Hello all,
I’m very confident that this came up in the old forums at some point, but I’m lazy so I’ll ask anyway.
Where are abberations from, originally? They’re present in the outbreak mission, but are introduced as brand new in the HoTS nuke level (forget the name) as Zagara’s creation.
Thoughts?
I look Zagara’s statement as saying she had made those specific aberrations, not that she invented them there. It’s also possible, given Hyperevolutionary virus infestation isn’t controlled like Abathur’s evolutions, that Zagara modified them during Meinhoff without his knowledge.
At any rate it’s pretty clear they predate Heart of the Swarm, though we don’t have a clear origin for them other than them being heavily mutated infested terrans.
Thanks for the response. Glad to hear that I didn’t miss something obvious during the campaigns.
If i am correct, those Aberration in WOL missions are much stronger than in HOTS. They has much more Health about 450 or 700 something while in HOTS it only has 275.
Zagara seems to have tweaked those Aberration and make them less resilient while making them able to tear through armoured plate (+20 armoured).
I highly suspect that the original Aberration strain in WOL mutated through hyperevolution virus has been lost and only those tweaked by Zagara is still in service of the swarm.
Abathur commented that Zagara’s modification is a sloppy effort but agree that they will be of use. This indicated that while he didn’t think the Aberration should be replaced with other more effective strains, he wanted no involvement with them which mean no further evolution or gene tweaking.
Segregate gameplay and story. Abberations in WoL might be stronger simply because they’re not controlled by player.