This is how it works now. The hack started on Pharah, but lost lock and switched to Orisa mid hack. It considered Pharah blocked even tho she’s in sight the whole time.
The unfortunate thing is, this isn’t a bug. This actually is what happens now without the 0.1s grace period, and it happens often, particularly if you’re a back line harasser that chases unaware enemies around the map. When the devs said ‘additional LoS checks’ we thought they were going to do something that prevents things like this from happening after the grace period removal. However, they’re probably talking about something else because this is the equivalent of hiding behind a lamp post.
Honestly if you think Blizzard will ever own up to their mistakes and fix them immediately you’re sorely mistaken.
We’re stuck with this Sombra for a while and it sucks because it’s just so much more difficult for everyone to use. Only pros get the most use out of her otherwise this new play style promotes being an annoyance/nuisance even more and creating openings for your team to creep in.
Yes the higher damage can = actual kills if you have decent aim but she’s still not meant to be an actual assassin or even flank hero. She’s a distraction. She’s literally an annoyance, which I love but I don’t see why they had to make Hack so annoying to connect now.
Sometimes I sneak up on the enemies, it’s perfect I have them in my line of sight and they don’t know I’m there and I go to hack the juiciest target and they move slightly and my Hack gets interrupted, so I try again after waiting 2 second and then bam, it gets cancelled again and by then they’ve probably realized I’m BEHIND them somewhere and start shooting at me and then you really can’t complete a Hack. Like, I really don’t get why they had to make this change it’s so jarring when you think you have a an easy Hack secured and it’s like
No actually, you don’t go play another hero kek
She’s not weak actually. She just relies so much on teamplay that it can feel impossible to get anything accomplished with her. Basically she’s the least suited to ladder play out of any of the DPS heroes. The struggle with Sombra is really the struggle to wrangle 5 other strangers to actually play the team game of Overwatch.
She’s not even good in OWL where they have teamwork in spades. And that’s on the old patch. She has a 6% use, which is basically one map, one point, a couple of teams who are confident enough that they’ll win anyway.
The thing is, the team plays that can be made with Sombra can be completely DEVASTATING to a defence team. Only Graviton and Blizzard have the same amount of CC ability, and both of them can be mitigated, escaped and seen coming. This makes Sombra exceptionally unique in this regard, and yeah, if she didn’t have a high skill floor then she’d make low skill games utterly unplayable by how hard she’d dominate there.
It wasn’t brutal then because Sombra had a call out that you could actually hear In the Heat of battle after she came out of stealth.
Now it’s “Why can’t I use my ability? Wait that was hacked? What the hell, where is she?”. You have six tenths of a second, to notice overly-subtle cues that you’re being hacked, acquire your target (in this case Sombra), and Fire.
For heros with projectiles, 6/10ths of a second could be far too short for people to react to.
There just isn’t a telegraph for it. There’s no real counter to it other than superhuman reflexes and great snap-aim, or luck.
It just seems like it’s sort of ability that doesn’t actually belong in a skill-based game.
That wouldn’t be wise to do. People are already complaining that Hack lasts forever. With a cooldown that is the same as the Hack period, they’ll just moan that they can be Hacked over and over again forever.
I agree with you generally, but hack is seen as preventative whereas lucio’s aura can’t be preventative. I will say that calling sombra’s hack easy is just silly though. Like, most characters have the ability to either use an ability to stop it from going through, or can block her sight lines. The characters who don’t are either bad hack targets, can cancel her very easily with their guns. The only characters who I can see feeling countered by her are lucio, genji and roadhog, which are muuuch better hacks in the midfight, where their team should step up and if their team isn’t around, then they shouldn’t have been by themselves.
What i said about lucio was purely retaliation to saying hack was no skill, and that it shouldn’t be in a skill based game. I agree with lucio and genji feeling countered by hack, But good Roadhogs are a pain to deal with, as the hooks are perfect, and if they catch before hack ends the hook will still go out and drag you in, even if the hack finished.
Aura requires positioning, with a huge target on your back. To get value out of it you have to dodge and weave the enemy’s fire. For hack it’s mouse 2 > done.
Getting canclled is the “luck” part. You have to be accidentally firing before you have any reason to, to stop it. If you’re not being irrational, it’s only counter is the aformentioned super human reflexes and snap-aim.
If someone was able to routinly stop a sombra hack from behind, their acount would get banned for a cheating.
Hack also requires positioning. If you got hacked from behind, it’s because the Sombra outplayed you by taking advantage of your weak spot, in order for hack not to get cancelled. The only thing you need to do to cancel a Sombra hack from behind, is to stay aware, and keep looking around.
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