As it stand Sombra can hack a lucio and prevent his healing aura, however she cannot do the same to brig.
this shouldn’t be considered a buff as it only affects 1 hero and is to make sombra much more consistent.
i would rather a consistent hero over an op one. make it consistent, then adjust if necessary.
This is not inconsistent. Lucio’s heal and speedboost is tied to an active ability, Crossfade.
Brig’s inspire is part of her main attack.
Lucio wall ride is a passive ability, yet he cannot wall ride when hacked.
If you recall sombra hack used to just prevent lucio from changing songs, and then they (the devs) changed that to prevent any song aura period.
I don’t disagree that Sombra shuts down Lucio way too hard. It’s ridiculous. But they’re technically different kinds of abilities. It’s like if Sombra’s hack disabled Reaper’s lifesteal from his attacks.
its really a consistency issue. all the other supports can heal with primary fire and not affected by hack that much. (when it comes to healing output)
But for lucio, hack is like the “NO FUN” button and cant really do anything.
If they changed hack to include Inspire, then not only would people shut up about brig being to strong (she isnt, she has many counters such as pharah, junk even a good tracer can destroy a brig).
Its not inconsistand you are just missinformed (don’t take this as a insult please it isnt meant as one)
If you have any more questions after reading this post I will happily answer them.
Amd Hack should not get inconsistand.
Sombra’s hack shuts down passive abilities. Inspire is a passive ability. Goodbye healing.
It’s not, hack disables passives that require a button to activate (crossfade, wall ride) but it doesn’t disable passives that don’t require a button to activate (Mercy regen) nor passives that activate with the primary fire (Moira and Reaper’s life steal)
But it doesn’t require a button to be pressed in order to activate inspire
Why are you guys looking at consistency? If So, a hacked junkrat wouldn’t release bombs on death and reaper wouldn’t self heal, obviously there is no consistency
Looks at Mercy’s healing passive
Yeah, and?
… and it isn’t disabled by hack, what’s your point?
excuse me, what???
It doesn’t require a button to be pressed too.
No it doesnt.
It simple isn’t.
Read this post:
Come again if you have questions
Exactly beautiful post
Which is why it’s inconsistent. Crossfade already had an interaction beforehand: it would lock Lucio to whichever aura he was currently on.
By changing the interaction, Blizzard treated it like a Button-Press passive, which Crossfade is not. It is a standard ability that already had an interaction.
With how OP Brig is currently, it needs to be tied together.
Her Jack-of-All-Trades esque type of hero is okay, but like, she needs to be toned back 20 notches because she’s too good at everything.
I just hope Blizz doesn’t gut nerf her unnecessarily like they did Mercy. And only focus on the actual problems.
I’m still baffled as to why they changed it. Why did Sombra need to shut down Lucio even more?! Her ult already countered his, and she neutered his healing and mobility.
I’m all in favor of buffing Lucio vs Sombra, but in all other cases it’s consistent with affecting active abilities.
Which was inconsistent it had no reason not to shut it down. It was an exception.
That can be sad for both ways I say it would be a Button-press passive (If it would be a passive)