Welcome to the Era of Achievements
Today we’re excited to launch a brand new feature on Dotabuff: Achievements. Achievements provide a fun and challenging way to measure your dedication and hero diversity in Dota, and are available today for every Dota 2 player.
Most players have heard of the A-Z Hero Challenge, a fun in-game achievement that dares you to play and win a game on every hero in Dota. Learning every hero is valuable for game knowledge and sets a clear goal to work towards, all without forcing you to make in-game decisions that may negatively effect your team. This is the spirit in which we’ve built Achievements: fun, challenging, but above all not harmful or toxic (well, except for this one).
Achievements as Statistics
When we first launched Dotabuff, one of our most requested features was an easy way to see which heroes you have not yet won a match on. Dotabuff Achievements has an extensive Hero Mastery group where you can easily identify new challenges, set personal goals and achieve them.
Dotabuff couldn’t make an Achievement system without additional statistics, right? It’s sort of our thing here. When viewing an achievement, keep an eye out for the little globe icon with a number indicating the percentage of players who have completed that achievement. So, what are your most rare achievements?
Completing achievements give you Arbitrary Points (AP), a fun stat that you can use to compare your achievements in Dota to other players. Of course, there’s an achievements leaderboard. Dotabuff Plus subscribers (you’re awesome) get a few nice perks too: you can see the world rank and percentile for yourself and others, along with a chart showing how your AP has grown over time.
We've also sneaked in some fun achievements under a category called Arbitrary Awards. These include achievements like playing Dota 2 during the alpha, or playing Wisp before it was renamed to Io. Arbitrary Awards don't award AP because new players can't achieve them anymore.
A fun fact for technical folks: Dotabuff isn't just one big website but a large fleet of smaller components (microservices) that perform dedicated tasks, like accurately storing your player statistics or parsing a replay. Whenever we break ground on a new project, we're faced with the task of giving it a codename. Our Esports stats service is named Bruno, hero rankings are provided by Zeus, etc. It didn't take us long to find the perfect name for the achievements service: Lifestealer!
A Community Effort
The initial launch of Achievements focuses on using simple statistics accessible to all players (API stats). Everything is retroactive - if you have a friend who hasn’t had the desire to enable their statistics, maybe Achievements will help them see the light! We hope that those of you who enjoyed the battle pass quests will also enjoy achievements, but with less pressure to do something specific in one game or not make any progress.
In the future we plan to add achievements based on TrueSight replay analysis - things like getting a full 5 second stun on Mirana or getting a perfect 
Black Hole on the entire enemy team. It’s important for us to do this in a way that gives Plus subscribers more fun and challenging achievements without negatively effecting others. If you'll pardon the sales pitch, Subscribing to Plus today will ensure that we have TrueSight analysis for all of your matches in the future. We don't plan on restricting achievements based on Plus status, but obviously long time subscribers will have a more complete history of Truesight data.
We’d love to hear your feedback on Achievements - please hit us up on Twitter and share your ideas, concerns, and suggestions. Whether you love achievements or hate them, it’s important that we hear your thoughts!
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wow .52% of the dotabuff population has won 100 or more games with a bkb, that is absolutely pathetic as my 2k ranking; please tell me this measurement is wrong or that i have the population wrong. good lord there may be hope.
with that said the achievements look sweet, hopefully it will help inspire players to find new ways to play.
yaaaaaaaay
gid gud
Oh fucking hell games going to be deaed
lol nvm
@par73 that's actually the one achievement where that stat is inaccurate (we just added it before launch). Give it a day and we'll have a more realistic sample size. I just laughed out loud that you found and pinpointed JUST that one.
lol great
For the arbitrary awards (play a hero before they changed to X), why is it necessary to win the match to get the achievement?
Then again, I suppose they are arbitrary...
this is amazing!
Amazing and oddly related to my mmr 3815 points... my friend its 4085 and got 4060 points.
I hope this feature motivate players to get better and try new things. Btw its my time to play zet, kaolin and oracle.
Good Job guys!
Missing Windrunner and Lycan Arbitrary Awards, do you need to win for them to count?
WOW very interesting, good work! (i did most of the achievments lol though)
before people even start whining about this 'ruining' future games... you already have Battle Pass and past compendiums with silly challenges not to mention a lot of you pick stupid heroes just because.
Nice one!
sick.
nice xdxdxd
Dont like this, if only one person plays sub-optimal dota cuz of this, it failed, and that will inevitably happen.
Very nice, it's something we need to give dota 2 more depth.
And it's a gentle slap on Valve cheek "Look how it's done".
Thank you !
98TH percentile ; not bad but 42.7K/RANK OF 2.9M seems pretty shitty tbh
Crazi.
@Lawliepop haha i've taken courses revolving around statistics and that just looked like an insane outlier, glad to hear it's fix is on the way! looking forward to the occasional DB huskar aiming to achieve 0 deaths in my upcoming games
I think this is amazing. Is it going to be exclusive to DBPlus?
Awesome
lol, log in to dota buff. Read achivement announcement. Get hyped.
Check out my achivements. Realize ive done 95%. All hYpe was lost.
Is there a way to link this info to an overwolf app (or something similar), so after pick stage - you can see your potential achievements ?
and I can't emphasize enough on the AFTER thing, so @Spatula's nightmare won't become a reality.
Aren't you missing the Obsidian Destroyer - Outworld Devourer Arbitrary Award?
I love this. How accurate is the data?
Nice feature, but why is my history counting from December 1969? That doesn't make sense to me. Probably some Unix timestamp issue? Due to this bug I got the arbitrary achievements for playing since 2011 and 2012, although I started in 2013.
EDIT: yeah, looks like a Unix era problem. I apparently played my first game of Dota on 1970-01-01. Can't quite remember what computer model that was. Surely not Amiga or Commodore, that was 10 years later. :-D
Would like to be able to order the achievements somehow.
"So, what are your most rare achievements?"
I don't know but I would like to!
This is absolutely amazing. Seriously! Its the most unique addition you could have possibly added! You'll have my Plus subscription for life! #WoWNerdsLoveAchievements
Make achievements for reaching the leaderboards for heroes? :)
Win 1000 Games: 0.00% global competition. That can't be right.
let a new era begin ....
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I would like to know what are all the arbitary awards. I only have 4 lmao.
I've played as Wisp twice before it became Io, where is my achievment? #sad
Brilliant!
What's about adding the related achievements to the Heroes' pages? I think it will be usefull to have an opportunity to see all achievements for our favorite heroes.
ResidentSleeper
A permanent incentive for players to attempt "achievements" instead of focusing on winning ranked games or actually improving.
DansGame
want to see more hardtry achivements, like a "Throne For Throne" - Win a game with 20% health of ur Throne.
"Dont Save Private Ryan" - Denied 10-20-50 allied heroes.
"Know ur place" - Kill enemy who makes buyback 25 sec ago.
But sure, its a great job. whoah. I hope valve adds this idea to steam. And make little gifts for high tier achivements.
GGWP !!!!
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How can i know about all Arbitary Awards? Just interested in whole list.
Why there is no Arbitrary Award for playing Outworld Destroyer before he was renamed into Outrold Devourer?