As we've reported, many Champions Online players criticized the patch that went live on launch day that attemped to address some class balance issues. In response, Cryptic announced today that "we will be issuing a full retcon to early-start characters created before our launch day patch." According to the announcement, Cryptic did not anticipate such broad changes to the game would be needed, which is why characters created during the head start program prior to the patch will receive the free retcons.

This news comes after yesterday's revamp of the retcon system, which lets players retcon as far back as they'd like, regardless of level, and rebalanced the cost of the retconing based on the potency of what you're changing and how far back you go in your character's history.

As another gift, Cryptic has added a video to the Champions Online video gallery of players taking down Mega Destroids during the end of beta event. Members of the Cryptic team played as Cryptonauts during the festivities.