Think you can cross post it from there to here? I already have the page up, but it is your post that has consolidated everything that an ideal Bastion rework would have.
Gonna make another post dedicated to Tank on E in the next day or so. Once I have a pretty good version worked out
Hmm… apparently I’m not level 3. But level 2 can post links to the forums I guess? I guess level 3 is 60 days, not 50. Apparently you have to jump through a hoop of fire while bending over backwards with a blindfold on to get level 3…
How is it massively OP? It wasn’t massively OP before his rework, and this is slightly worse than back then… Before, he was pinpoint accurate for the first little bit of his fire and it grew to 2° after around a second or so, this one starts at not pinpoint accurate, and spreads out fairly quick.
And Soldier is the other sustained automatic fire character, it makes sense to compare it to him. They aren’t directly related, but it can be useful to know what the “normal” spread values are…
Because it’s not before his rework, which buffed other aspects.
Because you want to add a base tank mode atop it.
But most importantly because it wasn’t ‘pinpoint’? It had a minimum and reached full MUCH quicker than 1.3 sec. More like half a second. (I want to say it was 1 degree min. But I can’t find the actual number referenced anymore.)
You are giving him considerably better overall accuracy for that initial 1.3 seconds. Which means better damage on targets at range without headshots, and landing more of them with. Even with a .5 reduction in multiplier it’s more powerful if you have any trigger discipline.
you can’t use sentry or recon at the same time as tank so that’s really not an argument.
The idea is we’d probably give up stuff like the faster transform or ammo or ironclad. I’d prefer to revert the transform speed and that’s it if we did anything like a buff to sentry.
Honestly Chibi, along with some bug fixes, this buff is essentially the Sombra version of Tank on E; it was a concept that Sombra mains knew would help her, and non-Sombra mains thought was ridiculously OP. Sombra players rallied for it nonstop nonetheless, though. They got it.
So if anything, it means that even the “OP” concepts that mains of F-tier heroes constantly rally for and support with evidence can come true. I’m happy for the Sombra community; they came and left Bastion-tier in only a few months, but at least it’s one more hero that doesn’t have to share our everlasting nightmare