Not only does it explain what Bastion is, but it also shows why the robot is the last one. Today though I doubt there are many that could be annoyed with him as we finally got to see Blizzard’s The Land Bastion animated short.īlizzard have created a series of beautifully animated shorts for their characters, and this new Bastion one will tug at your heart-strings. Whether it is his turret like main weapon or his tank like ultimate, he can be the most annoying character to face in the game.

Bastion will still be the trolly turretbot you've come to love.Players of Overwatch known Bastion well, especially if they are up against a player who knows how to use the robot’s abilities. Hopefully, adding a wider spread will make the bullet-spewing turret much less effective against non-tank heroes.įor the Bastion fans among you, get hype about the Recon Mode and Self-Repair changes, and don't let the turret nerf get you down. If you despise Bastion, the key change here is the Sentry Mode tweak. Once you stop repairing, the meter recharges on its own. When you use self-repair - which will now work while you're moving and/or taking damage - the meter drains. The change would add a meter to Bastion's HUD, similar to D.Va's Defense Matrix. If you're not moving and not taking damage, you can restore your health. It's a tradeoff: in return, there's no limitation on how frequently you can use self-repair.

The D.Va comparison is key.Ĭurrently, Bastion needs to stop moving to use self-repair and the process is interrupted by any damage taken. This is the marquee change, the one that promises to shake up the way you play when you're Bastion. These changes have turned this ability from a more niche rarely used ability, to a much more powerful and core survivability tool. To balance that out it is now on a resource system (similar to the route D.Va's defense matrix went). Currently our internal build has Bastion able to use Self-Repair while moving and also having it no longer interrupted when taking damage. Self-Repair - We've been testing a few big changes to this that are feeling really good so far. Reducing damage taken in Sentry Mode accomplishes the same thing in a slightly different way. Long ago, Bastion used to have a shield in Sentry Mode that would provide protection for offense heroes like Pharah or Soldier: 76, while turret fire focused on big tank targets. The idea of damage mitigation in turret mode is noteworthy, too. And since tanks are inherently large-bodied heroes, a wider spread for Bastion won't really protect them. Widening the spread means Bastion will have a much harder time turret-sniping smaller heroes from a distance - which is a real problem right now. They just happen to shred everything else as well. The high rate-of-fire and seemingly bottomless magazine in Bastion's turret form (Sentry Mode) are supposed to shred tanks. To that end we're testing stuff like increased spread and removing headshots, but taking less damage while transformed. Sentry Mode - We're looking at focusing this mode into more of a tank-buster and barrier-buster mode, while also making it feel less suicidal to be transformed. Since flankers are usually an immediate death sentence in the game's current meta, this change should please Bastion fans. Taken together, the reduced spread and increased magazine size promise to up Bastion's survivability in Recon Mode. It's mostly an 'Oh sh*t' button a blunt instrument that Bastion can use to survive when it's time to fall back to a new position. Recon mode is Bastion's robot form, which trades in the bullet hose turret for a less deadly machine gun. Recon Mode - Lowered spread and increased magazine size, to help with general viability in this mode.

Here are the changes Goodman describes, laid out one at a time with an accompanying breakdown of how we see each changes affecting Bastion's role in the game. They're comparable to hero-altering updates we've seen in the past for D.Va and Symmetra. Now, at long last, it seems like developer Blizzard Entertainment is keen on changing things up for the lovable-yet-detestable defense hero.Ī new Overwatch forum post from Principal Designer Geoff Goodman lays out the planned changes, which should roll out in the next Public Test Region update. This 'Overwatch' player basically stole Junkrat's identity

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