Sombra's Hack isn't functioning correctly

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I’ve played a handful of hours in Competitive Play as Sombra this season and frequently encounter issues, especially with her Hack ability. It has a tendency to randomly interrupt itself half-way through the hacking process when it shouldn’t. As well as this, Sombra’s Hack is cancelled by small objects (and sometimes even nothing) as they are able to break her LOS for some reason. A developer has stated that Sombra’s Hack should not be interruptable by small objects such as light posts, yet her Hack is now interrupted by a large amount of small objects in the game.

Developer Comments: We’re also removing the 0.1 second window of time during a hack where it couldn’t be canceled via line of sight or with other abilities including Tracer’s Recall and Zarya’s Particle Barrier, which was originally put in place so the hack wouldn’t be interrupted by small objects such as light posts. We’ve implemented a separate fix for that issue, so she should still be unaffected by those small objects.

Here’s a clip of Sombra’s hack being cancelled by a light post after her nerfs:
https://streamable.com/yi566

Another alarming issue is the fact that even after the nerf that removed Sombra’s 0.1 seconds of grace-period on Hack, she can still hack through some things that block LOS. For example, here’s a clip of a Sombra player hacking through a D.Va who has ejected:
https://clips.twitch.tv/CleanSourUdonArgieB8

And here is a clip of the same Sombra player hacking through Mei’s Cryo-Freeze:
https://clips.twitch.tv/GoodOddPeafowlFeelsBadMan

Lastly, here’s a clip that showcases a blatant issue with Hack that shows that these issues need immediate fixing:
https://streamable.com/ys2jp

Overall, the point I want to make is since the nerfs, Sombra (especially her Hack ability) feels extremely tedious and clunky to use. I really hope Blizzard takes another look at Sombra, because the state she is in right now isn’t fun to use. Her Hack is not functioning correctly.

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I agree with your post, but I want to mention that the D.va thing has been around for a long time, and it hacks the mech, not the baby dva, which is annoying as hell.

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Yeah, not all of Sombra’s bugs are a result of the recent lazy changes to her.

Some of them aren’t even to do with her Hack ability. Here’s a nasty example of some Translocator bugs:
https://clips.twitch.tv/TiredMushyDinosaurWOOP

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I don’t get bugs as much these days, but they show up occasionally.

Also, that’s a huge necro.

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Hmm. I’m not sure if these are actually bugs because favor the shooter sort of factors into here.
It’s kind of similar as to when Genji or Tracer goes back to their original location when they dash/blink when they get hit by McCree’s flashbang.
What happens is that in McCree’s screen they got hit before the animation happened so your client has to synchronize your location to the server.

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This is very old (8 months), this was just after Blizzard changed the way Sombra’s Hack functioned with LOS, it resulted in a lot of buggy hack interactions. Many have since been fixed to some extent.

Most of the things in this thread don’t apply anymore.