DLC dungeon speedrun achievements broken?

emilyhyoyeon · September 2018

my group did both Falkreath Hold and Scalecaller Peak speedruns today. We timed both with plenty of time to spare and did not skip and groups of adds, but none of us got the speedrun achievements. Has anyone else had similar problems?

StrafeSinnlos · September 2018

Scalecaller Peak is perfectly doable without skipping anything.
Falkreath Hold, you can skip all mobs in the city by running through, dying and ressing before the third boss.

emilyhyoyeon · September 2018

StrafeSinnlos wrote: »

Scalecaller Peak is perfectly doable without skipping anything.
Falkreath Hold, you can skip all mobs in the city by running through, dying and ressing before the third boss.

wat

Ankaridan · September 2018

I've done both achievements, Scalecaller Peak just in the last few weeks.

We did not do any dying/rezzing/skipping in Falkreath and still got it.

troomar · September 2018

I did vSP speedrun today (on my sorctank), so no, it's not bugged.

You must have skipped something.

Ratzkifal · September 2018

@StrafeSinnlos Scalecaller is actually impossible if you skip anything. They changed how speedrun and no death achievements in Dragonbones work so you have to "defeat all encounters", meaning skipping a group of mobs won't grant you the achievement. Do note that is possible to kill all the bosses and then run back and kill the mobs that you were missing.

Funny story, we had a floating ogre that wouldn't die due to resets as it couldn't reach us. We managed to oneshot it by carefully timing our skills. Luckily it was still in time for the achievement.

emilyhyoyeon · September 2018

troomar wrote: »

I did vSP speedrun today (on my sorctank), so no, it's not bugged.

You must have skipped something.

the achievements require killing every boss and (I assume) triggering the speedrun timer at a particular add group. My group fulfilled both of those things, so I'm not sure what else we would have skipped.

edit- if the DB dungeons require killing every add of every major encounter, then it would explain SCP, but I'm not sure what went wrong with FH

StrafeSinnlos · September 2018

Ratzkifal wrote: »

@StrafeSinnlos Scalecaller is actually impossible if you skip anything. They changed how speedrun and no death achievements in Dragonbones work so you have to "defeat all encounters", meaning skipping a group of mobs won't grant you the achievement. Do note that is possible to kill all the bosses and then run back and kill the mobs that you were missing.

Funny story, we had a floating ogre that wouldn't die due to resets as it couldn't reach us. We managed to oneshot it by carefully timing our skills. Luckily it was still in time for the achievement.

Yep, that's why we didn't skip anything in vSP.
In Falkreath, you absolutely must clear the first bunch of mobs as it starts the timer. We skipped it once, did the run in less than 20 minutes, and didn't get the achievement. Or maybe it's bugged, idk.

AbysmalGhul · September 2018

The Falkreath speed run is bugged. I've finished it at 15 minutes multiple times without skipping adds and it won't pop. I haven't had any issues with Scalecaller.

troomar · September 2018

I'm pretty sure I got vFH speedrun on one of my toons recently too. So if it's bugged, it must be a new one. Or it's a random bug (sometimes it works, sometimes not).

It's hard to say what's wrong. When I got them, we didn't go for speedrun intentionally, it was just a regular run (on pledge day). We didn't do anything special, we just killed all mobs on the way there. No shenanigans.

So the only thing you can do is to report it as a potential bug.

Honestly, it would be a great idea, if there was a counter or a popup ingame with an information about your progress of achievements, so you know what to kill to get speed run or if you skipped something.