One thing is undeniable. Desolator is one of collest and most badass units in all game ever. No wonder Westwood used it as background for endgame stastics.
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Funny thing is the bunkers or garrisoned building are immune even there's an enemy troops inside This fixed in RA3's desolator, but i prefer the RA2 version tough....
At RA2 you can force attack ground while in deployed mode, make the desolator radiate its area quicker And yes, that area become inhabitable for anything except miner, which I find it usefull as a sole base defender. I usually use it at kill vladimir mission
i once on skirmish map, Bering straight made whole map glow for more than 3 hours by using few groups of 3-4 desolator each and deployed and force attacked ground for few minutes and ground stays "hot" for hours, even enemy base got "neon lighting" , only units what survived on map more than few seconds ware desolators , terror drones, harvesters and kirows and far from shore ships but no new ships survived to get away
11:51 Man, that was perfect timing! XD Also, the Desolator inside the IFV shot Tanya twice, so, that doesn't counts. And Desolators are useful to see if there's enemies underwater? I had no idea! :o I'm also surprised that the MCV lasted more than an Apocalypse tank.
a good pick against yuri troops I feel, since they can't hurt each other, a small army can take down masterminds and or clones before the mindcontrolled desolators can cause any harm
@@goldman1115 I know 4 Month late but his first was more or less sarcasm and meant that the desolaters kill them faster than you realize that they are there.
Best way to deploy desolators is to deploy them in phase shifts. Divite the deployment frequency by the number of desolators and deploy them one by one.
Hi. Just to point out that if you try to attack the ground while the desolator is deployed, he will speed up his deployment much faster for the first few moments. :) I love your videos by the way. Thank you for posting these kind of content!
The thing with AoE is that the damage lessens the farther away you are from the target cell, in this case being the Desolator's deploy spot. EDIT: the transport died off far too quickly. It should've stayed alive as long as the other two... The all have the same strength in vanilla rules.
You dont need meny desolators to create stronger nuclear field. There is known tactics when you dispatch desolator, stend up, move a little bit and then again dispatch desolator. Takes about 2 seconds and it is very useful.
Generals tried to stick too close to realism so their infantry units were...meh to say in terms of creativity. Wasn't like the Tiberian or Red Alert games where you could train units such as Cyborgs and Tesla Troopers.
@@dba6097 i dont need to watch videos to see who is good and who isnt, i play this game from tje bigining and won as second in my country at tournment, go put 15 teslta tanks vs 15 apocallypses see what happens, end of story.
Sniper isn't the only counter though as a SEAL BF/Korea Planes can deal with them + you can use the faction slot for picking America's free fodder or French cannon As long as it's not Germany tho lmao
My friend and I were playing and I spammed them and in a desperate attempt he nuked them, some of them survived. No joke, he expirienced a micro-trauma.
That's actually one of the best counters against a Mirage Tank spam. You just have to hotkey the Desolators right so they can deploy fast enough before the Mirages torch them.
I used desolator to create fields that prevents units from crossing. I achieved this by deploy desolator unit into the AOE attack mod, then force attack the field next to the unit, which triggered desolator to not wait before executing the next AOE attack. After a minute, the field became so radioactive, that it usually got stuck and stayed like that until the end of the map. :D (I did this in RA2)
Is it more effective to have 2 desynced units ? So they fire of the AOE after each other, as it seems there is a limit where adding more radiation damage means little for the time to kill.
Well they should have attack classes like in the Warcraft 3. Nuclear attack should ignore armour becuase it ignores it unless it is made of lead in real life.
I haven't played this game in like.. over a decade maybe? But I'll never forget my favourite RA2 unit or the heavy af breathing. The RA3 unit (Uprising only I think) just isn't the same.
