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Alien Swarm

Game » consists of 1 releases. First released on Jul 19, 2010

Alien Swarm is a top-down multiplayer co-operative shooter that was developed using Valve's Source engine and released for free by Valve.

Achievements not showing up on site

#1 Posted by jclast (18 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago

Anybody else having this problem. I've got 19 that show up on Steam but the game doesn't even show up on my list here on GB.

#2 Posted by swamplord666 (1742 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago

I've had this problem with Steam achievements. I guess ask the tech guys?

#3 Posted by eroticfishcake (7745 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago

When did you get those achievements? It generally takes less then three days for GB to update with your Steam account.

#4 Posted by S0ndor (2708 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago

Yeah, I have 52 achievements for the game and I got my first few on the day that the game was released. It still doesn't show up in my account. Never had problems with syncing before.

#5 Posted by Oscargnz (9 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago

yeah i have the same problem the ones from alien swarm won't show up but the ones i have from portal are showing just fine 

#6 Posted by jclast (18 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago

All of mine are between July 29 and July 31. And I've never had problems with other ones showing up. Weird.

#7 Posted by Skaery (23 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago

The xml format for Alien Swarm is different from the other achievement games, so sites such as GB doesn't know how to read them.

#8 Posted by HeroicDrinkingSong (148 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago

Glad it isn't just me.

#9 Posted by brain18 (11 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago
#10 Posted by DaManGB (377 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago

Yea my Steam achievements don't show up either, I have more than 2. Also the xbox 360 achievements take forever to update.

#11 Posted by Gamer_152 (13245 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago
@Skaery said:
" The xml format for Alien Swarm is different from the other achievement games, so sites such as GB doesn't know how to read them. "
Thank you for posting this, I knew the problem was most likely on the Steam end and not Giant Bomb's end but I'd been curious to know what exactly the problem was.
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#12 Posted by Dedlok (32 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago
@Skaery said:
" The xml format for Alien Swarm is different from the other achievement games, so sites such as GB doesn't know how to read them. "
I know Raptr wasn't tracking the game's achievements for quite a while, but they finally got it started to recognize them sometime in the last week or 2. I'm not sure how much work it would be, but it would seem it's doable to get the site to recognize them.
#13 Posted by Skaery (23 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago
@Dedlok said:
" @Skaery said:
" The xml format for Alien Swarm is different from the other achievement games, so sites such as GB doesn't know how to read them. "
I know Raptr wasn't tracking the game's achievements for quite a while, but they finally got it started to recognize them sometime in the last week or 2. I'm not sure how much work it would be, but it would seem it's doable to get the site to recognize them. "
SteamStats still have the same problem as GB. I don't think Valve should expect every tracker side to change their code just because they wanted to try something new with one game.
#14 Posted by Meltbrain (2935 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago

Yeah I have this problem, too. I hope it gets sorted at some point 'cause I like me some Alien Swarm.

#15 Posted by iKANNIBAL (601 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago

It only shows my Half-life 2 achievements from steam, not Alien Swarm though.

#16 Posted by darkivn (89 posts) - 2 years, 8 months ago

Bump - achievements for this game are still not showing up on the site.

#17 Posted by Malakhii (1443 posts) - 2 years, 8 months ago

This makes me a sad panda. 

#18 Posted by ynleborg (8 posts) - 2 years, 8 months ago

Still no achievement tracking for Alien Swarm :(

#19 Posted by offeringofpie (15 posts) - 2 years, 8 months ago
@Skaery said:
SteamStats still have the same problem as GB. I don't think Valve should expect every tracker side to change their code just because they wanted to try something new with one game. "
I don't know how GB parses the xml code that you can get from the game steam stats (normally you do:  http://steamcommunity.com/id/USERNAME/stats/GAME/achievements?xml=1), but you have to do a workaround for Alien Swarm ( http://steamcommunity.com/id/USERNAME/stats/AlienSwarm/achievements?tab=achievements&xml=all ) . 
 
 
If someone tells whomever in GB makes the achievements script work (if he/she doesn't know this already), the problem might be sorted.
#20 Posted by ynleborg (8 posts) - 2 years, 8 months ago

 SteamStats has just started showing AS achievement. Come on GB!  

#21 Posted by Forcen (1497 posts) - 2 years, 27 days ago

Why isn't this fixed yet?

#22 Posted by ajamafalous (10604 posts) - 2 years, 27 days ago
@Forcen said:
" Why isn't this fixed yet? "
Alien Swarm doesn't even show up in my feed.
#23 Posted by Forcen (1497 posts) - 2 years, 27 days ago
#24 Posted by ajamafalous (10604 posts) - 2 years, 27 days ago
@Forcen: I guess they decided not to bother since this game stopped being relevant a month after it released, unfortunately.
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