12/16/2024
Railgun
- Primary fire shots-per-second reduced from 16 to 15.
Disruptor Shot
- No longer generates energy.
Overclock
- Energy charge rate reduced from 120 to 100 per second.
12/10/2024
Developer Comment: Sojourn has received adjustments to increase the rate of her energy gain and shifted some power into her Disruptor Shot ability recently, though the secondary fire lacking in impact undermines her core gameplay fantasy as "the Railgun hero". We're adding some damage back to it and will keep a close eye on how powerful she ends up being.
Railgun
- Secondary fire damage scaling increased from 1-100 damage to 20-120 damage.
10/15/2024
Developer Comments: These Railgun changes swap out the 25 minimum energy it decays to for a longer time before it begins to degenerate which alleviates some of the pressure to quickly use the secondary fire. Disruptor shot is getting a damage increase to helps its effectiveness as an area denial tool, andlong with additional utility through generating a small amount of Railgun energy to make it more broadly useful.
Railgun
- Energy no longer stops degenerating at 25 energy.
- Time before energy degeneration begins increased from 7 to 12 seconds.
Disruptor Shot
- Damage per second increased from 60 to 80
- Now generates 25% of damage done to enemy players as Railgun energy.
8/20/2024
Developer Comment: After reducing the maximum damage of the Railgun's secondary fire, we're continuing to look at the effectiveness of Sojourn's primary fire. These changes are to make it more accurate and better reward accuracy by increasing the energy gained from headshots.
Railgun
- Primary fire weapon spread reduced from 2 to 1.6 degrees.
- Critical hits now grant 10 energy.
- Energy degeneration rate reduced from 33 to 15 per second after 7 seconds.
6/20/2024
Developer Comments: This change is reducing the burst damage potential of the secondary fire Railgun shot to both lessen frustration from playing against that burst damage, and to shift power into her sustained primary fire damage. This should smooth out the feast-or-famine nature of Sojourn consistently hitting the secondary fire shots.
Railgun
- Secondary fire damage scaling reduced from 30-130 damage down to 1-100 damage.
- Secondary fire projectile no longer requires Overclock to pierce enemy players.
- Primary fire shots per second increased from 14 to 16.
Overclock
- Energy charge rate increased from 100 to 120 per second.
4/1/2024
Developer Comments: Vivian Chase? More like Vivian Pull.
Disruptor Shot
- Disruptor Shot now pulls enemies in on deploy.
- You can deploy Disruptor Shot early by pressing E again.
2/13/2024
- Health increased from 200 to 250.
Railgun
• Secondary Fire base projectile size reduced from 0.1 to 0.07 meters.
1/9/2024
Railgun
- Gradual energy no longer decays below 25%.
7/11/2023
Developer Comments: We are decreasing the overall spread on the Railgun primary fire to help Sojourn build energy more consistently. The increased shots before reaching maximum spread will give players more direct control over aiming the projectiles when firing in short bursts.
Railgun
- Number of shots to reach maximum spread increased from 8 to 12.
- Spread reduced by 12%.
1/24/2023
Developer comments: The energy gain adjustment will help smooth out Sojourn's average Railgun charge time because it won't benefit as much from critical damage or damage boost abilities. Hitting armored targets or other sources of damage reduction will result in quicker energy gains than before.
Previously, damage boosts and critical damage had an amplified effect for Sojourn since it reduced the time to build energy and lowered the threshold at which her Railgun secondary fire became lethal. The reduction to primary fire damage will further slow that down as well.
Railgun
- Energy gain is no longer based on damage done by primary fire. Each primary fire hit against an enemy player now grants 5 energy
- Primary fire damage per projectile reduced from 10 to 9
12/15/2022
Railgun
- Primary fire spread increased by 28%
Disruptor Shot
- No longer slows enemy movement
Power Slide
- Cooldown increased from 6 to 7 seconds
12/6/2022
Developer comments: Sojourn is performing well at the highest tiers of competitive play but poorly below those tiers. Much of the perception that she is too powerful seems to be driven by the reaction to dying to long range, charged headshots from her Railgun secondary fire. These changes are aimed at reducing frustrations there, with the biggest change being the reduced critical multiplier for headshots. A fully charged headshot no longer kills a full health 200 hp hero. To help account for this loss of power we're increasing the damage of her primary fire and how quickly her energy charges during her ultimate.
Railgun
- Energy delay before draining reduced from 8 to 5 seconds
- Secondary fire damage falloff starting range reduced from 70 to 40 meters
- Secondary fire critical damage multiplier reduced from 2 to 1.5
- Secondary fire damage now scales linearly with energy from 30 to 130 damage (1 energy converts to 1 damage added)
- Primary fire damage per projectile increased from 9 to 10
- Overclock energy charge rate increased by 20%