If it doesn't work on buildings, and you have protection against snipers amd other long range enemies, this troop makes a really good base defense. You just gotta move vehicles out of your base immediately
It looks like the ability of multiple grouped Desolators only affects the amount of damage units take at various ranges, not necessarily at the focal point of the radiation area. It's unfortunate veterancy doesn't improve it. But well done on the tests. I knew how effective Desolators can be, but I never learned how effective in such depth. I hate to keep asking you to do more tests (it's just that you do these tests so well), but I would add many things to this test at your discretion, or for the simpler questions, people can just answer them. 1. I noticed the Desolator IFV had a faster firing rate than the Desolators. With the primary weapon (because the ability would cause the Desolator to instantly win), how much fasterwould the IFV be at eliminating a massive group of infantry compared to the Desolator? 2. What units can safely kill a Desolator without getting harmed by the radiation? (Not counting immune, or airborne units of course) 3. How much more effective is the Desolator against vehicles at higher veternacy? 4. Another veterancy question: how much harder would it be to kill a Desolator at higher veterancy? 5. Are they immune to the initial nuclear blast, or just the radiation left behind? Similarly, are they immune to the explosion of Demo Trucks, or Suicide IFVs? 6. Terror Drones are also immune, making Terror Drones more effective compared to dogs against Iraq. Not sure if you want to include that in the test, or just change the description. 7. You may want to test this with the Chaos Drone (if you're even able to), but when the Desolator is enraged, does it undeploy, or stay deployed?
2. The Slave and War miner, and robot tank and Terror Drone. Chrono Miner can try crushing him, but IIRC the vanilla (both RA2 and YR) made hime uncrushable. There's no way you can kill a Deso without harming your own troops unless you come from above or use immune units. 5. The nuke (both missile explosion and reactor explosion) is (code-wise) a high-damage weapon with a high cell-spread that leaves radiation behind. Think of the Dreadnought's/Boomer's/V3's missiles but with a larger AoE. And leaving behind radiation on an area as large as that AoE. TL;DR: yes. In fact, I think a nuke might actually kill him (especially if he's in the target cell). 6. He probably forgot about it. Considering how usefull/frustrating they are to play against, I can understand :P Sorry I can't answer the rest.
2. I meant are there any units aside from obvious artillery units like V3s that can kill him safely outside the radiation. Like Prism Tanks. Would they have the range to kill Desolators safely?
@@KILAH4716 Hello, Good questions and those things could have been tested. Unfortunately, no matter how much I am trying to cover every possible variation I will always leave something behind. If there was a way to notify everyone about the next video and getting ideas while working on it that would make it easier but few follow the FB page and no one replies on the forum topic anymore. :/ As for your questions, 1. Well the IFV attacks much much faster, it would be perhaps two times faster. 2. I would say the Flak Truck is one of the most effective. It deals high damage to infantry, it's fast and it can survive a lot of damage as demonstrated in the video. Not to mention that it's cheap as well. The Prism Tank doesn't have longer range than Desolator's Deploy Area of Effect but it can still attack from a great distance without getting much damaged even for it's low health. 3. Long story short, it's about two times faster with every promotion ( Elite is two times faster than Veteran and Veteran is two times faster than Basic) 4. If you attack Desolators with a non sufficient force like Tanks they can survive three times and more due to their self healing ability. They usually last so long that heal constantly. Otherwise they are like 40% more durable. 5. No they are not. If they are inside the explosions damage area, they will die. 6. Yup, forgot to include them :( 7. They would not Deploy. They will remain as they were until the effects of Chaos Drone are gone.
And this video nicely demonstrates why Yuri is overpowered when he has an easy counter to the Soviets' best unit/main that makes the Soviets competitive.
Hypothetically 1000 desolator deployed at consistency and intermittently, use your imaginations what will happened next, desolator will obliterated master minds and apocalypse as well. Even the Yuri's army liked conscript, Yuri clones, Yuri himself, brutes, gatteling cannons, light tanks, chaos drones, magnetrons tanks all were can't vanquish these units only snipers but moderately.........
The thing with AoE is that the damage lessens the farther away you are from the target cell, in this case being the Desolator's deploy spot. The "radiate-area" weapon doesn't change with veterancy,
One thing is undeniable. Desolator is one of collest and most badass units in all game ever. No wonder Westwood used it as background for endgame stastics.
I spam desolator with whole map with only war miner as tank lol.
I love him so much, it pains me to see how did he end in red alert 3
Hell yeah
@@apocalypse_march1499 yeah he looks like a gasolineboy
@@kenjijohnsonsanzenin3388 lmfao
\*Nuke hits\*
"THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD"
Its will be a silent spring
Or a nuclear winter more like
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pool singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Saw it, instantly search fo da comments, comedy gold mur niggas :3
11:50
12:55 "Now you see me? Soon you won't."
