What is the difference between beacons and flag beacons? What can you do actually with both of them?

Flag beacons will spawn a flag after 10 minutes into the game, they also have an option called Place COP. Which means you can teleport the flag to anywhere on the map that you have vision and is walkable. Place COP is disabled after 10 minutes into the game, Even if you remove the flag it will still be unable to teleport.


Beacons can serve many purposes, Mostly just graphical. Some people like to use them as pads to buy units in things like defenses. Some people like to cloak or disable them so they only show the lights and nothing else or are unclickable.

Ok and is there some purpose to transporting a flag?

The whole thing was used for 'Capture the flag' mode or something.

It moves the flag beacon, not the flag. You can detect this and use it for selection systems and stuff. For example, in an arena map you could tell the players to Place COP where they want their character to start.

Which is why flags are unable to be captured by their owners.

Can you prevent the flag from appearing? So it seems like a normal beacon.

If you place a disabled sprite of it, for Terran and Zerg Flag Beacons, this disabled their flag creation and their place COP ability.

That is a disabled unit sprite?

Yup, you can also just constantly remove the flags, but then you still have the COP problem.