Question: Bioblast-Strain Genestealer

[Arcypedia]

According to the official Bestiary, this is the description of the Bioblast Genestealer.

Bio plasma sacks cover the torso of this strain of genestealer. Used as disposable shock troops by the brood, they explode when injured or will too by the brood intelligence, covering those around them in bio-acid.

The question is, does it count as Plasma damage or Acid damage?
I'm trying to customize my perks against this, I wanted to know whether I'm taking acid damage reduction or plasma damage reduction.

[Brother Læknishendr]

I havent tried this out my self (saving up), but from what ive read in every other thread here on steam about this topic, its acid damage. So 50% acid damage protection would be the way to go

[✠UK_SPAWN✠]

100% ACID

[᛭Rhamiel᛭]

BioPLASMA - and acid damage. Really?

[✠UK_SPAWN✠]

no just acid.

[᛭Rhamiel᛭]

If it is really like this I don't understand logic of devs.

[kuromi]

knowing how clunky the rest of the game is i wouldnt be surprised if it was origionally plasma and then they changed it but forgot to update the text

[hillslam]

It's acid. Question came up during closed beta. Per devs it's 100% acid

[᛭Rhamiel᛭]

I remember Acid Maw genestealers in Space Hulk Ascension game. They too explode and deal acid damage. Live creature with acid inside is more believable variant than plasma inside)
P.S. Even if this creature is fictional.

[᛭Rhamiel᛭]

Originally posted by hillslam:

It's acid. Question came up during closed beta. Per devs it's 100% acid

But could they change it in release version? And now it is plasma damage...

[Super-XIX]

Originally posted by Brother Rhamiel:

Originally posted by hillslam:

It's acid. Question came up during closed beta. Per devs it's 100% acid

But could they change it in release version? And now it is plasma damage...

They could have, but probably didn't. Remember that we all have plasma in our blood, just not the purple explosive kind.

[Flatline]

Originally posted by The Superjew:

Originally posted by Brother Rhamiel:

But could they change it in release version? And now it is plasma damage...

They could have, but probably didn't. Remember that we all have plasma in our blood, just not the purple explosive kind.

This. Plasma doesn't necessarily mean ionised gas. Thus, in Bioshock, "plasmid", and in biology in general, "plasm" - apparently from the Greek "to shape", and from the latin "mould" or "shape".

So essentially, it's a fluid that contains something, in the case of blood plasma, or in this case, the plasma carrying the acid.

[hillslam]

They did not change it. It is acid damage today.

[Azulfae]

Wierd thing, I didn't know this and took the 50% plasma resistance and instantly felt I was surviving their direct hits a lot better. I was told about the acid thing and changed it again but now I'm getting killed in one blast like before... I really wish this was clear. I mean they explode in a plasma coloured explosion that looks like the plasma spat at you by some other genestealers and that looks like your own plasma cannon plasma. Acid spat at you by other genestealers is green! The whole game is awsome apart from this one awfully applied feature. Could this have been changed again in the last 5 years?

[Brother Læknishendr]

Originally posted by azulfae:

Wierd thing, I didn't know this and took the 50% plasma resistance and instantly felt I was surviving their direct hits a lot better. I was told about the acid thing and changed it again but now I'm getting killed in one blast like before... I really wish this was clear. I mean they explode in a plasma coloured explosion that looks like the plasma spat at you by some other genestealers and that looks like your own plasma cannon plasma. Acid spat at you by other genestealers is green! The whole game is awsome apart from this one awfully applied feature. Could this have been changed again in the last 5 years?

Still acid👍

[Valden21]

Well, 40K video games cling really close to the established lore, because Games Workshop works with the devs to ensure lore-friendliness. So in an effort to consign this debate to the Warp once and for all, I checked the lexicanum entries on genestealers, and tyranids in general, to see if I could find any information about this. I couldn't really find any solid information about bio-blast genestealers, so I'd guess they were something the devs came up with, and used with Games Workshop's permission.

Turns out there's no specific tyranid biomorph that could account for the bio-blast genestealers. Some tyranid strains do use bioplasma bioporphs, but its use seems to be limited to the larger strains, like Hive Tyrants and Carnifexes. Genestealers don't use that particular biomorph. Instead, what we're looking at here seems to combine traits of multiple biomorphs. Based on what I could find on lexicanum, what we see from the bio-blast genestealers seems to be a combination of Xenogenic Acid, Toxic Miasma, and Toxin Sacks. Damage from those biomorphs is usually due to acid or really corrosive venom. So I'd say it's acid, not high-energy plasma.