How does one get A+

[JoJoFan87]

I ask because I literally did what I thought the game rewards you to do.

1. Never take hit
2. Never get poisoned
3. Reach the end within a reasonable time

I did all these things including using distraction such as empty bottles to distract enemies and it only ever got me an A- like why?

[Flip_Light]

Originally posted by JoJoFan87:

I ask because I literally did what I thought the game rewards you to do.

1. Never take hit
2. Never get poisoned
3. Reach the end within a reasonable time

I did all these things including using distraction such as empty bottles to distract enemies and it only ever got me an A- like why?

Did you trigger sound traps?
Did you alert enemies?
Did you pick people up?
Did you use your rig?

Rig usage for example goes up to I believe 25 times. You really want to use it a lot.
The same thing goes for bottles/damaging enemies with them. You actually kind of want to hit some enemies with bricks and stuff as that helps your score go up.

TLDR, you want to be stealthy but not too stealthy. You don't want to take damage but you want to damage enemies and use your rig.

[Starfisher]

You have to do the side mission too. The poster collecting. Mission time doesn't count.

[JoJoFan87]

Originally posted by Flip_Light:

Originally posted by JoJoFan87:

I ask because I literally did what I thought the game rewards you to do.

1. Never take hit
2. Never get poisoned
3. Reach the end within a reasonable time

I did all these things including using distraction such as empty bottles to distract enemies and it only ever got me an A- like why?

Did you trigger sound traps?
Did you alert enemies?
Did you pick people up?
Did you use your rig?

Rig usage for example goes up to I believe 25 times. You really want to use it a lot.
The same thing goes for bottles/damaging enemies with them. You actually kind of want to hit some enemies with bricks and stuff as that helps your score go up.

TLDR, you want to be stealthy but not too stealthy. You don't want to take damage but you want to damage enemies and use your rig.

Didn't trigger noises unless throwing a bottle to distract a killer counts against me.

Nope unless being at the exit where they find you and having to outrun them counts against me too.

Was Solo.

I didn't use my rig at all didn't think it gave you a better grade to use utilities if anything most games like this would reward a player to not use their gadgets often.

[Tikorita™]

Originally posted by Starfisher:

You have to do the side mission too. The poster collecting. Mission time doesn't count.

Not compulsory. I did one open the gates under project X without collecting posters and still got A+.

[th01m3nn]

Originally posted by JoJoFan87:

I ask because I literally did what I thought the game rewards you to do.

1. Never take hit
2. Never get poisoned
3. Reach the end within a reasonable time

I did all these things including using distraction such as empty bottles to distract enemies and it only ever got me an A- like why?

These are the things you need to do

1. Never trigger a sound trap
2. Never take a hit
3. Collect all 3 or 5 posters (depending on solo/co-op)

Time doesn't play a role

[Starfisher]

Originally posted by Tikorita™:

Originally posted by Starfisher:

You have to do the side mission too. The poster collecting. Mission time doesn't count.

Not compulsory. I did one open the gates under project X without collecting posters and still got A+.

Were you solo or in a team? Because it is enough if your team members collect it. No need to do it individually. Five posters collected by the team.

[Jalir]

Originally posted by Tikorita™:

Originally posted by Starfisher:

You have to do the side mission too. The poster collecting. Mission time doesn't count.

Not compulsory. I did one open the gates under project X without collecting posters and still got A+.

Your team most likely did them.

[memories]

The game doesn't penalize you on the fact that it takes you even 2 hours, you have to collect all the posters, you can take a maximum of 2 hits from enemies and that's it, you can also compensate slightly by using bricks and bottles against traps or against enemies, but as soon as get to 3 hits taken and you can forget the A+ most of the time.

[Espresso]

It's a simple mechanic of doing more positive actions and trying to avoid negative ones :)
Collecting all posters does help as well (in addition to completing main objectives).

Below lists are not exhaustive, just running them off the top of my head.

Positive things are: using your rigs at least a few times, throwing bricks or bottles to disarm traps/stun enemies temporarily, doing main objectives, collecting posters, stealth to avoid enemy detection, reviving or helping downed teammates

Negative things: triggering sound traps (broken glass and metal cans) and trapped doors, stepping in psychosis mines, getting jumped by pouncers or sprayed by the pusher, taking health damage from enemies, being downed/executed