Also I guess the bonus chest makes a difference too? The one with extra live and some yellow orbs. It’s random location I think but does it pay to scour the map to find this thing?
The yellow orbs do, you wanna try to grab them all.
If someone opens the chest, be ready to catch them. Sometimes they fall off a cliff or get stuff in the map.
I’ll try some of these strats tonight. Hopefully I can get at least 70k. My last few scores have been abysmal. Really appreciate all your help on this one.
Okay, so if you are playing Kleese, you should have no trouble getting Gold on this mission solo. I just ran a Normal Hardcore Solo, and documented it so that you can see my approach.
First off, I had a somewhat joke build. Chrono Key (for the lulz of having my ult up every 10 seconds), Amplifying Bio-Thermic Converter (Shield Recharge Rate, Skill Damage), and Bolstering Cognitive Predictor (Skill Damage, Shield Strength). Honestly, the only attribute I really used was the skill damage, since I was never lacking for shields. I built his helix like this, but since I was aiming for a no-health-damage run, I never really used the mortars. Big point here is to take the sniper, because you can instakill anything that isn’t a boss with a headshot and get full bonus score.
For the first defense, I didn’t do anything special. Just taser the swarmers, headshot the thrall. I bought the fire trap in the back so that I didn’t have to worry about killing the swarmers in the back on the third wave.
For the second defense, I bought nothing and just set up shop like this:
Enemies jump right into it and die almost instantly. Headshot the evolved thrall from range if you are confidant in your aim, but you’ll be getting most of the bonus score if they run into the rifts anyways. By the end of the second defense, you should have around 27k-28k score, and some 4k bonus score from the two big chests.
For the third defense, I just set up my rift network on the right landing pad where the evolved thrall spawn, like so:
This won’t do anything on wave 1, but the primal thrall don’t give bonus score, and you can just headshot anything that spawns at the warp anchor for an instakill. In the pic, I have 55k score at the end of wave 2 (which lasted maybe 5 seconds).
When wave 3 starts, wait a while for all the evolved thrall to stop spawning, and then start placing down rifts inside, to the left of the node (as you enter from the bridge). With a cooldown pickup (which should be abundant on the evolved thrall pad), you should be able to get them all down before the wave ends. Then just do this (gfy link instead of embed because compression sucks). Don’t forget to pick up the bonus score.
I ended the game with 93741 score:
Came so close to not taking health damage, but the first defense “boss” pounced on me and was able to get some in.
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…Awesome 
I’m going to ping a friend and mention this, then 2 Kleese will be so fun.
Update: Did it solo first to see how I’d do, Grrrr, this is way beyond frustrating.
I did everything right, built no turrets, at all.
Killed everything fast, opened everything. Grabbed all the little points I could when they fell.
Did you set up the rift network at the right-side landing pad at the third defense? Given that it took 42 minutes to run, I’m assuming that you didn’t. That network alone should net you a ton of quick kill bonus score and make those waves fly by. I got 11k score on the second wave (which lasted 23 seconds) and 13k score on the third wave (which lasted 45 seconds), primarily just from that.
I actually bought all temporal traps and thumper turrets at the third defense, as they take care of the primal thrall (no bonus on them anyways) for me, and contribute tons of damage to the boss fight, so that might help a bit too.
…I’m going to do it again with turrets because when I did it as Thorn the score was higher.
Yes I set the 3 rifts on the RH side, the LH side spawned first but that was fine, just popcorn.
It was normal mode so Kleese had no problem killing anything else. I even cleared under the bridge.
Both of our bonus scores are close to the same but you got much higher team score in much less time.
Only three rifts? That may be a factor in getting a lower score, as they put out just over half the DPS as a four rift network (9x as opposed to 16x). I’m killing an Evolved Thrall in two pulses (with a bit of overkill), but with only three rifts, it would probably take three (maybe four if you aren’t gearing out in skill damage) in order to get a kill, which reduces the quick kill bonus on average.
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…Could be but Wow, if that is the factor I’m kicking this computer out the window. 
At last go office space on it.
Having an extra rift in your networks throughout the map should certainly improve your score, although I can’t say to what degree. Given that Evolved Thrall are worth 500 for an instakill and deteriorate to 100 over two seconds, every millisecond counts. Also should pump up the score you get off of Hylis Guards and Hylis himself.
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There are three chests in the Renegade, though their locations are random, look them up here: http://lowlidev.com.au/battleborn/maps
I have a 76++ so I think its 77-78K. I will also try this again soon. Thanks for the good unfo =]]
I still suck. Best run was 73k and I thought I did everything possible. I didn’t have an problem getting gold on all the other missions even on advanced, this one just seem to require really going out of your way to do absoutley everything perfectly. Not really fun to keep spamming it like this. I’ve memorized every line by now.
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we did 5 Kleese team twice - w00t worked (even a 3 man Kleese with two other toons-wotrked) 1st was just over 100K 2nd was almost 150K.
Seems like that is the way to go with this one. But do we have to do this with any other missions to get gold?
Not in my experience. I have gold on the others and did not have to do anything like this to get them. Loot-Loot-Loot =] Pick up all the pick ups =]
It is ridiculous.
We’ve tested this so many times on every map, with the same 5 person teams, sometimes all Kleese.
On Archive we can get gold for 68k, Renegade seems to take 117k. (Advanced mode)
Did they patch this? I just did a run and for 72k but still got gold (my high score was like 73k a few months ago and I still got silver).