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CombatMagic

Sombra is not going to be a playable hero. Co-op campaign speculations.

News & Discussion | Sombra ARG

TLDR: She is an antagonist controlling omnics for a co-op campaign

First and only proof: think of Ana release, it was short, a few stuff here and there, and released on PTR.

Second and full on speculations: Sombra has been around longer than even the teases for Ana, she just managed to transmite something to all omnics except our known Bastion unit.

What did Sombra do now? Analyzing it, and considering that we have two playable omnics, one from the War and another post-War, I'm quite sure that she just gained control of the omnics from the War, like the Bastion units, NOT the ones created post-War like Zenyatta. Why would the console specify that Bastion was compromised? Because he is corrupted! He was not able to be controlled by Sombra, we can see that, as he did NOT follow the order of attacking the human city.

This is for leaving the option of letting Zenyatta and Bastion as playable characters, playable characters for a co-op campaign that is, we will be able to use all heroes in it, and it will be against omnics from the last War,

WHY SOMBRA, WHY?

Why would she initiate another Omnic Crisis? what will it accomplish, for starters, a full on war against the Old Omnics mean that the New Omnics and the Humans will have to join forces against them for the first time... not only that, but several rogue organizations like TALON will have to join with the ex-Overwatch agents when they go out of hiding, for the greater good... of themselves that is... you can't govern the world if everyone is dead... this alliance WILL have to recruit new people and join forces around the world, that's when the Russians and MEKA comes in, or even other criminal organizations like the Junkers and the Shimada clan...

She will try to unite the World against a single enemy, making the old war omnics the new enemy...

Hope you enjoyed this, I hope and pray this I'm correct... a hero for me would be the biggest of disappointments...

Posted Oct 18, 2016, 8:16 PM UTC

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Grim014Roadhog•

no

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scorpius-Trick-or-Treat Mercy•

Nope.

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ThaGuy34Tracer•

She's definitely gonna be a hero...

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CombatMagicOPMom! I achieved Aerial Superiority!•

She can be both then! Imaging after everything she has done to hack her way through the omnics, what would she achieved from just appearing as a hero randomly, she has to change something from all of this...

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blits202Chibi Mei•

Campaign lol gtfo

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amigogangChibi Lúcio•

Pretty sure ww 3 would start if this happened

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MatteusgrilliTrick-or-Treat Mercy•

It's already a cold war against blizz at this point

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rchalicoChibi Pharah•

But what about the leaked image of Sombra? Would they just use her on a co-op map and not release her as playable for the normal game? Doesn't sound likely

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CombatMagicOPMom! I achieved Aerial Superiority!•

Why have zero confirmation that the image is real, I won't believe it is, until Blizzard show it to us.

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rchalicoChibi Pharah•

that's fair

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endlesslybored•

the post had info about junkenstein´s revenge before it came out. It´s trustworthy

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[deleted]•

fuck this noise lol

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JasamiusHooky•

That would be the absolute worst thing that could ever happen. Not that it's a bad idea, that we have waited for months for a fucking campaign mission

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TyperSniperZarya•

Hahahahahaha

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microphone_man•

holy shit this is a terrible idea

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Unbearable_whyUnbearable_why•

Haha you are insane for even wanting this. She is absolutely a hero.

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Texas_Ninja•

At this point thats better than nothing ive been getting

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VariableVynce•

This would be a stupid way to introduce a co op mode. But honestly it's a pretty bad way to do anything. I had straight up forgotten about Sombra until I saw a video about how the website was almost done recommended to me on YouTube. At this point it's been so long and drawn out I don't care what it is at this point just get it over with. But I will forgive Blizz for this transgression if we get a permanent version of Junkensteins revenge sometime!

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NiyauAna•

I can hear the sound of half the fanbase leaving already, if this were true.

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ColHannibalChibi Roadhog•

Dumb as shit.

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adammorton23Pixel Symmetra•

Could be interesting but if Sombra isn't a hero I wouldn't like to see what would happen next.

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CombatMagicOPMom! I achieved Aerial Superiority!•

Maybe she can be both! After everything she started in secrecy, she now joins the other heroes, and villains

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jgnt2009•

While I like the idea of uniting under a common enemy, knowing blizzard story telling its more than likely Omnics are being used so that they can weaken the defenses of a country so Talon could take over with little to no resistance.

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zeharkTrick-or-Treat Ana•

wrong

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Korhal_IVGroup up with me! Group up with me! Group up with me!•

Yeah, I've posted speculation about Sombra leading to a new game mode before, though I was betting on new Omnic characters.

Note that there's a trend in Blizzard games of 'initial villain -> greater villain comes to the fore -> team up with initial villain'. E.g., in StarCraft the Zerg were the villains initially, but now we know the "Dark One" Xel'Naga is out there making something worse than the Zerg and the existing cast has to team up against it/them. In WarCraft, the Horde are the villains, but then they team up with the good guys against the Burning Legion and their minions.

In OW, we're set up with Talon as the initial villains, but there's already background hints about the God Programs, the quarantined AIs who led the Omnics to war against humanity. Pharah's comic involves beating the shit out of one before it escapes (in Temple of Anubis - 'Anubis' is the God Program's name). So we've now got a Talon agent that is operating in the God Program's bailiwick (reprogramming Omnics) and very secretive, and this would be an excellent hook to justify Talon grudgingly teaming up with Overwatch again.

Oh look, we can already play characters from both sides.

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