I have just linked my Steam version of AoE4 to my Microsoft / Xbox account (the one I am posting from here), and the Steam version of the game suddenly says that I have earned a few new achievements. Some of them seem plausible, but I would have earned them a while ago, so not sure why they all popped up on the screen immediately after linking.
However one in particular is definitely wrong:
"Record Breaker" - Earn a gold medal in 5 Art of War challenges. I only have one Art of War gold medal, 1 silver, and 1 bronze so far, so this is wrong. Maybe it is including gold medals from Age of Empires II:DE art of war missions, which are also linked with my Xbox account?
This is only a very minor issue, but reporting it as I haven’t seen anyone else report it yet.
When I started the game today I directly earned the following 8 achievements:
Servants of the Land
Great Walls
Move Like Wind, Attack Like Fire
Through the Ages
Record Breaker
Precious Medals
Dread Fort
Pass the Marshmallows
The first 6 must be bugs, as they are marked as rare and are partly very time consuming to get (impossible for me currently). The last two were maybe already earned by me, but unlocked now.
I received the achievements in Steam and in the Microsoft account at the same time when starting the game.
I got like 20+ when i logged in finally also… but i would bet its just from what you allready accomplished. If you have it listed in steam your prob got them without noticing
Interesting on some of those. I have played most of the Civs a fair amount-- It wasn’t tracking some the achievements-- and I figured after the update-- I just got them because they did start tracking after
Same here. After having patched my game, I linked my Xbox account to AoE IV using the button in the main menu of the game.
Then, all achievements I had already unlocked in steam the days before, have been unlocked in my Xbox profile as well, which was what I’ve expected to happen.
But a few seconds later, new achievements popped up in both steam and Xbox, for which I’ve not met the requirements yet, thus being
Record Breaker (to this date, I only got one gold medal, the rest was either silver or bronze)
Pass the marshmallows
Big Shot
Herd You Like Elephants
Great Walls
For the latter ones, I did not keep track of the number of times I performed the actions required to earn the achievements, but I’m pretty sure it’s much lower.
Thus, it seems that I unlocked the achievements whenever I performed the proper action at least once.
However, in my case this holds not true for the achievement Through the Ages. This one shows a progress of 13% in my Xbox profile, which seems to be about right.
This just happened to me as well. My XBL account was already linked - I unlocked the achievements when starting the game this evening. I submitted a support ticket too.