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[King Kitteh]

From the videos of Sombra gameplay, 76 is rather good at countering Sombra, because his spread can graze her, and he can also tap to take her out from range.

Sombra shoots faster and for longer. She sounds like a counter to herself. At least for taking her out of cloak, Soldier is probably better at the followup.

[Folly]

I just finished a match where at one point, a Mei managed to build a wall under herself at the exact instant she died. Her corpse was launched straight up in the air like a rocket, and I swear it was at least 5 seconds before it came back down! I was laughing my butt off~

[hops]

I miss the days when Mei can cover her entire team with ice wall if she uses it right before the victory screen.

Or when D.va can blow herself up while posing for victory.

[Pancakes]

Sombra has been released on the PTR for Overwatch! Also, Ecopoint: Antarctica is a new map and the arcade mode has been overhauled!

[King Kitteh]

I had to wait in queue with 5000 players to join the PTR, and yet the queue times for games are still several minutes, sometimes upward of 5 minutes. So many players, yet still not enough it seems.

Blizzard might need to allocate more servers to PTR.

[MrRoboto75]

Sombra seems mildly irritating but not really useful.

Hacks are incredibly easy to avoid by either breaking line of sight or just dealing 1 damage to her to interrupt.  Even if you are hacked... you just shoot her and she dies.

Her smg can bring people down to like 25% of their health, then she either dies trying to reload the damn thing or just does a tracer and teleports to fuck off where, while you go use one of the many ways to heal.

She pops up in the middle of the team, farts out an EMP blast... and they just shoot her and she dies.

Eventually I just switched back to reaper, at least then I can actually kill something.  Or the other two flankers, genji or tracer, as now we have four heroes all competing for the same basic role of flanking and spanking.

[EnigmaticHat]

Wait so damage breaks the hack?

[Reudh]

Wait so damage breaks the hack?

I'm going to guess it's interrupted by damage if it's still being channeled, but if it successfully goes through then it doesn't get broken. Emphasis on guess.

[EnigmaticHat]

If that's the case that seems like a crippling mechanic.  Without the hack, Sombra literally has only her weak gun and her ult to effect other characters.  Her passive and 2/3 of her abilities affect only her.

Honestly looking at her description on the wiki, it seems like they're introducing a third character to the Genji/Tracer mix.  Which is kinda hilarious given that the attack and defense categories are together entirely dominated by 2-4 characters, and Genji is one of them.  Already Tracer sees almost no use despite being a solid character in her own right, simply because in what situation would you chose her over Genji?  Similar to how Hanzo stacked up to Widow on release.  Now they want to add a weird flanking support who doesn't have a damaging ult and they expect her to be able to compete for Genji or Tracer's slot on the team?

(the opinions above are not final until I play the character)

[sjm9876]

Sombra's game resolves pretty much entirely around initiating and escaping from what I can see. Stealth/transponder -> hack can make a key target useless, and transponder is pretty much a guaranteed escape, and her passive allows her to hunt down the last enemies easily.

Would disagree about the gun, unless they've thrown out an incredibly fast patch
Close/Med range, very high fire rate, large mag. Bit less damage than a tracer but with a longer effective range. Unless at completely the wrong range or having a bad aim match, I've had minimal issues killing even tanks in 1 mag.


I'd say she definitely needs tweaking though. The transponder makes her incredibly difficult to actually kill, and with hacked first aids she's back in the fight incredibly fast.

[MrRoboto75]

Wait so damage breaks the hack?

I'm going to guess it's interrupted by damage if it's still being channeled, but if it successfully goes through then it doesn't get broken. Emphasis on guess.

That would be correct.  Interrupting doesn't cause a cooldown though.

But still, I'd try to hack someone and they just turn around and shoot me to stop it.  Or it would go though, but I'm still getting shot at and killed, and after 3-4 seconds the effect wears off so I basically wasted my time.

[Ygdrad]

I can't wait to get the new quickplay and arcade modes. We can finally have balanced matches when we're not in the mood for competitive. No-limit hero stacking is getting pushed to Arcade and quickplay is getting a 1 hero limit like competitive.

[Pancakes]

The thing I love most about the new arcade system is the implementation of weekly rewards, so I don't feel tempted to actually buy lootboxes, although I have managed to avoid doing so. Plus, we can play the different types of arcade and aren't limited to whatever happens to be on that week, and they introduced new 1v1 and 3v3 modes, which are pretty neat.

[sjm9876]

3v3 is a great test of skill and teamwork. If you can get a 3 stack up it's a great way to test yourselves. Really liking the rein-hog-ana combo for it.

That saidf, if you don't have a 3 stack you can bollocksed completely by an uncooperative teammate.

[King Kitteh]

I'm weighing up whether the one second spent hacking is worth it when you could just start shooting them instead.