Idea: Universal EET Steam Achievements

[LathandersVanguard]

Greetings all!

 

As someone who plays EET on Steam (with SoD), I was wondering if it is at all possible to modify steam to get the BG1EE or IWDEE Steam Achievements to register while playing EET.

[jmerry]

The achievements are partially handled by scripting in the game; all versions of the EE games have the ACHIEVEM.BCS script with bits like this one:

IF
	Global("ACH_HERO","GLOBAL",0)
	Reputation(Player1,20)
THEN
	RESPONSE #100
		SetGlobal("ACH_HERO","GLOBAL",1)
END

But the parts of it that tie into Steam's achievement system, and say you only get the achievement once over multiple playthroughs? Those aren't really in the game at all, and they're out of scope for EET to modify.

Besides, you're not even really playing the same game Steam thinks you are at this point. you may be working through the Siege of Dragonspear campaign, but the base game that was modified was BG2EE. Even if you merged the achievement scripts to set the variables for both BGEE and BG2EE achievements, Steam would only recognize the BG2EE achievements. If it recognized anything at all, and didn't just throw it all out on the grounds of being too different from what it expected.

Instead, why not try this mod: