Alekhine's Gun's 'Chameleon' Achievement to Remain Unobtainable For Some, It Seems

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Richard Walker

Developer Maximum Games has revealed that it won't be continuing with updates for Alekhine's Gun on Xbox One, instead choosing to focus upon its most recent title, Lichdom: Battlemage. That means the game's Chameleon achievement will remain unobtainable for the foreseeable future. The news comes via a personal email sent to one of our users.

"We are extremely sorry for the delayed response, as we have been in discussions about these issues recently," the developer stated in said email. "We have explored all options to rectify these problems; however, as of now, we have decided to not move forward in regards to Alekhine's Gun updates. We aim to improve our future titles that will both satisfy us, and our customers."

Previously, Maximum had claimed that a patch to fix the glitched Alekhine's Gun achievement had been sent to Microsoft for verification after it had apparently been rectified on PS4. This was weeks ago, but now it seems that a fix won't be forthcoming, at least for the time being.

We reached out to Maximum Games for comment on this issue, and received the following response:

"We regret to inform you that right now we have no plans for an X1 patch to resolve the achievement issue, though it's something we hope to revisit when we are able to."

[Thanks, JackFrost]

Comments
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  • When I got that email it sadly didn't give me much hope for maximum games as lichdom is in a worse state then alekhines gun l
  • You know when you cant even get your games to be completable it makes not give a crap about your future fing games...
  • It's not the end of the world to leave the achievement broken but it's the type of customer service that most gamers appreciate. The fact they aren't fixing it and are moving on to other things is just a plain slap in the face. If they ignore problems on one game because they aren't "that bad" they are only going to hurt their sales and reputation.
  • Glad I decided to pass on it, then. $50 for a game from a dev who decides to not fix it because they just don't want to? Fuck off.
  • with news like that from a developer it really makes me think twice about ever buying a game from them again.
  • Dang was hoping to get this one day since I always love to try different Hitman-type stealth games, guess this is on the backburner for a long while now being the completionist I am.
  • @7 you said gay lol
  • "We aim to improve our future titles..." What about your current ones? Their games are broken, they wont fix them, they charge $50 per game.. :/ Well, that's all I need to read then. Knowing this, I'll never touch their games. I might get it for a fiver though.
  • Thank you, Richard, for writing this because Maximum seems content with only telling a few people in an e-mail and letting it go. True, while it's not the end of the world, it is kind of a dick move. #1 is also right about Lichdom. When I went to their Twitter page to see if they made any kind of public announcement about not fixing Alekhine's Gun, it's full of messages from people wondering when they'll patch Lichdom. They even claimed to have patched Lichdom at one point to fix performance and framerate issues. One person who responded called them liars because s/he saw no difference. Lesson learned: don't buy games from these clowns.
  • "Our incompetence at making video games has negatively impacted you. Sorry."
  • Maximum recently released a gameplay trailer for Technomancer and I initially was interested. After seeing their failure to stand behind their products, I won't touch any of their games for weeks after release, to make sure there are no glitches or bad quality.
  • Similar BS from the Three Fourths Home developers. Lots of promises and eventually blame it on MS and do nothing.
  • What an absolute crock of shit. The game was already one of the worst games I've played in ages, and now they come out and say they're not working on any more updates for it? Maximum can fuck themselves. The game's been out on consoles barely 2 months, and they've stopped supporting it already. I cant load a save on the Omerta mission because it crashes to the dashboard, and if I try restarting that mission, it does the same. I don't normally say this, but I hope that no one buys any "Maximum Games" branded product again, and hopefully they go bust. Bunch of half arsed, lazy wankers.
  • Well there goes any chance for them to get money from me for any of their games.
  • I've never heard of them or any of the games that they've developed.
  • Yeah sure I'll trust that you'll support you're future games when you aren't even updating one of your 2 titles. After this and the absolute garbage that is Lichdom I'll never consider buying their titles again.
  • I was thinking about buying Lichdom but after this news these guys can keep it.
