Okay, so I get that score is a big factor in this, but does anyone else have any more details about how to get different medals in campaign levels. So far I’ve noticed you need to score above 50,000 points to get a silver, and that buying buildables in the level seems to make this lower, but any more information would be helpful. I’m trying to unlock Kleese but just can’t seem to get a silver in the Archive, no matter what I try! HALP PLS! =)
Archive on normal: silver medal, 47938 points (34638 + bonus 13300) cleared in 26:38. Team stats were 564 kills, 3 respawns, 247 assists, 34520 shards, and 5 revives. It doesn’t look like you can see the buildables but, given we were always running out of shards, I’d say we built pretty much everything all the time…
Experiment on normal: gold medal, 78840 (52230+26600), 39:33, 645 kills, 5 respawns, 355 assists, 55951 shards, 9 revives.
I wonder if ranking up (command or character) adds to the score?
All I can say with any personal certainty is that each mission seems to have different score requirements for medals. I got 40k on one and received silver, but 60k an another and still only got bronze.
I’ve done almost all missions on Gold Advanced/Hardcore, can’t be bothered going back to missions where i got less than that, the trick is to pick up every loot you can and the biggest over-looked score is when bosses change phases.
Each boss has various amounts of phases, the score drops every-time they change phase… the Yellow score that is described best as “Team-Score”.
For example, Geoff (The spider king from Mission/Episode 1) Drops bonus team score everytime he shields himself before jumping into another room, you gotta look up and be close to him and pick it up, after that the next part where he drops score will be when you activate all the points that release fume, then in the spot he was upgrading himself he will drop even more bonus score, the risk is that you have to expose yourself to the gas for longer to pick it up, (twice) as he goes through that phase twice (two rooms).
Bonus Team-score is the easiest way to achieve gold medals. Can’t say about higher medals though as they have changed the values from the Beta drasitcally, increasing the difficulty in getting highest ranked medals. (Haven’t gotten a single one in live version but got 3 Galaxy/Platinum (or whatever they’re called) medals in the Open Beta.
I’d like to add that some bosses can be abused for extra score, by making the boss change phases without killing it, an example of that would be the henchman which drops bonus score everytime the shield is destroyed, you can just aim for the shield for about 10 minutes or as long as you can survive until you collect massive amounts of bonus score.
Despite knowing all this i’m surprised I don’t have any higher medals than golds right now… maybe I am not trying hard enough 
Also worth noting is that the bonus score orbs that drop disappear if you don’t grab them quickly. This is a real pain if you’re playing solo Montana, but a speedy character can boost total score nicely.
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Very good point.
Am I correct in understanding that any bonus points you pick up (yellow orbs) are lost if you die?
No I think they’re only lost if you fail. But I’m not 100%