This new Street Assault feature "Inferno" that has recently rolled out can be very useful, if a team knows how to use it. I have put together a little walk-through as to what it is exactly and how everything is factored in.
First off, what is inferno? Street Assault inferno is this little fiery aura around the SA icon. It lasts for an hour and occurs every 6 hours. The start times are as follows:
9:30 am EST
3:30 pm
9:30 pm
3:30 am
Now- when should you declare? If you declare before the start time of 9:30, you will not get an inferno match. You have to declare within the given time frame in order for an inferno match to occur.
What exactly is this "inferno"? The inferno is an added bonus of 10% at the end of a match. That's it. Whatever points you put up during an inferno match, you will receive a 10% bump in points.
So that's the easy part.. but what about those other numbers on the second points screen? There are multiple factors that play into a battle's final points at the end of a match, inferno is only one of them. Except these other factors now apply to all battles, regardless of inferno.
The first factor: Your final rank in a single battle. The bonuses you will receive are:
1st place = 7% bonus
2nd place = 3% bonus
3rd place = No bonus
The second factor: The number of nodes won in a single battle. The bonuses of which being:
7 nodes = 15% bonus
6 nodes = 10%
5 nodes = 5%
4 nodes = 2%
3 nodes = 2%
2 nodes = 1%
1 nodes = 1%
0 nodes = No bonus
There will only ever be 7 nodes in a single battle from now on- 5 normal nodes and 2 skirmishes. Skirmishes last from anywhere between 5 and 8 minutes- the time in which they're open and the times at which they appear still seem to be pretty random.
Now, knowing this, you can try and do the math to check to see if the bonuses actually add up, but you won't get the exact number that you jumped up on the leaderboard. There's one simple reason to this: lag. GREE servers don't take into account some of the points you put up at the end of the battle, so if you decide to blitz the last minute- it won't show your total points.
To get the total number of points you made in a battle, take the total points from the first screenshot and multiply it by the multipliers on the second screenshot, and you will get your total points.
Winning Hotspots:
Do you know how, when a hotspot pops up, it says that the minimum # of points to win the hotspot is either 150k or 450k? Do you actually need to put up these amount of points to win the hotspot for bonus at end? The answer to that question is... NO!
Some people would have also noticed that if two teams are fighting for the hotspot, and there is a clear winner, yet both teams get the pop-up saying "they won the hotspot" and they get the chopper reward for it. That's because if you put the minimum number of points it says on the hotspot, regardless if that node is your color at the end or not, you will still get the chopper reward.
But whatever color that node is at the end, is getting the bonus % for it at the end, even if you win it with 1 deploy. The minimum # is only for the chopper reward (so completely useless).
I will update as I discover new things having to do with this new inferno, but this is pretty much the run-down of what I could gather so far. What you and your team do with this information: is up to you.
Good luck!
Originally Posted by murf
