Arcade affiliation

MultipleMan98

So I was championing my area and realised he had a new affiliation called "arcade" and saw other 2 stars like cap and storm have it too. Maybe only certain characters can be used for the new boss event?

samael64

3 star  and 4 star Cap also have the Arcade affiliation. 

WilliamK1983

Went through each tier, character by character checking affiliations.  If the next boss event is a limited roster event, it's a nice group available.  Here's everyone with the Arcade affiliation:

1* - Black Widow, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Storm

2* - Ares, Black Widow, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, Human Torch, Bag-Man, Storm

3* - Black Panther, Black Widow, Blade, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Daredevil, Elektra, Gamora, Hawkeye, Human Torch, Iron Fist, Iron Man, Kamala Khan, Luke Cage, Quicksilver, Ragnarok, Rocket & Groot, Sam Wilson, Scarlet Witch, Sentry, She-Hulk, Spider-Man, Squirrel Girl, Star-Lord, Storm, The Hulk, The Punisher, Vision

4* - Agent Coulson, Ant-Man, Black Panther, Black Widow, Blade, Cap Worthy, Captain Marvel, Cloak & Dagger, Devil Dino, Drax, Elektra, Ghost Rider, Howard The Duck, Hulkling, Invisible Woman, Iron Fist, Hulkbuster, Kate Bishop, Luke Cage, Maria Hill, Miles Morales, Misty Knight, Mr. Fantastic, Nick Fury, Nova, Peggy Carter, Quake, Red Hulk, Riri Williams, Sam Wilson, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man IW, Spider-Woman, Star-Lord, The Hulk TA, The Punisher, The Thing, Thor, War Machine, Wasp, Wiccan, Winter Soldier

5* - Black Bolt, Black Panther, Black Widow, Captain America(First Avenger and Infinity War), Daredevil, Deadpool, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Jessica Jones, Okoye, Scarlet Witch, Shang-Chi, She-Hulk, Silver Surfer, Spider-Man(Back in Black and Peter Parker)

The most interesting thing I found while going through them all had nothing to do with the affiliations.  I noticed that 5* Black Panther had his sub-name changed.  It was Civil War, but now it's Murderworld.  I'm not even going to attempt to make sense of it, just gonna wait for the next affiliations update and hopefully get an explanation then.

Captain_Trips88

My guess would be those are the characters we will find ourselves fighting against in the alliance event and the affiliations are a way for the game to easily pull the characters together to set up the nodes. 

bigjojo04

I noticed that name change for Black Panther earlier today too. I thought it was really strange as well, I’d certainly love to hear the explanation on that too. 

slidecage

if those are the only ones we can use  this event going to be hard for me  

Xception81

Personally, I’m betting the first time they run a new boss event will not be a heroic. They’ll let us use everyone. But that might just be wishful thinking. 

a_girlboss

All characters that now have the Arcade affiliation used to have the Team Cap or Team Iron Man affiliation. I think, like the Black Panther (Murderworld) title, that it's just a mistake to be fixed soon? The Boss Event's live, and I don't think there's anything involving this new Arcade affiliation.

Bad

Arcade as a 3* and 5* character ideally should make good use of these affiliations, given that the trap meta is weak.

WilliamK1983

a_girlboss said:

All characters that now have the Arcade affiliation used to have the Team Cap or Team Iron Man affiliation. I think, like the Black Panther (Murderworld) title, that it's just a mistake to be fixed soon? The Boss Event's live, and I don't think there's anything involving this new Arcade affiliation.

Nice catch with arcade replacing team cap/iron man affiliation, can't believe I didn't notice those were gone.  Especially since I checked every single character 🤦‍♂️

I still don't know what to make about 5* BP having his subname changed, was hoping for an answer or update by now.  Hopefully some time this week.  

Omegased

WilliamK1983 said:

I still don't know what to make about 5* BP having his subname changed, was hoping for an answer or update by now.  Hopefully some time this week.  

You gotta assume it was a whoopsie right? My guess is there's nothing extra there.

MadScientist

I suspect that they replaced the affiliations to be able to use the existing Civil War Boss Code and "just" reskin it.

WilliamK1983

Omegased said:

WilliamK1983 said:

I still don't know what to make about 5* BP having his subname changed, was hoping for an answer or update by now.  Hopefully some time this week.  

You gotta assume it was a whoopsie right? My guess is there's nothing extra there.

Yea, I'm leaning that way.  

samael64

They've said before that there are a number of items which are interconnected in the code in unexpected ways. The affiliations and BP's sub-name are all probably connected directly to the underlying code for Civil War and as MadScientist suggested re-using the Civil War code for the Arcade/Murderworld event caused the name changes. Likely isn't "fixable" without either re-coding the event or undoing the Arcade overlay.

Bad

However in the same way that there is a wolverine murder world costume, there could be another reasons for the affiliation.
Until arcade's release the mystery will remain.

DAZ0273

I wonder if this means Civil War might get retired.

Bowgentle

DAZ0273 said:

I wonder if this means Civil War might get retired.

With the feedback from non-line users how complicated this is, Murderworld probably will be retired after the inevitable second run next month, too.

Daniel2121

I wonder if this does mean that FA Cap and Mark XLVI IM will have a remake soon. Because, as you know, these two have skills which relied on teammates with the Team Cap and Team Iron Man affiliation.

I, for one, would really, really like a remake for Mark XLVI (one of the worst 5*s in the game for a long while now)