Still doesn’t remove brig’s. I think it’s unfair.
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It does make sense. You just don’t like the answer. It has two major rules. And doesn’t apply to passives that don’t fit into those rules.
Why not give Sombra 1000 HP, Infinite hacks, 1000 Damage per bullet, and 1000 Ammo, and can’t get hit out of stealth, and be able to make the enemy not even able to shoot, and emp should affect everyone in the map.
Brigitte’s is tied to her weapon. It doesn’t remove anything tied to weapons. Not Brigitte’s inspire, not Moira’s lifesuck, and not the bonus speed of Dragonblade.
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Dragonblade bonus speed is technically a passive. You guys actually have no clue what you are talking about.
It doesn’t go through walls. Latency and favor the shooter effect it like all abilities but it breaks on LOS loss. Weapons, like certain ultimates, are exceptions for balance purposes.
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It’s a passive of Dragonblade. As Dragonblade is both a weapon and a transformation ultimate, it wouldn’t be affected by hack. It has double immunity though it doesn’t need it.
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Sure Hanzo and Genji using dragons is super realistic
Because if we go according to logic this would be a horrible game:
- Robots would swap teams when hacked.
- Dva would just explode when hacked.
- Zarya’s Ult would instakill anybody close
- Zen would need to walk.
- Junk would be dead.
- Doom would have a whole bunch of broken Bones.
- And wth do Genji and Hanzo do without dragons.
- Etc etc.
Thats why Hack works according to rules and not logic.
Zarya’s ult would destroy the map if we’re talking logic. 
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I think this game is the wrong place to ask for logic.
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I agree.
This isnt a passive
plus, why are you looking for logic on the game with flying gorillas and hamsters?
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Sombra removes passives that occur on a button press, except for Lucio’s song for some reason. Thing’s like pharah’s flight, Genji’s double jump and Wall climb, and Mercy’s angelic decent all require the push of a button to utilize, making them less of a passive and more of an active.
Lucio’s aura being Hacked is the exception here, as he has no way of activating it; it is always on, regardless of what Lucio does. Now, how Hack interacts with crossfade by preventing the swap between songs, stopping Wallride, that’s all fine. But the aura itself shouldn’t be turned off. It’s just there. For comparrison, Genji’s swift strike also gets turned off with Hack, obviously, but the reset on elim mechanic does not.
Well, Soldier running is not a passive.
Beyond that though, to buff Sombra, she used to not disable them but this was done as a buff to her and a welcome one at that.
And for consistency, if you were to do things like it cant hack this or can hack that, it would be completely arbitrary whereas now its consistent and clear as to what is hacked and what is not.
unless you’re looking for a lore answer… From a coding standpoint, Sombra can hack those because she prevents button pressing and releases buttons held, for Lucio it works as intended even if it looks like it isn’t, crossfade is a toggle which is coded as a button held 100% all the time, what happens when Sombra hacks Lucio is that she’s forcing him to release the button held (as understood by the engine) nothing more
same for Soldier 76, when you press shift, you don’t need to hold the button down, it’s automatically pressed so that you can move freely
For Hanzo/Genji, wall climb requires the space bar input which you cannot do if you’re hacked because button press is disabled, hope this helps
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Lucio’s songs are button activated passives of crossfade. He activates one to deactivate the other. Since he has full control over this passive with the press of a button, and it isn’t tied to his weapon, it falls under the same rules as the other button activated passives.
It is literally labelled a button activated passive by the game developers.
Sombras hack denies abilities. Passives are abilities.
If anything, its questionable why some abilities like transformation based dont get canceled.
Its for balance sake, but it doesnt make sense in terms of consistency.
VenusArmani here is 100% correct.
They did a soft rework of sombra to make her better at dps, she gets ult charge exvlusively from damage instead of hacked health packs. To make her more viable in 1v1 they added passives.