the surveillance station

does anyone know what is the use of the surveillance station? ;D ^_^ ;D

 

Aparently it gives a very large sight range. I imagine they will be put near choke points

 

It has the comsat ability from the original starcraft as well.

 

Really?

I think I need to start reading more thoroughly since that I missed too

 

Yup, it's got an ability called scanner sweep. Same exact thing.

 

thanks for the information.

 

Thats neat. I'll be terran in sc2 so my sensor towers will be sweeping the map anyway.

Cant wait to play around with those babies and with reapers, those two things look wicked fun to play around with.

 

Though, sadly, all the players can see it's location on the map.....Which is lame.

 

That can always be changed.

Perhaps a poll is in order

 

Can surveillance station be lifted up?

 

Not that I know of.  That would be imbalanced probably allowing you to spy on the enemy to easily from a safe distance from their defenses

 

They said in an old Q&A or something that planetary fortresses and surveillance stations can't liftoff,
only CC:s can. They can't be downgraded back to CC:s either.

 

We are talking about the neutral/capturable structure

The CC upgrade is still called the Com Sat so far as I know

 

What, isn't the neutral structure called an Observatory? Or did I miss something...?

 

The surveillance station is the upgrade for the CC
The observatory is the neutral building

 

why cant it be just like sc1?

you can lift your cc off but leaves the surveillance station behind?

fortress is good as it is but the idea of surveillance station is just...crap

 

Balance reasons?

 

You can still capture Observatories and scatter Sensor Towers, so yeah, balance reasons.

 

I think more often than not I'll be getting the survellence station, which I will now refer to as the SS, over the planetary fortress, PF, at least for my main base. I think it should be easy enough for me to have enough defense at my own base that I won't need the PF very often. I'd rather have scan sweep. I'd probably get PF's at expansions though if I don't just leave them as normal CC's. While having two comstats in SC1 was useful at times it wasn't really necessary. I lil extra defense at an expansion would probably be more useful.

 

Now that nukes aren't made from the CC (or their addons anyway), I think I'll stick with the fortress. The PF will be awesome against worker raids, which can more or less halt your economy for a long time. Of course, I'll need to have at least one SS for detection purposes, although I think the sensor tower will do that job sufficiently well. It's only when I'm attacking that I'll need the scanner sweep.