Rune Classic: A Cheesy Guide to 100% Achievements in Rune Classic

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Before we begin: please note that this is a cheesy guide. We’re going to use every dirty trick and tactic in the book short of using unlocking tools or editing game files. This is not the intended way to play the game, and I’m going to make no attempts to avoid spoilers or preserve the game experience. If you want a natural experience of the game, this is not the guide for you. Also, this is rough and ready – it should be helpful, but I make no claim that it’s perfection. That being said, if you see something totally wrong in here, let me know so I can correct it, and if you find the guide useful, drop me a good rating. Let’s get down to business.

Console commands are going to be the bread and butter of this guide, so let’s introduce the key ones that you will be needing. You can open the console with the tilde (~) key. Important note: Rune does not persist your console commands between maps/levels, in single player or multiplayer, so you will need to re-enable cheats as you jump around getting the various achievements.

• cheatplease: enables the use of cheats
• god: makes player invincible
• ghost/walk: enables/disables noclip
• summon [name]: spawns the item or NPC named
• open [map name]: sends you to a specific map

Most of the achievements in this guide involve warping to a specific map with “open”, toggling god mode and noclip, then flying to an enemy or a trigger, so get used to inputting those commands quickly. For achievements where you need a weapon, I recommend “summon vikingbroadsword” as it seems to be one of the better ones in the game.

There are three achievements for beating the game, and they are some of the quickest.

To unlock them, start a new game on hard then immediately open the console and enter “open asgard”. That will bring you to the final scene of the game, seen below. Simply walk over the rainbow bridge and all three achievements should unlock.

At this point, I recommend starting a new game on easy difficulty since nothing else is difficulty specific and it will make some things slightly faster.

The next set of achievements are all unlocked as part of natural progression through the game, but since we strive for unnatural progression we’ll be skipping as much as possible. These can be a bit more involved than the rest of the list, but should still be fairly quick.

This first one gave me the most trouble out of the entire list because there are a couple spots in the game where you encounter the dangler fish and some of the triggers are finicky.

To start, go to the console and enter “open deepunder3”, then enable cheats and god mode. Specifically for this achievement, I recommend trying not to use noclip/ghost mode because as mentioned the triggers seem temperamental and I didn’t get the achievement my first time through the level using them. Thankfully, the layout of the level is mostly fairly linear.

From the start, run forward until you get to the edge of a large pit. Approaching should trigger a cutscene where a rock falls from above.

Next, jump down into the pit and you should see an area with some creatures and a dangling rope.

Jump down again to the bottom level and run around until you hit a cutscene trigger that makes another large rock fall from the ceiling (make sure not to let it hit you), the rope should now be accessible (grab with ctrl) and you can climb up to the ledge.

In the next area you’ll see several ropes, you don’t need these, just drop down again and head to the right along some sludge until you hit an open cliff with a path leading up to the left.

Follow that path, if you fall you should be able to noclip back up, and you’ll come to a waterfall. Head up the waterfall as far as you can go to the source, which should look like a small pond.

We’re almost home free now. Dive into the waterfall source pool and you should be in an underwater tunnel. Head left where you should see some strands of seaweed and a square pillar.

The level exit is directly around the corner to the right around the pillar, and the dangler fish is in the big open section to the left. To be safe, I recommend aggro’ing the fish before exiting as that is what I did when I unlocked the achievement. To leave the level, head around the pillar and you’ll see some more square looking structures, if you head to the left there is a cave with a tunnel leading straight up. Swim upwards and you should hit the level transition.

Congratulations, you’ve unlocked the hardest achievement in Rune Classic.

The next achievement is significantly easier. Go to the console and type “open hel1b” to go to the correct level, which should look like this.

Enable cheats and turn on noclip (god mode too if you are paranoid as there is an enemy at the level start). From your starting point, noclip straight down through the floor then look to the left. You should see a lot of the map, including a chasm with some lava running through it. Fly directly through the map towards the circled area in this image.

At the top of the chasm, you should see a small elevator, this takes you to the next level.

Fly into the elevator, turn off noclip, and hit the switch with ctrl.

The level should end and the achievement should unlock.

The next achievement is extremely straightforward and easy. Go to the console and enter “open trialpit”. While the cutscene is playing, enable cheats, turn on god mode and spawn yourself a weapon. The pit beast will break the cage you are in, simply hit it until it is dead and the achievement will unlock.

Next up is a fairly easy puzzle boss. Go to the console and enter “open dwarfmap6darkdwarf” to warp to the correct level. Enable cheats, god mode, and noclip. Head directly forward through two large rooms.

Once you noclip through the far wall in the second room, look to your right and in the distance you should see a large room filled with pillars.

Fly to this room and head through the wall at the end.

Keep moving forward until you come to a large boss arena with the dark dwarf in it.

The encounter itself is extremely easy as the boss cannot damage you. To defeat it, simply go through the blue portals in the pillars around the room. Every time you go through a portal, it will take you to the upper level and a switch located behind the pillar of the portal you entered through will become interactable.

Keep going through portals and hitting switches, when you’ve hit them all the boss will be destroyed, causing a yellow portal to open.

Go through the portal and the achievement should unlock.

