If anyone has an account on gamefaqs, please feel free to copy this post onto their forums - as I'm sure there are plenty of gamers out there that want to attain an A rank.DISCLAIMER: Please note that this is completely from memory, so there might be a couple of inaccuracies.First of all, you can only get an A rank if you get 100% completion. To get 100% completion you need to pick up ALL the journal entries for ALL 3 categories:Jack's Diary - 13 entriesGeneral Evidence - 18 entriesMythos Tomes - 6 entriesSee here for more detail:http://callofcthulhu.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1960You also need to find the rifle in the Refinery (it's behind one of the reception office doors), save Ruth from the rafters, and make sure you keep enough sailors alive during the boat ambush. Keeping enough sailors alive isn't actually that difficult, you'll only pile up the casualties if you hide inside the ship like a coward. You will also need to complete the game in under 3 1/2 hours, and make less than 30 manual saves.IMPORTANT: If you make less than 5 saves then you will get a bonus rank, BUT you can't get an A rank unless you have 100% completion. In other words, if you complete the game in less than 5 hours (equivalent to a B rank time), but make less than 5 saves then you can attain an A rank (providing you get 100%).

Bum, i'm seriously getting an -f :CI take it this ranking is also affected by which difficulty you chose?

Aah, so then it is the sailor part that I somehow messed up. Good to know.

Can someone please tell me where I can find the Innsmouth Courier, 19th June 1846?I looked at the innsmoth courier offices and can't locate it.

You seem to keep all your journal entries (and completion rate) on a new game. Does that mean you don't have to pick up documents when starting a new game?

Thanks for the plug on my info thread. If any info is missing please tell me on that thread so I can edit it.

Okay, on hardened detective, I had 13 journal entries, 18 pieces of evidence and 6 mythos texts, 1 save, game time of 3:25:20, 80% HIT, saved 4 sailors other than Winters, saved Ruth, and found the rifle in the refinery. I finished with only 98%. What else is missing. I've finished with 100% on an easier setting but have no idea what I did differently other than have a faster game time this time around.

WOW!

You may have missed something due to a bug like I did the first time through. For me it was using the prison food and blue plant to kill the Cthulhi in the Air-Filled Tunnels, as I never saw him when I got the hammer.

I finally got through the game on Hardened Detective. I got:Mythos Rank - A% Complete - 100%Time - 3:07:09Blood Loss - LightMental Condition - DerangedWeapon Accuracy - 47%Shots Fired - 982Shots Hit - 466Enemy Kills - 137Headshots - 118Saves Made - 5Drug Abuse - CleanI found the rifle, rescued Ruth, saved 3 sailors (+ Winters), and picked up all of the journal items.And I think I finally figured out what I did wrong. Maybe.Because of this bug:http://callofcthulhu.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1982I must have played an earlier save between my sessions of Hardened to check what I might have missed, and then loaded the hardened save without first restarting the Xbox. This may have resulted in the journal having all of the items, but the game dismissing some of them as actually belonging to the other save (and a lower difficulty level).So just to be safe, if you are trying to get 100% on Hardened, don't play multiple games at the same time. Or then keep very careful track of the journal items so that you really have all of them.

Congrats man. You will have to tell us how HD is.

I'm not sure that I'll ever pass 'Mythos Specialist' so if you do (or anyone else does) could you pleeeeeease see your way to helping us less god-like players by noting down and then posting up the dialogue, that way we'll get to find out what happens in the full end sequence : )

If I ever get through it. I managed to plant my first save on the bridge of the Urania and now I'm totally stuck. Those Deep One swarms are ha-ha-hard. B)

Wow, getting there is a triumph in it's self.I wonder what the Polyps are like on Mythos ?

Could any of you A rank players be kind enough to spoil the extra endings for the rest of us???

*** SPOILER SPACE -- DON'T READ *****If I remember correctly the only difference between the standard ending and the A Rank Mythos Specialist Ending is that you find out that one of the Yithians is actually your father.

Okay, I'm trying for an A rank on the Private Investigator setting.I've reached "A Dangerous Voyage" using only AutoSaves, but now it's just getting insanely tough. Is it worth saving for the first time, just after the Waves of Oblivion attack?

Does drug use have any effect on score?I just completed with 100% completion, 4 hours 30 minutes, and 4 saves, and yet *only* got a B.I had casual drug use, which makes me wonder if that is to blame.

So, do your combat statistics (blood loss, accuracy, head shots) have no bearing on your ranking?

Oh, neat, that means I can start using the shotgun againby the way, are you guys aware of the way the shotgun affects the accuracy percentage? It seems to track each pellet (or reasonable digital facsimile thereof) as an individual shot, which causes your accuracy to drop if you don't hit your target with the entire blast (which is nigh-impossible, especially for head shots).Actually, the shotguns in a lot of games do the same thing.Now that I think about it, it would probably be a lot of work programming around it.

This is really annoying... just tried on the 2nd hardest setting (The one before Mythos), 100%, 3 hours 40 minutes, 3 saves... and a B rank... I'm beginning to think I may have a defective copy.

Gah. Hardened Detective, 100% complete, 03:37:12, 5 saves, B rank.Since there's some disagreement as to whether the game requires '5 or less saves' or if its 'less than 5 saves' to bump up to the next rating category, I'm going to try to rework the ending sequences from my fourth save, see if that makes a difference. My ending Mental Condition was Deranged... only other noteworthily low mark on my score sheet that could be penalizing me somehow.Anyone have any clarification for me?

Ok. Ive finished Hardened Detective with a 98% B. I made 4 saves in in 4:14:04 which should get me the bonus.. I know Ive gotten every journal entry and document and read each of em, I got the rifle behind the door at infernery, saved ruth, kept about 4 (other than the main guy) sailors alive on the boat.What the heck are those last two points?! Are you sure you don't have to talk to every person over and over again, hearing all their conversation topics? What could be missing? Do I have to interact with the guy in the lab?EDIT: Wait...I am missing one: The Innsmouth Courier. But still, if I had that, would that have boosted me from 98% to 99%? Do we have to examine every object, get every cut scene to get this right?

I am having the same problem as Seeker and Kojit.Mythos Rank: Rank B% Complete: 100%Time: 3:50:32Blood Loss: MediumMental Condition: DerangedWeapon Accuracy: 48%Shots Fired: 1150Shots Hit: 551Enemy Kills: 165Headshots: 128Saves Made: 4Drug Abuse: CleanI originally had 5 saves and thought that I should disclude it because of the "less than five saves thing" and got 4 saves and beat it but still have only a @#$!!ing B. Any ideas? I like the game but don't really want to go through it all again to unlock that mode.Help!writonwater

Same problem as above:Mythos Rank: Rank B% Complete: 100%Time: 4:25:38Blood Loss: HeavyMental Condition: Nut JobWeapon Accuracy: 30%Shots Fired: 1733Shots Hit: 525Enemy Kills: 193Headshots: 123Saves Made: 3Drug Abuse: CleanBTW: got the rifle, saved Ruth, 3 sailors + the tommy gun one...WtH with this game???? Why I didn't got an A????