Checkered Flag is a relic obtained from quests.
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| Animals can be rescued up to five minutes before your cooldown actually finishes. Rescuing during this period will reduce your next cooldown by 20 minutes. |
When your cooldown is lower than 5 minutes, trying to rescue an animal will actually rescue it instead of telling you to wait until the end of the cooldown. Additionally, If you rescue while you have a cooldown greater than 0, your next cooldown will be reduced by 20 minutes.
If used optimally, Checkered Flag can give you the equivalent of a 25 minutes cooldown reduction. This is more than most cooldown-reduction relics, but it requires to be constanly looking at your cooldown. As your cooldown isn’t finished when you can rescue, reminders and auto-rescues will not activate in time, forcing you to use other reminders.
Checkered Flag has an unintuitive interaction with Wyvern, as it will activate if the cooldown is at least 1 minute, removing 1 minute for every second past the 1 minute mark. For example, rescuing when your cooldown is still at 10 seconds will remove 50 minutes of cooldown (plus the 20 minutes from Checkered Flag).
It is one of the relics added in the Zoo release, alongside Virtual Machine. This makes it one of the most recent ones, only passed by Mechanic Cap.
Checkered Flag doesn’t have flavour text
hexagon8900 (SweetEiche) equipping Checkered Flag
Firefly getting optimal use of Checkered Flag
Checkered Flag-Wyvern interaction. The animal was rescued with a cooldown of 38 seconds.