Time Attack Thread (Vanilla)

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Mod Note: This thread is to stay strictly on-topic. The following posts are permitted:

- Time submission
- Commenting on a time submission
- Querying about the original posts (rules or related)

Any other post will be deleted, and if persistent, warns will be handed out.


This is the non-sandbox TA topic with updated rules (which may be subject to change). HC players may of course participate.

This is to encourage players to run TA in Normal Mode. Any good effort can be rewarding. It's okay to use that HUmar and see what you can come up with.

While Sandbox is a great option for competition, some of us prefer the 'challenge' of Normal Mode TA with more realistic results.

Rules:

- Must be done on Ephinea Server.
- Please show videos, or pictures that show proof of your completion. Ultimate only. No cheating.
- For quests with no obvious banners/terminals/NPCs indicating clear time or that the quest is cleared, the time displayed after the last enemy has been defeated is the clear time.
- For 2 player games, both players must be in the red and green player slots.
- Having a player leave during a quest is not allowed.
- You cannot spawn the enemies or build PB before you activate the machine in Maximum Attack.
- You have to download the latest patch which fixes the Recon bug (if you have not done so already).

- You cannot modify your status, such as lowering HP, casting SD, poisoning yourself, or building/using PB before the quest.
- You cannot use /PK.
- If clear times vary between clients, the better time will be used.

- Excluded from using for any vanilla TA submissions in this thread are the following items:

  • Clio on HUnewearl, Elenor on fleshies, Devil's & Angel's Wing on androids, Cat & Bunny Ears on males
  • (Event) weapons or Ephinea drop-chart featured weapons that normally don't come with Hit (based on JP drop charts), for example: Hit Lollipop, Hit Izmaela, Hit Raikiri, Hit Huge Battle Fan, Hit Kunai, Hit Daisy Chain, Hit Two Kamui, Hit Girasole, Hit Rambling May (taken from the Easter Event Shop Thread)
  • Event Type weapons with specials, e.g. TypeME/Mechgun 40H Charge
Why these particular items? While the restrictions may seem 'dumb' and 'arbitrary', the item pool uses the normal item properties that were used on the Japanese Sega servers. It's a matter of principle and (potential) comparison. While there may not be many times posted by players from other servers including the old official ones, there are and there may always be runners that draw from the same item pool, simply because that's been the norm. Nobody can guarantee that there be more item changes in the future.

Don't like these rules? Please refer to the Time Attack Thread which features a different set of rules for NM and SB and post your times there.

Although the aspect of competition might be more distinct in Sandbox, it's still rather hypothetical, and I think it should be more about achieving the best times possible. Following this, I don't see why you should not max Hit % to 100 as well.

This thread could be renamed or merged with the other Time Attack Thread, marking times that contain Ephinea modified items rather than having separate topics and keeping players from using their favorite (?) items that they hunted for.

Players often don't want to post videos of their runs for reasons, but if competing players/groups achieve similar times, then I would like to ask for video proof.

It is also generally recommended to display your inventory via the LUA addon (if you are unable to record for some reason). Can still cheat of course, but I guess we're all mature enough to stick to the honor system.

Quests will be added as soon as people start running them. The same applies to player and game mode categories, i.e. one person mode and PB category. Usually, the best 3 times for a quest will be listed.

Note that some of the MU E2 quests and timers were modified before their removal:
MU1, MU2, MU4 + 2 minutes
MU5 + 5 minutes

- Times that were submitted before quest changes will be marked with an asterisk.
- Since using pipes adds 30 seconds to your timer after the first time increase, questionable times will demand video proof.

That is all for now. Despite all the 'drama' and debates, remember to enjoy the game and post your times in either threads. Thank you everyone for your comments; I respect everyone's opinions and updated the main post a little. I personally have more fun to run with and against players that have different gear than I do, but that doesn't mean that I don't SB from time to time as well.


Episode 1

Mop-Up Operation #1
1 player (solomode)
#1) 06"33 remaining - 06/15/18; Ender (FOnewm).

#2) 06"32 remaining - 06/05/18; 16085k (FOnewm).

#3) 06"29 remaining - 06/15/18; Spuz (FOnewm).

#3) 06"29 remaining - 06/15/18; Lileya (FOnewm).

#4) 06"20 remaining - 04/02/19; Roo (RAmar).

#5) 06"18 remaining - 06/04/18; CritDraw (RAmar).

2 players

#1) 06"22 remaining - 03/03/17; Bagarozy (RAmar), Zen (HUcast).

