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    Alien Swarm

    Game » consists of 1 releases. Released Jul 19, 2010

    A freeware top-down co-operative shooter where a squad of marines must investigate and prevent the spread of a rampant alien infestation. It was originally a total conversion for Unreal Tournament 2004 before its team, hired by Valve for other projects, completed it as a side-project.

    Achievements not showing up on site

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    #1  Edited By jclast

    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.

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    #2  Edited By swamplord666

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

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    #3  Edited By eroticfishcake

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

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    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.

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    #5  Edited By Oscargnz

    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 

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    #6  Edited By jclast

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

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    #7  Edited By Skaery

    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.

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    Glad it isn't just me.

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    #9  Edited By brain18
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    #10  Edited By DaManGB

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

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    #11  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator
    @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  Edited By Dedlok
    @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.
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    #13  Edited By Skaery
    @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.
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    #15  Edited By iKANNIBAL

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

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    #16  Edited By darkivn

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

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    #17  Edited By Malakhii

    This makes me a sad panda. 

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    #18  Edited By ynleborg

    Still no achievement tracking for Alien Swarm :(

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    #19  Edited By offeringofpie
    @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.
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    #20  Edited By ynleborg

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

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    #21  Edited By Forcen

    Why isn't this fixed yet?

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    #22  Edited By ajamafalous
    @Forcen said:
    " Why isn't this fixed yet? "
    Alien Swarm doesn't even show up in my feed.
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    #23  Edited By Forcen
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    #24  Edited By ajamafalous
    @Forcen: I guess they decided not to bother since this game stopped being relevant a month after it released, unfortunately.

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