At 3/20/18 11:17 PM, RightTime wrote:
At 3/20/18 07:58 PM, Optimos wrote:
Okay, I've played this game 3 times already and for some reason medals simply don't unlock for me. My first thought was that it could be due to the https problem, but I see that two users have unlocked at least the level 7 medal since August 2017, so that's not the problem. I've tried in Chrome and Firefox with the same result.
Maybe the medals are just trolling me, who knows.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/564284
I tried running it on Edge and didn't get any medals. I'll try it later on Chrome and Firefox. @Neonspider you have unlocks for those medals from back in 2016. Can you see if they will still unlock for you?
Not gonna delete my medals and try that game again as I remember the game to be a bit difficult. It's better to have someone who hasn't yet earned it try for it.
Some things you can try (and I always try) applicable to all medals games
-- Once you have met requirements for a medal, wait around about 5 or 10 minutes and do not close the game during this time.
-- Once you have met requirements for a medal, and after waiting and no medal, play through again on the same play (so without closing the game out). Sometimes this works.
-- If the game has a save feature and you've met requirements and no medal, reload the game and see if this awards the medal. Or try clicking on any in-game medal(s) if applicable.
-- If a game takes a long time to complete and has a save feature, intentionally get close to, but do not meet requirements for any given medal, save game, reload game, now meet/pass requirements and much more likely for medal get rather than medals connection timeout.
And then sometimes a medal won't award on some play(s) but randomly awards one of the times.
And yes sometimes it's browser-dependent and discriminating based on browser. I'm pretty sure on that game I got the medals using Firefox so try that. If not Firefox then Chrome. 100% I've done everything using those two browsers, but mostly Firefox. Only time I tend to need Chrome is in cases where the medal discriminates Firefox users and doesn't work there, but does work in Chrome, but there's medals that discriminate Chrome users and only work in Firefox too.
And yeah if it needs HTTP instead of HTTPS then that's always a possible culprit these days.
Or could even have used some older medals API that doesn't work anymore for some reason. It seems like it should be a pretty simple thing but I'm not sure why there are so many newgrounds medals APIs, some of which stop working. I mean you would think you just need to a) get a connection to the server and then b) give it your key and then c) tell it what medal(s) to unlock in your game and for which user, while d) using some kind of medals connection keep-alive in your code. And for a well-developed game to have a medals resubmit functionality. Seems pretty simple so I'm not sure why there's not just one way that everyone uses. It really shouldn't be this difficult to get right and yet here we are.
