Current Events > Blizzard is buffing the hell out of Sombra

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To be fair though, Tracer is pretty well balanced for now. She's a glass tank. She can dish out a lot of damage but she have the lowest health pool in the game (Not counting Zenyatta without shield) and she needs to be considerably close to do her maximum damage, which is a risk for her since most things can 1 or 2 shot her.

Fuck the Shimada brothers, but that stuff Sombra can hack in the OP just sounds like overkill. I doubt they'll go live.
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Sombra should be able to do things like hack Widowmaker mines and Torb Turrets to convert them to allies.
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Tyranthraxus posted...

Sombra should be able to do things like hack Widowmaker mines and Torb Turrets to convert them to allies.

So she should completely negate Torb's most important function?
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Kitt posted...

To be fair though, Tracer is pretty well balanced for now. She's a glass tank. She can dish out a lot of damage but she have the lowest health pool in the game (Not counting Zenyatta without shield) and she needs to be considerably close to do her maximum damage, which is a risk for her since most things can 1 or 2 shot her.

I just think she has a tad too much range. She shouldn't be able to shoot pharah out the damn sky imo.

BlueBoy675 posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

Sombra should be able to do things like hack Widowmaker mines and Torb Turrets to convert them to allies.

So she should completely negate Torb's most important function?

Kinda like what she's doing to lucio!
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CookieMarvin posted...

Kitt posted...

To be fair though, Tracer is pretty well balanced for now. She's a glass tank. She can dish out a lot of damage but she have the lowest health pool in the game (Not counting Zenyatta without shield) and she needs to be considerably close to do her maximum damage, which is a risk for her since most things can 1 or 2 shot her.

I just think she has a tad too much range. She shouldn't be able to shoot pharah out the damn sky imo!

I think her range is straight. She can do meh-to-servicable damage at mid range. It would take Tracer some time to shoot a full health Pharah out of the sky. That would give her plenty of time to kill or scare Tracer away.
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The fact that such massive game changes happen all the time to try and bring balance to the game and always fail shows that Overwatch's design is fucked, there shouldn't be 30 unique options if there's six players and many characters share the same role of else it will get tier listed Melee style
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BlueBoy675 posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

Sombra should be able to do things like hack Widowmaker mines and Torb Turrets to convert them to allies.

So she should completely negate Torb's most important function?

Sure, why not?

As D.Va I can tap right click for 0.0001 seconds and totally shut down Moira.
and it's also a lot easier to do than standing in front of a Torb turret for half a second.
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Kitt posted...

CookieMarvin posted...

Kitt posted...

To be fair though, Tracer is pretty well balanced for now. She's a glass tank. She can dish out a lot of damage but she have the lowest health pool in the game (Not counting Zenyatta without shield) and she needs to be considerably close to do her maximum damage, which is a risk for her since most things can 1 or 2 shot her.

I just think she has a tad too much range. She shouldn't be able to shoot pharah out the damn sky imo!

I think her range is straight. She can do meh-to-servicable damage at mid range. It would take Tracer some time to shoot a full health Pharah out of the sky. That would give her plenty of time to kill or scare Tracer away.

idk I feel like I'm always taking pharah out of the sky

Doe posted...

The fact that such massive game changes happen all the time to try and bring balance to the game and always fail shows that Overwatch's design is fucked, there shouldn't be 30 unique options if there's six players and many characters share the same role of else it will get tier listed Melee style

The constant changes keep the game feeling semi-fresh. Often times, ovw will feel like a completely different game between metas.
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CookieMarvin posted...

Kitt posted...

CookieMarvin posted...

Kitt posted...

To be fair though, Tracer is pretty well balanced for now. She's a glass tank. She can dish out a lot of damage but she have the lowest health pool in the game (Not counting Zenyatta without shield) and she needs to be considerably close to do her maximum damage, which is a risk for her since most things can 1 or 2 shot her.

I just think she has a tad too much range. She shouldn't be able to shoot pharah out the damn sky imo!

I think her range is straight. She can do meh-to-servicable damage at mid range. It would take Tracer some time to shoot a full health Pharah out of the sky. That would give her plenty of time to kill or scare Tracer away.

idk I feel like I'm always taking pharah out of the sky

If she's too high up, I don't even bother. I leave it to a Soldier, McCree or Widow. Anybody that can get her at that height. But when she's close enough, I try to focus down Pharah. Especially when her health is lowered.
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Good at the faster hacking. You cant really hack Torbs turret because it shoots you before it completes

CruelBuffalo posted...

Good at the faster hacking. You cant really hack Torbs turret because it shoots you before it completes

you'll need someone like Symmetra to help you get close to it and then someone like Reinhardt to hold up a shield to stall for you.

But the biggest issue with hacking the turret is they always place it on some really fucking hard to reach place.
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