Earning 5 STARS on EXPERT/NORMAL

[sabahkid]

I can't speak for CASUAL Difficulty but for EXPERT/NORMAL I believe you've gotta' die at least once to earn 5 STARS. This has been discussed in several threads and I can confirm this since I recently earned 5 STARS on all missions (including the infamous AVALANCHE one) by dying at least once but no more than twice in each mission.

Check the STEAM discussion threads (i.e. Tailsmon's HOW DO THE STARS RATINGS WORK?) on this and you'll find that the game uses a point system based on how many NPC enemies you kill. You've got to kill a certain amount for each mission to earn all STARS. Problem is if you achieve all mission objectives immediately or too quickly you won't be able to "whack" enuf bad guys to earn the requisite points for 5 STARS.

So you've got to actually get killed at least once but probably no more than twice to allow the game to spawn enuf NPC enemies for you to kill and therefore achieve the necessary points for 5 STARS.

This is especially so for AVALANCHE and MARKET GARDEN, but not for the final mission DER FLAKTURM. In the latter I didn't die at all until the final Escape the Tower objective at the end where I probably got killed about 8-10 times. Yet, to my great surprise, upon completion I still earned 5 STARS!

Oddball way to reward players for playing well! Still I found the game quite fun and am disappointed that it's apparently been "delisted" from the STEAM Store.

[alex64]

see this message (Tailsmon)
https://steamcommunity.com/app/24840/discussions/0/846944689786567803/

you have to get killed multiple times to get
the correct number of kills