Achievements are things you should unlock just from playing the game normally not from going out of your way to achieve them.
If they occur without any extra effort they aren't really achievements, that would simply be a living stat sheet that reflects your existing playstyle. IMO its ok, but there won't be anywhere near the satisfaction in such a list compared to achievements that make you play outside your comfort zone or playstyle. The other good thing about achieves is it makes completionist types experience more aspects of the game. That said achievements should be limited in goals that make players deviate too much from the "War" or objectives.
That's a problem, those achievements might not match with the actual goal of the campaign (To capture territory). For example if you have a get x amount of kills without dying achievement you're not going to push forward and attempt to hold ground to capture, you're going to sit back and farm your kills so you don't lose your achievement progress.
I agree, achievements like that are poor design and should not be in game. Unfortunately even without achievements like that alot of players still go by that playstyle of kill farm > OBJ :'(
I dont think that achievements are really suited for a game like EC. Sure you can have a sheet that has a running tally of various kills, captures, and events. But a big sparkly pop up that lets you know you killed your millionth gretchin would be annoying and make me feel like I was playing WoW.
As far as level go I would rather a SWG meets TSW love child of ability use grants skill system instead of 1-60 as an example. For achievements, these days they sort of go hand in hand with all games but you could put a Secret World spin on it with there Chronicle system here is one of my toon chronicles in case your not familiar with the system https://chronicle.thesecretworld.com/character/TooLoud Basically it tally's your wanderings through the world and lets people follow your progress, also linking with in game rewards such as outfit items and skins.
In the EC info compilation thread, there is sources stating achievements will be in the game. You will have the option to keep any achievements in the bottom corner of the screen, instead of in the middle. (I don't think were going to get magical sparkles, more like War flavored text)
Space Marine had 41 levels. It really felt good to kill players who were level 41... not so much the other way round
Muahaha me and the filthy casual achievement wh0r3s win this day! I also hope the achievements are not ostentatious golden'splosions of showiness, a more subtle gesture would be more than enough.