Mop-Up Operation #3
1 player (solomode)
#2) 02"14 remaining - 01/14/20; StevieWonderDownUnder (FOnewm).

#2) 02"08 remaining - 07/10/19; CritDraw (HUcast).

#3) 02"04 remaining - 01/12/20; StevieWonderDownUnder (FOnewm).

2 players
#1) 03"08 remaining - 05/05/18; Ender (HUcast), Straycat (RAmar).

Mop-Up Operation #4
1 player (solomode)
#1) 08"16 remaining - 03/25/20; SWDU (FOnewm).

Maximum Attack 4 Stage 1B
1 player (solomode)
#1) 14"12 remaining - 03/14/19; StevieWonderDownUnder (FOnewm).

Maximum Attack 4 Stage 1C
1 player (solomode)
#1) 13"01 remaining - 03/18/18; Zen (HUcast).

Towards the Future
1 player (solomode)
#1) 08"30 - 05/15/19; CritDraw (HUnewearl).

#2) 08"36 - 05/16/18; CritDraw (HUnewearl).
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#3) 08"43 - 05/08/18; Straycat (RAmar).
TTF Straymar.jpg

#4) 08"48 - 02/27/18; CritDraw (RAmar).
TTF 848.png

#5) 08"57 - 02/26/18; CritDraw (RAmarl).
TTF 857.png

1 player

#1) 10"16 - 10/22/17; CritDraw (RAmar).

#2) 10"30 - 08/08/17; CritDraw (RAmarl).
TTF RAmarl.jpg

#3) 11"09 - 08/06/17; Straycat (HUcast).
TTF Stray.jpg

2 players

#1) 08"32 - 04/24/18; Ender (RAmarl), Straycat (HUcast).
Ender Stray TTF.jpg

#2) 08"49 - 11/26/17; CritDraw (RAmarl), Zen (HUcast).

#3) 09"08 - 19/11/17; Ender (HUnewearl), Roo (Hucast).
TTF Roo What Else.jpg

Christmas Fiasco
4 players
#1) 18"27 remaining (11"33) - 01/06/17; reason (HUcast), Zen (HUcast), CritDraw (RAcast), Bagarozy (FOmar).

#2) 17"57 remaining (12"03) - 12/16/17; reason (HUcast), CritDraw (RAcast), 16085k (FOnewm), sasx (HUcast).
Fiasco 1.jpg

Fake in Yellow
1 player (solomode)
#1) 02"28 - 07/24/17; Ayria (RAmar).
FiY Time.jpg

MAE Forest
4 players
#1) 03"56 - 08/28/17; VENOM (RAmar), gizonde (RAmar), ealonzo (FOnewm), Ayria (RAmar).

1 player (solomode)
#1) 04"10 - 08/16/19; Roo (RAcast).

MAE Cave
4 players
#1) 04"30 - 08/29/17; VENOM (RAcast), ealonzo (FOnewm), CritDraw (HUcast), gizonde (RAcast).

1 player (solomode)
#1) 04"40 - 09/02/19; CritDraw (RAmar).

MAE Mine
1 player (solomode)
#1) 05"10 - 11/19/18; CritDraw (HUcast).

#2) 05"17 - 09/07/19; Roo (RAcast).

4 players
#1) 03"35 - 08/12/19; Ender (HUcast), CritDraw (HUcast), Qi Breaker (HUcast), SWDU (FOnewm).

MAE Ruins
4 players
#1) 03"56 - 08/31/18; Qi Breaker (HUcast), Ender (HUcast), Roo (RAcast), AssButter (FOnewm).

#2) 04"30 - 08/25/17; ealonzo (FOnewm), gizonde (HUcast), CritDraw (HUcast), sasx (HUcast).

Episode 2

Malicious Uprising #1
1 player (solomode)
#1) 08"09 remaining - 10/02/17; Zen (HUcast).

4 players

#1) 08"22* remaining - 01/22/17; Zen (HUcast), Colette (FOmarl), CritDraw (RAcast), Bagarozy (HUcast).
MU1 E2 Time.jpg

Malicious Uprising #2
2 players
#1) 09"53* remaining - 01/31/17; Bagarozy (RAmar), Zen (HUcast).
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Malicious Uprising #3

1 player (solomode)
#1) 03"50 remaining - 10/18/17; Zen (HUcast).

