Steam Achievement Sets Are Out for Everyone: What Changes
Steam's Achievement Sets and new achievements page are out for all users: new achievements and DLC no longer break 100% completion. What's new.
Valve has rolled out Steam Achievement Sets and a redesigned achievements page to all Steam users, after a beta. The headline change for completionists: when a game adds new achievements, or DLC with achievements, it no longer breaks the completion you've already earned.
What Achievement Sets do
Games can now group their achievements into sets, each with its own progress bar and trophy.
- Completion stays intact: if new achievements are added, they won't break previously completed sets or take away your game completion.
- DLC gets its own sets: achievements can be tied to DLC and organised into separate sets, with progress shown apart from the base game.
- Retired achievements: developers can archive or retire achievements and sets that are no longer available. Players who earned them keep them, and they don't count against everyone else's completion.
The new achievements page
The revamped page brings together overall game progress, progress for each set, achievement details and Global Stats, with expanded search and filtering. You can also compare your progress with up to three friends, based on what Valve calls a more accurate total achievement count.
Valve says it will keep making improvements based on feedback from players and developers. It's up to each developer to add sets to their games, so older games won't necessarily use them straight away.