  • See, now how can I ever justify buying this game or any other that these people plan on releasing, when they basically said "Sorry, we abandoned this title to try and make money on a new one"? Fucking over your customer base in any way, even in a tiny issue such as an achievement, is a sure fire way to be the next Lionhead studios. I'm sure this game is cool, but I myself do not buy products from people who conduct bad business.
  • I'm not prone to schadenfreude but I'm pleased that I've cost them some sales by alerting XBA of their crass behavior. Truth is, Alekhine's Gun wasn't that bad. It wasn't great either, but it didn't outright suck. Okay, the cutscenes outright sucked. They were those "animated" still frames where static images will float to imply motion. Except they looked like the images were taken from the storyboards. The voice acting and sound is all over the place. It's all really rough... But when it got to around $10, or better yet free, some people might consider it a hidden gem because it's a pretty easy completion. Well, they threw that in the toilet. I know XBA got them to say they might revisit it, but I'm not holding my breath. Thanks again, guys.
  • Won't be buying this one now , or play even if it goes GWG .
  • there's one more thing to mention. I had an 8 days long conversation with them on Twitter, they lied to me and the community, don't want to citate all of theyr responses only the very last one: @Satyatex @Lichdom We are receiving several inquiries and we are a small team. Please have patience, we assure you another patch is coming! 15 minutes later the support team kicked our asses with the circular message mentioned in the topic. So the problem is deeper than usual, it's not only about the financial balance of the game, the guys there have personal behavior problems as well.
  • Well they have made my decision about buying this game easy. Not a fucking chance! Achievements may not mean much to them but to us ach hunters and completionists it will never go in my console! Or any of their future products
  • Glad I never bought this piece of shit and definitely won't buy the other one they made. MS should just award everyone that inserts the game with the busted achievement
  • the whole conversation can be seen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Satyatex/status/726316473791188993
  • Can anyone say Gothic 4 - Arcania?
  • Glad I never bought this
  • Stopping to updates and bug fix your games is just lazy and bad customer service. @12 Technomancer is a Spiders/Focus game not Maximum.
  • Sorry, I don't buy games from companies that don't want to support their games. #Sales lost
  • Well im glad i never got either game for Xbone or PlayStation 4 and i will never buy it.
  • This is the kind of shit that makes gamers not care about your company anymore.
  • Wow, this company are pretty shambolic in their responses. Not good for a small company to be this incompetent.
  • Microsoft should have a broken achievement override policy. When a game that has a glitched achievement and the publisher (even if it's Microsoft) won't fix it and it has been over a year after the issue goes unresolved... they should implement an auto-unlock for unobtainable achievements in a game, when a player has completed all the other achievements first. Even if it is only done when requested by a gamer, would be better than to leave us hanging! I would have played Tom Clancy's "End War" if it weren't for that broken achievement in it! THIS game is definitely a skipper for me, even though it's more of a Gilligan for the reason it's broken. Idiots!
  • I had been interested in Lichdom, but after this news and how much of a mess Lichdom is console wise, if I ever play it, I'll play it on PC. Least there the money goes to Xaviant, the dev team, and not their shitty console publisher, Maximum Games.
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  • So they have no rights to do it. They should fucking fixes achievement first and it is fair because they alreadey fixed for PS4. This is retard and stupid asshole that they unfair to Xbox One gamers. Awful attitude toward to gamers like that. I felt they are PlayStation fanboys and trolled Xbox/ I guess it is more likely. DON'T BUY ANY ANY ANY SHIT GAMES IN FUTURE FROM THEM!!!
  • MAXIMUM GAMES BURNED DOWN!!!! CLOSED DOWN IN CLOSE FUTURE!!!! Time for them going dying. FUCK THEM!!!
  • Great PR this is XD. Bullshit they won't fix it
  • Ridiculous customer service. I run a small electrical company and if I were to pull this shit I'd be out of business....word of mouth is everything. Imagine if I told my client sorry some of your electrical doesn't work and we cant fix it since we've moved onto other projects, but on our next project together we'll do better. At times I have to suck it up and fix a problem when its completely inconvenient and/or costs me out of pocket $$...but its just what you have to do if you wish to stay in business.
  • first thing first, a big thank you to Richard Walker for writing about that shit I'm getting older and older and the more it goes the more i'm upset by the way video games industries behave. Hopefully MAXIMUM are not making a lot of games so it won't be difficult de skip each and every one of them. And if i'm going to bed earlier with years (unfortunately true :) ), my memory is still intact and i won't forget this one. d.
