Yep.
She’s 100% lost her identity as being a hacker and stealth assassin. Unless you’re playing in low ranked games, which is where all of the whining you see on the forums is directly coming from, she’s an intentional throw pick.
A number of people who used to main Sombra, many of whom have been otp-ing her for years, are now being forced to swap mains to Tracer or Genji.
The fundamental problem you have now is that for sombra to do her assassin level damage, she has to hack. And in order to hack, even assuming she’s got a nice angle to do it without being interrupted when you are working around the stealth timer, you’re basically alerting the enemy team to incoming damage.
Meanwhile, a tracer would have one clipped them in the head already.
So I don’t know if this is just bad wording, but old sombra always needed to hack to get bonus damage on gun or virus.
And neither got weaker in this change. It’s always been a bit low.
When opportunist went away, the only advantage was the quicker tick on virus. But broadly speaking, the damage you could do walking up to someone and headshotting them was greater and more quickly inflicted, and also from a reaction perspective didn’t have the very obvious “hack” sound for supports to react to. Granted, if they’re paying attention then the SMG is relatively distinctive but in a game full of gunfire you have to be much more aware.
(ETA- I accept this is potentially quite rank specific or possibly my personal perception rather than objective reality)
Oh yes you are correct, this was to balance out the fact she was a tank terror while keeping a some what similar ttk on squishies, just more controlled and couldn’t be used to melt tanks.
keeping her in a more flanker playstyle then a tank traper and killer.
Which she kind of is again. And like … I don’t know the point of it.
It’s actually the interesting thing now tbh, with opportunist back she can absolutely annihilate a tank who is below their armour threshold.
And outside of like ram and d.va you now have virus which burst through quite a bit of for like mauga to.
Does make you wonder about certain people and their obsession with upping the hack time on tanks… possibly not the right focus.
But then, if you’re doom/ball, being basically unhackable because you’re not in range long enough is probably the goal there.
Why is it that when someone tries to explain how to flank on Sombra they are describing a scenario where she is attacking a training bot
Because they don’t take into account their is another human being playing the game. And forget that the enemy is also able to react and engage to actions your doing.
Did you not know sombra can teleport behind someone, hack them and then virus and then shoot? Golly gee, thank god he told me. This is the very first version of sombra that can do it!
Definitely needs some type of sustain if they’re going to keep her like this. Damage reduction when stealthed, an HP increase, or a second translocator charge are my thoughts.
teleport at someone and have them and their team watch you turn invisible, watch you turn visible again as you try to hack someone, and then throw your virus at this person who still hasn’t moved or stopped your hack with one (1) damage, and then start shooting (with only 225 HP and your “escape” is at least 2 seconds away).
Blizzard doesn’t agree with you buddy
But you have picked some arbitrary thing, and then decided to label that as “how difficult the hero is”
I could pick “Shooting” as widow.
I press the left mouse button, and a shot goes off… Hey look she is mind blowingly easy to play, and it is part of the skills needed to win, I’m trying to win by learning how to shoot. Do you get the point?
But the difficulty is ACTUALLY in winning games, not some arbitrary thing you pull out of thin are to feel better or worse about the character you are playing.
It’s not very arbitrary
If you want to shut down Hammond, Doomfist, Widow, and other such characters, there is no better single minded character for the job than Sombra
If like your in gold or lower. The moment you start climbing people actually start remembering you exist and don’t just assume you stop existing the moment you invis or TP’d out.
It doesn’t matter if theyvreme.ber if your only goal is to sit invisible and hack the person you’re targetting
Also high ranks make up a dramatically small portion of the playerbase, so uh, get over yourself and understand that literally everyone hates Sombra
It absolutely is.
It is the same as picking “just shooting” as widow.
For a game which about trying to win games, then the difficulty is the difficulty to win games.
In high rank the sombra swap is only used to really ult cancel I havent seen people stay on sombra the entire match her new build doesnt quite work still. I kinda still feel like they just did this to shut players up for a while. I really cant see them keeping her this way especially after a month seeing the pickrate dropping to like 5% I have seen Fitzy playing her today pretty well as he tends to mostly play her around healthpacks and thats kind of a good strategy atm