How long do they usually take?

The first 2 are about an hour with a competent team.

No idea about the 2nd too, but I think the CoP is about 30 mins.

Apex/Tin mage are about an hour, to an hour and a half.

COP has a time limit of 1 hour--though generally if you can't do it in the first 20-30 mins you're not gonna beat it.

Calvin Scott TF: Calvin Scott, from the Resistance? I wasn't aware there *was* one. Is this from beta?

Nah, it's an old one from I1-4 I think to free Sister Psyche from... umm, the other one. They removed it and added Sister Psyche's TF and in I19 added it to Ouro.

Maybe I've always had exceptional teams, but those two have never taken more than 40 minutes. One hour and a half would fall into "sucktastic team" for me.

No, Calvin Scott from Primal Earth. It's an old TF from a long time ago that was removed from the game but in I19 it was added back in as an Ouroborus flashback. I've no clue how long it takes but reading the mission list I would guess about 1 to 1.5 hours depending on whether you stealth based on TFs with similar mission structures. It's got two kill alls, 3 kill boss and a couple of hunt and fed ex missions.
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Old_Ca...orce/Flashback

Incorrect!

Added i3 actually, removed in Issue 4. At the same time, we had the "Sister Psyche" character there renamed Aurora Borealis, made into a Trainer; Mailise - Sister P's sidekick, ran off (troubled guy); Sister P started standing on her own two feet

Sister Psyche's TF has been in the game the whole time.

The Calvin Scott TF centers around Calvin wanting his wife, Aurora Borealis, back as herself, not as a (in Primal Earth) willing host for Sister P.

Lol, I had the right idea, just got all the facts wrong....

After 3.5 hours, our Apex TF team the other night gave up. It was pretty demoralizing, considering most of us are seven-year vets playing with purpled builds, and equipped with uncommon boosts.

Tin Mage and Apex do run about an hour, some do them faster, and I have done 1 COP.. it does have an hour time limit but we were finished in around 30 minutes so I'd guess that's about average.

Calvin Scott is an older TF that is now available again through the Ouro Portal like the old Posi TF. I hav yet to try it so I have no idea how long it would take.

Guess I ran into some "sucktastic" teams on the first couple days of i19 release.

Ah, I see. I've done the Ouro tf's, I just never really thought about the contacts names. I figured Calvin Scott was praetorian only.

It's not actually an Ouro TF, it just appears in the list of available Flashback missions as a story arc (similar to what they did with the old Positron TF when the new one was released).

Oh! Hmm, good to know, thanks. I guess this means I haven't done it yet. I'll have to look that one up. What is the level range?

*Presumably* willing host.

Seems odd that the willing host never manifests itself to tell her husband to knock it off with all that Resistance stuff.


Back to Primal Calvin Scott: The TF has been arc-ified. Namely, the final AV is now an EB so that soloists can do it. It's like any other arc now and very much made in the image of legacy City of Hero content in that there's nothing mechanically special and you get to go a random far-flung zone which each mission.

Your forgetting about the rad souvenir you receive at the end!