What detects cloaked units?

[Ovid]

Hiigarans have bombers that can cloak, Incarnate have the Assault Corvette. But how do you or the AI detect them?

Reading through descriptions, only the Incarnate Sensor Tower explicitly says it detects cloaked units, but that's a campaign only unit, and I only recall seeing it in one mission.

I know the Hiigarans have something, I had a cloaked assault corvette scouting for a mothership, and when I turned back to look, it had died. But there's no explicit mention of anything detecting stealth, either in tooltips, or campaign.

[『Insperatus』]

Proximity sensors.

[Ovid]

this isn't HW2, this is HW3. Proximity sensors are not in HW3. did you mean probes?

[Ashrock]

yeah, but I also think the cloak is broken. never had any success with it so just stopped using it.

[CrudeCloud]

Wait what do you mean with the sensor tower detects cloaked ships? I had like 20 bombers in stealth mode right on top of one and it didn't detect them?

[Crypto Gamer]

I think this is the first RTS game I know where there is no stealth detection.
And going into cloack mode is very easy......


Hm no..... afaik Warcraft 2 also had no detection for invisible units but that spell has huge mana cost and research cost.

[Ovid]

Originally posted by Ashrock:

yeah, but I also think the cloak is broken. never had any success with it so just stopped using it.

Personally, I really just used cloaked units as spotters for torpedo/smart missile frigates.

Originally posted by CrudeCloud:

Wait what do you mean with the sensor tower detects cloaked ships? I had like 20 bombers in stealth mode right on top of one and it didn't detect them?

According to the HW3 tech manual PDF, it detects cloaked units. I also think the Compendium says it's "weapon" is a cloak-detection sensor, but I'll have to double check that.

But I do believe you when you say it wasn't detecting your bombers. This game feels so inconsistent when it comes to cloaking and anti-cloaking.

EDIT: Yeah, in Compendium, Units>Incarnate>Platform>Sensor turret, in the weapon section it says "can also detect nearby cloaked units".

[Zaibach]

Right now the only things that detect cloaked units are Mothership and AA turrets. The game miss a mobile ship having detection. My suggestion would be to give detection to Carriers, and maybe also to Support Frigates / Disruption Corvettes.