ability index 11
change timeline 8 patches
- Damage reduced from 7 to 6.5.
- Explosion damage reduced from 40 to 20.
- Cooldown increased from 12 to 13 seconds.
- Moved from Damage to Support role.
- Moved from Recon subrole to Tactician subrole.
- Experience required to earn minor perk increased by 67%.
- Experience required to earn major perk increased by 69.5%.
Encrypted Upload – Minor Perk
- Removed.
Life Hack - Minor Perk
- New Minor Perk.
- EMP applies Hotfix to all nearby allies.
High-Speed Bandwidth – Major Perk
- Removed.
Data Packet - Major Perk
- New Major Perk.
- Hacking health packs with Hotfix reduces its main cooldown by 4 seconds.
Viral Replication – Major Perk
- Removed.
Cybersecurity - Major Perk
- New Major Perk.
- Cyberspace’s healing is doubled on allies below half health.
- Damage per projectile decreased from 8 to 7.
- Minimum falloff distance increased from 15 meters to 20 meters.
- Maximum spread decreased from 2.3 degrees to 2 degrees.
- Shots until max spread increased from 6 to 10.
- Ultimate cost increased by 67.5%.
- Damage decreased from 25% of current health to 20% of current health.
- Removed.
- New ability assigned to Secondary Fire by default.
- Heal an ally over time for a set amount of health.
- Hotfixing an ally heals them for 65 instant health and 25 health per second over its duration.
- Hotfix lasts on an ally until either 175 total healing is done or until 12 seconds have passed.
- Hotfix can also target health packs and most enemy deployables to hack them, which does not require any Hotfix charges and triggers a separate 6 second cooldown.
- Hacked health pack duration decreased from 45 seconds to 30 seconds.
- Hacking health packs or deployables can be interrupted by taking damage, which will cancel the ability and trigger the separate 6 second cooldown.
- Hotfix can be used while stealthed, temporarily revealing Sombra without breaking stealth.
- Cast time is 0.5 seconds.
- Range is 17 meters.
- Has 2 charges.
- Cooldown is 8 seconds.
- Removed.
- New ability assigned to Ability 1 by default.
- Launch a projectile that explodes on impact, creating a zone that weakens enemies and heals allies.
- Initial explosion deals 40 damage to enemies and 40 healing to allies.
- Zone deals 25 damage per second to enemies and 30 healing per second to allies.
- Zone duration is 3 seconds.
- Zone radius is 5 meters.
- Enemies within the zone are weakened, which is a new status effect that reduces the target’s own damage and healing output by 50%.
- Stealth duration increased from 5 seconds to 6.5 seconds.
- Time to enter Stealth increased from 0.3 seconds to 0.75 seconds.
- Projectile range reduced from 18 meters to 12.25 meters.
- Movement speed bonus is now active immediately after teleporting instead of after fully entering Stealth.
- Cooldown increased from 6 seconds to 7.5 seconds.
- Removed.
- New Passive.
- Fully-charged enemy ultimates are revealed to you.
Developer Comments: Sombra is being brought into the Support role with this latest rework. In the past, her identity as a disruptive mastermind was at odds with the value a Damage hero was expected to bring. Moving Sombra to the Support role should allow us to fully lean into her hero fantasy while keeping important pillars of her gameplay intact.
One notable change of the rework is the removal of Hack as an ability. Facing Sombra often meant being unexpectedly locked out of your abilities from time to time. While this can create fun moments of cancelling key abilities for the Sombra player, most players found it jarring, frustrating, and difficult to deal with. By removing Hack from her main abilities, we brought in a new debuff Sombra can inflict on enemies: Weaken, which halves an enemy’s own damage and healing output. A well-timed weaken can turn the tide of battle, much like Hack was able to, without completely locking an enemy out of their own abilities.
- Head hit volume increased from 14 to 16.
- Torso hit volume reduced from 25 to 23.
- Leg hit volumes increased from 15 to 18.
Encrypted Upload – Minor Perk
- Reworked - Sombra can now throw Virus without breaking Stealth. Sombra is Revealed for 3s after throwing Virus while Stealthed.
Viral Replication – Major Perk
- Reworked - Final blows reduce the cooldown of Virus by 4s.
- Removed.
- Moved to Ability 1.
- Maximum duration increased from 5s to 8s.
- Move speed bonus increased from 60% to 75%.
- Projectile physics altered – now arcs through the air slower.
- No longer has a maximum flight time.
- No longer immediately teleports Sombra upon impact or timeout.
- Translocator now persists indefinitely on the ground. Translocator has 5 health when on the ground.
- Now applies Hacked status effect to impacted enemies.
- Now Hacks healthpacks nearby when impacting the environment.
- Cooldown increased from 6s to 8s.
Sombra’s rework essentially eliminated the flanker playstyle of Sombra, and she is no longer capable of setting up dives for her team in dive compositions. These changes look to bring back that flanker identity as well as give her more power as a scout (with her unique ultimate charge revealing passive).
- Movement speed bonus reduction while revealed by damage reduced from 50% to 33%.
- Minor Perk cost reduced by 6%.
- Major Perk cost reduced by 5%.
- Movement speed bonus reduced by 50% while revealed by damage.
- Replaced Translocator.
- Transforms Sombra into a random object.
- Sombra can still move while disguised.
- Doing any action removes Sombra's disguise.
For unspecified reasons, barrels have appeared on all maps. Please ignore them.
Opportunist
- No longer detects enemies below half health.
- Now reveals enemy ultimate abilities on nameplates.
Healthy Hacker – Major Perk
- Removed.
High-Speed Bandwidth – Major Perk
- Hacked health packs grant allies 25% movement speed and 50 overhealth for 4 seconds.
With the introduction of the Recon Sub Role Passive, Sombra’s Opportunist has been updated to avoid overlap. Revealing enemy ultimate status on nameplates provides unique information that supports Sombra’s fantasy.
Hidden Upload Perk
- Stealth duration on successful hack increased from 2 to 3 seconds
Healthy Hacker Perk
- Time before overhealth degeneration increased from 6 to 10 seconds
- Overhealth degeneration increased from 10 to 25
- Overhealth granted increased from 50 to 75
- Packs can now be picked up at full overhealth to reset the degeneration timer
Healthy Hacker has struggled to provide consistent value as a result of its short active window. These adjustments extend its effectiveness and offer more opportunities to benefit from the perk, even when combat occurs away from health packs.