It's taken me a while to update all the character affiliations but I finally finished. I did it all by hand so there's a better than slim chance I made at least one mistake, so please let me know if you think I missed or messed up any. But now that I'm finished, I figured I'd give out some awards:
The Katy Perry Award For certain distinguished characters, they're hot and they're cold, they're yes and they're no, they're in and they're out, they're heroes AND they're Villains: 5* Archangel 4* Morbius 4* Nebula 4* Mysterio 4* Talos
The Nobody Wants to Be Associated with Me Award These poor souls have the least affiliations, bagging only 2 each: 4* Namora (Heroes and Non-humans) 2* Moonstone (Villains and Dark Avengers)
The FOMO Award Clocking in at 8 affiliations each: 1* Black Widow (Heroes, Enhanced, Avengers, Team Iron Man, A-Force, Thunderbolts, Champions, Red Room) 1* Venom (Enhanced, Villains, Team Iron Man, Spider-Verse, Thunderbolts, Dark Avengers, H.A.M.M.E.R., Symbiotes)
The Table for One Award These affiliations have exactly one character in the entire game assigned to each of them: The Hand (4* Elektra) Darkforce (4* Cloak & Dagger) Maggia (4* Kingpin)
The Least Selective Team Award The team affiliation with the most members: Avengers with 80 (note Heroes and Enhanced had more affiliations but neither are considered teams)
The Civil War Award The team with the most members of the two well know quarrelers: Team Cap 73 vs Team Iron Man 50
The Rob Zombie More Human Than Human Award To affiliations with the word human in them: Non-human: 47 Inhuman: 7 Non-humanoids: 5
There are now 56 different affiliations in the game by the latest numbers, the full list is below. Happy New Year!
Total Affiliation 216 Heroes 96 Enhanced 80 Avengers 73 Team Cap 72 Villains 61 Mutants 50 Team Iron Man 49 X-Men 47 Non-humans 37 Street Level 34 Geniuses 31 Godlike 30 Technologists 26 A-Force 25 Cosmic 23 Supernatural 22 Defenders 22 S.H.I.E.L.D. 21 Spider-Verse 20 Multiversal 15 Thunderbolts 14 Sinister Six 13 Illuminati 13 Weapon X 12 Guardians of the Galaxy 12 Mercenaries 10 Asgardian 10 Champions 10 Gamma Mutates 9 Dark Avengers 9 Excalibur 9 Red Room 8 H.A.M.M.E.R. 8 Time Displaced 7 Brotherhood 7 Inhumans 7 Symbiotes 6 Fantastic Four 6 Wakanda 5 Midnight Sons 5 Non-humanoids 5 Pym Tech 4 Duos 4 Eternals 4 Heroes for Hire 4 Phoenix Force 4 Secret Warriors 4 Synthetic 4 Young Avengers 3 Runaways 2 Alpha Flight 2 Lightforce 2 S.W.O.R.D. 1 Darkforce 1 Maggia 1 The Hand
This is gold. Thanks for all your work.
Where are these updated at? Is there a google sheet or something?
Can we add this to the FAQ page as well?
I was wondering if the PVE goons also have full affiliations, but I don't think it can be seen somewhere. For example, I'd guess that the Thugs and Muscles will also have the Maggia affiliation. But will they also be "Villains" or maybe "Street level"?
There are supports and powers that target goons or specific goons by name. Spider-Ham specifically stuns all enemy Minions, so we know all of them got "Minion" tag. Then, we have support that targets H.A.M.M.E.R. We also have supports thay target Villians by dealing extra damage to them. So, you can test out to see if all Minions take additional damage from such supports. If they do, we know they have Minions and Villians tag.
@HoundofShadow said: There are supports and powers that target goons or specific goons by name. Spider-Ham specifically stuns all enemy Minions, so we know all of them got "Minion" tag. Then, we have support that targets H.A.M.M.E.R. We also have supports thay target Villians by dealing extra damage to them. So, you can test out to see if all Minions take additional damage from such supports. If they do, we know they have Minions and Villians tag.
Yeah, there is some extent to which this can be tested by players. But that information should be available somewhere, preferably in-game. On the character/minion cards and/or in a new character encyclopedia in-game somewhere.
Probably goons pose virtually zero threats, unless players overestimate their abilities to beat them. One interesting thing to test out is whether Deathlok affects Sentry Fighters and gang. If Deathlok reduces their aps passively, it could mean that the dev is updating their tags as well. And they probably reveal it along with Supports.
it would be kind of cool if there were a Pokedex of sorts where you could go and look at all the character profiles and affiliations, even for unplayables like Gorgon etc.
Still not sure to this day why Gorgon never got released. Although he is more like a 4* to be honest.
@DAZ0273 said: Still not sure to this day why Gorgon never got released. Although he is more like a 4* to be honest.
He is a 4*! There's some way to see his character card in game... somewhere. I forgot. But he's so old now that he'd be one of the worst at that tier.
I don't know why we never got him. When we used to ask, the response we got was something like "he's too good for players to use" which...wasn't even true back then! If they released him now they'd have to buff him, which we probably don't want.
Pve screen where you hit "replay mission" shows the stars for characters.
@HoundofShadow said: Probably goons pose virtually zero threats, unless players overestimate their abilities to beat them. One interesting thing to test out is whether Deathlok affects Sentry Fighters and gang. If Deathlok reduces their aps passively, it could mean that the dev is updating their tags as well. And they probably reveal it along with Supports.
This totally depends on how far the player has advanced their roster. A 2*-3* transitioner can have a hard time against goon teams, and a bonus (or weakness) against an affiliation can make quite the difference.