Sombra – Overwatch [Review]

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Hello Steemians, I've found myself a bit busy since I went back to World Of Wacraft in the legion version and I really feel lost in that version since a lot of things have changed since the last time I played that was pandarian, I went back to WoW to get used to it and wait for the new expansion The Battle of Azeroth that really looks spectacular, hopefully return to classic things that fans liked a lot I will soon upload videos and post writing about my experience in WoW. Changing the subject this time I bring the Overwatch hacker a fun hero to use it is Shadow. I hope you like it!
"Overwatch is a first person shooter video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. It was released to the public in May 2016 for Microsoft Windows, Playstation 4 and Xbox One. "Information obtained from Wiki.
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Overwatch is one of the most famous video games currently in the community of players with a little over a year, competing directly against video games such as League Of Legends in countries like South Korea, where there are more active players and becoming the most played from that country.
Its game mechanic consists of six people per team, where we choose a hero with unique movements and abilities. The main objective is to work as a team either to attack or defend points, target escort, control and competitive mode. Recently they added new game modes like team combat.
Each hero has a specific role and are: Offensive, Defensive, Tank and Support with various maps and game modes. That make Overwatch one of the most beloved games in the community of players. And for me one of my favorites.
According to official figures on the same page of Overwatch exceeds 30 million players.
Sombra, one of the best hackers in the world, uses information to manipulate those who hold power.

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Long before adopting the name of "Sombra", ░░░░░░ was one of thousands of children that the Ornic Crisis left orphans. Much of the infrastructure in his country was destroyed, so he had to learn to survive using his natural talent for hacking and computers.
░░░░░░ was welcomed by the Mexican band Los Muertos, and contributed to its unique revolution against the government. The Dead believed that the reconstruction of Mexico had benefited mainly the rich and powerful, forgetting the authentic needy.
After many exploits, ░░░░░░ gained a lot of confidence in her faculties, but ended up falling prey to the web of a global conspiracy ... a conspiracy that had been fixed on her. When his safety was threatened, the photographer had no choice but to eliminate all traces of his identity and find a place to hide.

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After a while, she resurfaced as a Shadow, improved and determined to discover the truth hidden behind the conspiracy she had uncovered. Shadow perpetrated a chain of even bolder hacks that generated not a few admirers, Talon among them. He joined the ranks of the organization, and is believed to have participated in the massive cyberattacks against corporations that maintained strong ties with their respective governments. All this led to a popular revolution in Mexico against Lumérico and the safety violation of Volskaya Industries, responsible for the manufacture of Russia's anti-ammunition defense material.
Now, with the enormous resources of Talon at his disposal, Shadow can concentrate on his true goal: unravel the conspiracy and benefit from his power.
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Sombra is all we want to be gamers, an invisible hero who hacks the world sounds like a lot of fun does not it? She is a hero with fascinating abilities that can surprise her enemies either by becoming invisible or teleporting herself, and her passive informs her through the wall that enemies with less than half a lifetime could be said to be a heroine who takes every opportunity. His weapon is used in medium and short range, his special ability allows him to disable any enemy ability. Its form of game is stealth and sabotage or murder.
The Sombra weapon is an automatic machine gun with a rate of fire of 20 shots per second for short range attacks with a reload speed of 1.5 seconds and a capacity of 60 shots. If you use your skills correctly, you take advantage of the short range damage of this weapon.



The first shadow ability allows you to hack the enemy so that you can not use your abilities temporarily for 4 seconds you can also hack the first aid kits so enemies can not use them for 60 seconds. This ability has a range of 15 meters and a reuse of 8 seconds.


The second ability allows you to go unnoticed through enemies, it becomes invisible for 6 seconds increasing its movement speed. When they take damage or use their abilities, their camouflage is disabled and their reuse is 6 seconds.


The third shadow ability is a device that launches to transport from one place to another instantly this ability is activated for 15 seconds which is the time in which it can be transported to the device and has a reuse of 4 seconds.



The special ability is simple consists of an electromagnetic pulse that automatically deactivates any device or skill of the enemy within a radius of 15 meters for 6 seconds, I believe that its area of effect should be wider.


