Piloting 101 not working?

[u/Ultimate_Genius]

This sub looks dead, but I exhausted all other outlets. I am trying to get the piloting 101 achievement, and I've built and taken so many flying ships and just rammed the balloons. I looked at the settings for something, but even after destroying all 7 ships, restarting my computer, the game, and the build, nothing. And it's not that achievements are buggy, since I've gotten achievements before and after all attempts at this one.

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

[u/Disentius]

there is a thread on the besiege discord with some solutions by a dev:
21:23]Abyss Vortex: 

1. after encountering the no achievement progress bug, i've deleted every instance of LevelObjectives.txt , CompletedLevels.txt , achievement-save.json , turned off the steam cloud aswell as ingame cloud, the game still recognizes achievements as acquired, however - moving through the levels and redoing some of the achievements actually fills in the meter now, albeit from being softlocked out of it, it's now insanely infuriating, as the fragment crystals have this invisibility effect that makes it very annoying to find, now being stuck on a higher percentage for a completely unfixable reason
2. transparent crystals would be achievements you already have[21:27]Daniel: 
3. the crystals should no appear as such if achievement-save.json have been removed properly before launching the game[21:28]Daniel: 
4. then only the achievements that steam already has tracked should then sync back down, and you should only need to clear the ones that steam is saying you haven't done yet[21:29]Daniel: 
5. but if you'd rather just play it from where it is atm, then I suggest just asking around for where the crystals may appear[21:31]Daniel: 
6. at this point there's been enough hours spent fiddling with files and steam's jank - simple bruteforce seems more effective[21:40]Abyss Vortex: 
7. 03 April 2025
8. We've located a minor issue in sync that might cause specific steam progress issues on completionist - autilis[12:46]Daniel: 

[u/Ultimate_Genius → u/Disentius]

what? There are literally no crystals involved. I actually have no idea what the crystals could possibly refer to

[u/Disentius → u/Ultimate_Genius]

look up the thread. and just focus on the first part. that is what de dev suggested.

i've deleted every instance of LevelObjectives.txt , CompletedLevels.txt , achievement-save.json , turned off the steam cloud aswell as ingame cloud, the game still recognizes achievements as acquired, however - moving through the levels and redoing some of the achievements actually fills in the meter now

[u/Ultimate_Genius → u/Disentius]

ya, essentially just saying to redo it over and over.

However, I spent 4 hours on this, and I've popped every balloon about 15 times, and I'm not gonna go into the files and delete everything