DET-33 2.2.1: The Participation Trophy Patch

For about a day, buying DET-33 was apparently the hardest thing you could do in it. Steam was handing out all 15 milestone achievements to brand-new players before they'd fired a single shot, including Xenobiologist, which asks you to catalogue all 135 enemy types across every territory.

That one's on me. I typed each unlock threshold into Steam's "minimum" box instead of the "maximum" box, which as far as Steam is concerned means "you've already done it." A very generous difficulty setting, but not the one I meant to ship.

What changed

• Steam's achievement settings are fixed, so milestones unlock when you actually hit them.
• The game now checks those settings every time it starts, so if I make this mistake again I'll hear about it long before you do.
• Milestone achievements you haven't actually earned get quietly taken back the next time you launch. Anything your save or your Steam stats can back up stays, including progress from before you reinstalled.

If an achievement disappears after this update, the game didn't eat it. You get to earn it for real now, and it'll mean a lot more when you do.

Thanks for reporting this to me!