I heard a lot of people saying that her PTR changes (infinite stealth and translocator) are nerfs, and I can't say I agree, but I don't play Sombra enough to predict how it will feel once the changes are live. I'm not a big PTR player so I haven't tried them yet, but my biggest gripe is just the decrease in movement speed while in stealth mode.
Oh, okay! I see what you mean. I'm a bit nervous that Hammond will be similar since it's his mech that talks and not him- how will they do interesting/lore-building dialogue between characters?
Hahaha I really hope he has some fun skins and voice lines, the developers can be really fun with his character and I'm excited for that. I almost want to get on PTR and try him out, but I know that it'll be soon enough before he's live and played all the time anyway.
IMO her PTR changes, even after the recent buffs, are still nerfs overall. Sombra's issues didn't lie in her stealth abilities, infiltrating the backline wasn't much of an issue, the 75% speed bonus while invisible for 5 seconds was enough for just about every Sombra to get where they wanted before decloaking, and most of the time you'll decloak before the timer runs out considering this is a fast-paced game. The new stealth just overall feels slower, and while it lasting forever is nice, it doesn't make a positive impact on the gameplay of good Sombra players. The new Translocator is really clunky too. Allowing the enemies to destroy it was an overall nerf in general, it's ironic because the disruption hero is most easily disrupted now.
The good things that came from this were the ability to cancel TLC and interrupt reload with Hack. Her problems are really in her reliability, consistency, and damage output compared to other DPS heroes.
What they should've done with Invis imo was reduce the delay between entering and exiting,(0.7 is too long imo) AND add a damage threshold to Invis. It can be cancelled currently by >1 damage, which is terrible.
Then they should've reverted the cast speed for Hack back to pre-buff. So, 0.8 second cast time + leniency and less LoS restrictions. Then have it cancel Brigitte's passive, Inspire, and add a damage threshold to it, because similarly to Invis, it can currently be canceled and put on a 2 sec CD(which should also be removed) by >1 damage.
Finally a buff to her passive that would allow her to deal extra damage to targets with >50% health, just to give her extra damage and a better overall average damage dealt to hopefully put her in line with other DPS heroes.
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Same here, but they've been doing better with their recent heroes. Moira, Doomfist, and Brigitte were all well done with great personalities. From Hammond's current voice lines, he seems really mischievous and silly. His unreleased victory poses have him mocking other tanks by mimicking their poses. He has D.Va's bubble gum victory pose,(Where he lays on his mech doing the peace sign while blowing a bubble of gum) and Orisa/Rein's 'Confident' poses. His current voice lines are stuff like "Get Wrecked" when killing an enemy with Minefield(I believe) and when he uses Piledriver he'll sometimes say "Clearing the Area" like Reaper's friendly Ult voice line. So he so far seems like a cute, silly, and mischievous hero. Which is amazing imo.
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I'm hoping he does too! So far he seems to like to mock other characters, so I'd love to see some stuff like that. I also desperately want to see an interaction with him and D.Va where D.Va says something to him along the lines of bragging about her mech and he repeats what she says in a whole 'mocking' tone. I also think we'll see a Junker skin for him, in his Origin Story in the Scrapyard where the Junker Queen is giving him his 'crown' his mech looks very junker-inspired like one of D.Va's Junker skins. I'm hoping his other two legendary skins are cute or silly. I really want a Disco Ball mech!!!
I hope he causes a meta shift, and I think he will, he'll probably cause Triple Tank Dive to be meta, which will be very fresh and new for the game.
