achievements! Thats an attention grabber now-days

[R00k]

Dont smack a first poster.
But, does it really matter after 14 years who can beat Quake?
or does anyone really play single player id maps? if so get the F*ck outta your momas basement eh?!

[Zop]

Achievements:

Start a server, get 16 players at the same time
Code your own mod, get 100 players
Code your own client, get 100 players

[Baker]

Dont smack a first poster.

I wasn't. At least I wasn't trying to.

Maybe I was overlooking the obvious. People like to-do lists in games and lists of achievements.

For instance, many times in a new single player map people will try to find ALL 6 of 6 secrets.

Well -- why are they trying to find all 6? Because they are there and it says in the scoreboard there are 6 secrets.

Maybe I have just disproved myself

[metchsteekle]

downsider did it in cobalt runner,YouTube - Cobalt Runner ~ Tech 4
maybe we can sak him how he did it ?

[Baker]

Maybe Akumadevil has an excellent point