The Great ITF Challenge!

I've decided to put out a challege to you 1337 players out there.

Challege: ITF in 17 min or less

Prize: 120 mil inf.

kthxbaigo!

rulez
Must be team of 8
Must list names of members
screen shot or it didn't happen
triumph only

D: Think my best time is like 22 or 23 mins, but I've never been on a team trying to get the bestest time, we were just speeding. Could maybe do 17 if ebs were in the front for laghill, and maybe if 2 people went off and cleared towers while the other 6 p0wned rommy on the last mishy. I'm down to try later today.

I'm sure u guys can do it if you're trying. I've seen 18 mins done somewhere out in the forums.

I'd be really impressed if you guys can do it in under 15 min. 10 would be sick!

I think you'd have to park someone at the contact and have like 4 people free the sybils while 1 camps out at the door. then have them jump up and team tp to sister.

crystal cave u'd have everyone spread out and each take a crystal. the more people that can solo a crystal the faster you can go.

i think same deal with third mish. You'd have half team kill generals and half kill computer/AVs.

I wonder how it would go with 8 softcapped scrappers?

mojo, go duplicate urself 8 times, kgo

Damn if only I had enough time!

and 8 accounts :-p

So..Leo tells me the fastest time he got was 23 min.

I guess the great ITF challenge is fail?

with lag and having to have things set up just right, i do not see too many people breaking the 20 minute mark. I think anything under 30 is outstanding in it's own.
I wouldn't mind seeing people who knock out some sub 25 minute ones. If you make this challenge across all servers, you might see more responces. maybe a catchy name like the "100 million infamy under 17 minute challenge or something. you can always jump servers and deliver money then jump back before 1 march.

I'm guessing a team of 8 fire/rad trollers could do it, with practice and Team TP. I was on a teaming effort that ran such groups a few years ago. Some of the alumni from that (not me) won an STF race with these tactics a while back. I recall they took the Patron AVs all at once.

8xAM ought to pretty much meet everybody's endurance needs for nonstop attacks. These would be synchronized and with eight, it's permanent. (It takes a little bit of practice to get AM synched up, but it's not too bad. With just recharge DOs in it, 6 synched AMs are permanent. You can afford to slip one if someone dies and it isn't recharged yet. Just have 'em hold for next time.)

8xhot feet with AM's damage buff, plus a few procs in that and in choking cloud (The procs being optional. Nice to have but probably overkill with all the rest of the damage.)

8xchoking cloud should mez most Romans before they can shout it out

32 imps are going to pump out plenty of damage even with the pet recharge nerf (My fire/rad teaming experience predates that so I can't say how much difference it makes with so many imps. damage auras, and the like still running.)

I'm not sure what the numbers are but 8 instances of controller maneuvers should either soft cap or some close to it. If 8 AMs doesn't damage cap you (can't remember) then 8 copies of Assault should more than fill the gap. Those toggles might sound like a heavy load, but I know from experience that with 8 AMs you can pull this off and skip stamina without much noticing. Putting radiant aura on auto will fix any damage that gets through. (The leader of our superteam used to have a bind to remind people to spam the heals.)

Standard procedure would be to Team TP everywhere, just skipping through spawns you don't need to fight. (Soft capping and all that healing should make anything short of the crystal ambushes trivial to blip through Don't fight what you don't have to, of course.) Rock the aura and spam fire cages and maybe one other AoE. (We used to use flashfire a lot, but cinders for extra lockdown or fireball/psi tornado from the epics were popular too). Two or three casts on top of the imps and hot feet should do it for anything short of an AV. There you have 8x lingering radiation, enervating field, and rad infection.

The main risks would be everyone faceplanting during Rom's rezzes (not likely with a good Team TP driver to break line of sight) or during the crystal explosions. If those are auto-hit, you're hosed. Regrouping and coming back would kill the time. If not it's just a matter of timing the heals well and having Mutation ready (Vengeance too being nice) if someone gets a big face full of death.

I don't know if the team could bust 20, but it would certainly be crazy fast. For a hair more protection, replace one fire/rad with a fire/forcefields for a hair more defense and mez protection. Everything except the driving, and the ability to do so in the caves, is fairly straightforward and should be consistent across multiple runs. Unless I've missed something crashingly obvious, which I probably have.

With challenges like this it brings attention to things that the devs like to nerf. Come on guys I like the ITF as is. Why should we be challenging bad things to happen?

that's true. but i've seen several posts on the forum bragging 18 min itfs with screen shots, etc.

i dunno. I figure we have people that have the chops to match anything the 1337 folks are doing on other servers. just wanted to brag about it.

I think people don't care enough to do it tho, so I doubt it will be accomplished

I'll still try it, and not for the inf. Like I said I've done a few 22-23 min ones, I'd at least like to break 20.

I had a pic of an 18ish min ITF on my old comp. Too bad the big tamaki-shrak ate it

we did it in 23 mins, and I can not find the screenie, it may have been given to the delete gods when I was cleaning up the drive but I will keep looking for it.

ok I found the 29 min one still looking for the other one.

All these speeders will ruin the merit rewards in the future. :<

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^haha I remember that.

pot is to small to waste my time... personal record of 26:50 with some PE, DG, and friends back when it was fresh