Discussion: The Animal Pack is now available!

Now, maybe its because I haven't been in the character creation tool much recently or because I merely overlooked it... but I am glad (thrilled even) that the dev team has applied the combat/non-combat option to aura selection with some (if not all) of the auras. I'm doubly pleased that they have also taken steps toward asymmetrical costume design with some of their auras.

Please, please come up with a way to select both combat and non-combat auras on a single toon (so it auto-switches between the two) and please extend the asymmetrical design to normal costume pieces.

I realize it would mean retooling the costume creator AI but in the long run, I think it would be well worth it.

*I'm pretty sure I've seen the aura combat preference before now... but this is the first that I've noticed of the left/right placement options; did it come out with this pack?

Trying to buy it again this morning, fully 24 hours after I first tried. Still the same damn error message. NCSoft is just really desperate to not have my money, apparently.

My character Chymerai can finally have the paws I've wanted for it, and can move like I've always envisioned it moving with Beast Run

My character Heroic Harpy can finally have actual bird feet rather than 'make do' Monsterous Reptile feet.

The Warshade toon Cosmic Coyote was born

My Werewolf Gunslinger character was born.

All just since the pack came out. This one is easily my favorite pack. While I would have loved to see more (always want more) I am quite happy with what is in there. Great job Devs.

I wish they had included more barnyard animals along with the jungle theme they seemed to go towards. I want Hambush to be a real pig without having to fake it.

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Originally Posted by Nights_Dawn Hazy is right

Spent $10 yesterday want about $5 back today.

The New stuff looks good but not great. And a lot about this feels about 1/2 finished.

But thats just MHO.

I've been trying to purchase the Animal Pack as well...and get that same "We're sorry" message. I tried resetting cookies, checking to make sure game account information is the same as that on the order in the store...all with no luck.

Any suggestions?

Don't mean to be picky but...

Any chance we villains could get one small favor? Can you enable us to have our hands backwards? Now with the ability to have animal heads, I could create a Rakshasa, and that's just too awesome. I suppose the alligator head I'd prefer might show up someday, but I'll take what I can get.

I'm mostly delighted with the new pack. It seems to me that a far greater emphasis was given to options than the earlier packs allowed, and it looks like some thought was given to the possibility of expansion (e.g. the bird head category has only the eagle face option at the moment, but there is room for other faces in the drop-down)

There is one glaring omission that is bugging me that I haven't seen addressed here, so I'll jump on it:
Tigers, cheetahs, leopards, cougars and some lions have white chest/belly fur. I realize that the chest:tights category has limited color options available.

-->Is it possible to let the skin color show through on the chest/belly area while keeping the two colors available for the animal fur?

-->Is it possible to add a chest details option that would add the third color to the chest/belly?

-->Is it possible to put the animal fur option in another category, like Jackets Open, that allows two colors on the jacket and another on the chest?

It does look like some time was spent trying to figure this out. The Tiger head/tiger pattern has three colors: fur, stripes and unchangeable white around the sideburns, jaw, and neck. The tiger 1 pattern for the chest has a slightly lighter area on the chest/belly.

As it stands, there are two ways to get a smooth transition from the neck to the chest: make a white tiger, or do away with the white bib by using the monocolor option for the head.

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The neck/chest transition is a problem. I hope this can be added to the fixit request pile along with the bear head, the gorilla head, the expanded bird options and the flat furry boots.

For me, this was ten bucks very well earned, and it's closer to right than any of the other packs. Great work!

I would love to have seen feathers! I am still making all bird toons. I no longer like my cat and wolf toons so they will be deleted today to make room for the birds. Yes, I've gone birdie. Forth coming screen shots on the way! Also are there any bird wings? I am using Angel wings for my bird toons. Which beak would go well for a crow? I just use the smallest beak they have.

