Did I Ruin Team Fortress 2?

Valve recently release the Pyro achievement and weapon pack upgrade to TF2 and I, like many other fans of the game, rebooted my iMac into Windows, cracked open Steam, then eagerly downloaded and installed the latest updates. I spent the time waiting for the download by searching out a couple of nearby servers with good connections and well stocked games and reading up on the plethora of new achievements that would be made available to me.

Soon the game was open and I was off to the races. Sprinting through brightly colored maps, blowing back countless fools with my new blast of air and racking up achievements, but rapidly I became jealous of the other pyros that I encountered who had flare-guns and barbed wire axes. How did they manage to rack up Achievement Milestone 3 so fast? I know that valve reduce it to needing only 22 achievement and no longer needing to get all of them, but this is the sort of checklist that should take days to get, not hours. What's the deal?

The answer came quickly with another glance at the Internet Server list: Achievement Boxes. These levels, custom designed to allow players to knock through the daunting list of new achievement is record time. I joined one such server and rapidly proceeded to unlock the new toys in my pyro's inventory. After a few rounds on cp_well I can say that I am impressed with the flavor that they new weapons bring to the game. I like that I can use my flaregun to set someone ablaze then put them down with my sweet new axe. I also love being rewarded for a well executed ambush with the level 10 Flamethrower.

At first I thought, "Man that Achievement Box was great, it let me get up and running with the new pyro so fast." Soon I realized that in my haste to grab the brass ring, I had ruined the recored and stats that I had spend countless hours building. I now longer know how many "people" I have killed in a single life, or how many dominations I accrue. The hard earned satisfaction of killing that 6th man on a great sprint and seeing a little message pop up that you have set a new personal best has been killed.

I now find myself wishing that I could somehow reset my Personal Records and Personal Stats section. For me the Records + Stats was a compelling feature that added a well rounded persistence to an otherwise fleeting (in terms of encounters) game.

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197987784732/stats/TF2