That ability is so OP. How can people see that differently? It’s totally an unfair advantage for any player but the Sombra player.
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Agree 100%. Sombra can even hack deployables while invisible now, meaning characters like Torb no longer work as a counter to Sombra. There should be more sacrifice involved in being invisible
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ima say it- she should be able to counter deployables
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She CAN just like every other hero in the game can. Sombra is privileged in that she’s the only hero who can disable a torb turret without exposing herself or taking damage. It’s really not crazy to expect Sombra to shoot deployables like literally every other character in the game. Torb’s turret was designed to be effective against flankers like Sombra, but now she gets special treatment for some reason.
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do you mean stealth hack on players or deployables? i’m pretty sure you can’t stealth hack players anymore, only deployables
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Well, she can technically hack players while stealthed, and it’s almost impossible to do anything to prevent the hack as a player, so it might be both.
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she exits stealth when hacking a player
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Ima say it back, she shouldn’t be able to do it risk free. If she tries to hack a turret, the turret should be able to see her and she should have to hack it from behind.
The hack on deployables lasts too long to be completely free like it is. Torb should be a Sombra counter, not the other way around.
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Sombra is a hacker, her whole job is to counter deployables. Torb should not be a counter to Sombra, she should be a counter to him.
Also, Torb turret is the only thing hack is even useful for anymore - if it didn’t work on that you should just unbind it entirely.
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The whole point of the turret is to keep guard and point out threats it sees, Sombra shouldn’t be hacking it for free. If she hacks it from behind then that would be fine, but as is she can stand right in front of it and it won’t even try to stop the hack. That’s lame, it makes the Sombra into Torb interaction totally brainless.
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Stealth should have reliable counter plays instead of just blindly spam everywhere and hope that she runs into your bullet.
On the side note, i find Sym’s turrens are very annoying to Sombra
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The whole point of the turret is NOT to counter Sombra, she is the counter to the turret, they made this very clear in her redesign that they did not like how that interaction worked before.
Torbjorn only exists so that when your 6-year old nephew wants to play on your computer, you can give him a champion that won’t lose you ranks when he queues competitive ‘by accident’.
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Yeah but that’s stronger now than it was before. Prior to her rework, you could hack people in stealth but you still had to do the decloak animation before you could shoot them so there was some risk involved, now you uncloak automatically when you cast the hack so you can instantly start shooting as soon as the hack is over.
Bruh, Sombra exists for the 6 year olds now, have you seen how she counters Torb? Lol
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You could but hack doesn’t do anything to players anymore outside of a few very specific examples and ultimates. It doesn’t increase her damage, make them visible, or block their abilities - it’s an interrupt and good Sombra’s move the keybinding to something far away like V or 5 now, so they don’t even accidentally push it.
Hack objectively makes Virus more lethal. It makes the impact deal 20 damage and it goes from dealing 100 damage over 4 seconds to dealing that 100 damage over 2 seconds.
Okay guys…just stop. Being able to cancel out an ability just by damaging Sombea for 1 damage, is kinda unfair, like really unfair for the Sombra.
No other hero has this downside of a mechanic where their ability is completelt cutoff and forced on CD just because you got shot at.
Sombra kinda needs more tools at her disposal much like other stealth shooter heros. She should be flexible, but never nerfed to where she can’t even use her main ability.
Like…this is scary noticing how much players just don’t be proactive about the unseen assassin and just complain.
You could be spychecking, staying closer to teammates, using pings on Sombra’s last known location, saving specific cooldowns for Sombra’s aggression, even something as ensuring you keep your back to the wall of turn every so often to make sure you condition and enemy Sombra see that you yourself, is not an easy target.
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Sombra’s damage decreases when hacking targets. Hacking a target for 10 potential impact damage is never worthwhile compared to 1 second of spray (160 damage if all body shots). If you want to kill a target it is ALWAYS worse to hack them than just damaging them for one second instead.
Hack is only useful for interrupting a few ults, or hacking Torb turrets, there is no other reason to press that button, and you will be better at Sombra if you literally unbind it and forget hack exists, and just play around its absence - then wasting your brain capacity assessing situations for the marginal benefit of hacking Reaper instead of shooting him, or etc.
That’s the entire difference between the 10,000 damage Sombras and the 1500 damage Sombras. Unbind Hack, spam Virus and mouse 1.
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Indeed.
But there’s only Silver 4 in that rework design
Her whole job is to counter deployables? So this whole Sombras have been playing wrong by hacking people when instead they should’ve just been hacking turrets and pylons? Lol that’s silly
Torb turret has always been a flanker counter, but now Sombra gets to bypass that mechanic for some reason. Makes no sense to me, especially since his turret is pretty bad now
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