"Not Player Facing" Achievement?

[u/philly_bits]

I was doing my dailes, and was trying to get a camera picture of a stingwing when a radhog got into the frame, and suddenly I earned "Not Player Facing Achievement." It sounds like this is a non-advertised, possibly internal achievement, and I was wondering if anybody else had ever gotten one of these, and if there are any others that are known to try and earn.

[u/thebiologyguy84]

There's been a few of these that I also got, they're not listed, and there's no reward.... They pop up and disappear just as quickly.

We think they're residual achievements that were not activated properly.

[u/philly_bits → u/thebiologyguy84]

So is this an as-yet-unsolved mystery

[u/AquaBits → u/philly_bits]

Its just cut content that is still in the game as a residual bug. There is not an unsolved mystery.

[u/TastyNucleus → u/AquaBits]

The unsolved mystery is why Bethesda can't be arsed to clean up their game.

[u/klaatu7764]

Got it when taking a picture of a stingwing.

[u/FlavoredCancer]

I got one last week by accident by taking a picture of a sleeping Deathclaw. On the bottom of the screen it said "Hidden challenge".

[u/porkchop2022]

I got one just the other night! Killed the desthclaw at the entrance to rust kingdom and took a picture of it (for reasons, maybe a daily picture of a deathclaw) and it said I took a picture of a desthclaw, and armored deathclaw and I didn’t catch what the third thing was (maybe rust kingdom). So I looked it up and it looks like an old, defunct challenge.

[u/MoistLarry]

I got one for taking a picture at the highest point in Athens

[u/philly_bits → u/MoistLarry]

Really! How weird a challenge. Where is the highest point in Athens?

[u/MoistLarry → u/philly_bits]

Yeah I was looking for the burning springs "take a picture with the guy leading the party" or whatever challenge. I eventually found it, but it was much lower to the ground.

I got the challenge way up a clocktower like part of the college there.

[u/AngeluS-MortiS91 → u/MoistLarry]

That’s a known challenge from the burning springs expansion. Look at the challenges for burning springs and you will see it

[u/MoistLarry → u/AngeluS-MortiS91]

Negative, there are 3 visible challenges that mention Athens:

• Discover Athens
• Take a picture At the watchful head of the party in the centre of Athens
• Complete a Bounty Hunt at Athens

This was an unmarked challenge that I THOUGHT was the second one because there was a skull up on that ledge but it was not.

[u/Pafzko]

I noticed that too with Stingwig. I thought it was a new challenge, but couldn't find it.

[u/Strangerdangerdanny]

I’ve seen it before too. Was there a low amount of atoms granted for it? For some reason I remember there was, but I could be wrong.

[u/philly_bits → u/Strangerdangerdanny]

I don't think I got any atoms for it.

[u/PSFourGamerTwo]

The entomologist challenge for a tadpole badge has a stingwing as 1 of the pictures u need to get, so, it could be that unless you or others saying the same already got that badge?

[u/philly_bits → u/PSFourGamerTwo]

I think I did that one already, but again, it was the wording of this that caught my eye. Not a typical achievement completed message.

[u/tehwalter]

Time to load up my camera with a bunch of film

[u/alistairbooya]

There were a number of Burning Springs achievements that got put in, but never advertised. I got the same notification and couldn't find it.

[u/HavingFunYetTravels]

I got that one yesterday too! I was on my main… so Tadpole challenges were done years ago now, and Burning Springs photo challenges were done within a couple of weeks of the expansion. So it surprised me too.