True story
Just like dad (sad noises)
Lol u beat me to it.
I remember back then when my desolator vs my friend's 50+ G.I.s and waited to press D at right time. He was like in shock for dayz. LOL.NOSTALGIA
"Here comes the Sun - make it GLOW!"
Funny thing is the bunkers or garrisoned building are immune even there's an enemy troops inside
This fixed in RA3's desolator, but i prefer the RA2 version tough....
We all do...
Put army in bunker put 4 desolater every corner and set desolater time. Walla...... Perfect .
RA3 HAS A DESOLATOR? Never seen/heard of it.
Its on Uprising expansion
If you call that thing in RA3 a desolator then you didn't play RA2
Fun fact: 'Silent Spring' is the name of the book that had a significant impact in the push to outlaw the deadly pesticide 'DDT'.
Fun fact: here comes the sun is the name of a beetles song.
At RA2 you can force attack ground while in deployed mode, make the desolator radiate its area quicker
And yes, that area become inhabitable for anything except miner, which I find it usefull as a sole base defender. I usually use it at kill vladimir mission
True, but only on the 1.0 version. It was later been patched after a few updates.
I always do this and it make my base bright as fuck.. and i spam those with like 5 of them
@@zionchar11 not only it's bright. It is also deadlier than ever before. Just a single Desolator can inhilate the whole area. (pardon my english)
attack ground for minutes, the radiation can last longer after desolator died.. almost like eternal radiation
i once on skirmish map, Bering straight made whole map glow for more than 3 hours by using few groups of 3-4 desolator each and deployed and force attacked ground for few minutes and ground stays "hot" for hours, even enemy base got "neon lighting" , only units what survived on map more than few seconds ware desolators , terror drones, harvesters and kirows and far from shore ships but no new ships survived to get away
Is Tanya made of steel ?
if you're an action hero wearing a tank top will be better than any kind of combat gear
Bulletproof bra
Nah she just have a....thick skin
TEMPOLIFE L her armor is Flak and Desolator pierces her armor, she just have higher hp than of Desolator's attack
@@hemandy94 hahahaha
*Meanacing Heavy Breathing*
My mask breathing
Desolator... Perfect eraser for spy and engineer cake.
Desolators delete ANY infantry unit that isn't a Sniper, Rocketeer, or Virus.
11:51 Man, that was perfect timing! XD
Also, the Desolator inside the IFV shot Tanya twice, so, that doesn't counts. And Desolators are useful to see if there's enemies underwater? I had no idea! :o
I'm also surprised that the MCV lasted more than an Apocalypse tank.
Howe bout testing multiple war factories, to finding speed bonus of constructing tanks?
yeah
It's on my to do list!
about 10 is the soft cap
8 is the max build speed
make your own
See trees. Deploy Desolators.
a good pick against yuri troops I feel, since they can't hurt each other, a small army can take down masterminds and or clones before the mindcontrolled desolators can cause any harm
goldman 1 yeah... what Mastermind? Yuri clone? Never heard of those thing before
goldman 1 you're the one that didn't use war miner on yuri faction
@@goldman1115 virus = desolator 0
@@goldman1115 I know 4 Month late but his first was more or less sarcasm and meant that the desolaters kill them faster than you realize that they are there.
If 100 of desolators harm the ground well the group will unstoppable
Best way to deploy desolators is to deploy them in phase shifts. Divite the deployment frequency by the number of desolators and deploy them one by one.
Those mirage tanks at the end got clotheslined because of shear radiation
After all this irradiation "it will be a silent spring" indeed.
Hi. Just to point out that if you try to attack the ground while the desolator is deployed, he will speed up his deployment much faster for the first few moments. :)
I love your videos by the way. Thank you for posting these kind of content!
Thank you for your tip!
Wow. The fact that allied amphibious transport died faster really surprised me
The thing with AoE is that the damage lessens the farther away you are from the target cell, in this case being the Desolator's deploy spot.
