I don’t play her any differently, not sure what the change was supposed to accomplish.
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Making her easier to play so geoff can pat himself on the back and say to himself that’s a job well done.
So, nothing really, it’s a dumb change that doesn’t do anything for her and removes a couple tricks, forcing sombra players to adapt.
Her stats after 4 days show virtually no change, she’s as unreliable and variable as always.
The sad truth I’ve realized after all this time is that Geoff has no clue what sombra is about and nothing about sombra will ever change as long he’s in charge of her, yet he keeps hinting we’re the ones that wrong.
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Really? She’s amazing at scouting out the spawn and making callouts to your team. Watch Fitzyhere, his playstyle has changed so much and there’s a reason he’s doing much better with Sombra.
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Not really, every new day of streaming he does I see him saying more and more she’s pretty much the same with a tad new downsides.
His playstyle is almost the same but with more downtime of sitting in a place stealthed.
He’s actually playing mei more and more over sombra.
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It’s mostly QoL in my opinion.
Some slight nerfs and some slight buffs.
I like it however.
Maybe she’d need something else (stealth damage threshold) or maybe the bugfixes will be enough.
Who knows…
So you can hang around the enemy and spamm voicelines.I wish they’d remove spread on her gun.She’s already weak atleast give her a proper weapon.
I believe the changes she has received was to give her a different role in the game and to make her a bit easier to play.
To be fair, Sombra’s changes were negligible whereas Mei very well might become a consistent DPS character thanks to the falloff changes. I mean… I am playing her more than Sombra too.
Ew no XD She’s perfect as a DPS,but her only source of damage is pretty weak compared to other DPS
No hero should be forced to use voice.
No no. I don’t want to give her a different role.
I believe the changes she has received was to change her role.
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Isn’t he the one in charge of game design/balance? Meaning he literally decides/decided what Sombra was meant to be?
Maybe I’m adapting to the new play style better but my damage has gone up about 2k comparable to most other dps heroes I play now and my hacks have gone from around 20 a game to 30.
and he has done an spectacular job at that!
And another spectacular job here
It lowered your total dps because it takes you longer to get back into the fight after translocating out and repositioning
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They could increase her average DPS easily by reducing the CD to get back in stealth.
That way, you don’t have to trans back after each kill when you know that everyone is looking for you.
Just thought of something.
What if Gengi wasnt the only hero to get a cd reset, what if Sombra had a cd reset with Hack, or at least its halved if an enemy that is hacked gets killed?
Might be pretty annoying for the enemy team.
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Whther or not you like the balance of OW isn’t my point. My point is many Sombra mains feel entitled to tell the devs that they’re wrong in how their own creation is meant to be played.
You can’t tell the literal lead hero designer that he doesn’t know what a hero’s designed purpose is. He made the hero.
He’s not hinting that we’re wrong, he explicitly stated we were wrong in one of his recent interviews. I haven’t just lost faith in his ability to balance sombra, I’ve lost faith in his balancing ability period with what he’s done to various heroes
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the changes do nothing at all this is like giving phara unlimited fly time