How does investigation bonus work?

[Gustavo Fring]

Sometimes i get $125 sometimes $185

[Sif]

Still nobody knows

[Shurenai]

It's simple; Correctly identify the ghost and escape alive, you get investigation bonus. The investigation bonus multiplies the value of your completed objectives by 2 iirc.

So if you don't do all the objectives, you'll get less. Bare minimum is identify the ghost, but the 3 optional objectives contribute to the value of investigation bonus too.

There's also a perfect investigation bonus, which is for completing all objectives, identiftying the ghost correctly, getting 10 3 star photos of any mix of types, and finding the bone, which provides even more money.

[thrythlind]

As Shurenai said, each objective adds itself twice, once for it's own sake and once to the Investigation bonus.

[SpellSword0]

As far as I can tell, besides everything Shurenai said which is true, a perfect investigation nets you an extra 50 bucks. Least that's how its been in my experience. If anyone can offer any insight to the contrary that'd be great.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by SpellSword0:

As far as I can tell, besides everything Shurenai said which is true, a perfect investigation nets you an extra 50 bucks. Least that's how its been in my experience. If anyone can offer any insight to the contrary that'd be great.

Iirc, A perfect investigation basically adds an extra objective worth $10 to the board; Which is then multiplied by your difficulty.

So, A perfect investigation on 15x would net you 10x15=$150 and 150 exp extra. Worth going for when it's convenient to, but not really worth stressing over... Usually the bone will be the make-or-break on a perfect investigation.

On medium or large maps you are unlikely to just find the bone, and it's not worth scouring the map to find it on those difficulties either as far as money and exp per time goes. but on small maps finding the bone is easy and nets you one of your ten photos too; And generally just attempting to get a perfect investigation nets you much more money and exp even if you dont get it- Since you'll have a full/mostly full photo book, possibly the bone, and all the objectives.