EDIT: the transport died off far too quickly. It should've stayed alive as long as the other two... The all have the same strength in vanilla rules.
It was quite a surprise to me too..
has light armor type thus melts quickly. sov and yuri ones have heavy.
you forget desolator can still attack while deployed it put radiation on target in regular RA2
if you put like 30+ it will max their attack range. ez wipes
plus. if you put alot of them the radiation sometimes would be permanent.
This is the true desolator intead of Uprising one. The desolator in Uprising should cost two times less.
@11:50 There goes the neeborhood. xD
Whoever made the rad cannon is a fucking genius. As contradictory as it sounds the desolator bring life to the game. 👍
8:45 How fast those popped!
You dont need meny desolators to create stronger nuclear field. There is known tactics when you dispatch desolator, stend up, move a little bit and then again dispatch desolator. Takes about 2 seconds and it is very useful.
3:50 when your nuclear missile ready to launch
I'm surprised a guy inside a mining vehicle is more protected than some submarine
Lore-wise, the miners are all controlled by robots. They only gave them voices for variety's sake I guess.
Best Infantry in the game.
Why General Tsing Shi Tao didn't get one when he's the Nuke Maniac general?
The theme and abilities are closer to the toxin tractor.
Generals tried to stick too close to realism so their infantry units were...meh to say in terms of creativity. Wasn't like the Tiberian or Red Alert games where you could train units such as Cyborgs and Tesla Troopers.
Try the Shockwave mod for C&C generals, he doesn't excatly have Desolators, but you won't be disappointed
This is why desolator is the beat special unit!:D
tesla tanks are
@@e7danny7m Tesla tanks aren't even worth it. They cost too much but fragile. Firepower is not worth it
@@dba6097 yes it does, they are better then any tank in battle
@@e7danny7m th-cam.com/video/p4e92Vh8aPc/w-d-xo.html
@@dba6097 i dont need to watch videos to see who is good and who isnt, i play this game from tje bigining and won as second in my country at tournment, go put 15 teslta tanks vs 15 apocallypses see what happens, end of story.
These tanks have some pretty good Radiation shielding I have to say. Takes two Desolators to kill a vehicle faster than a lone deployed GI.
Which is also true IRL. Tanks attenuate gamma radiation by about a factor of 10.
20+ deploy on the small area
"Brighter than the sun"
Desolator suits can also function as space suits since you can train them during the moon campaign mission.
Only 600$ for such powerful unit. Not enough i think.
696Ghost696 , then abuse it!🙄
696Ghost696 go to tibed and edit its stats, cost, speed😂
Picture a 1v1 where each player is out of resources and units being stuck with only desolaters 😂
Deso the most overpowered infantry in this game.
DevastationPower sorry but who the hell is Deso?
Deso = Desolator
Great Britain counters them in that regard, but that's one of the only few examples GB has for their specialty
They're expensive and vulnerable to snipers and air units. I would say they're balanced.
Sniper isn't the only counter though as a SEAL BF/Korea Planes can deal with them + you can use the faction slot for picking America's free fodder or French cannon
As long as it's not Germany tho lmao
3:20 "i got him"
yes... yes you did, SEAL
Thats what I call SEALclubbing.
in RA2, elite desolator can even withstand a nuke attack!!
My friend and I were playing and I spammed them and in a desperate attempt he nuked them, some of them survived.
No joke, he expirienced a micro-trauma.
Good comparison here
Desolators are my favorite ones.
But what what baffles me that a conscrip vs a conscrip and that one killed it.
Is the nuclear missile’s radiation able to kill the desolators?Why is a direct hit on them with a nuclear missile able to burn them to death?
Leon Song the radiation no but the initial damage kills them yes
tg Thanks brother 😊
so the tactic is to send 5 desolators on a truck then deploy them on enemy base?
That's actually one of the best counters against a Mirage Tank spam. You just have to hotkey the Desolators right so they can deploy fast enough before the Mirages torch them.
My absolute favorite unit.
I love the Sound their guns make when they fire
I used desolator to create fields that prevents units from crossing.
I achieved this by deploy desolator unit into the AOE attack mod,
then force attack the field next to the unit,
which triggered desolator to not wait before executing the next AOE attack.
