[Gaming] Overwatch (#boycottblizz)
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Poor Torb. I was watching Unit Lost stream from BlizzCon, and Sombra can hack either the turret itself or the Torbjorn, which will also shut down the turret. He used it while escaping a molten core Torb and completely shut down his level 3 turret.
He is going to have to be careful running around now.
P.s. she has two other passive abilities not really advertised. She has Widowmaker / Hanzo style sight automatically on any enemy in critical health, and can see when enemies have their Ults ready. She is going to be really good for battle awareness.
P.s.s. It seems that both Widowmaker and Hanzo will be able to see Sombra through her stealth using their wall hacking abilities. It was also mentioned that a S76 using Tactical Visor will also be able to see Sombra through her stealth. Winston is another good counter in the same way Pyros were for the spy in TF2, just spray your canon around and you will likely hit her in the large cone of the lightening gun. You can also spot her if she gets too close (both a shimmering half vision and an audio queue from you character that spots her) so don't get too close to enemies.
He is going to have to be careful running around now.
P.s. she has two other passive abilities not really advertised. She has Widowmaker / Hanzo style sight automatically on any enemy in critical health, and can see when enemies have their Ults ready. She is going to be really good for battle awareness.
P.s.s. It seems that both Widowmaker and Hanzo will be able to see Sombra through her stealth using their wall hacking abilities. It was also mentioned that a S76 using Tactical Visor will also be able to see Sombra through her stealth. Winston is another good counter in the same way Pyros were for the spy in TF2, just spray your canon around and you will likely hit her in the large cone of the lightening gun. You can also spot her if she gets too close (both a shimmering half vision and an audio queue from you character that spots her) so don't get too close to enemies.
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I've already suggested you do this.Hah, you wanna go through all my videos and mark down times I curse for another montage video?
You could even post a [CLEAN] version with all the cussing bleeped out.
Well, that's total BS. Right up there with Mei being able to freeze him when he's ulting.
--Patrick
Well it KIND of makes sense. I mean, what are you going to do? Make him not throw down armors for six seconds? His turret IS his ability.
Sombra needs to be able to hack Mei's Ult gizmo.
GasBandit
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The ult gizmo needs to have 200 hp and be destroyable.
GasBandit
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It doesn't affect primary fire, but what about alt fire? Can Torbjorn and Roadhog still alt-fire while hacked? I would assume so, since they don't have HUD icons/cooldowns like, say, 76's alt fire (helix rocket)... but then that also begs the question, can widowmaker zoom while hacked? Can Zenyatta charge his fire? Can Mercy heal/boost, since that's her "primary weapon?" Mei's icicle? Zarya's grenade? What about passive abilities like wall-climbing, double jumping, etc?
Furthermore, can Sombra hack Reinhardt through his shield, thus disabling his shield? Does hacking Pharah prevent her from hovering since it has the same mechanic as D.Va's defense barrier?
Also, she seems to me like a prime candidate for the 150 hp club.
@GasBandit
Don't have all the details but from what I know it knocks out all HUD abilities, so S76 can't helix rocket, but Torbjorn can still alt-fire, since his alt does not involve a HUD cool down. Hanzo can still run up walls since that ability is inate.
Sombra can not hack through shields, only EMP has that ability, since it destroys the shields. Zenyatta is going to have a bad time since it also works on health shields, meaning getting hit by EMP will nearly kill him, and really hurt a Symmetra or Zarya.
Don't have all the details but from what I know it knocks out all HUD abilities, so S76 can't helix rocket, but Torbjorn can still alt-fire, since his alt does not involve a HUD cool down. Hanzo can still run up walls since that ability is inate.
Sombra can not hack through shields, only EMP has that ability, since it destroys the shields. Zenyatta is going to have a bad time since it also works on health shields, meaning getting hit by EMP will nearly kill him, and really hurt a Symmetra or Zarya.
I wonder if it cancels Zen's ult. If it does it negates almost all of the support ults. Zarya > sombra > Hanzo would be unstoppable.
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Zen is completely immune to nearly everything while his ultimate is happening, so it should be one of the things that EMP shouldn't negate, otherwise Sombra would be way to strong versus him.
Wat...
I agree, but once it's autonomous, should hacking Torb really affect his turret if it's 100yds away from him? Otherwise, reciprocity says that hacking his turret should simultaneously hack him.
Next you'll tell me you should be able to destroy D.Va's mech before it explodes!
--Patrick
Darin De Paul is loving every minute of being the voice of Reinhardt. I have seen videos of him at nearly every con just gathering with overwatch players and making up lines.
Is Gas overdone on Overwatch?
GasBandit
Staff member
Define "overdone?"
Played more than you needed to?
But I wanted it to play on the title. I'm just a forum poster on the edge, a loose cannon, I don't play by the rules.
It's the little things that make the game the most fun to me.
Just had a match in QP with a vastly better enemy team, decided to go Lucio since we were stuck under the bridge at Dorado most of the game. Seemed it was what we needed as we then pushed much better and got to the first CP then the second, but we lost so much time on the first we didn't have a lot of time left overall. We were inches from the end and successfully killed the other team somehow, with one of them switching to a tracer to impede out cap. She is leaping and blinking around, so I wait for her to jump, get under her, and launch her over the wall to the lower part of the room. I guess her recall was out because she didn't come back, and we won, haha. My team got ZERO commend cards.
Just had a match in QP with a vastly better enemy team, decided to go Lucio since we were stuck under the bridge at Dorado most of the game. Seemed it was what we needed as we then pushed much better and got to the first CP then the second, but we lost so much time on the first we didn't have a lot of time left overall. We were inches from the end and successfully killed the other team somehow, with one of them switching to a tracer to impede out cap. She is leaping and blinking around, so I wait for her to jump, get under her, and launch her over the wall to the lower part of the room. I guess her recall was out because she didn't come back, and we won, haha. My team got ZERO commend cards.
Oh my god...
That's fucking amazing, hahaha