Totally agree. Especially with shard extractor.
I just got gold on Renegade with 77,852 and about 38 and a half mins., also with 5 people.
Jealousy. I played it for several hours last night but the pugs I was with could never do better than 72k
Perfect! Thank you. Is it safe to assume you were on normal mode?
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How you guys do it lol?
I have one gold so far… I did archive on hardcore advanced and got bronze… The only mission I can get silver reliably is heliophage advanced… I take my time, I loot everything, I roam and kill things, I wait for things to spawn, I don’t skip stuff…
edit - ah, you are talking about coop… ok, I play regular campaign. That said, does coop have some score multiplier or something? If so, why? I mean, why didn’t they simply scale the difficulty and earnings according to the number of players? So if I go solo, I can get gold if I do as well as a team would in a relative sense…
@Doolio
Are you collecting as many of the little yellow score bubbles that pop out of chests and bosses? These have a huge impact on your score (silly I know, but it is what it is)
Yes, I learned about it on accident several days ago:) I manically try to pick as many as I can every time I’m fighting a boss:)
That said, specifically when it comes to the archive, I might try with the infinite book-bots thing (letting waves of them die while I kill everything for like half an hour).
LOL, seriously don’t be jealous that’s after 30 attempts… mind you all of which were Pick-Up-Groups, I think you’d fair better if you have a dedicated team, even if only 2 or 3 people with extra PUGs added in. If you’re on Xbox1 look me up, but I can’t guarantee the were gonna Gold, took me 30 tries, lol.
Yes, it was on Normal mode, this was the last one I needed to unlock Advanced mode. So far I’m not a big fan of Advanced mode, it seems to completely render melee characters useless depending on map, but that would par for the course melee abilities in Gearbox games.(entire Borderlands series) The formerly invincible characters (how I got use to playing them) Boldur and Galilea spend most of the time getting revived, even when started using their shields to just block roughly 60% of the time.
That is not surprising to me. I haven’t even begun working on advanced, well actually I have tried, yet have not had much success getting anything completed. Will keep you posted with what I find. Thanks for the update.
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Honestly I just got gold on renegade advanced but I still can’t get it on normal.
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Gold, Advanced, 3 Player
Montana, Boldur and Oscar Mike
Seemed like a very good combination of ranged and AoE mixed with Melee.
Only thing we lacked was a healer but OM with with extra stealth time and speed did a lot of rejuvs.
Took about 45 minutes…it was NOT easy and it was NOT a sure thing…many close calls.
I Have Ran Renegade with a Good Team everytime, but WE KEEP GETTING SILVER!!! Can someone lower the score requirement to get Gold, because this is just plain up ridiculous, and trust me, I HAVE COLLECTED ALLLLLLL LOOT BOXES and KILLED ALL ENEMIES LEAVING NONE BEHIND, WE EVEN BURNED IT IN SHORT TIME, IS THIS BROKEN OR WHAT?!
I’ve got gold on everything except renegade and heliophage on normal lol. I can gold those 2 on advanced but make the game easier and… XD
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Are we talking Advanced or Normal in general here? I’ve got Gold on everything except for Advanced Void’s Edge and Advanced Experiment.
One thing to note (that Gearbox didn’t mention in their “how scoring is calculated” post) is that you should SLOOOOOOW down and “loot-loot-loot!”. Bum-rushing gains you LITTERALLY nothing (there is no “score bonus” or any other reason to rush), and open all those chests! Those score orbs inside the chests are 100 points each, and BOY HOWDY do they add up!
I always seem to be a runaway first in score in pretty much all the missions I play simply because I spend the time to open search out and open all those small chests! n.nU
I think it’s worth mentioning not to kill hylis too quickly on renegade. if you allow him, he’ll jump up top, and spawn in several waves of grunts up there, then below two seperate spawners for huge enemies. Although it doesn’t sound like anyone here is doing that as I’m usually in the 50k range when hylis gets melted quickly.
Pair that with quick kills and you’re good to go. It’s obviously much easier with an organized team.
Finally got Silver solo on advance. The problem isn’t to find the large crate, it’s not to be fast enough to catch the yellow balls, it’s hoping the balls will not fall behind the walls or some place impossible to reach.
Oh and it didn’t unlock Kleese…
renegade normal: 75546 score silver
renegade advanced: 83947 score gold
archive normal: 50508 score gold
archive advanced: 52930 score silver
They have released an article on how scoring works
The short of it, do two things.
- Pick up the little yellow Score Bonus orbs quickly.
- Kill enemies quickly.
Explanation below
Knowing where all of the places to get orbs from is great.
They can come off bosses and 6 slot chests and they de-spawn quickly.
Prioritize getting them when you see them.
Be safe you aren’t leaving any behind when opining chests.
ALSO, Extra Lives matter for small orb spawns.
The more Extra Lives you have in reserve, the more orbs that spawn.
Understandably, the devs made Hardcore Mode spawn Max Orbs, since there are no Extra Lives.
Enemies spawn with a hidden bonus timer.
Killing enemies quickly on spawn will net bonus points, so focusing fire quickly is very good.
I got Gold on Renegade Advanced with 4 Oscar Mikes and an Orendi.
Things melted.
It was beautiful.
