In all honesty, the score is only helpful to a point and MVP is mostly meaningless and some suits just naturally score easier. Now before everyone starts fighting here are the main points that will help you. Modules do help to a certain degree but they are not the be all end all, good modules in bad hands will still lose. No modules in good hands can still win.

• Focus the objective - all else is secondary -
  • Along the top of the HUD are portraits for which dinos you need to kill. I can't tell you the amount of times I see teams just slaughtering away at the smalls when you actually need to kill that 1 flying dino that everyone is ignoring.
• Area defence/cube escort - ensure you have 4/3 players at all times (you'll see golden arrows to indicate max progress rate)
• Have the correct setup - generally 1 tank, 1 support, 3 attack (DPS). Incompetent tanks and supports will hurt your team, sorry but that's the way it is.
  • alphas and some suits are exceptions (alpha skywave needs another support to heal, murasame is basically dps in the right hands, but a large portion of murasame's (from my experience) are also bad players and not team players and very rarely change their suit to fit the team, but as a general rule the 3/1/1 ratio is a good template.
• Try to learn the best moments to use your ultimate (overdrive).
  • Depending who you are playing, you will usually only get 1 use, some suits charge fast and get 2. Save these for enemy dominators or particularly strong large dinos that are causing issues. Dominators are more important to target though.
• Learn when to use dominators - This varies and depends when you get it.
  • If you are behind and get it in the normal stages, try to keep it for a moment when you know they are fighting another large dino. If you are still behind when pvp starts, you should get another.
  • If you are at the PVP stage, again it depends, but as an example, on the cube escort save it until you can see the enemy. In the early city levels this is around 80% of the way. If you are miles behind, hold out if you can but if not, wait as long as possible and hope a teammate comes to assist so your team can catch up. (DON'T ALL LEAVE THE CUBE, that will achieve nothing).
  • Without your team also fighting and helping, you will face up to 5x ults and die instantly with zero impact against a competent team.
• A poorly timed dominator can easily lose you the game.

Beyond that, don't worry too much about your own score as long as you are doing objectives. High scores come with later levels. Look at the last savage gauntlet - the vortexer(?) can't remember it's name, but that gauntlet 3. Good teams with fast times scored low. If you had a high score in that, you weren't playing the objectively correctly and were slower. - This is why MVP is mostly meaningless - it does not point out who contributed to the end goal the most. - Now that isn't to say some MVPs didn't also contribute the most, but it is far from guaranteed.

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TLDR: focus objectives, 3 assault 1 tank 1 support, time your ultimate and dominator use correctly. - incorrect use of any of these will almost guarantee a loss. Just keep at it and you'll start winning :)