Achievements for Panzer Corps

[Rudankort]

Hello All!

With the prospective release of PzC on Steam we are thinking about adding achievements to the game. Please post to this topic any ideas of what achievements you would like to see and earn. Thanks!

Alex

[airbornemongo101]

Aces...for all combat arms

IE: so many AFV kills and you are considered a tank ace...etc.

Military ranks that would up culminating in :General der Panzertruppen, Artillerie, Infanterie..etc.(Awarded after a certain amount of DV's)

[BiteNibbleChomp]

Prestige-based achievements - if you have 5k, 10k, 20k, 35k pp in a scenario.
Killers of a type of units: Kill 1000 Infantry, Tanks, Artillery etc.
Build x Infantry, Tanks etc. or have 66% of your core one type of unit.
Win a campaign - each difficulty
Win certain scenarios individually that were total failures in real life.
Play with a mod
Build the Maus and the Go229 Flying Wing as these two never were built (beyond prototypes)
Play multiplayer
Win multiplayer
Win a scenario with eg. <20 units
Win each year of the GC
etc.

Just my thoughts but these would give a range of possibilities for an achievement-hunter that had the game on Steam.

- BNC

[ThvN]

I'm not really a fan of achievements, but here are some wild/random suggestions, some of them might be a bit too crazy:

Achievements could be for:

- Acquiring all possible capturable units in a GC.

- Making an enemy unit surrender: you can have some sort of Bronze/Silver/Gold awards depending on the value of the surrendered unit.

- Strategic bombing for a certain amount of prestige or gaining a certain level of bomber efficiency.

- Sinking a battleship or carrier.

- Using a bridge engineer for letting X units across a river.

- Having cleared X number of minefields.

- Gaining max. experience for a unit, for extra challenge it could be a separate achievement for each unit class (an achievement for a five-star AAA or recon unit would not be that easy I think)

[Razz1]

Expand the medals being awarded to Russia and France
Add heroes to Russia and France

It would be nice if the AI could get heroes and medals.

Also, a gamerule where you can set the number of kills per country. That way one could set the AI to get heroes fast, thus making the AI a stronger opponent.

[IainMcNeil]

Hi guys

We are not looking for new game mechanics right now. We just want triggers that can be used to unlock an achievement. E.g. Killing x infantry can be done. Giving medals to French units is a completely new feature and is not what we're looking for. Does that make sense?

Thanks!

[Resolute]

I would appreciate if there would be a new game mode for it which does not allow modifcations done to any files nor access to any in game cheats, otherwise some achievements might just be pointless.

[MrSaracen]

Would this also apply to the ios release?

[Rudankort]

I would appreciate if there would be a new game mode for it which does not allow modifcations done to any files nor access to any in game cheats, otherwise some achievements might just be pointless.

This is definitely something we will think about. Cheats are no big problem, because the game tracks any usage of them. Modified files might be a more tricky problem, but we'll see what we can do about it.

Would this also apply to the ios release?

Maybe at some point in the future, but at this point we cannot promise anything, because we have not looked into this at all and don't even know how much effort is required. For iOS it would require a completely separate implementation, because it is a different codebase, and also because we would need to integrate with a different system (Apple's Game Center).

[monkspider]

I like the achievements that give you new challenges that you otherwise would have never attempted. Here are some possibilities:

Capturing all (or 75%) of the Leningrad hexes in the GC '41 scenario.

Keeping a unit alive from Poznan '39 until Berlin '45.

Beating Afrika Korps with all Italian units.

Achievements for minimal losses, like beat a campaign while taking less than 20 combined step losses.

[Kerensky]

Achievements for minimal losses, like beat a campaign while taking less than 20 combined step losses.

I'm pretty sure in some campaigns, I lose more than 20 full units in just one scenario. To not lose 20 strength in an entire campaign... lol

[Molve]

Achievements for minimal losses, like beat a campaign while taking less than 20 combined step losses.

I'm pretty sure in some campaigns, I lose more than 20 full units in just one scenario. To not lose 20 strength in an entire campaign... lol

Let's just say, perhaps you need to shape up your game, dear Kerensky...

[Molve]

Beating Afrika Korps with all Italian units.

This sounds incredibly intriguing!

I can already imagine the AAR story - a heroic Italian commander managing to extract part of 10th Army from Beda Fomm, Rommel and not Gott being the one shot down, and Afrika Corps starting off with a slightly edited scenario, where 5th Light Division has been set to auxiliary and where the campaign tracks your further purchases (no germans!).

For a truly masochistic experience, the game even switches to hand you only Italian "Special Elite" units. Of course

[shawkhan]

I fear that you would have to set the game difficulty to 'Private' if not 'Recruit' to win with just Italians.

