adamaru's appeal (Complete)

[adamaru]

I recently had two cheating sprees - unlocking last few achievements in games that were nearly perfect.

My motivation for using SAM:
- Time saving: Games played long time ago. Cheating was easier than playing them again to gain skill and unlock achievements manually.
- Broken games: I couldn't stand having missing achievements not by my fault.
- Multiplayer: Either no one plays anymore or servers are shut down.

Games I cheated achievements in (using SAM):
- Portal
- Portal 2
- The Baconing
- Postal 3
- Gothic Playable Teaser
- Killing Floor
- The Binding of Isaac
- Torchlight II
- Shank
- Limbo
- Borderlands GOTY
- Nation Red
- Lead and Gold
- Krater
- Max Payne 3
- Bioshock 2
- Saints Row IV
- Saints Row: Gat out of Hell
- The First Templar
- Postal 2
- Hard Reset

I relocked all cheated achievements that I found.

I relocked completely three games, as I couldn't remember, nor simply find out which ones were cheated:
- The Binding of Isaac
- Krater
- Lead and Gold

I would like to have the "invalidated" status removed from all my games and for my profile to reappear on leaderboards.

Discord: adamaru#3792
Steamhunters: https://steamhunters.com/id/adamaru
AStats: https://astats.astats.nl/astats/User_In ... 7998906005

[Fabio]

Hey Adamaru, thanks for creating an appeal about this. Before continuing, can you please reopened each of these games to make sure nothing automatically unlocks on startup. If this happens, there may be save data or other files that need to be deleted. Let me know how that goes.

I also wanted to ask about a couple other games. It appears that orcs must die and nation red have some clusters that do not seem normal as well. Do you remember what may have happened with these games?

[adamaru]

I'll start redownloading all those games. It might take some time.

I didn't check games I played so long ago. I was sure I didn't cheat back then.

• Orcs Must Die - The last three achievements do seem suspicious.
• Nation Red:
  • It appears that I used Cheat Engine on 30th May 2013 to acquire six grindy achievements (Warming Up, Slaughter, Absolute, Thinning The Horde, Superior, Extermination).
  • I also found five suspicious achievements unlocked on 1th November 2019 (Team Trainer, Team Recruit, Team Soldier, Team Elite, Team Red).

I relocked all of the above.

Thanks for pointing that out.

[adamaru]

I launched every game on the list. Only difficulties I had were with The Binding of Isaac. It stopped unlocking achievements after deleting the savegame.

[Fabio]

It looks like the achievements for nation red are still there, the ones you were trying to relock. Or is something being odd on my end?

[adamaru]

My bad. I forgot to relock them. Sorry.

I relocked listed achievements in Nation Red and relaunched the game. They didn't pop back up.

[Fabio]

Alrighty, i think everything should be good now. I'll go ahead and get your ban fixed no any sites you are banned on! If any other issues pop up for you in the future, please let one of us know and we'll see what we can do to help