Heart of the Swarm introduced us all to a new concept in evolutions where players are given the choice between two forms of a previously existing unit, each with its own strengths and weaknesses over the other. However, heart of the swarm didn't exactly give us a dearth of these and I have seen several people give us some ideas for new ones on this site. This thread is for depositing all those ideas.
However, there are a few constraints I would like to make first.
You can create evolutions for units that already had evolutions in the campaign, like the Zergling, or for units that did not, like the Aberration
Your evolution can be a morph, like the Lurker is for the Hydralisk, or a replacement, like the raptor for the Zergling
The base unit for the evolution does not have to have appeared in StarCraft 2 as a buildable unit and can instead be based on a unit originally from StarCraft 1. However, if the base unit is an evolution for a previously existing unit like the lurker, viper, or brood lord, it must have existed in some form prior to its existence as an evolution (so no impaler or corpser evolutions).
Finally, the unit used as a base for the evolutions MUST BE ZERG! As hilarious as the concept is, I do not want people coming up with evolutions for High Templar or SCVs.
And now to start with an example-
Aberration- Cannibal Strain
Gains hit points and energy when attacking, but loses energy outside of combat. When energy reaches 100, the Cannibal may construct a Virophage, which provides creep and heals nearby zerg
I'll have a think on actual evolutions but I remember thinking it would have been nice if with units like the Hydralisk and Mutalisk if the evolutions had also effected the base unit in some way. So for example maybe the Impaler Evolution would also make the Hydralisk do bonus damage against Armored perhaps, or the Lurker one makes the Hydralisk shoot a spray of spines in a cone or something? Neither would be as good/the same as the mutation but I just felt they should have done SOMETHING to the base unit as well as the morph.
Oh, inspired by something someone here suggested (though a bit different), an evolution for the Drone which causes a new Drone to split off when the Drone finishes building a structure, effectively getting around the limitation of Drones being consumed in the process of buildings. If it hadn't been a Kerrigan ability this could have been an alternative to the Twin Drones 'evolution'
Heart of the Swarm introduced us all to a new concept in evolutions where players are given the choice between two forms of a previously existing unit, each with its own strengths and weaknesses over the other. However, heart of the swarm didn't exactly give us a dearth of these and I have seen several people give us some ideas for new ones on this site. This thread is for depositing all those ideas. However, there are a few constraints I would like to make first.
And now to start with an example-
Aberration- Cannibal Strain Gains hit points and energy when attacking, but loses energy outside of combat. When energy reaches 100, the Cannibal may construct a Virophage, which provides creep and heals nearby zerg
Explosive Infested Terrans
I'll have a think on actual evolutions but I remember thinking it would have been nice if with units like the Hydralisk and Mutalisk if the evolutions had also effected the base unit in some way. So for example maybe the Impaler Evolution would also make the Hydralisk do bonus damage against Armored perhaps, or the Lurker one makes the Hydralisk shoot a spray of spines in a cone or something? Neither would be as good/the same as the mutation but I just felt they should have done SOMETHING to the base unit as well as the morph.
Oh, inspired by something someone here suggested (though a bit different), an evolution for the Drone which causes a new Drone to split off when the Drone finishes building a structure, effectively getting around the limitation of Drones being consumed in the process of buildings. If it hadn't been a Kerrigan ability this could have been an alternative to the Twin Drones 'evolution'
Just look at the Army Upgrades data type it has stuff for a ton of evolutions that were axed.
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