  • they are just trying to give us the ( political correct) standard answers, they DON'T want it fixed. I myself am a achievement hunter, i am a streamer - in - making due to technicalties, but i was streaming hunting the achievements, after this faulty H ad to apologizes to viewers for A WASTE OF TIME. this game is a cheap knock off of hitman, Xbox official magazine gave it a rating of 3... OUT OF 10, do u guys think they would fix a 3 game.... that's without knowledge of this unobtainable achievement. They are trying to be polite and say they wish they could bury it, they may have fixed ps4's just to say they fixed it even though for just 1 console.... this is ridiculous.... if u want it fixed... we need to write offical xbox magazine, if they do an article about it AFTER their rating... it will give them the EXTREMELY NEGATIVE response that will make them HAVE to REPAIR the Achievement.
  • I was thinking of getting this but since the money grabbing scum won't fix the achievement they can burn. Game developer's should be forced to patch any achievement that is broken if they don't then they should not be allowed to realease another game with achievements.
  • damn, and i thought EA were bad...
  • Wow. I don't know if that achievement is glitched for me yet or not, but either way, I regret buying the game just because of the lack of support. As for the game itself, it was a nice holdover for Hitman, but that's about it.
  • I really want some of what Cheevo360 is smoking.
  • Ive contacted the devs for comment too and im looking into there past record on games for a you tube video about these shit houses. Seems a common thing with them, they release shit the sales are shit and they move on abandoning the patrobs who bought their broken games.
  • @#44 - If you started the game, the achievement is glitched for you. Currently, no one can obtain it legitimately.
  • @45 I wouldn't its probably Bath salts! If only Alekhine's Gun problems where just 1 achievement not unlocking, the whole game is totally fucking mess, the controls, AI, graphics, level design etc. Every review trashed the game. Its not surprising their next game is a fucking mess as well. "Lichdom is the worst-performing game Digital Foundry has ever tested" Awful developer and gamers should avoid them. Glad I wanted for reviews on Alekhine's Gun as could of been ok as a game before all of the Hitman game is released
  • Wow, fuck you to Maximum Games.
  • Awwww I was gonna get this game and all. Ah well, if there's one thing that puts me off games the most, it's probably shitty developers.
  • Another game company to boycott... Yay
  • As someone who has the game and so is actually affected by this, some of the people on these comments are a fucking embarrassment to humanity. Wishing people to burn to death because you can't get an achievement just makes you look like a cunt.
  • Wow. Maximum Games made both of these turds? Noted.
  • @52 Like insulting people makes you look any better. Do you really think they mean death literally? People are rightfully pissed about the state of this game. The dev knows there is a problem with the game, but they say they wont fix it. This game is a mess, their other game is in even worse condition. All people want is for them to stand behind their shit. $50 is a lot of money to pay for a broken product. If you pay that much for something, it should work. Even if we're just talking about simple achievements, that shouldn't matter. You pay for a complete product and it should work as such. Would you accept such incompetence from any other service or consumable you use? No you wouldn't. Imagine if the people that served you, just didn't give a fek. Some of the comments are harsh sure, but flipping the bird to the consumer is even harsher. Accountability is all we want from them. This whole situation is a shame, as I wanted both games from them.
  • I know that MS used to fee 40.000 USD for patches in the 360 days (making it way too expensive to patch for small indies), but I thought they got rid of that fee? Does anyone know if they did eventually?
  • #35/36/37 cheevo I f**king love you man, I don't agree with killing people over some achievement bug but your posts never fail to make me smile :)
  • they won't patch a game that has only been out for two months?
  • @55 That fee is gone. This dev has simply abandoned the game.. or should I say games. @57 Pretty much.
  • I don't get why unobtainable achievements stay that way. I understand if they can't fix them but can they not simply just alter the criteria to just give them to you automatically on say loading the game? Surely it can't be that difficult to alter the parameters so that they can just give it to everyone. Or am i being too logical again :P