Go to the console and enter “open loki3a”. A cutscene should play where Ragnar emerges from a purple pool in a new, dark form. The achievement should unlock immediately.

Untested unlock method: it is possible to spawn the final boss into any point of the game with the command “summon sarkconrack”. I don’t know whether summoning him in this way and then killing him unlocks the achievement or not, but it may be worth trying. Otherwise, the unlock method I used doesn’t take terribly long.

The final story achievement is also very straightforward. Go to the console and enter “open villageruin”. Enable god mode, summon and pick up a weapon, and turn on noclip. Fly straight up through the ceiling and the final arena should be visible.

Go to the arena, turn off noclip, and walk a short distance back through the entrance tunnel to trigger a cutscene. After the cutscene, run to the other side of the central mound and kill Sark Conrack, the achievement should unlock shortly, and with that all of the most involved achievements are done.

Thanks to user CorpseGrind who shared the base of the methods in this section in this discussion post: https://steamcommunity.com/app/210950/discussions/0/5262978521341041551

In this case, multiplayer is something of a misnomer as all of these achievements can be done solo with bots. From the main menu you can go to “Multiplayer” and then “Server” to start up a local multiplayer game.

Within the match, you can then use console commands to provide yourself admin privileges and get access to the same commands we used in the single player. The basic setup is always as follows:

set gameinfo adminpassword 123
adminlogin 123
cheatplease
set input G summon ragnar

That will set you up with admin privileges and make it so that you can spawn in fodder enemies by pressing “G”. Remember, console stuff resets in each match so you will need to reenter these commands any time you change maps/matches.

You shouldn’t need to adjust any of the default match settings with one exception which we’ll get to momentarily.

This is the only achievement that can’t be completed in a single match as it requires you to get first blood 10 times. To earn this quickly, within the server menu go to the Rules tab and set Time Limit to 1. That will enforce a 1 minute time limit on each match, which should be enough time for you to spawn in, enter all your commands, and summon/kill an enemy before waiting for the match to end. Do this 10 times and the achievement should unlock, then you can go back to Rules and change Time Limit back to 0 for unlimited match time.

This is an easy achievement to get – each weapon in the game corresponds to a rune power which is fueled by rune energy, and the default axe you spawn with in multiplayer has a rune power that causes it to inflict burning damage. All you need to do is enter the game, set up your standard commands, then enter “summon runeofpower” to spawn an item to fill your rune power meter. You can then activate your rune power by pressing E. Spawn an enemy and kill them with your burning axe and the achievement should unlock.

One easy way to get a limb is to tele-frag an enemy by spawning another enemy directly inside of them. With your commands set up, tap G twice and the first enemy you spawned should explode in a cloud of gibs. Pick up one of their limbs with ctrl, then use it to kill the second enemy and the achievement should unlock.

To get this achievement, go to the console and enter “summon dwarfworksword” followed by “summonelder”. This should spawn in an enemy that will pick up the sword and then attack you. Across a few tests they always ended up decapitating me, the achievement should unlock once they do.

The rest of these achievements can all be earned simultaneously. Enter the server, set up your commands and spawn yourself a Viking broad sword. Find a corner to spawn enemies in and continuously spawn then behead them by jump-slashing (attacking on the way down). With the right timing, you should almost always be able to successfully behead them. For an example, see the video below.

We’re nearly done with just a few clean-up achievements to do. Personally, I did all of these in the very first level (“open ragnarvillage2”) to not be harassed by unwanted enemies. Don’t forget to also re-enable cheats.

As we did in the multiplayer, we can set up a key bind to spawn in an NPC for us to kill. Spawn yourself a Viking broad sword and go to town. Berzerk kills should rack up quickly, once Berzerker II pops you can actually finish the rest of the 250 kills by tele-fragging enemies, so just spam G until Two Fifty Foes pops.

The game doesn’t actually track whether you get the specific health runes from the campaign, it only tracks whether you’ve accumulated the expected amount. Go to the console and enter “summon runeofhealth” five times, then pick them up with ctrl, the achievement should unlock.

Very quick unlock, go to the console and enter “summon lizard” 25 times. That will spawn 25 lizards in a stack on the ground. Next, enter “summon goblin” to spawn an aggressive NPC. Simply stand on the lizard stack and spam control while he damages you, once you’ve eaten 25 the achievement will unlock.

Identical method to the above, except instead of “summon lizard” the command is “summon stein”.

To wrap up our completion, all we need to do is spawn in a bunch of weapons (5 each of axes, swords, and blunt weapons) and pick them up with ctrl. The list of commands is as follows:

summon VikingShortSword
summon VikingBroadSword
summon DwarfBattleSword
summon DwarfWorkSword
summon RomanSword
summon GoblinAxe
summon DwarfBattleAxe
summon SigurdAxe
summon HandAxe
summon VikingAxe
summon DwarfBattleHammer
summon DwarfWorkHammer
summon RustyMace
summon BoneClub
summon TrialPitMace

And that’s it. You have officially gotten 100% achievement completion in Rune Classic the cheesy way, and if you followed along correctly it should have only taken you a couple of hours. If you found this guide helpful, make sure to rate it. Until next time, happy hunting.