SOMBRA IS BEING REVIVED! Improvements to Sombra2.0 (Check this new thread out please)
I just want to first start off saying , by now many of you guys may know me as a person who try to represent our fellow hacker known as Sombra.
After 3 Mega-Thread Posts , one of our fellow user, name ASTER , has completed an very rare goal. WE FINALLY GOT SOME INFORMATION ABOUT SOMBRA FROM JEFF HIMSELF.
I will post my mega-threads and ASTER ās Mega-thread as well at the bottom of this post.
I just want to celebrate, but not too soon as the changes to Sombra will be hitting the PTR sometime in July, but now we can say that Sombra is hacking her way to the devās attention.
We have changes going in for Sombra for our July patch. Most likely, the changes will show up on the PTR sometime next week or soon after that. They are pretty significant.
Iām not going to detail the changes for now as they are still in flux. But playtesting has gone well and weāre eager to improve her.
Links Below for ASTER
She has half the pickrate of pre-rework Symmettra.
You said youād keep an eye on her, please, please tell me you have plans for Sombra buffs coming up, or something, anything. Sheās my favorite hero and the only reason I continue to play Overwatch, I just want to know the dev team wants her to be good, too. Please.
SOMVRAāS THREADS
Somvraās Ideal changes to Sombra
Stealth
Reduce her Stealthās Delay from 0.7 seconds to 0.5 seconds
Somvra Comments: With all these changes, it will help Sombra from feel so less clunky, as the delay hinders her a hero. With this she can move in and out of Stealth more fluently.
EMP
EMP when activated now resets Sombraās Translocator
Somvra Comments: Many typically use this following combo
ā> Translocate - Stealth- EMP- Translocate out. This change will help promoteā¦
As many should know that everyone beside Genji and Tracer, all share the base movement speed of 5.5MPS while Genjiās and Tracerās base movement speed are 6.0MPS
I feel like since she is classified as a Flanker and her kit literally screams
F L A N K E R how would the community feel if she got a nice QoL change/ Minor buff to her base movement speed.
SOMBRA Base Movement Speed Has Been Increase From 5.5MPS to 6.0MPS
I just feel like that this change is so minor, but yet it can overall help impā¦
I think I am about to draw the straws with being a Sombra Main for sure.
I love the character and the challenge within itself, but strongly hate the neglection that comes with her. There should be no reason why there are such delays that hinders her a heroā¦
Sombra shouldnāt have to compete with herself (DELAYS) to be effective.
legitimately there are delays in each of her kit.
Stealth DELAY 2x
Hack DOUBLE DELAY
EMP DELAY
Translocator DELAY
It is superb frustrating to say the very ā¦
Thank you everyone for the supports , and to my fellow Sombra Main, we finally de-cloak and hack our way back into the meta.
EDIT: We got some more information about Sombra too.
NEW UPDATE: June 26, 2018
I mean who would fully trust Sombra
NEW UPDATE: June 27, 2018
Sure. These changes started by seeing how far we could push the duration of her Stealth and Translocator abilities. As we pushed them out, it allowed her to play more and more as an scout/infiltrator for your team and also allowed her more time to pick and choose when and where she popped out to ambush her enemies.
So now she has infinite duration on both Stealth and Translocator, but we had to solve a couple problems that were caused by these changes. For one, she needed to be able to destroy the translocator, or it would often be stuck in some place she didnāt want it to be. To that end, you can now destroy it by looking towards it and pressing the Interact key. Also, Stealth giving you 75% bonus movement speed forever wasā¦ a bit strong. This bonus has been lowered to 50%. In addition, she can no longer contest objectives while in Stealth, since she that would just be super frustrating with infinite duration.
These changes are really interesting for her as now she is in complete control over when she reveals herself, allow her to time her hacks better for her team, or go for a back line ambush during a critical moment in a team fight.
I guess that was more than a hint.
UPDATE ON INFORMATION as to why the devs chosen to buff Sombra the way they did on the PTR
July 20, 2018
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All you āproā players and Genji mains out there better take cover cause my girl is coming for youuu
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Way, WAY too soon to celebrate, remember what happened last time?
Yeah.
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Iām causiosly optimist about this
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She can finally HACK EVERYONE NOW . I am so excited.
Iām hoping itās not a complete rework, she had some potential as we saw before she got nerfed and bugged into the ground. But anything is better than thisā¦
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I know, it too early, but I am just glad she is finally getting the attention that she deserve. Now hopefully itās the right changes.
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Maybe now they know to not listen to their crying āprosā
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I am too as he said it is pretty significant.
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Didnāt Jeff say next week (maybe a bit later)? So possibly even soonerā¦Iām being a bit too optimistic though D:
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If the changes will hit PTR in July and they are playtesting it already, maybe it is a Hanzo level rework but without all the visuals and new animations
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Iām expecting number tweaks mostly. Damage figures, spread, ult cost, cooldowns, animation delays between her skills, stuff like that. The core design will probably remain intact.
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Agreed. I did celebrate too early, but I am nervous because the last changes we got recently did receive such negative feedback . I donāt want to repeat that again with Sombraā¦ AGAIN.
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Agreed. Trust me, I want to find and test out these new changes , but I am too optimistic about it as well.
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I am just curious to see what is being changedā¦
Told to you Somvra, nice work manš
Jelly is in a good moodš
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Jeigo-11534:
Iām expecting number tweaks mostly. Damage figures, spread, ult cost, cooldowns, animation delays between her skills, stuff like that. The core design will probably remain intact.
We can only hope so, hopefully nothing too crazy.
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Thanks Jelly and Always appreciation to JAM as well.
Hopefully it is nothing too crazy, that will make her objectively worse.
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