So, some four days later I'm still unable to buy the pack, even trying from a different location and with the new card the bank just sent me. I think I've worked out why, though. A couple of weeks back I let a friend use my card to buy a couple of character renames since she didn't have the money. I think that might be tripping the anti-fraud protection since the same card was used on two seperate accounts. That or I've hit the maximum I'm allowed to spend on one card before it starts getting suspicious.

You know, it'd be nice if the error message gave an actual reason why they can't accept an order. It'd make things so much easier.

no apes ? i luv the pac like always but no apes?!? the ape is a mainstay of comic books, an here we are in a comicbook mmo , Monkey-less
Gorilla Grod will not be happy !!!
also i would like the option to use eye auras on the animal heads. here i got a panther -dude wit no glowing green eye aura i cant even put an egyptian hat on him . minor gripes but still......

Yeah I wanted to make an Egyptian Animal type Deity toon and really can't due to not being able to put the headdress on the animal head.

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Originally Posted by Redd Rumm no apes ? i luv the pac like always but no apes?!? the ape is a mainstay of comic books, an here we are in a comicbook mmo , Monkey-less Gorilla Grod will not be happy !!! also i would like the option to use eye auras on the animal heads. here i got a panther -dude wit no glowing green eye aura i cant even put an egyptian hat on him . minor gripes but still......

Does it bother anyone else that there is only one bird head type, no bird tail, no bird feather, no hand claws for the bird, and not even a bird type emote. It looks silly having your toon howl and it's a bird. I guess I am stuck on the birds for right now and feel slighted and limited in their creation.

I'm disappointed by this. The feet don't seem to have been improved so you can have animal fur legs but attach that to hooves and there is a clear line where they join.

I'm having difficulty seeing where the touted 60 pieces are.

This is the first pack I managed to get a friend of mine to purchase and I think it's a real shame that it's far from the best one.

Beast run is just ugly. Half the time the feet aren't even on the ground. Really poorly done.

Shame.

I won the last code handed out by Avatea on Freedom during the contest in Pocket D with one of my lowbie Toons. A werewolf toon to be specific. I was highly impressed with the amount of work that went into the detail of the animal heads but that's where most of the effort seems to have gone.

While the detail is breathtaking for a game thats nearing it's 7 Year Anniversary it was a little disappointing to see that we didn't get anything like unique gloves and boots that had fur/hair sticking out away from the character a bit. Something to give them a little depth. Even the Council and 5th Column wolves have hair that sticks away from their bodies. Same can be said for feathers and a feather texture and I was hoping that there might be another unique set of wings for the new birds. Nope.

Not being able to scale the heads...yeah they do look a little pinheadish on some body types. I do wish you could scale them just like you can standard heads. We weren't able to scale monsterous heads and now you can't with these either.

The emotes are fun, the costume change animations are excellent. Though the savage emote looks like it's intended for a primate that doesn't yet exist in the game. I love beastrun even though the jumping forward and backwards animation is pretty standard. Doesn't have any flair like Ninja Run does. Would have been nice if they looked like they were pouncing or something.

The pack is good and I would have bought it regardless. It opens the door for them to add new pieces to improve the animals they've introduced into the game. City of is always constantly evolving. So what we don't have now is a beacon to what we can look forward too in the future. Game designers know they can't make everyone happy even though they make the best attempts at doing so. I'm pretty hopeful there will be more to come.

Now...can we get some kick *** new Medieval gear?!?! new ornate helms and armors stuff with chainmail and armors that go into the chest piece classification and the like?!? PLEASE!!!! hehehe ok yeah really please? =P

Anywho keep up the good work =)

This is pretty cool, now I can make my bird themed speedster hero, and my roommate can make a lupine robot mastermind as his arch enemy..BEEP BEEP!!

I want Bear and Snake (Monstrous) heads... also, deer!

Any possibility that they'll work those up in the near future?

So what do the female minotaurs bodies look like or are there none? I can bet since there are no picks there are none. But I don't see any flame threads on how women got left out of this gender/body swap!