In a post on the Official Overwatch forums, a fan asked for a "hint" on what was happening with regards to the Sombra rework the team had confirmed they were working on.

Geoff Goodman, the Principal Designer for Overwatch who frequently responded on the official forums, by his own admission, gave much more than just a hint. His full response is pasted below for convenience:

Sure. These changes started by seeing how far we could push the duration of her Stealth and Translocator abilities. As we pushed them out, it allowed her to play more and more as a scout/infiltrator for your team and also allowed her more time to pick and choose when and where she popped out to ambush her enemies.

So now she has infinite duration on both Stealth and Translocator, but we had to solve a couple problems that were caused by these changes. For one, she needed to be able to destroy the translocator, or it would often be stuck in some place she didn’t want it to be. To that end, you can now destroy it by looking towards it and pressing the Interact key. Also, Stealth giving you 75% bonus movement speed forever was… a bit strong. This bonus has been lowered to 50%. In addition, she can no longer contest objectives while in Stealth, since she that would just be super frustrating with infinite duration.

These changes are really interesting for her as now she is in complete control over when she reveals herself, allow her to time her hacks better for her team, or go for a back line ambush during a critical moment in a team fight.

I guess that was more than a hint.

A true stealth hero

These changes to Sombra are sure to excite players that already enjoy her style of play. However, if they go live, it will fundamentally change the way Overwatch is played. Sombra could always go invisible, but the fixed duration meant her stealth abilities were limited to quick scouting, flanking, and the occasional trickly play.

Full blown stealth (and infinite duration translocators) allows Sombra to permanently scout the enemy team and, like any traditional stealth character in other games, strike at precisely the right moment.  Timing is everything when it comes to successfully engaging on an enemy and it's hard to imagine a world where infinite stealth Sombra's won't play a big role in doing just that.

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