PiP: unlockables and achievements

Panic in Paradise. What you have to do to unlock a weapon, an attack or a costume, and what earns an achievement, is a list of rules in three scripts. Each rule is one line: a name, a condition, and a number or an item. That makes them some of the easiest things in the game to change.

Where it lives

All in global.lu:

  • unlockablerules: the rules for unlocking things.
  • rules_achievements: the rules for achievements.
  • libraryunlockable: the functions both call (UnlockablesRegisterLevelRules and the like). You rarely edit it, but its comments say what each kind of rule expects, for example “minCount = minimum number of levels to be completed”.

How a rule reads

The name is a hash, then a table. The same unlockCondTxtID is the text shown for the condition, shared by many rules:

[--[[HASH:"rank_names_rank02":0x53d83b54]]1406679892]   = {canForceUnlock=false, unlockCondTxtID = --[[HASH:"unlockable_condition_reach_level":0x974f744b]]2538566731, lvl = 2 },

InitializeAllRules then runs the groups in this order (the last four only outside the demo):

Function What it unlocks
InitializePlayerLevelRules The player ranks, rank01 to rank100, each at lvl = 1 to 100
InitializePlayerUpgradeAttack Attack moves, by rank
InitializeMultiTokenRules An unlock that needs other unlocks first, such as the Baseball bat and Machete masteries together
InitializeObjectOwnershipRules Items that unlock when you own two others
InitializeAcquireItemRules Weapons from ultra-kills, and costumes stolen from bears
InitializeItemMasteryRules Mastery of a weapon
InitializeLevelCompletedRules Number of levels finished
InitializeKillCompletedRules Killing a particular bear
InitializeLevelTrophyRules, InitializeTrophyCountRules A grade on one level (lvl1_story_bronze), and a total number of one kind of cup (gold_allcup needs minCount=36)

Attacks by rank

The three moves Naughty gains by ranking up are one small table:

[--[[HASH:"uppercut_attack":0x2f4deb6e]]793635694]   = {canForceUnlock=false, unlockCondTxtID = --[[HASH:"unlockable_unlock_uppercut_attack":0x727b6376]]1920689014, lvl = 5 }, --this is link to the kick
[--[[HASH:"special_attack":0x46b76293]]1186423443]   = {canForceUnlock=false, unlockCondTxtID = --[[HASH:"unlockable_unlock_special_attack":0x18247869]]405043305, lvl = 10 },
[--[[HASH:"big_terrorize_attack":0x718468e7]]1904503015]   = {canForceUnlock=false, unlockCondTxtID = --[[HASH:"unlockable_unlock_big_terrorize":0xd530f849]]3576756297, lvl = 20 },

Interpretation: lvl is the rank at which the move unlocks. Set the three numbers to 1 to have them from the start.

Weapons from ultra-kills

A comment in the script says the token “must absolutely be the name of the item for ultra kills and stolen costumes”. An ultra-kill rule looks like this:

[--[[HASH:"Animesword":0x68356540]]1748329792] 	= {unlockCondTxtID = --[[HASH:"unlockable_condition_ultrakill_knight":0x2c94dd37]]747953463, itemID = --[[HASH:"Animesword":0x68356540]]1748329792 },

Interpretation: the condition text name (..._ultrakill_knight) says which bear’s ultra-kill earns the Anime sword.

Achievements

rules_achievements has the same shape. Trophies are counted by grade, and the number of items bought or mastered is counted too. For the first trophy and the purchase counts:

[--[[HASH:"achievement_First_Trophy":0x91266097]]2435211415]    = {canForceUnlock=false, unlockCondTxtID = --[[HASH:"unlockable_condition_missing":0xef3cfe39]]4013751865, minCountBronze = 1, minCountSilver = 1, minCountGold = 1, minCountPlatine = 1},

[--[[HASH:"achievement_PurchasedItems_1":0xd9a91b24]]3651738404]    = {canForceUnlock=false, unlockCondTxtID = --[[HASH:"unlockable_condition_missing":0xef3cfe39]]4013751865, minPurchasedItemsCount = 25},

The purchase counts are 25, 50, 100 and 200 items. One gold-count rule needs goldCount = 1000000. The script also prints a line when one is earned:

	print("Achievement earned : " .. engine.GetAchievementHashName(aAchievementID))

SetAchievementComplete hands the achievement to the engine. Interpretation: the engine passes it on to the console, which this page cannot test.

How to change it

Change the number in a rule and Ship. Whole numbers only, no decimal point. Keep to the kind of value the game already uses: PiP scripts hang when a value is far outside its normal range (see PiP internals).

Confirmed and not

  • Confirmed in the scripts: the rule groups, their order, and the shape of each rule.
  • Interpretation: that lvl is a rank, what canForceUnlock does (every rule here sets it to false), and which bear each ultra-kill name means.
  • Checked in Seam Ripper: setting the uppercut to lvl = 1 ships, the file reads back with only that line changed, and every record keeps its retail size. Not tested in the game; try that one first.