Deception Challenge

Challenge

“	Yuri's forces from all corners of the world are gathering on a desolate island far away to scheme. They're masking their presence with heavy use of advanced psychic illusions. To make matters worse, something is off with the gravity here.	”
	—Map description

Deception Challenge is the fifteenth Challenge map against the three subfactions of the Epsilon Army that make heavy use of invisibility and Wormqueens.

Information[]

Enemy forces consist of PsiCorps in the west, Scorpion Cell in the center and Epsilon Headquarters in the east. The enemy bases are defended by Wormqueens. All enemy ground units and buildings (including garrisoned and captured tech buildings) are under a permanent cloak of invisibility. There is no way to completely remove the invisibility, so creating cloaked detectors are a must.

Several Magnetic Beams move around the Epsilon side of the battlefield, including the watery areas that surround the Epsilon base. Each enemy base owns 3 Magnetic Beams, and the only way to disable them is to completely destroy the base.

6 Gravitrons and the Space Commando will guard or patrol at various areas; 6 Bloatick Tunnels are present at the central horizontal line of map without limited spawning time, they will create Bloatick clones. In addition, their hit points have been increased from 100 to 650.

Unit changes/additions:[]

Bloaticks are unable to clone by both players and enemies.

Building changes/additions:[]

Enemies will not have any Wall protection or build any Chimera Cores.

Starting point Tech buildings[]

Behind the scenes[]

Prior to version 3.3.5, there were two Tech Missile Bunkers at where the 2 Tech Deposit Banks now are. As destroying enemy Missile Bunkers are required for victory even if the 'Short Game' is on in old version, the challengers often find them unable to achieve victory after clearing all three enemy bases without finding the two bunkers.
Prior to 3.3.6, the description of the challenge says a large storm is brewing, but in game there was no storm nor any sign, since then the description was replaced by gravitational anomalies.

Trivia[]

The challenge's map is a modified version of a 6-player standard skirmish map Malver's Sandbox.