After a minute, the field became so radioactive, that it usually got stuck and stayed like that until the end of the map. :D
(I did this in RA2)
5:22 I didn't realise that a wounded desolator when deployed can regen
Desolators regen health by default.
He loves radiation :) (maybe)
Wish you tested the strategy against tanks when you deploy them then immediately undeploy them for twofold damage.
what the heck with dealing more damage from right to left?
In which part of the video are you referring?
tg actually nevermind. Just realized that was rhinos vs grizzly. Didn't noticed that on the small phone screen. Thought they all was the same
@@ksysinf Ah ok!
Light vehicles are shredded to shits... I didn't know this.
@12:47 that full promoted rhino is OP
Double tap on tanya was hilarious.
First I see your doing pretty well on 5000 subs 😁
@tgSacred Can you put a download link of this map on this video? Please
One thing you missed: Desolators radiate the area faster if you deploy them then ask them to attack a nearby piece of land.
Maybe someone has said already that Desolator can be ordered to attack ground while deployed?
The Boomer submarine is too OP, why did Westwood make this unit at that time
Mirage tanks get ambushed by Desolators hiding behind a TREE...Karma really is a bitch haha
Thanks for testing!
fucking allied units are made with paper....
Is it more effective to have 2 desynced units ? So they fire of the AOE after each other, as it seems there is a limit where adding more radiation damage means little for the time to kill.
This guy was always so eerily terrifying
Well they should have attack classes like in the Warcraft 3. Nuclear attack should ignore armour becuase it ignores it unless it is made of lead in real life.
Late but they do have certain armour types in the game
I haven't played this game in like.. over a decade maybe? But I'll never forget my favourite RA2 unit or the heavy af breathing.
The RA3 unit (Uprising only I think) just isn't the same.
If it doesn't work on buildings, and you have protection against snipers amd other long range enemies, this troop makes a really good base defense. You just gotta move vehicles out of your base immediately
Aircraft carrier vs deadnought
NO
the neighborhood dies, the desolator is happy
GI machine gun stronger than desolator laser vs vehicals wtf?
they are uncrushable
yup he forgot to test that.
Test apolycalpse please
I will but not yet!
:(
*THE END IS NEAR*
Thanos is that you?
Thanos is nothing compared to Kane or Yuri and you know it!
@@CnCDune in the name of kane
Obey Yuri!
Why when the unit on left side it is easier to win?
DFQ? IFV increase damage O.O!
Everything garrisoned has an increased DPS
And incresed attack speed.
Desolator covered in walls are unstoppable of course with aa guns
12：28
Rhino tank: what's happening? Why we're here? Fire! Fire! Or we'll be de.......(boom)
Damn the bloody boomers also has better armour than other counter parts...
They're also 2000 a pop
What map are you using for testing?
Oasis of Doom!
It looks like the ability of multiple grouped Desolators only affects the amount of damage units take at various ranges, not necessarily at the focal point of the radiation area. It's unfortunate veterancy doesn't improve it. But well done on the tests. I knew how effective Desolators can be, but I never learned how effective in such depth.
I hate to keep asking you to do more tests (it's just that you do these tests so well), but I would add many things to this test at your discretion, or for the simpler questions, people can just answer them.
1. I noticed the Desolator IFV had a faster firing rate than the Desolators. With the primary weapon (because the ability would cause the Desolator to instantly win), how much fasterwould the IFV be at eliminating a massive group of infantry compared to the Desolator?
2. What units can safely kill a Desolator without getting harmed by the radiation? (Not counting immune, or airborne units of course)
3. How much more effective is the Desolator against vehicles at higher veternacy?
4. Another veterancy question: how much harder would it be to kill a Desolator at higher veterancy?
5. Are they immune to the initial nuclear blast, or just the radiation left behind? Similarly, are they immune to the explosion of Demo Trucks, or Suicide IFVs?
6. Terror Drones are also immune, making Terror Drones more effective compared to dogs against Iraq. Not sure if you want to include that in the test, or just change the description.
7. You may want to test this with the Chaos Drone (if you're even able to), but when the Desolator is enraged, does it undeploy, or stay deployed?
