Sombra Hacking Ability Nerfed

Overwatch's Sombra has just been nerfed, reducing the effectiveness of her hacking ability.

Here is what is changing:

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.

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.

Overwatch classes are constantly changing and it's likely we'll see more changes in the future for other heroes. Currently, Brigitte is set to release next week on March 20th.

Overwatch is now available for Xbox One, PS4, and PC.