New Overwatch short film unveils Sombra

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RIP Mercy.

Are you a mercy player who is adept at dueling tracers, ducking from winstons, hiding from genjis, ALL AT THE SAME TIME, and want a new hard mode to really put your lifespan to the test?

Then behold Sombra, a character who can stealth (lovely, those are ALWAYS fun) every 15 secs and can teleport back whenever she is in actual danger to her safespot on a quickly recharging health pack that allows her to basically keep attacking the backline of the enemy team "for free". And rest assured dear mercy player, she will be constantly aiming for you ;)

If that isn't enough, she can smell your fear! She can hack you so you can't heal or even autoregen (thus allowing her to track you after you disengaged from combat and let her finish the job), and that's without her ulti.

Oh yeh, final nail in the mercy shaped coffin: she can cockblock your rezes, the main criteria by which mercy players are judged (at least in my experience, few people thank me for the awesome heals), and failing to deliver those perfect 4-5 man rezes will always see your team descend on you like a swarm of angry piranhas and you shall be judged the reason they lost (which in this case they might have a point...if a hero shuts you down this bad, guess it's time to switch to friggin boring lucio..Actually you know what, fuck them, stay mercy!).

Seriously character looks fun for a stealth/assassin character, something im usually not fond of, but as a mercy main i just don't see how im ever going to be able to play her ever again in competitive games :/
Doesn't help that sombra seems practically custom designed for competitive play, i fully expect her to be in every team once she is out.
 

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I don't really care for her color pallet. Its a bit too garish for my tastes. Widowmaker and reaper have much better color pallets. Her kit looks neat tho.
 

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Dansen said:
I don't really care for her color pallet. Its a bit too garish for my tastes. Widowmaker and reaper have much better color pallets. Her kit looks neat tho.
Well, there will probably be a palette swap you'll prefer for 75 credits.
 

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Everybody talking about her backstory and her abilities and gameplay style when only one thing matters.
<__>

-_-

Ahem...
Who do you ship her with? My cash is a love triangle with Widowmaker for Tracer, or Symetra, maybe even a flirty enemy for Zarya. We need more Femshipping, MORE FEMSHIPPING! Mwa ha ha haaaaaa!!!

No, but seriously, I love the character, won't play as her though. I wish Blizzard would just fucking make an animated show or something already with these characters.

Japan, China, and Korea can make shit tons of anime series for bullshit like mobile and card games, why can't Blizz hop on that train? They'd make fucking pallets of cash.
 

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You guys are underestimating Sombra's true strength. She doesn't just hack, she erases memory.

She makes:
McCree forget how to roll
Soldier76 forgets how to sprint
Genji forgets how to deflect
and even Roadhog's plain ol' hook just stops working somehow

If it affects passives, Hanzo and Genji might even forget how to wall-climb.
 

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Eh, I found the video uninteresting to be honest. It didn't really evoke any emotional reaction at all, good or bad, which is a first for these Overwatch videos.

I found her attitude annoying more than anything, he concept as a character to play rather silly, and her power set reminded me of the hacker guy from Kung Fury. You don't get to animate a wall into an arm just because you have "leet hackzor skillz gurl!"

It just, bleh, didn't really hold together at all.
 

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Happyninja42 said:
You don't get to animate a wall into an arm just because you have "leet hackzor skillz gurl!"
It wasn't a wall, it was a giant mech. (That map is a mech manufacturing plant. You can see them standing around in-game.)

Not that scratching a mech with your cyber-fingernails has much to do with "hacking", but there you go.
 

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Zhukov said:
Happyninja42 said:
You don't get to animate a wall into an arm just because you have "leet hackzor skillz gurl!"
It wasn't a wall, it was a giant mech. (That map is a mech manufacturing plant. You can see them standing around in-game.)

Not that scratching a mech with your cyber-fingernails has much to do with "hacking", but there you go.
Ah, I don't play the game at all, just watch the vids. Didn't see any giant mechs while watching it. It looked like she just touched a wall of metal, and "hacked" it to be an arm. Because you know...science magic. Regardless, that one fact doesn't change my opinion of the video. Very underwhelming.
 

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undeadsuitor said:
crimsonspear4D said:
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Who do you ship her with? My cash is a love triangle with Widowmaker for Tracer, or Symetra, maybe even a flirty enemy for Zarya.
This man's asking the important questions.

I'm voting for symmetra as well. Similar aesthetics, similar if mirror backgrounds. Similar skills. Plus sombras always looking for strong friends and whose better than the hands and face of the most powerful corporation in the world?
Fun fact: Sombra and Symmetra are right next to each other in the hero gallery.

Coincidence? I think not.