Supply Depot

It would be unfair and imbalanced if a submerged supply depot remains unaffected by area of effect damage, let alone a nuclear detonation. It's possible that they do receive damage but it is not directly visible as the supply depot is submerged. Also I agree with Shdwy's post, it may just be the impact animation as the Zerg Zerglings near the depots are not exploding in a violent fury of nuclear destruction.

 

hmm, if ground-based units can't attack the submerged supply depots, what can ?

 

The reason Blizzard made the supply depots submergeable was to make walling easier. There would be a huge incentive to keep them above ground. If it was underground units could travel over them, thus nullifying the reason you wall in the first place.

 

At the end of the Protoss gameplay demo, the "epic battle" is interrupted by three nuclear strikes. Then, three Ghosts uncloak from the exact spots the nukes hit, and a bunch of Zerglings in the area unburrow. I found it confusing because it's logical that the Ghosts and Zerglings would have been killed by the nuclear strikes.

 

It was probably scripted so that the units appear after the nukes.

 

If the depos would be immune while submerged it would be quite annoying for the enemy as you could build them al over expansions and submerge them to preventing him from building at an optimal range from the mineral node.

 

submerge could work like cloak, only attackable when observers are nearby.

 

he was assuming that they were invulnerable when sunk into the ground

It just seems wierd to me for units (melee especially) to attack a flat piece of ground

you think zerglings will attack downwards and stand on top of it, or will they stand near the edge of the building even when it is submerged

 

I hope that that thats the only benefit, I love the idea of walling with supply depos but how wallable will they be? will they be more wallable than before? I mean will they only take up one gridunit in order to prevent from small units getting by.

 

Since they'll be square this time, and not rectangular, I'd imagine it would be easier to wall, regardless of size.

 

I was just curious as to what would happen if you were to unsubmerge a supply depot while there is a unit on top of it.
Would it prevent the depot from rising out of the ground? Would it simply push the unit aside, or would it kill the units standing on top of it?
What do you guys think?

 

Probably it will just move/slide the unit away or maybe it will go through the unit i was also curious about this kind of topic as well

 

the most like thing to happen is you will not be able to raise the supply depot, like you can't land a terran building with a unit underneath it.

 

Ye, most likely it won't be possible. I smell abuse otherwise.

 

/agree

 

be cool if u can put marines on top of it.. when it unsubmarge ull have a marine of a higher ground...
imagine being able to build on a already submarged depot and rise them both so they stack higher and higher.. and if ur a zerg player u can burrow and be on the bottom of the depot??? or go throug hin the inside of it not sure. Just a crazy thought.

 

I don't think that would be possible.

 

ya ya i figured lol

 

/agreed

imagine useing "ally supplies" the same way u can use ally mines...annoying abuse.com

 

True
It will be like:
'Hey move your men'
'No say please or else I'll TK you'
'Never'
'Then die!!!'
'... i just got pwned'