Board 8 > Buggy Achievements/Trophies are the Worst

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I've been playing Doom 2016 recently, and it's been fantastic. I really like how fast-paced it feels, and how it throws multiple different enemy types at you in the same battle, each with different strategies to deal with them so that you're kept on your toes. Because I enjoyed it so much, I wanted to get as many of the trophies as possible from it. This turned out to be more difficult than I'd anticipated.

After my first blind playthrough, I used the level select to replay all the levels and find everything I'd missed first time around. This is where the problem started, as I didn't get the trophy for finding all runes, but I did get the later one for upgrading all the runes. It turned out this is a commonly buggy achievement across all versions of the game. For it to count, you have to get all runes on your first playthrough, if you miss some and go back to find them in level select, or find a rune, but complete the associated challenge later through the menu, you don't get the achievement. Online multiplayer and mapmaker might also mess it up, but I haven't played those yet, so it's not relevant in this case.

With that in mind, I deleted the game and reinstalled without patches, because apparently some of those could possibly bug trophies too, chose an empty save slot and played through most of the game again. I did this in two sittings, the first three levels in one day, then levels 4-9 (the levels that have runes in them) on another day. I didn't get the trophy this time either!

The thought of a missing trophy that I should have gotten, along with me having one that comes later that requires the first one as a pre-requisite, was quite annoying to me, so I decided to try one last time. I made a few changes for attempt number 4, trying to cover all possibilities that could have caused me to not get the trophy before. First, I backed up my completed save before deleting it and the profile data and starting a completely fresh file. Second, I did the whole game up to level 9 in one sitting. Since everything was fresh in my mind, I could go through pretty quickly, and it took me around 4 hours to play through from the beginning. Finally, I didn't equip or use any of the runes I found as I progressed, just in case upgrading some of them causes them to not count as you having those runes in the code. This time, it worked!

I have the online multiplayer and mapmaker trophies left to do now before I get the Platinum trophy, but I think I'll take a short break before I do those, because after 4 playthroughs in quick succession, I'm all ripped and torn out for the time being! I should probably play something a bit more wholesome as a palate cleanser. Has anyone else got stories of buggy achievements or trophies they encountered, and were you able to work around them or not?

bought kemonopoly a couple days ago and there's a cheevo for beating all the levels/getting all the other cheevos but i didn't get it when i got the rest :(