This is coming from a GM/t500 Sombra one trick with 700 hours on the hero. The animation is fair from Sombra’s POV, but it’s really deceptive from the enemy’s POV, making it look like she hacks through walls. If you move behind a wall to break the red hack lines while you’re getting hacked it will not break hack unless you hide your entire hitbox. That’s fair from Sombra’s end, but the animation needs to be more clear from the enemy’s end so you know if you’re breaking hack, rather than thinking you’re being hacked through a wall
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a question that has nothing to do with your post:
how much fps do you have?
200ish fps and 20ms
may i kno your sens too?
Doesn’t this apply to Deadeye, Tactical Visor and Selfdestruct etc. as well?
I’m not sure, but they don’t have an animation like hack. The problem with hack is that it shows lines that connect to you, and even if you break those lines it might not break the hack. Just a deceptive animation
3.5 sense, 800 dpi, and 30 hack sense
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is breaking LOS from sombra even a valid strategy for breaking hack though?
you can probably react fast enough to shoot her in 0.6s but you wont move that far
It definitely is. Especially if you don’t know where the Sombra is hacking you from, you don’t have the aim to shoot her fast enough, or if you’re playing someone like Mercy who has to switch weapons
thank you 
now about balance, would you consider sombra to be op, like some proplayers said during their streams?
Yeah many people dont know that you dont necessarily brake LoS just because you broke the hack line visuals.
Deadeye you have to break LoS with the head hitbox, the McCree has to see your head, for example: you can block it with a Symm Turret.
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It just favors the shooter, as everything else in this game does.
No her hack LoS just needs part of your hitbox. Even if just your little toe is poking around the corner, hack wont brake.
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Well it matters where you are sometimes its easier to jump behind a wall or a shield.
It seems to have a small leniency in it again.
After they removed it could I not be hacked anymore as Mei when I entered Cryo-Freeze.
Now I can be hacked in Cryo-Freeze again, just like before it was removed.
I think hack just needs this leniency to be a reliable ability
I agree, it definitely needs this leniency. It was a disaster when they took away any leniency lol. But the lines still need to be fixed so as to not be so misleading
I feel like you’re lowkey interviewing me xd. Well, obviously my opinion is biased, but I think she’s in a great position right now as one of the more balanced heroes. First off, I don’t think any pros have complained about Sombra in a while besides when she could hack through shields and walls about a year ago. She maintains a negative winrate in every rank besides GM, where she sits at about a 50% winrate. Is she annoying? Hell yeah. But OP? No.
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It’s how shields break hack, so a tank playing around a barrier can take advantage of just being able to pass through a wall and break LoS. When it only takes a step or two, that time is plenty.
No, hack does not work under “favor the shooter” like the others. We wouldn’t have so many hack bugs if the hackers side was the only one checking for conditions. Hack breaking randomly, hack switching targets, hack taking too long, etc. wouldn’t be a constant issue if hack didn’t need confirmation from the server.
https://youtu.be/wsZ8G9x5DVc
https://youtu.be/E20hNJj8Oj0
https://youtu.be/MQKkcZis0Ns
These examples are from a post I made its probably now outdated on a few of the bugs but alot are still there.
Here is the original: Even more Sombra Bugs in 1.26/1.27/1.28 [With Video's]