There’s quite a lot of common gear in the game, so what’s described below will focus more on general tendencies rather than something that appears 100% of the time.

Corporation Categories

Hexarchs — cannot wage war against each other.

Minors — can be used as proxies if you’ve unlocked the corresponding module.

Quasi-corps — become friendly within their bramfatura and during their missions if u have 100 reputation.

Others — nothing specific to say yet.

Damage Types and Equipment

In my opinion, faction damage types are more important for early risk assessment than faction armor, since armor pieces are often mixed with general ones, and a single boot doesn’t significantly raise your resistances.

If a corporation uses weapons of a certain type, you’ll encounter that damage type in about 99% of contracts against them.

Among general weapons, shotguns and pistols are the most common; there are a few rifles, and I’ve seen beam pistols as well.

Contract Difficulty Estimation

When estimating contract difficulty, it’s better to focus on concentration.
Skulls act mainly as a multiplier for concentration, but the base value of that multiplier differs between corporations.

A very approximate estimate:
50 concentration ≈ 1 unit
(with unit value ranging roughly from 15 to 150).


This is based on memory and the information available from corporation levels in the game.
If you have suggestions or spot inaccuracies — feel free to comment, and we’ll see what can be improved.

Armor and damage are physical. From tier 4, a grenade launcher appears. Several weapons have laser sights (accuracy = 95% within range).
High-tier armor, in addition to physical protection, also provides resistance to electricity and fire.
Among enemies, you will encounter military robots, and occasionally units(both robots and humans) with ABC (heavy machine-gun arm).

Uses ultrasonic weapons (blunt + suppressive fire), electric weapons from tier 2, beam weapons from tier 4, and entropic weapons from tier 7.
Corporate armor is light and can mostly be ignored, but it consistently lacks resistance to blunt damage.
Have a lot of robots on missions.

Primary damage until tier 5 is physical.
From tier 5, poison explosives; from tier 6 — poison saws and penetrating explosive rounds; from tier 9 — electric cannon.
The best corpo-armor among tier 4 protects against physical, poison , and electric damage.
Top-tier armor protects against everything except toxin and electricity.
One of the more meat-heavy corporations (cheaper spawn units); missions often feature drones with noticeable evasion.

Uses beam and electromagnetic weapons (penetrating + armor-piercing).
From tech tier 5, plasma damage is added.
Tier-3 faction armor has no protection against blunt; other sets are distributed across resistances to physical, toxic, electric, and beam damage.
Have sexrobots on missions.

Up to tier 5, all weapons deal physical damage.
At tier 5, SMGs with cryo rounds are added; tier 6 brings sniper rifles and low-spread shotguns with flechettes (armor penetration + higher injury chance).
At tier 7, entropic weapons are added (combo fire + cold, wounds increase damage).
Corporate armor ranges from medium to light, it becomes weaker with higher tech, but provides slighly more dodge/
Some AnCom units have higher vision, allowing them to use sniper rifles effectively.

From the start, units have poison and almost all weapons are corrosive (strongly damages armor). Cold damage appears from tier 3.
Armor up to tier 6 has no resistance to piercing, fire, or beam damage; tier 6 gains resistance to fire and electricity, same as Vivisection at tier 9.
Some units have increased base poison resistance, and many test subjects have significantly higher HP (they also benefit from Q-meter).

The only native blunt weapon is their starter SMG and there's a lot of pierce weapons; at tier 5 comes an RPG.
Notably, Trigger Special a tier 6 weapon with high damage and basic armor-piercing/incendiary rounds (likely a one-shot at effective range).
At tier 9 appears the Thermostat (fire).
Their armor is unusual: tier 1 has no resistance to slashing, next two tiers lack piercing resistance, then no slashing again, and finally — frame-stub armor.

Lots of saws and nails (with armor penetration).
From tier 2, a flamethrower is available; tier 3 adds a beam whip (not a great weapon, but with zero resistance it can cause serious damage).
Tier 4 has a plasma shotgun, and tier 8 — plasma machine gun with prism.
Early corporate armors have no resistance to slashing or electricity; final Gehenna armor only no electricity resists.

Lots of physical weapons. Tier 2 batons apply shock despite dealing blunt.
Tier 3 introduces shock SMGs.
Native piercing weapons appear only at tiers 6 and 9; slashing only at tier 4. But these whole technology stuff is often messed by “pirate”-inmates units.
Corporate armor provides good physical protection, but most enemies are pirates wearing pirate armor; also they cortex bombs with noticeable damage.

Uses shotguns; tier 2 introduces beam weapons, tier 4 — first plasmagun, tier 8 — multi-shot RPG.
Tier 5 armor has no protection against blunt, cold, or electric damage; tier 9 armor protects only against cold and electricity.
(Notably, they only have two corporate armor sets.)

Lots of electromagnetic weapons with fixed damage and armor penetration.
Tier 4 includes an electric machine gun often used by robots.
Tier 5 introduces a 9mm pistol, followed by SMGs and machine guns using 9mm (damage type: blunt).
Some levels feature a fire turret.
Corporate armor up to tier 5 has no resistance to piercing, while the heavy armor (currently not spawning) has no resistance to poison or beam and has the highest total armor so far.

Has a fire mace (blunt+ incendiary), but mainly uses shotguns.
Tier 4 introduces plasma and weapon with 7.97(pen dmg); especially notable is Penance — high plasma damage + armor penetration.
Tier 8 includes a multi-shot RPG.
They have three types of incendiary grenades.
Corporate armors only two: one is simple clothing, the other is a power armor with no resistance to poison, shock, or beam damage.

A meat-heavy faction with decent armor protecting against physical and fire damage.
Weapons include physical attacks, saws, and a flamethrower from tier 3; from tier 5 — plasmaguns and grenade/rocket launchers.
More advanced armor has no resistance to blunt. The best armor protects against everything except cold, poison, and electricity.

Pure physical damage with some explosives.
Armor is highly varied and spread across almost all protection types.

The difference between them during missions lies mainly in the ratio of unit types.
On their missions, besides regular venus bramfatura members, you’ll encounter possessed units, fatties (explode in a 2-tile radius with blunt damage), and centaurs.

Missions against them feature a notable number of possessed who, to the extent of their abilities, combine RealWear gear with quasi elements — along with bramfatura representatives.