2 players

#1) 05"17* remaining - 02/27/17; Bagarozy (RAmar), Zen (HUcast).
pso131326813600758560.jpg

4 players
#1) 06"03* remaining - 01/22/17; Bagarozy (RAmar), Zen (HUcast), Colette (FOmarl), CritDraw (RAcast).
MU3 E2 Time.jpg

Malicious Uprising #4
4 players
#1) 12"02 remaining - 07/04/17; Straycat (RAcast), VENOM (RAmar), ealonzo (HUcast), DiZzy (RAcast).
MU4 E2 Time Alt.jpg

#2) 09"11* remaining - 01/22/17; Zen (HUcast), CritDraw (RAcast), Bagarozy (RAmar), ToasterMage (FOmarl).
MU4 E2 Time.jpg

Malicious Uprising #5
1 player (solomode)
#1) 11"11 remaining - 10/05/17; Zen (HUcast).

4 players
#1) 09"52* remaining - 01/22/17; Zen (HUcast), CritDraw (RAcast), ToasterMage (FOmarl), Bagarozy (RAmar).
MU5 E2 Time.jpg

Sweep-Up Operation #6

1 player (solomode)
#1) 07"32 remaining - 03/25/20; SWDU (RAcaseal).

Sweep-Up Operation #7
3 players
#1) 06"31 remaining - 04/02/20; Phelix (HUcast), No Hit (HUcast), Yui (FOmarl).

Sweep-Up Operation #8
1 player (solomode)
#1) 04"05 - 03/25/20; SWDU (RAcast).
SU8_4_05.png

Maximum Attack 4 Stage 2A
3 players
#1) 19"06 remaining - 02/15/17; Zen (HUcast), CritDraw (RAcast), Bagarozy (RAmar).
MA42A Time.jpg

Maximum Attack 4 Stage 2B
3 players
#1) 18"31 remaining - 02/01/17; CritDraw (RAcast), Zen (HUcast), Bagarozy (RAmar).
42B 3P Time.jpg

Maximum Attack 2 ver2
2 players
#1) 40"24 remaining - 06/03/18; Zen (HUcast), Bagarozy (RAmar).

#2) 40"09 remaining - 06/15/18; Spuz (HUcast), CAPN (RAmar).

3 players
#3) 39"54 remaining - 02/03/17; Zen (HUcast), Bagarozy (RAmar), ToasterMage (RAmarl).
MA2V2 Time.jpg

Respective Tomorrow
1 player (solomode)
#1) 20"01 - 03/06/19; Esc (RAcast).
Esc RT.png

4 players

#1) 13"58 - 02/02/19; Bagarozy (HUcast), Zen (HUcast), CritDraw (RAmarl), Ender (RAcast).
13 58 R.png

#2) 14"00 - 02/02/19; Bagarozy (HUcast), Zen (HUcast), CritDraw (RAmarl), Ender (RAcast).
RT 1400 Ender.png

#3) 14"03 - 10/05/17; Bagarozy (HUcast), Zen (HUcast), CritDraw (RAmarl), mote (RAcast).
pso131517073508052535.jpg

Phantasmal World 2
1 player (solomode)
#1) 16"22 - 04/07/19; StevieWonderEditYourName (RAcast).

Lost Chaos Calibur
2 players
#1) 22"18 - 02/03/17; Zen (HUcast), Bagarozy (RAmar).
pso131306155939735883.jpg

Raid on Central Tower
4 players
#1) 36"35 remaining - 11/12/17; Promo (FOnewearl), Zen (RAcast), Ayria (RAcast), Bagarozy (RAmar).
ROCT 3635.png

Seabed (Area)
1 player (solomode)
#1) 11"32 - 01/15/17; mote (RAcast).

MAE Temple
4 players
#1) 03"49 - 09/03/17; gizonde (HUcast), ealonzo (HUcast), CritDraw (RAcast), VENOM (RAmar).

MAE Spaceship

4 players
#1) 03"31 - 01/09/19; Ender (HUcast), CritDraw (HUcast), SWDU (RAmarl), Qi Breaker (HUcast).

MAE CCA
1 player (solomode)
#1) 07"57 - 08/29/18; Ender (RAcast).

4 players

#1) 03"08 - 08/21/19; Qi Breaker (HUcast), CritDraw (HUcast), SWDU (RAmarl), Ender (HUcast).

MAE Seabed
1 player (solomode)
#1) 07"09 - 08/27/18; Ender (RAcast).

4 players

#1) 04"49 - 08/30/17; sasx (HUcast), gizonde (HUcast), VENOM (RAmar), CritDraw (RAmarl).