[rezaf]

Hey, I only saw this thread now.
I'm basically with ThvN in not caring much about achievements, but if I go after them at all, I'm with monkspider in that it's cool if they encourage you to try new things.

Here's a few ideas from me:

"x Kommandant", where x is any unit type, and you get the achievement when beating a scenario with a certain percentage of units in your core (for example 75% Infantry). I was thinking "beat a campaign" instead, but that's probably too hard to track.

"Weltenbrand" when you have beat every mission from every branch of a campaign (probably would need different achievements for at least the original campaign, the AK and AC campaigns as well as the DLC campaign).

"Schicksalswende" when you lose 5 units and kill none after a prediction of killing 5 and losing none (5 is just an example, but it should be a high value).

"Hart wie Kruppstahl" for not losing a single point of strength with a unit over the course of a campaign.

"Aus eigener Kraft" for disbanding all hero units upon receiving them.

"Der gute Hirte" for keeping alive some auxilary units that are likely to be lost.

"Bruchpilot" for losing an air unit due to lack of fuel.

"Katzenallergie" for beating a campaign without any Panthers or Tigers in the core.

"Stahlgewitter" for completely destroying a unit that was full strength with artillery fire in a single turn.

"Blitzkrieg" for beating all scenarios in a campaign with at least 5 turns left (can be any significant number or, better yet, percentage)

"Sitzkrieg" for beating all scenarios in a campaign on the last possible turn.

"Kaltblütig" for defeating a unit that has ambushed you, completely wiping it out.

"Hochdekoriert" for having 5 experience stars, three heroes and the best medals on ALL units in a scenario while taking all possible slots (i.e., not being understaffed).

"Blutzoll" for losing half your units in a scenario.

"Ernstfall" for completing a multiplayer scenario.

"Fugger" for having the prestige counter roll over (i.e. >100k prestige saved).

"Kleines Problem" for discovering more than 10 units at once with a recon unit.

"Kleinkaliber" for never using arillery bigger than a certain calibre, for example 105mm.

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Ah well, i'll leave it at that for now.

Btw., Re: ThvN's idea of having an achievement for having all capturable units ... anyone else ran into the issue that having too many units in your reserve made units disappear when importing the core in the next DLC campaign?
I had to delete a dozen captured units before finishing DLC ... '44 or '43, I can't remember, but it was one of the two. So this would have to be fixed before such achievement could be implemented.

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rezaf

[Tarrak]

Btw., Re: ThvN's idea of having an achievement for having all capturable units ... anyone else ran into the issue that having too many units in your reserve made units disappear when importing the core in the next DLC campaign?
I had to delete a dozen captured units before finishing DLC ... '44 or '43, I can't remember, but it was one of the two. So this would have to be fixed before such achievement could be implemented.

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rezaf

This happens by design in the first west DLC. You can import your whole eastern DLC core but at the begin of the first mission your get to choose which units you are going to keep and the rest is being deleted after the scenario. This is made as the western DLCs are designed with a a lot smaller core in mind so you it offer to keep you some of your units from your eastern front but not all.

[rezaf]

I don't own any of the West DLCs yet, so that can't be it.
Also, I didn't get to choose, the list was just "cropped", so everything past a certain unit count was wiped.
Meaning, in the first mission of the following DLC, when I was deploying my troops, these units were gone.
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rezaf

[Tarrak]

I don't own any of the West DLCs yet, so that can't be it.
Also, I didn't get to choose, the list was just "cropped", so everything past a certain unit count was wiped.
Meaning, in the first mission of the following DLC, when I was deploying my troops, these units were gone.
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rezaf

Well that's what i meant with choose. You import your whole core but you can only deploy a small part of it (you get to choose tho which) and the rest that remains in reserve for the first mission get deleted after the mission end. I haven't personally noticed any such case tho except of the start of the first western front DLC but of course this doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I may have missed it.

[rezaf]

Sorry to say, but keeping units 1-45 (arbitary number, I don't recall the exact count) and losing everything beyond that is not a choice.
There were no rules that I could understand, I imported my core and just had no artillery, for example. They were all gone. I lost some other units, but that's how I noticed it - I wanted to deploy my ART, but there was none in the imported core.
So I went back to the last mission of the previous DLC and deleted about a dozen captured tanks I had, like T-34/40s, Char B1's, Somua's etc. Then I finished the mission again, and 'lo and behold, in the next mission (the first of the next DLC) I had my artillery back.

Like I wrote, it wasn't the western DLC, and there was no indication neither choice whatsoever, so I'm pretty sure it's a bug and there's a limit on the number of units a saved core can contain when imported in the next DLC.
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rezaf

[Rudankort]

This is very odd and sounds like something I need to check out. Do you have any files which I could use to repro the problem?