Sensor Tower on Starcraft2.com

Don't know if this has already been mentioned, but you can notice that they removed the Radar Dome and the Sensor Dome and fused them into a Sensor Tower, giving it abilities of the Radar Dome.

 

Ahhh so thats what happened. I was wondering what happened to the radar dome, so they just fused it huh? Well thats fine becuase if thats all the sensor dome can do than its not op at all.

 

Then they should have taken the look from Radar Dome, because it looked a bit more cool But do you have to build a Sener Tower to detect cloaked units or does the turret still work as a detector ?

 

We don't know, but hopefully a Q&A can answer that in a near future, instead of answering "will starcraft2 have a better editor than WC3 lol?" kind of questions.

 

Do you mind if i ask what Q&A is?

 

yeah sure. Its a short for Question and Answer. A d00d called Karune or something gets a few answers from blizzard asked by the comunity. look at the news on the main page, and on the older pages too. they are spread over the pages.

 

you notice how it makes noises when someone enters the field!

Get a unit and set it on a path that continually goes in and out of the field.

 

lol! That would be really funny to piss off Terran players with! Nice one! owerup:

 

I didn't like the sensor tower, becouse now the Torrens isn't anymore detectors, and that I don't like very much. The only best on this, is the coming of units, when marking with red the enemy units...

But the change of that, i didn't like...

 

I seem to remember them saying that a sensor tower makes the surrounding turrets into detectors.

 

they did but now that it doesnt require a upgrade to do the deep space radar thing, it might not.

 

I like that structure. Terrans can see hidden approaching units. Even cloacked ones ?Now Terrans have super units and super structures like the Protoss. I hope the Zerg will get other super abilities. I don't think they will get super units. Of course the super upgraded Ultralisk. And the guardian. But ... it will not be enough.

So super units and structures for the Terran and Protoss, but super upgrades for the Zerg, like an acceleration of the heal ability for the ground and the air units, and for the structures.

 

what is it with you people and calling things super, they are just good old big guns

 

In saying super units and structures I mean the big powerful units and structures. So according to me :

Protoss : Colossus and Mothership
Terran : battlecruiser and Thor
Zerg : Guardian and Ultralisk.

And for the structures ? I say the sensor tower is a super structure because it allows us to see approaching units. And the other races can't do that. Of course maybe the Zerg with the Queen's ability to spy a unit with a parasite spore. But that's not as fantastic as this structure.

 

Quick question, can the sensor tower detect air units in the fog of war?

in the videos and screenshots we haven't "seen" it, or any evidence pointing towards it.

It Most likely will, but you never know.

 

As you said; we haven't seen it happen, so we can't really answer that.
But I think it will. The point of the sensor tower is to alert you when the enemy is attacking/close, so if it is limited to ground units only, it has Phailed.

 

It does sense air units too. In the Terran demonstration video (I know that the Sensor Tower has since been refined, but the assumption stands because they just combined Sensor and Radar Tower) the Battlecruisers that fly in to attack are seen in the fog of war initially.

 

What will happen to the Radar Tower ? Will the Sensor Tower be able to change into a Radar Tower ? Or is my question oratory ?

 

The Radar Tower is no more - the two are now the same thing.

 

Actually, it does show air units in the demo. When the Battllecrusiers come into view from the fog of war you can see the red ! mark before they come into view. Also in one of the demos on the sensor tower home page the buildings float in and they are visible to the radar.