ive noticed low playtime sombras focusing me as sombra aswell. much more than on other heroes. i wonder why that is
So in short, it isnt much of a buff, but stealth is definitly less stable.
However I think stealth wasnt actually that good in the first place, that is why dev made a failed attempt to buff it.
I always think when stealth breaks you should still have faster movement. Since sombra has so little in-combat mobility for a flanker. This buff can also go with the new sombra too
I mean, I don’t think she’s going to be useless. I think more buffs are necessary. The doubling the size of the detection radius makes the whole “can’t contest” thing seem really stupid imo. A speed nerf is always going to make a hero feel worse, and sombra definitely didn’t need that and again, when you balance a character and put “can’t take any damage whatsoever” in the cons column, there needs to be something huge on the other side. What I get hung up on is the enemies being able to easily destroy your translocator and making her translocator less subtle? That just seems silly to me.
What sombra needs is for enemies to actually need to spy check for her, and not be able to cancel everything she’s doing by accident.
However, it is a good thing that you can cancel your translocator, so you don’t have to commit to it indefinitely and can use it mid fight. So that’s something?
Well the ability to cancel translocator is the only change that is actually useful.
Stealth was not the best but okay.
And translocator just needed to get less buggy.
Sombras kit was actually nice. Just too buggy to be consistent.
And we are a proof that even with that all she was capable of being a team carry.
So no needs to remake which always just pissoff players.
Most people who main Sombra don’t even leave the TL sitting for more than 10 seconds on any given spot. Some of the most aggressive Sombra players use the TL right during teamfights to confuse enemies and even dodge ults.
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Yup. That is the best way how to get all the juice out of her kit. Also the most fun
Anyway…
Anybody has some news how is our thing going?
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Well, we’ve garnered attention from Stylosa and Your Overwatch who both support us, reddit seems to be supporting the cause as well so we’re an overwhelming majority currently.
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Sounds good. And the fact pro players too…
They need to do something. Lets just hope they will revert insteed off “buffing” actual ptr state.
Yes pleaaaaase if this goes throw I will probably stop playing -_-
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So, regarding Geoff’s recent announcement regarding PTR changes:
The new changes are good on their own. They just need to revert the original PTR changes and fix some bugs and we’ll have a near perfect Sombra. Our voices ARE doing something. We can’t back down!
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Just writing a whole post about it xD
Oh I love you man!
That’s great news. Today is a wonderful day to be a Sombra main.
So does that mean they are gonna revert or just adjust?
(I’m at work so I cannot look myself)
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They are adjusting it:
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The announced changes are built on top of the current PTR Sombra:
- Detection radius is reverted to 2 meters
- Translocator can be destroyed without looking at it, teleporter takes priority if you stand in one
- Translocator is pretty much quiet enough that you need to be next to it to hear it
- EMP disables Hammond’s ultimate for 10 seconds
- You can interupt reload with hacking
Geoff says, though, she’s unlikely to get stealth contesting or 75% speedboost back though, so fundimentally we face many of the same issues
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Well… I was overhyped it seems. These changes are nice but still benefit more the less skilled players.
The infinite just feels so awful… Even back then I was often canceling stealth manually.
I don’t think we will be able to do more about it.
But at least something. We will for sure find a way how to remain agressive in battle
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I’d hope we could at least keep live stealth. Translocator I can take or leave it. The hack reload cancelling is a step to making Sombra more aggressive but the cloak makes her passive still, so there’s still some fundimental issues. I’ll update OP once I see the patch drop on PTR
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Yes live stealth is great.
I can accept destroyable trans even that it brings a tear in my eye as it lower the uses for it. Canceling is nice though… was hoping for that like an year ago…
But the stealth is just feeling awful. Taking away mobility and making sure new players will be even less effective.
I’m afraid we cannot do more about it. Big boss likes the new Sombra so we should be grateful for these small adjustments
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Nah I’m still going to rally against what I feel is a net nerf. This isn’t enough on top of the hand we were dealt to make me want to continue playing her.
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Yes you are right.
I bet she will be played even less after few weeks and I will eat my hat if these changes won’t lower her winrare as well. I mean… More people being idle and much more playing as an assassin…
I say it’s gonna drop for 10%