Tips on getting harder glory missions?

[YellowAfterlife]

So I've been giving glory missions a go recently and it would seem like the max difficulty/glory rating kind of caps out.

It would seem that, on average, at Glory V at Gloria station you always get one or two 200-300 glory missions, a couple of 400-500 glory missions, and 1-2 600-700 glory missions. If Gloria happened to reposition to Offworld or Sovereign sectors on galaxy load, there might be 1-2 missions with clauses/inventory lock/warzone/timer worth 800-1000 glory. But anything past that seems like pure chance?

I had 1400 glory for a bit and that was 18th place.
Nothing above 1200 glory was showing up for a while so I did rounds of performing a Ghost mission, buying mystery crates on all of the proceedings, and then checking back on Gloria.
Then I got a 1440 no-alarm hijack mission. Fair, still 18th place.
Then the alike but for 1470. Then 1500. Then 1540. Now 1580. But still 18th.

As there seems to be no way of seeing the global glory-based leaderboard, I can't tell what the higher scores are and can't help but to ask if there's a faster way of getting a new top-scoring mission than re-rolling them repeatedly by walking up to the bar, sitting down, picking the same character, and walking back to the mission board.

And do people reroll for absolute worst character that is still usable? It would seem like most negative traits you can get is 2 3, or, rarely, 4 and ranging from +7% to +%30 in glory, but without the scores I cannot tell if this is what the rest of high scores are done with or not.

[DSpecht]

The highest I did was at Glory 2145. My character has three negative traits (weak, shaky, proud), I did a timed Glory V Hijack mission (although no inventory lock) with a Silent Clause. Basically just get a lot of negative traits and keep rerolling missions until you get one to your liking, thats all there is to it. Best of luck.

[Terin]

You can get up to 4 negative traits. The worst possible character is a dying, frail technophobe that is either weak or blacklisted. That would give +105% glory.

The highest base glory score I've seen generated is about 1.7-1.8k (which usually seems to be a silent hijacking mission), and the highest glory score is 3598, which seems like a 1755 glory mission with that worst possible character.

[YellowAfterlife]

Originally posted by DSpecht:

The highest I did was at Glory 2145. My character has three negative traits (weak, shaky, proud), I did a timed Glory V Hijack mission (although no inventory lock) with a Silent Clause. Basically just get a lot of negative traits and keep rerolling missions until you get one to your liking, thats all there is to it. Best of luck.

Thanks! Now that the trait combinations were mentioned, I did tests for all possible traits and the bonuses are as following:

• Proud and vows: no bonus whatsoever.
  
• Shaky: +7%
  
• Glitch sickness: +12%
  
• Weak: +15%
  
• Blacklisted: +15%
  
• Technophobe: +30%
  
• Frail: +30%
  
• Dying: +30%

(I'll try to get this into a guide for anyone's further reference)

So if we were to rule out the absolute worst configuration for the fact that it's a lot of rerolling for what you could only use for several missions without savefile rollbacks, the best possible would be 90% at Frail+Technophobe+Weak+Blacklisted, at which point I guess it's just you, a silenced gun, a couple traps, and a whole lot of patience.

Originally posted by Terin:

and the highest glory score is 3598, which seems like a 1755 glory mission with that worst possible character.

Thanks! Where are you looking at this? The only thing I've found in-game is the "glorious friends" bit, and I'm not seeing a Web UI leaderboard that is sometimes shown for the games (or did it move from stats menu now?)

[Terin]

Originally posted by YellowAfterlife:

Originally posted by Terin:

and the highest glory score is 3598, which seems like a 1755 glory mission with that worst possible character.

Thanks! Where are you looking at this? The only thing I've found in-game is the "glorious friends" bit, and I'm not seeing a Web UI leaderboard that is sometimes shown for the games (or did it move from stats menu now?)

There's a "Nearby Scores" tab under there that was just added, so you can get a better sense of the leaderboard as a whole.

[DSpecht]

Originally posted by YellowAfterlife:

Thanks! Now that the trait combinations were mentioned, I did tests for all possible traits and the bonuses are as following:

• Proud and vows: no bonus whatsoever.
  
• Shaky: +7%
  
• Glitch sickness: +12%
  
• Weak: +15%
  
• Blacklisted: +15%
  
• Technophobe: +30%
  
• Frail: +30%
  
• Dying: +30%

Where did you check this? Could you post the effects positive traits have upon the glory score?

[YellowAfterlife]

Originally posted by Terin:

There's a "Nearby Scores" tab under there that was just added, so you can get a better sense of the leaderboard as a whole.

Oh! Thanks

Originally posted by DSpecht:

Originally posted by YellowAfterlife:

Thanks! Now that the trait combinations were mentioned, I did tests for all possible traits and the bonuses are as following:

• Proud and vows: no bonus whatsoever.
  
• Shaky: +7%
  
• Glitch sickness: +12%
  
• Weak: +15%
  
• Blacklisted: +15%
  
• Technophobe: +30%
  
• Frail: +30%
  
• Dying: +30%

Where did you check this? Could you post the effects positive traits have upon the glory score?

I kept rerolling characters until getting only the single trait of interest and then checked the listed bonus for glory missions. All of these are now in this guide under Character Attributes
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1147389049

As far as my own activities go, meet - Angel Horizon, a +87% glory character
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1539680141
I could not get a +90% combination, but also Blacklisted would have generally implied that getting fitting items would be a long grind of looting random ships.

[YellowAfterlife]

According to in-game update log for the beta branch, the game will now take an effort to offer you glory missions that are harder than your personal best, and this seems generally correct. The leaderboard also shows bonus for new scores now.

While there's still rerolling involved, I was able to get the +87% character's (which, based on looks and traits, is probably some character's grandma) best score up to 3673 (1964 without bonus)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1540430416
which puts me at the 1st place (not for long, I bet)

Also I could have as well kept rerolling until getting Blacklisted 'cause I now have maybe 6 hours total played on this character, and still have no self-charging guns nor crash/subverter grenade launchers - hard to knock out 60 guards in a seating when your gun only has 16 charges. At least you can always count on there being a couple of defenders with concussive wide-arc shotguns.

I've seen a 3970 (2122 w/o bonus) mission once, but it was a ghost clause steal mission with inventory lock, autopilot, and 50s time limit.
One of the newer top scores (lukep) is 3298 at 40% bonus so the unscaled max mission glory is no less than 2355 now.

[Terin]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, I never saw any missions generate high than 1.8k with just rerolling. Guess the dying trait is fairly pointless now, since it seems like you have to grind out missions to get higher scores, and you cannot do that with a dying character.

[YellowAfterlife]

Originally posted by Terin:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, I never saw any missions generate high than 1.8k with just rerolling. Guess the dying trait is fairly pointless now, since it seems like you have to grind out missions to get higher scores, and you cannot do that with a dying character.

I've not originally seen any either but the beta branch (game properties - betas - "nextversion") have made them noticeably more common.

I've done a few more missions and personal best is now 4178 (2234 w/o scale)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1540691557
while the highest-scoring mission I've seen is now 4492 (2402 w/o scale)

Maybe it just keeps going on forever now

[Terin]

Originally posted by YellowAfterlife:

I've not originally seen any either but the beta branch (game properties - betas - "nextversion") have made them noticeably more common.

Common on fresh Glory V characters, or common as you continue to climb that ladder?

Maybe it just keeps going on forever now

There are only so many factors that can contribute to glory score. Offworld/Glitcher ships cap out at about 10-12 "segments", and I don't think you get more than 6 guards per segment. I suppose you could have shorter and shorter time limit missions to the point of impossibility, though.