Achievements

[mikesol]

Hey,

So while this isn't as pressing of a suggestion as many other people's - I'd really like to see some more achievements. There are all these "loopy 2" or "bomber 3" things that appear as you level up but those mean nothing. It leads to people getting confused about what the "new achievements" are. It seems like it would be more beneficial to just remove the pop ups for achievements if there aren't actually any being unlocked.

However, what would be even better is actually adding achievements such as:
1) Kill 1 of each plane class (i.e. loopy, bomber, explodet, biplane, randa) before dying
2) Get the final base hit in a match
3) Do over 100 base damage in a match
4) Survive for 2 minutes without dying
5) Win 3 games in a row without team switching (to prevent people from switching to the winning team at the end)
6) Add a friend to your friend list
7) Die saving your base from a bomb hit (complicated)
8) Deflect a bomb with a shield
9) Kill your own team-mate with a missile
10) Get x kills in so many minutes
11) Reach xxx amount of xp (different levels - 10k, 100k, 1 mil, 2 mil, etc)
12) Get xxx kills with a plane (different levels as well)
13) Get xxx base hits with a bomb or xxx goals scored with a ball (I'd love to have a stat that kept track of the amount of base damage you've done)
14) Play xxx amount of hours (different levels as well)
15) Complete all the tutorials
16) Win a game in xxx amount of minutes
17) Reach ace 10
18) Win a game in a hard wall server
19) Win a ball / tbd / etc game
20) Score 6+ goals in one ball game
21) Destroy all the turrets on the opposing side (a team achievement)
22) Buy a skin and equip it to a plane
23) Play every official map
24) Get three gold bars
25) Kill an enemy by: (emping them, warping through them, causing them to run into a wall, shooting a missile at them, etc)

I'm sure I could come up with more but I figured I'd just post what I could think of in a few minutes time.


Edit:
Some more ideas
* Fall so many meters without dying
* Kill xxx number of planes while stalled
* Lob a bomb so many meters to have it hit the base
* Get a mega kill (awards for 5, 6, 7, etc)
* Write the achievements in java and deploy them in the next patch

[Radium]

My favorite is number 9. I can imagine my own teamates chasing me with a missile, and vice versa :cool:

[hurripilot]

How about an achievement for getting over 200 kills in a ladder game :p

[A Nipple]

theres def room for some mroe achievement especially the hours one!! and levle of xp,
and level of xp per plane would be nice to!

[DiogenesDog]

Yeah, some cooler achievements would definitely be cool. Or at least remove the TODO category. :(

[Karl]

maybe if lamster would stop playing altitude there would be more achievements o_O

[mikesol]

maybe if lamster would stop playing altitude there would be more achievements o_O

But see wouldn't he have a much better time trying to achieve things in altitude ;D I mean you can make an achievement for writing the achievements. I think that's a pretty valuable achievement to achieve.

[Ajuk999]

My ideas for Achievements are:

1. Kill four of the same plane before dying.
2. Make at least 2 goals in 3 ball games, in a row.
3. Get 30 kills without dying.
4. Try to find Lamster in Altitude.
5. Get 4 assists, and at least 1 goal in a game.
6. Reveal Kuja.
7. Kill all the people from the other team at least once before dying.
8. Make a goal without dying.
9. Kill 10 expert bots in offline mode without dying.

[Jayfourke]

Yeah, Mikesol's 9 is hilarious when it happens. I find that the greatest chance of it happening is if the missile's target dies, the missile will then attack the next nearest plane, regardless of team.

[nostrich]

Just for reference, anyone designing achievements ever needs to read this (http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GregMcClanahan/20091202/3709/Achievement_Design_101.php). Boring, excessively difficult, and grindy achievements are a real buzzkill.

[wolf'j'max]

My ideas for Achievements are:

1. Kill four of the same plane before dying.
2. Make at least 2 goals in 3 ball games, in a row.
3. Get 30 kills without dying.
4. Try to find Lamster in Altitude.
5. Get 4 assists, and at least 1 goal in a game.
6. Reveal Kuja.
7. Kill all the people from the other team at least once before dying.
8. Make a goal without dying.
9. Kill 10 expert bots in offline mode without dying.
not funny.
/offtopic

i totally support this, i especcialy like the ideas 1 and 11 t/m 14

[mikesol]

Just for reference, anyone designing achievements ever needs to read this (http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GregMcClanahan/20091202/3709/Achievement_Design_101.php). Boring, excessively difficult, and grindy achievements are a real buzzkill.

That's actually a great article. Thanks for pointing that out. I still think some of the achievements for kills would be fun but I admit that having achievements for like 50,000 kills with one plane is probably overkill =X

Edit: I will point out that some of his points I find silly. Such as the ones about multiplayer. If someone wants to cheat and get people together to try and achieve the "kill each plane before dying" achievement - that's fine. However, some of us like those achievements for the point of actually achieving them. Game designers should not simply refuse to include achievements because there is some unethical way of achieving them (take the ace ranks for instance)

Also note - that in general you can't see what achievements other players have (unless you're friends with them on steam). These achievements don't necessarily mean anything to anyone else as there is nothing to prove you've done them. For this reason, many of his points are moot because there is no "bragging rights" with it.

[innerlyte]

More achievements would definitely be fun. There are some good ideas in these older threads.

http://altitudegame.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52

http://altitudegame.com/forums/showthread.php?t=460

[Evan20000]

What if you got the "old alty" planes as skins for the planes you have 50K kills with? That would be neat.

Anyway, more achievements wouldn't hurt.