Talk:Criminal Ratings in GTA San Andreas

Moar!
Criminal ratings have been around since GTA III, up until GTAVCS. If GTASA has an article on it, why not the rest? - ZS 14:11, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Legitimate Kills
Good advice on how to survive and evade police at the highest wanted level.

But what are "legitimate kills" exactly? I thought I knew what they were, but now I realize I don't. My total kills are 10,367 out of which "legitimate" are 9382. Other people wasted in the world by drowning, police, highways: 1922. Now I have been to a police station or hospital 4 times in total. What makes 985 kills "illegitimate"? Did those all happen in runs that ended in me busted or wasted (4 times)?

-- J7n (talk) 10:17, January 10, 2013 (UTC) 212.142.84.209

Extra explanations that could be added
Hello, this is the first time I'm making a comment in Fandom so tell me if I'm doing something wrong.

Basically this article about criminal ratings in GTA Sa is pretty good, the best source I found when doing my research about the King of SA title. But there one thing you say I think should be better detailed, and it's about destroying hydras from another hydra. I took several attempts to figure out how to pull that 120 pts, and look, I'm not even sure anymore if it's just 120, I could swear I already got one of 150. The big deal to trigger the extra points is not exactly about following the enemy hydra down to the ocean, it's more about the way it lands on the water, when the hydra is flying too close to the surface, shooting it down mean he will just sink, sometimes not even exploding giving you merely 30 pts. But if you manage to make the enemy hydra reach the water with it's nose pointed down, making rougly 90 degrees with the water, it will blow up, and more than once just like a chopper usually does while falling on land, but this time different from the chopper each explosion renders +30 pts. So I already got enemy hydras blowing up 3 times giving me 90 pts, 4 times for 120, and yet to confirm eve some rare cases of 5 exposions for 150 pts, it's pretty random, altough you have a much greater chance of making it land with it's nose pointed down with a average of 120 pts if you destroy it from a high altitude like in the second half of the meter near the max heigh. I hope it helps someone

JoaoHNeuhaus (talk) 06:31, 10 January 2022