MAE Tower
4 players
#1) 05"34 - 09/07/18; Ender (HUcast), Roo (RAcast), Qi Breaker (HUcast), Gabagool (FOnewm).

Episode 4

New Mop-Up Operation #3
1 player
#1) 02"01 remaining - 05/24/16; Matt (FOnewm).

1 player (solomode)
#1) 08"55 remaining - 03/23/19; Ender (FOnewm).

#2) 08"48 remaining - 01/22/19; Ender (FOnewm).

#3) 08"40 remaining - 01/20/19; Shovel (FOnewm).
Shovel MU3E4.png

#4) 08"31 remaining - 12/12/18; Ender (FOnewm).

Maximum Attack 4 Stage 4C
1 player (solomode)
#1) 16"05 remaining - 11/25/19; Ender (FOnewm).

#2) 14"14 remaining - 09/27/19; Ender (FOnewm).
Ender MA4C.png

MAE Crater
4 players
#1) 04"31 - 08/23/17; gizonde (HUcast), CritDraw (HUcast), VENOM (FOnewm), sasx (HUcast).

MAE Desert
4 players
#1) 03"47 - 08/07/19; SWDU (FOnewm), CritDraw (HUcast), Ender (HUcast), Qi Breaker (HUcast).
 
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I wanna post this TTF with mote and me as Luigi in 10:41 normal mode. It is not flawless yet but... we are working on it. Your thoughts :)??

Classes Fomar and Racast

 
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Bad run anyway
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Ep. 4 One Person Mode: New Mop Up Operation #3: 6:38 remaining - FOnewm

This could be beaten with tryhard merge swapping or knowing when to do bare-handed versus weapon casting (don't know, don't care), but I figured I would get the 1P Mode times started. Do not take my posting this as an indication that I'm interested in TA, nor should you think of beating this time as some sort of "diss" to me. I probably won't even look. Knock yourself out.

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One Person Mode: Episode 4: New Mop-Up Operation # 3: FOnewm: 7:05 remaining. 27 seconds improvement over my previous best. Had some good luck.

Edit: @Bagarozy : Are One Person Mode times not being acknowledged? Like I said in my last post, I'm not a huge TA enthusiast; I've just been running this a lot. However, I couldn't help but notice that my time from several weeks ago wasn't posted. Is this proof not good enough? Look at the drop checker; it's clearly Ultimate.

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I'll kick off the solo TTF section with this not-so-great submission. Falz is kinda annoying.

11"22 - 07/23/17; Straycat (HUcast)
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I reckon it won't be split up for different classes, so I won't bother improving this since RAmar is probably the best.

Cheers.
 
Respective Tomorrow [4 players]
15"05 - 07/23/17; Straycat (RAcast), ealonzo (HUcast), DiZzy (RAcast), Ayria (FOmarl)
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Will improve to 14'40ish when lil b finishes school. For now this is "acceptable."
 
This thread needs more submissions. ;_;

Anyway, tonight I ran a random TTF while waiting for a friend to get online... slight improvement from my previous submission... still not really great, though. Might aim for 10'4X, but not any time soon. Too luck based. >.<

11"09 - 08/06/17; Straycat (HUcast)
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My Dark Flow set (if anybody is wondering):
http://puu.sh/x2S3b/96bcda6de8.jpg

Cheers.
 
Since TA is, for some reason, a volatile subject, unless you are posting a time in thread, commenting on a time or asking a question about the rules (or related) do not post anything here. You will be warned if you post off-topic posts in this thread.

Note that someone asking about the rules is not an invitation to tell people they're idiots for not understanding the rules or thinking the rules should be different, keep that to yourself.

I'm going to clean up the thread to get rid of the drama, then this thread will be strictly on-topic.

EDIT: I ended up just deciding to remove every post that isn't a time submission. You can still comment on any of the times posted again if you wish, but I felt the easiest thing to do to clean up would be to just remove everything. From now on, keep it about times only.
 
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how will you be able to tell if someone used a banned weapon (such as hit girasole) or not? if a screenshot alone is enough
 
how will you be able to tell if someone used a banned weapon (such as hit girasole) or not? if a screenshot alone is enough

I was more or less wondering the same thing. I don't understand why a video of the run isn't required, nowadays with OBS and other similar softwares, it's extremely easy to record footage from a PC game, even one as old as PSO.
 
Nice time. You should not use Me/Mechs (especially on HUcast) even if it wasn't "banned"... The extra ATP doesn't really make a difference and you're losing 2 ATA (iirc) which HUs can feel. Pretty useless weapon-- just stick to CVs.
 
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