Hey, I just had some questions about getting the starter kit to work and getting access to the bonus henchman.

Since I'm not much of a computer person (I just play games on them), I followed the steps of this thread pretty closely: [url=http://www(dot)gog(dot)com/forum/evil_genius/installation_setup]http://www(dot)gog(dot)com/forum/evil_genius/installation_setup[/url]

I started a new game, my very first Evil Genius game and so far, I haven't had any problems or glitches. I am now at 75 notoriety and I don't see the bonus henchman, Blackheart, appearing anywhere on the world map for recruitment. Do I need to do something special to get him or plot somewhere first? I only see The Matron, Ivan and the other standard henchmen that appear at 75 notoriety.

I'm pretty sure I installed the starter kit correctly, at least, according to that thread I linked above. So what's going on? I'm really... really... hoping I won't have to start a new game now...

According to the evil planet wiki the bonus henchman is available at 75 notoriety.

I would appreciate some help with this please. Thanks!

As I recall Blackheart was never part of the Domination Kit - He was a pre-order bonus.

You can still download him from the Evil Genius fansite at EvilPlanet dot com

According to the thread I linked in my OP, someone was saying there that the bonus henchman is included in the world domination starter kit. Just realized that thread was necroed recently though...

Can anyone confirm that GoG's World Domination Starter Pack download gave them the bonus henchman, "Colonel Blackheart"? It did not work for me at all, I saw it installed in my main Evil Genius folder but I see no evidence of any new items or the bonus henchman added to the game. It doesn't seem like GoG's world domination starter pack adds anything at all to the game.

Fortunately, after days of searching, I found a link that still works, on the evil planet website, for the fan-made patch that enables Blackheart. He's already in the regular game, he's just disabled and must be enabled. This patch simply unlocks his AOI so you can still get him legitimately through gameplay, it does not spawn him like a cheat. Once unlocked, his AOI can be found in central Africa when you have the appropriate amount of notoriety: 75, 175 or 300 and it shows up brightly on the world map like any other henchman AOI would.

This fan-made patch that unlocks Blackheart can be found in the "Modding!" section of the Evil Planet website and is very simple to install, it comes with install instructions in a readme file. I would link it here but don't feel like dealing with this forum's link blocking bs. I can confirm that it will work with a saved game file and you won't have to start a new game.

However, my experience was that... if you've already hit a certain level of notoriety... say, 75 notoriety and the other AOI's for recruitable henchman have already appeared on the world map... then Blackheart's AOI will not appear at that time. But should appear at the next chance you get for recruiting him, in this case, if you installed the patch after you already hit 75 notoriety then you will probably have to wait till 175 notoriety before Blackheart's AOI will appear. I had to start from an earlier save, after installing the patch, where I was at 65 notoriety... I did a mission and got boosted to 75 notoriety and then his AOI appeared in Africa.

He's a good henchman and I'm glad I was able to unlock him finally. He has strong ranged attacks and melee attacks and seems to work good on the world map for AOI's as a "guard" of sorts, he protects minions pretty well. On the island, he can lay traps which seem to stay in place until some enemy steps in them but I don't think they do any damage, they just delay enemies for a bit (could be useful if you set them up near sentry guns). Overall, he seems like a slightly weaker but more practical version of Ivan.

Anyway, just thought I'd post all this info about him for any new players that might want to try him. So you don't have to go through the three days of searching that I did. Hopefully Evil Planet won't stop hosting that patch anytime soon, don't think you can find it anywhere else.

Again, I'd appreciate it if anyone could confirm that GoG's world domination starter kit enabled Blackheart for them... or not. Since it definitely didn't work for me. If it did work for you, please explain how and where you installed it, thanks.

Good to hear you managed to get him working.

I've always installed the Domination Kit (For the extra traps and such) followed by Blackheart, so I can't really comment on whether or not he's included with the Kit or not.