Arcade affiliation

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MultipleMan98
MultipleMan98 Posts: 62 Match Maker
in MPQ General Discussion
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?

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  • samael64
    samael64 Posts: 77 Match Maker
    edited October 2022
    3 star  and 4 star Cap also have the Arcade affiliation. 
  • Captain_Trips88
    Captain_Trips88 Posts: 268 Mover and Shaker
    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
    bigjojo04 Posts: 421 Mover and Shaker
    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
    slidecage Posts: 3,607 Chairperson of the Boards
    if those are the only ones we can use  this event going to be hard for me  
  • Xception81
    Xception81 Posts: 431 Mover and Shaker
    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
    a_girlboss Posts: 6 Just Dropped In
    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
    Bad Posts: 3,146 Chairperson of the Boards
    Arcade as a 3* and 5* character ideally should make good use of these affiliations, given that the trap meta is weak.
  • WilliamK1983
    WilliamK1983 Posts: 1,160 Chairperson of the Boards
    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
    Omegased Posts: 622 Critical Contributor
    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
    MadScientist Posts: 317 Mover and Shaker
    I suspect that they replaced the affiliations to be able to use the existing Civil War Boss Code and "just" reskin it.
  • WilliamK1983
    WilliamK1983 Posts: 1,160 Chairperson of the Boards
    Omegased said:
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    You gotta assume it was a whoopsie right? My guess is there's nothing extra there.
    Yea, I'm leaning that way.  
  • samael64
    samael64 Posts: 77 Match Maker
    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
    Bad Posts: 3,146 Chairperson of the Boards
    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
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,258 Chairperson of the Boards
    I wonder if this means Civil War might get retired.
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    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
    Daniel2121 Posts: 280 Mover and Shaker
    edited October 2022
    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)

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