Re: Lost Achievements

The patch shouldn't have anything to do with it, only how the achievements are synchronised with your online profile which has since the MP DLC "Retaliation" been shifted to "N7HQ", which is tied to Multiplayer, this is why you have to connect to Multiplayer in order to synch your achievements.

It's always a good idea to backup your saves, especially if you play on two separate PCs with the same Origin ID, as the cloud save tends to completely overwrite saves when prompted to restore saves from the cloud instead of just adding them to the existing ones.

I haven't used the laptop to play since my original playthrough. Just went back to see what it had on there. So looking like it will show all the achievements gained on the laptop, now to try and get the ones from the desktop which has my Insanity achieve, plus the citadel ones as well.

Best of luck - as long as you have Retaliation installed there it should also update with N7HQ online once you get into Mutliplayer, maybe load a save from your original Insanity Playthrough beforehand, jsut to be sure.

Cheers,

Anyway, you know how I can check if I have retaliation on the Laptop. In the origin DLC part, states I own this, however on the page I have open listing the things I have downloaded it doesn't mention retaliation. only

Leviathon

Alternate Appearance Pack 1

Citadel

Reckoning

Mass Effect 3

Doesn't mention 

Resurgence

Rebellion

Earth

Retaliation

Extended Cut

I'm hoping it doesn't mention these because they didn't need to be added/updated.

Thanks so much for the advice, once the DL has finished and I get back on the desktop. Hopefully everything is as it should be and I'll fix up this as resolved with credit to you.

Cheers Man

So close, yet so far away. /sigh.

So I went to desktop and opened ME3 with data saved on Desktop. Straight up it had all the achieves from laptop, plus the citadel ones, but no Insanity for some reason (maybe becasue I have DL'd Leviathon since I completed it and the lost achieve now needs that to complete).

Anyway, was looking great. Then I opened my characters Insanity run, logged out and went back to Achieves and the achieves had been reset to 14/69. I closed ME3 several times.

Multiplayer next then back to Achieves, still 14/69. Shut down, then opened

a 2nd character, then back to achieves, same deal 14/69.

So 3 attempts after 1st opening desktop ME3 and all of them reset the achieves after it looked like they had been fixed when I 1st opened the desktop Achieve list.

Then, went back to laptop figuring I would start process from the laptop saves, however this time, I never got asked to sync and when I opened the laptop the achieves where 14/69. After further investigation the characters from the desktop are now on the laptop, which I didn't actually transfer (the clouds done that without giving me the option) and now both laptop and desktop have lost all my achieves.

I thank you for  your time and help, however, it looks like it's got something to do with the cloud saving and not recognising my completed games.

I'm sorry, it didn't work for you, how cloud saves across different PCs are handled really is a mess and on top of that N7HQ doesn't really seem to be able to cope with this in terms of tracking your achievements. Once done they should remain untouched server-side.Did you have a look at the N7HQ here how many of your achievements are recorded online?

Maybe a developer from the BSN can help you, usually they mostly help with Multiplayer issues, but the achievement issue is tied to the N7HQ, which is a Multiplayer feature. Here is a thread with all the information: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/343/index/16080195