Overwatch developer Blizzard has announced plans for its next major character update.
Just hours after announcing a March 20 release date for Brigitte, Blizzard has announced plans to tweak Sombra.
The changes will be released as part of the next patch, so expect the update to arrive with Brigitte.
As part of the update, Sombra’s hacking ability will have a short cooldown time when interrupted.
The idea is to make players exercise more caution when choosing who to hack and when.
The other change is designed to give opposition players a better chance of interrupting a hack using a special ability.
The news was announced by Blizzard’s Geoff Goodman, who said: “The intent of all of her recent changes is still to increase her overall strength and viability. We’re keeping a close eye on her to make sure she lands in a good place.”
Meanwhile, the post below explains exactly what changes will be made to Sombra in the next update.
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Any time Sombra’s hack is interrupted by damage, hacking will go on cooldown for 2 seconds. With this change, Sombra will have to be more careful about choosing when and who to hack instead of just holding down the button and waiting for people to miss and/or reload etc.
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There is currently a 0.1s window of time at the end of the hack where it cannot be canceled via line of sight or other effects (such as Tracer’s recall, Zarya bubbles, etc). This exists so it doesn’t constantly get broken by very small line of sight blockers such as light posts and signs, etc. We are removing this window and instead now using multiple LOS checks to make sure the small LOS blockers are still not a problem. In addition to this, we’re speeding up the update rate of her hacking so that it is more responsive in checking for these fail conditions. The combination of these things means it should be much more reasonable to respond to a hack targeting you.
The update will launch alongside Brigitte, who is a low-level support hero with a hammer and shield.
Brigitte can throw repair packs to teammates and even heal allies while damaging enemies.
“Brigitte specialises in armour,” reads a Blizzard post. “She can throw Repair Packs to heal teammates, or automatically heal nearby allies when she damages foes with her Flail.
“Her Flail is capable of a wide swing to strike multiple targets, or a Whip Shot that stuns an enemy at range.
“When entering the fray, Barrier Shield provides personal defence while she attacks enemies with Shield Bash.”