  • Just got a canned responce from them, ive copied it below together with my email i sent to them. They completely avoided answering why they are abandoning the game 2 minths after release. Translated from bullshitese it aint get patched. From [email protected] We hope to patch the issue for Xbox One, but right now cannot give a definitive date when that will take effect. I'm sorry we can't be of more help right now. If you have further questions about our games and forthcoming patches, you can reach out to our support team at [email protected]. Thanks! ------------- Hello Shaun from True Tube here, chatter emerged yesterday that there will be no further updates to Alekhine's Gun which in turn will leave the Chameleon achievement unobtainable on the Xbox platform despite it been fixed on Playstation. I would be grateful if you could confirm if this is the case and if this is correct why you are abandoning a game which has numerous issues regardless of the Achievement as little as two months after release. Regards Shaun Morris True Tube
  • I was looking at this recently. Given that it is similar to Hitman. But the price put me off first, then after seeing some game footage I was far from impressed. Now this? Think I'll be leaving well alone.
  • Didn't have any interest in their games before... defiantly won't now. Shoddy support in in-excusable so close to a games release.
  • "If you have further questions about our games and forthcoming patches--> "we have decided to not move forward in regards to Alekhine's Gun updates.." ok then :/ "you can reach out to our SUPPORT TEAM at [email protected].." lulz Wow, just wow.
  • @54 oh fuck off, the guy is saying he hopes the place burns down with them in it, don't say what you don't mean. As I've said, i've actually got the game, i'm not "accepting" a broken product, i'll email them and try and find a forum where we can start a campaign to have it fixed, like I did with the Darksiders 2 servers, I won't wish death on people for the sake of a poxy unobtainable achievement or act like a white knighting cumtrumpet to try and justify people who do. I suggest if anyone really does want it fixed you try maybe emailing them again and making an actual issue of it rather than discussing the flaws of 21st century consumer capitalism and how your so outraged about their lack of support for their own product on a page that they will never look at.
  • @myself you're
  • Roose--Cheevo is clearly mentally challenged. We've been through this numerous times. I'm not saying he isn't accountable for what he says, but rather that arguing with him is futile. And I agree with Baki that he was CLEARLY using hyperbole, so your vitriol is unwarranted.
  • I don't have this game, nor have I ever really considered getting it, but I must say this is probably as bad as it gets in terms of customer service. "We're not gonna fix the problem with something you've already paid for, instead well focus on something that we can make you pay for later." This has given me enough reason to forever steer clear of Maximum Games.
  • @64 Thanks for validating my post. What did I say to you to even warrant that response? "I'll email them and try and find a forum where we can start a campaign to have it fixed.." Uhh, Sherlock.. People ARE using various other channels to contact them. Email, Twitter, their website etc. Maximum games just keeps feeding people the same old tired bullshit. Like I said, people just want them held accountable for their games. Did you really take what Cheevo said seriously? Basically, he's saying he hopes they stop making games. With the way they handled their current games, can you blame him. They don't care, so why should he or others cut Maximum any slack? "I suggest if anyone really does want it fixed you try maybe emailing them again and making an actual issue of it..." People have been doing that as well.. a week of back and forth and nothing from it. "Say what you mean.." Is this your first time reading comments here? Comments by nature can mean any number of things. They can be as ambiguous as they are direct. Why you you're getting all bent out of shape, is beyond me. Then again, I'd be pissed if I spent $50 on trash. Maybe that's where your anger comes from. Telling me to fuck off? Wtf was that about? What's worse, using OBVIOUS hyperbole or you throwing insults? You could get you point across in a much more civil manner. There's nothing left for me to add to this, because I'm not going down this road to ruin again. Maximum games are the ones you need to be spitting venom at. As far as the achievements go, thats not the point. Its all accountability for the things you make. Would you accept a broken product in any other thing you consume? Have a good one bruh, because Im done with this convo.
  • New PC patch out, apparently xbox patch is in the works http://www.alekhines-gun.com/scoops/1650/
  • Achievement can now be unlocked on the XBOX One through normal gameplay if you start from the beginning. If you have an existing save, you'll have to jump through some hoops to get it to pop. I suggest looking at the TA solution for details and keep in mind it may pop sooner than it may look at first glance.
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