The package addition of Good v. Evil has hit the stands and is available for download through the NCSoft store for $9.99.
Package additions include the Sinister and Justice costume options, a teleport button to a special room in Pocket D, and a jump pack as a prestige travel power.
Notes and Factoids After Use: Well worth the $9.99 price, although I wouldn't recommend going out and buying the package, given the price difference.
Costume Notes: The new costumes come with unhighlighted patterns – if you want, you can overlay any coloring option you wish on them (i.e. blend, dots, etc.) However, if you want the highlights on the costumes to look like they do in the promotional screenshots, you have to pick the Justice or Sinister pattern.
Travel Power Notes: The new Pocket D room, the Tiki Room, is just pure corn and cheese fun in and of itself – a nice little potential RP zone. I also expected that the teleport to the D would be useful for my high level characters. I did *not* realize how useful it would be to my low level characters. Being able to hit Kings Row from, say, the back of the Hollows at level 12 is a definite timesaver. The power is usable once every 30 minutes, and it's easily interruptible, but even so, a nice help, even for those of us who have SG teleporters handy.
The jump pack lasts for 30 seconds. The recharge time is slow. However, it, too, makes a real difference for low level characters without travel powers. It acts much like a slow superjump. I've found it to be just about enough time to get over the worst holes in the Hollows, and to get up and down the annoying areas in Skyway and Kings. Also a nice little trick for superspeed characters who need to get to the top of something (Terra Volta reactor, anyone?)
One final note re: payment. When we first purchased the packages, NCSoft was having some issues with MasterCard customers because apparently some vile hackery vermin had been using MasterCard debit cards to hook items out of the store. Sigh. Those guys'll probably outlive the cockroaches when the nuke drops. Anyway, I'm told the issue is now resolved, although you may be limited to one purchase per card. There *was* a recommendation on the boards to use epassporte.com for a Visa debit card; however, fair warning, if you have a card with certain large companies, you may have your card declined pending your provision of additional information such as a copy of a driver's license and your credit card, which, personally, wasn't information I was about to send blind to a company I didn't know ("Here, please, take my signature, social, birthdate and credit card and put them in files which may or may not be secure..."). YMMV. In addition, if you get turned down for an account there, you have to *cancel* the account or else epassporte will apparently bill you in a year for five bucks.
Just an FYI and so's you know. If anyone else has additional comments on that, feel free to add.
~Elizabeth
This link is to the GvE page, with a link to the NCSoft store if you want to get it.
http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/archives/2006/10/good_vs_evil_in.html
