what am i even supposed to do as bastion? i can’t sit and turret so i’m not great at defense, recon mode is fun but i get immediately out-DPS’d by practically… every other dps, i can’t flank or surprise people properly because i don’t put out enough damage to keep up with whatever’s in front of me, and if i get lucky enough to drop on a tank that has a large enoug hitbox for me to actually deal damage they either have a barrier that makes me worthless in my limited turret mode, mobility to just simply leap 2000 lightyears away from me immediately, or somehow deal enough damage themselves to directly contest and kill me
what is bastion supposed to be good at? what’s his role now? he’s not got a lot of survivability, a lack of damage, can’t win any fights. he feels so awkward to play. i had a single good game as him and it felt like i was putting in monumentally more effort than every other DPS who deal enough burst or concessive damage to beat me in most fights, and because of my limited turret mode that shoots in a big cone it’s not like i’m getting a lot of value of just chilling around my tank and acting as support
i’d get way more (or at least equal) value from playing any other dps for in most cases a LOT less effort. bastion is somehow even more of a joke than he was in ov1, but at least people who are brand new to the game probably won’t cry about him anymore, right?
i mean seriously, WHAT is his role? dps’s like ashe, widow, cass has better damage across better range, soldier and sojourn 76 both deal better sustained damage, there’s no getting picks and flanking like genji, i’m not really setting up anything for my team like sombra, i mean…
the list goes on. regardless of how ‘good’ or ‘bad’ other DPS characters are in terms of the meta or general gameplay, they all at least have their usual role, they all DO something. bastion can barely hold his own against any other DPS character AND he doesn’t seem to have any real defined role as a character himself.
i swear he didn’t feel this stupid to play in the beta. did they nerf him for live release? in ov1 he already had extremely low pickrates in any area of the game where the players are aware of how the heroes function, but now i don’t know whose going to play him at all. at least he had a THING in the previous game.
and it sucks because bastion’s rework and proposed new abilities are probably my favorite thing about overwatch 2, which is saying something because i utterly despise a majority of overwatch 2, but then i really get my hands on him and he just feels… worthless. there is absolutely no pressure or threat in his kit at all, from any ability, not from turret mode, not from his boring grenade, not from his completely unnecessary mortar ultimate switch (tank mode was more fun) because it feels like it doesn’t deal enough damage to constitute as a genuine threat
so what is bastion do? what is the point of bastion right now? what’s his role what is he good at?