Spending too many shards never was a problem for me. Loot chests, grab as much bonus score from each phase of every boss, and do not destroy spawners. Destroying spawners prematurely can make you lose hundreds of score. Most will destroy themselves. Wolf sentries will destroy spawners and any other ally will as well.
Oh and the amount of lives you have determines how much bonus score gets dropped, when it does drop.
It feels almost like some of the scoring comes from things you pick up from chests. If you pick up bonus score in chests, you’re probably getting silver. If not, then you’re probably going to have a hard time getting there.
Well, the score from chests is 100 per. But there is bonus score from large chests. Haven’t seen more than 5 per though. Each boss will drop bonus score a minimum of three times though. That’s where most of your score will come from. Every time I do the Algorithm, I pick up every bonus score and the bonus score ends up being 2x, if not more, then my base score.
Fair enough, it just feels like it’s too easy to lose out on a halfway decent score just because you missed a chest or a challenge.
Yeah, I felt the same way. When we got a third though, it allowed us to take a step back and realize what was really happening. That’s how we found out about the bonus score confetti that drops frequently.
Well, we always knew about it, it’s just that we don’t always have the option to collect it all. The stuff flies everywhere and you just can’t get it all before it fades. It’s kind of a pain in the a**. In all honesty, it sounds like the problem with medals is that they’re influenced too much by the bonus score. It should more hinge on how many lives lost, damage dealt/mitigated/healed, enemies slain, and overall score first. Then the bonus score should be, well, a bonus.
Agreed. The score should be rewarded by the effort you put in, not by luck. Often times those little bonus orbs shoot off the map.
Not to mention it’s hard to pick them of you play ranged hero solo. You have to learn the exact moments they drop from each boss and plan your fights so you can rush towards him to pick them when they go out. It’s irritating.
Has anyone been getting Gold (or higher if it exists?)
Platinum exists, from what youtubers have told me. But good luck getting it.
Indeed. Hopefully, they release some sort of score-based patch to make these things easier.
Youtubers can say whatever they want, there’s not a single screenshot of platinum.
…Still a myth until I find it myself, currently level 50.
I just finished a solo advanced(hardcore) run of “The Algorithm”. Final score was 68954 (http://imgur.com/hSa1AdS) - still only got copper 
I collected every chest and collected almost(?) every bonus orb dropped by the bosses. I am pretty disappointed… what is the secret to get silver?
Finally got gold on 2 player Archive. We had to farm varelsi during the data minion mission for an hour. Took us an hour and a half to finish the whole thing and got gold.
Shouldn’t have to exploit the game to do that though.
Based on what I’ve heard, you have to find bonus score in the game after defeating bosses and minibosses. Those little yellow things that spout from bosses and disappear in about 3 seconds? That’s what I mean. For some reason, they affect medal acquisition way more than they should.
Platinum was a thing at least during the Open Beta. It was probably removed from the final game. Can be seen in this video:
I’m not sure anything other than score actually effects your Medal. I played The Algorithm (solo normal) around 15 times trying all kinds of different things, but in the end it seemed that I got the medal at specific score numbers. I’ve gotten gold while finishing 0 challenges and dying twice, and I’ve gotten bronze while having 90% accuracy and a fast completion time.
Your main score is only affected by kills and score drops. I’m not sure exactly what affects Bonus Score, but the largest increase definitely comes from bonus score drops. I’ve gotten solo/normal Gold on all but one mission, and the best advice I can give is to NEVER destroy the enemy spawn points (they give no score, and they still drop shards when they blow up after they have no more enemies to spawn).
Ya wanna know what really kicks ya in the bean sac? Scoring 104308 and getting silver. Yeah I’m still moaning.
To add what everyone is saying:
Hope it helps.
P.s. Time bonus sucks. Lol
