Originally posted by Tf2 wiki:Achievement HacksThese kinds of hacks are very common, and it allows people to gain certain achievements in the game. A very famous achievement hack is named 'SAM' or 'Steam Achievement Manager'. This hack allows people to not only take achievements from Team Fortress 2, but several other 'Free-To-Play' games, allowing promotional items to be gathered.
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It's not obvious to spot one of these hacks, because there are servers that allow people to type something and earn the achievements. If a player account has many achievements that were all obtained around the same (or even exact same) time, it is likely they used achievement hacks to get them. However, VAC almost never detects this hack. Originally posted by Tf2 wiki:Achievement HacksThese kinds of hacks are very common, and it allows people to gain certain achievements in the game. A very famous achievement hack is named 'SAM' or 'Steam Achievement Manager'. This hack allows people to not only take achievements from Team Fortress 2, but several other 'Free-To-Play' games, allowing promotional items to be gathered. It's not obvious to spot one of these hacks, because there are servers that allow people to type something and earn the achievements.
If a player account has many achievements that were all obtained around the same (or even exact same) time, it is likely they used achievement hacks to get them. However, VAC almost never detects this hackIf valve were to ever update VAC to detect achievement server commands would my account be in danger of becoming banned?
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Steam Achievement ManagerThis is the code for SAM, originally released in 2008, last major release in 2011, and last updated in 2013 (a hotfix).The code is being made available so that those interested can do as they like with it.There are some changes to the code since the last closed-source release:. General code maintenance to bring it into a more modern state. Icons have been replaced with ones from the Fugue Icons set. Version has been bumped to 7.0.x.x to indicate the open-source release.AttributionMost (if not all) icons are from the set.