2. The Slave and War miner, and robot tank and Terror Drone. Chrono Miner can try crushing him, but IIRC the vanilla (both RA2 and YR) made hime uncrushable.
There's no way you can kill a Deso without harming your own troops unless you come from above or use immune units.
5. The nuke (both missile explosion and reactor explosion) is (code-wise) a high-damage weapon with a high cell-spread that leaves radiation behind. Think of the Dreadnought's/Boomer's/V3's missiles but with a larger AoE. And leaving behind radiation on an area as large as that AoE.
TL;DR: yes. In fact, I think a nuke might actually kill him (especially if he's in the target cell).
6. He probably forgot about it. Considering how usefull/frustrating they are to play against, I can understand :P
Sorry I can't answer the rest.
2. I meant are there any units aside from obvious artillery units like V3s that can kill him safely outside the radiation. Like Prism Tanks. Would they have the range to kill Desolators safely?
@@KILAH4716 Hello,
Good questions and those things could have been tested. Unfortunately, no matter how much I am trying to cover every possible variation I will always leave something behind.
If there was a way to notify everyone about the next video and getting ideas while working on it that would make it easier but few follow the FB page and no one replies on the forum topic anymore. :/
As for your questions,
1. Well the IFV attacks much much faster, it would be perhaps two times faster.
2. I would say the Flak Truck is one of the most effective. It deals high damage to infantry, it's fast and it can survive a lot of damage as demonstrated in the video. Not to mention that it's cheap as well. The Prism Tank doesn't have longer range than Desolator's Deploy Area of Effect but it can still attack from a great distance without getting much damaged even for it's low health.
3. Long story short, it's about two times faster with every promotion ( Elite is two times faster than Veteran and Veteran is two times faster than Basic)
4. If you attack Desolators with a non sufficient force like Tanks they can survive three times and more due to their self healing ability. They usually last so long that heal constantly. Otherwise they are like 40% more durable.
5. No they are not. If they are inside the explosions damage area, they will die.
6. Yup, forgot to include them :(
7. They would not Deploy. They will remain as they were until the effects of Chaos Drone are gone.
And this video nicely demonstrates why Yuri is overpowered when he has an easy counter to the Soviets' best unit/main that makes the Soviets competitive.
Does the amount of damage desolators take change when they are deployed? That would have been nice to see.
It is the same. You can see that at 5:00
I think I must have stroked out for that part of the video
I've heard that Rank 3 Desolator can survive nuclear missle direct hit. Can you check it?
I just did. Desolator instantly died.
He can survive the radiation from the nuke but explotion dies
Hypothetically 1000 desolator deployed at consistency and intermittently, use your imaginations what will happened next, desolator will obliterated master minds and apocalypse as well. Even the Yuri's army liked conscript, Yuri clones, Yuri himself, brutes, gatteling cannons, light tanks, chaos drones, magnetrons tanks all were can't vanquish these units only snipers but moderately.........
More videos?
Samaro Yo-Koci many more until most units are covered
Why does a higher ranked deployed deso do less damage? makes no sense
They do the same damage. Perhaps the spot played a role in the testing.
tg Yeah, could be
Test a tesla trooper next
They were my favorite troop
YOU SHOULD MAKE CAMPAIGN MAPS DUDE
All this and then one rocketteer showed up
Can desolator survive a nuke?
The only solution Iraq(or any soviet faction) has against Mirage tanks aside from SW
but also the best solution :P
Hmm how about testing power of rocketeers and air transport
when he is sit and spead nuke, u can choose him and press ctrl and make him shot close to him. Delay time will be much faster.
Nice one, thanks!
The chad Tesla Trooper vs the virgin Desolator.
Yuri will proud to day because boomer is the strongest submarine....banzai!!!!!!
Reactor ready
Finding a hot spot
1:03 a normal day in Gulag
12:58 mean, green, and unseen ;)
desolator = good anti-infantry unit
tank destroy = worthless anti-tank unit
Very very good video!
I *ALWAYS* loved this unit!!! >:D
test range?
Deploying with no rank is the best. How?
The thing with AoE is that the damage lessens the farther away you are from the target cell, in this case being the Desolator's deploy spot.
The "radiate-area" weapon doesn't change with veterancy,