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Shadow is a heroine not easy to use since their skills confuse when using them, you have to have a lot of practice with your transporter and know where to place it since it can save your life, your ability to become invisible should be used well since in the moment where it is disappearing if it takes damage the ability is canceled.
I love the speed of shadow movement, it is really very good heroine for surprise attacks on heroes who have little life or to pursue and kill the enemy healers, also their weapon is very effective at close range harassing and sabotaging enemies.
The special shadow ability, although it does not hurt, can be very useful in the last moments of the game to deactivate the enemy's abilities and leave the opposing team unprotected. Shadow requires a lot of handling by the player who uses it, since in many cases one is easily confused.
Stealth and surprise are the best factor of this heroine, her skills help her a lot to sneak behind enemy lines, personally I love using Shadow should be because I like characters with fast movement speed skills that make it possible move faster and with weapons of high rate of fire. It is also a very fun heroine to use I recommend it if you want to have a nice time playing Overwatch.
- Speed of fast movement.
- It becomes invisible for surprise attacks.
- Deactivate enemy skills.
- Small weapon with high rate of fire and short range.
- Your translocator can save your life or help you to appear behind enemies.
- His special ability does not hurt the enemy.
- If you receive shots while trying to become invisible your ability is canceled.
- A very difficult heroine to use.
- Your weapon does not work for long range.
My favorite part every time learning about the heroes of Overwatch.
- Before its announcement, it was the object of a long game of alternative reality and officially introduced in BlizzCon 2016. It was officially included in the Official Overwatch game (without counting the PTR for PC) from November 15, 2016.
- "Sombra" is Spanish for "shadow" or "shadow".
- His "skull symbol" is known as calavera, which is actually Spanish for "skull".
- The ammunition counter on top of the machine gun expresses the remaining ammunition in hexadecimal / hexadecimal code (base-16), a common element in computer programming. Conceptual art originally had the counter that showed the remaining ammunition in binary (base-2; 60 would show "111100" from top to bottom) but was found to be too obstructive.
- The rare skins of Sombra are not Spanish for the color, but rather objects that share the color. (That is, Nights is Spanish for "night", Mar is Spanish for "mar", Citro is Spanish for "Citron" or "Citrus" and Fire is Spanish for "fire")
- Sometimes Shadow can make fun of Tracer by saying "Cheers, love!" When you teleport to your Translocator due to the similarities in some of your abilities.
- In the Summer Games, the characteristic sport of Sombra is the high jump.
- The outstanding introduction of "Hacking" by Sombra is very unique: as long as it is equipped, if a player is playing as a Shadow and has been selected for the Game of the Game, the introduction really begins with the outstanding introduction of another player, which is then is interrupted by a black screen with the skull skull signature along with the name of the selected player and highlights the introduction tracking afterwards.
- The Shadow Transloader looks similar to the device used for the Winston Barrier Projector, and probably uses the same technology as Tracer's Chronic Accelerator, as mentioned in its in-game dialogue with Tracer; "I do not think he does not recognize that device of yours, I know you stole it!"
- Shadow seems to be interested in McCree in some way, judging from his dialogue in the game where he says he is pleased to work with him, that he also has a picture of him on his computer in his secret hideout in Castillo with Ana and a photo of him next to Soldier: 76. She is also seen sitting on the other side of him in Calaveras during Reflections.
- Eurogamer questioned Jeff Kaplan about whether it was strange or not that fans had the theory that Sombra would appear in Hero. Jeff replied, "No, it was not weird, we've put a lot of clues, throughout the game and out of the game, so I'd say it's time for people to worry about who Shadow is, I hope they continue that way. find more clues that are out there. "
- When asked about Shadow in an interview with Kotaku, Jeff Kaplan said: "I think people have learned that it is a fun character to search and learn more and that, like the X-Files, the truth is for I see what the players discover over time ... I think that depends on Shade, to give a shameless response, Shadow will let people know when they want to know more about it, it's very good at that kind of thing . "
- Your machine gun can be inspired by the personal defense weapon Heckler & Koch MP7 (PDW), as seen in the sloping front of the receiver, integrated vertical front handle, a rail-mounted interface on top and the magazine inserted in the grip of the weapon.
- There are also several winks to the MAC-10, including the very high rate of fire (1200 rounds per minute, almost the same as 2 variants of the MAC-10), the name of the weapon is the same as that of the MAC-10. Classification (a machine pistol), and the vertical front grip was replaced with a flexible chain in the skin of Sugar and the Dead, similar to the cloth strap that is commonly seen in the sub-compact version of the MAC-10, the MAC-11 . The MAC-10 also has a gun magazine and modern iterations also have the loading handle on the side, like the Shadow weapon.
- His voice lines "Mess with the best and like the rest" and "Hack The Planet" are references to the 1995 film Hackers.
- The Shadow translocator shares the exact name and function as the Unreal Tournament translocator (1999). The differences between the two are that you can destroy the lighthouse in Unreal Tournament and if one player teleports in the same place as another, the player who will teleport will kill the other top part of the lighthouse.
- When Shadow activates Stealth, he makes a hand movement similar to the infamous John Cena movement "You can not see me", but it is more likely to come from Phantom in Motoko Kusanagi of the Shell according to how he becomes invisible.
- Sombra's dance emote is an EDM dance called "Shuffle".
- It could have been inspired by the cosplayer PocketJen, who interpreted it as a cosplay and danced in an EDM festival.
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To finish I recommend you use this heroine you will never get bored or annoyed of her, although it requires a lot of practice to understand her aggressive but stealthy form of game, surprising the enemy and shooting her in the back. They will have fun using this heroine, if they have any questions about Shadow or Overwatch they can write in the comments. I hope you liked my review on Shadow!
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I am a Sombra main now. However I am not a one trick so I also have a lot of hours on Dva and Soldier and tracer.
Sombra is my favourite for sure, has been since season 4. I really enjoy the translocator and getting behind enemies for a kill or at least distraction.
Thanks!
I use very little in the shade, but it is very fun to use, as well as being an essential hero against the symmetra transporter.
@pacokam8 I find sombra really difficult to play so I avoid her a lot do you have any advice?
Do not be afraid to use the heroes in Overwatch, since some are really necessary in some types of games. Reading and understanding what their skills are about is one of the main points, then everything is in practice. Use it and you will see what you will like.
great advice i'll give her a try when i next play
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