Animal Pack

This article contains information about content which required payment in the past, but is now available to all players in the current version of Homecoming: City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes.

Overview

The Animal Pack had more than 60 new costume parts and patterns and also includes new emotes, new auras, four costume change emotes, and the Beast Run travel power.

They are now freely available to all players.

Description

With the City of Heroes Animal Pack, you can craft a character with the grace of a giant cat, the power of a savage wolf or the fury of a falcon and a look to match! Prowl the streets of Paragon City as a ferocious cheetah, stalk your way through the Rogue Isles as a bestial wolf, soar the skies of Praetoria as an eagle or lumber your way around as a monstrous minotaur. With new customizable heads, details, patterns, legs, and tails, you can go wild with possibilities! Select from new Feline, Avian, Minotaur and Wolf costume pieces, pounce with controlled grace using the new Beast Run inherent travel power, and use new character emotes and costume change emotes to unleash your inner animal instinct.

Costume Pieces

The Animal Pack unlocks new heads, body patterns, tails and boots for monstrous legs. Some of the costumes even come with customizable manes and teeth. With these new sets, you can create a ferocious wild beast character or a noble guardian of nature.

Head

• Cheetah
• Panther
• Lion
• Tiger
• "monochrome" (no fur pattern)
• Rounded cheetah
• Pointy cheetah
• Rounded panther
• Pointy panther
• Rounded lion
• Pointy lion
• Rounded tiger
• Pointy tiger
• Lion mane
• Tiger face fur
• Monochrome tiger face fur
• Regular teeth
• Sabertooth
• Minotaur
• Small horns
• Medium horns The medium horns are the type seen on Cimeroran Minotaurs.
• Large horns
• Small thin nose ring
• Small thick nose ring
• Large thin nose ring
• Large thick nose ring
• Eagle
• Hawk
• Vulture
• Grey Wolf
• Arctic Wolf

Upper Body

• Cheetah (in addition to the existing cheetah pattern)
• Leopard
• Tiger
• Animal Fur (essentially the same as Monstrous Fur, but with the underlying skin being the same color as the fur)

Lower Body

Additionally, the Animal Fur pattern is available on some non-monstrous boot options, but not on the bare/flat style, so females with Animal Fur boots still have high heels.

• Cat Claws
• Talons
• Ragged Wolf Tail
• Minotaur Tail

Auras

• Fleas
• Beastly Rage (can also be customized to appear as a breath)

Emotes

Regular Emotes

The following emotes are all unlocked by the Animal Pack:

Emote	Aliases	Flying?	Sound?	Loops?	Description	Issue Release
Hiss	zzzzz	Flying	Sound		crouch, double handed kitty-claw swipes, return to idle, hissing sound	zzzzz
Savage	zzzzz	No	Sound		monkey movements including: crouched jumping, scratching head and side, final pose is crouch with arms hanging limp in front; monkey grunt noises	zzzzz
Sniff	zzzzz	Flying	Sound		crouch down with head up sniffing the air with sniffing noise	zzzzz

Costume Change Emotes

The following costume change emotes are all unlocked by the Animal Pack:

Emote	Aliases	Flying?	Sound?	Loops?	Description	Issue Release
CCFeatherBurst	zzzzz	Flying	Yes	Scrunch down and shake, flash of light, and burst of feathers.	zzzzz
CCFeatherSpin	zzzzz	Flying	Yes	Whirlwind spin, flash of light, and burst of feathers.	zzzzz
CCFurBurst	zzzzz	Flying	Yes	Scrunch down and shake, grey cloud, and burst of fur.	zzzzz
CCFurSpin	zzzzz	Flying	Yes	Whirlwind spin, grey cloud, and burst of fur.	zzzzz

Beast Run Travel Power

Beast Run

Show off your bestial nature by using this power. This power is not as fast as Super Speed, nor will it allow you to jump as well as Super Leap, however it is considerably better than the Fitness powers Swift and Hurdle.

NOTES:

• This power cannot be used with (and will detoggle) Pool Travel Powers such as Super Speed, Super Jump, or Combat Jumping. However, it can be combined with Sprint (and Sprint variants like Prestige Power Slide), the Jump Pack, passive Movement Powers such as Swift and Hurdle, and any variation on Flight powers such as Fly, Hover, or the Raptor Pack.
• While toggled on, Beast Run replaces your normal at-ease posture with a heavy breathing crouch, but does not interfere with emotes.
• To distinguish it visually from other running powers, the forward and backward running animations are on 'all fours' running style, typical of a four-legged animal gait. Additionally, when running backward, the character actually turns to face the camera.

Type Inherent Toggle: Self +Run Speed, +Jump Restrictions Available at Level 4 Can not be used in conjunction with Travel Powers Recharge Instant Effects 445 + ( 5 * Level ) % jump height on self 109.45 + (0.55 * Level) % jump speed on self 99.184 + (0.816 * Level) % run speed on self Endurance 0.46/sec Enhancements takes none

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See Also

• Super Booster
• Unlockable Costume Pieces
• Patch Notes/2011-02-22

History

• The Animal Pack was released to the Training Room on Feb. 9, 2011.
• The Animal Pack was made available for purchase through PlayNC.com on Febuary 23, 2011 for $9.99.
• The items from the Animal Pack were integrated into the Paragon Market with Issue 21.

External Links

• February 8, 2011 Announcement
• Intrepid Informer #1
• Animal Pack on the Training Room Official Thread
• Official web site live release announcement
• Animal Pack live release official forum discussion
• City of Heroes Official Trailer