There is no trade-off because bastion is dead and has been replaced by a more or less unrelated hero. Bastion is more than fps turret section, you just don’t know how to play him. I get half my kills in recon mode some matches.
Bastion’s sentry mode is garbage, it does the same dps as storm arrows and leaves bastion with a massive hitbox and no knockback resistance (probably), which means doomist is going to destroy him and even Lucio can be effective against him now. His lack of self-heal means D.va will be able to 1v1 him with ease and so is Sigma (although he already did that). Bastion was meant to be stationary, and you can notice it the second you look at his hitbox. He won’t be able to dodge jack… god the swear word filter makes everything unsatisfying, so in the end not much difference is made with the ability to move. Sombra deletes bastion with his sniper rifle recon mode now, so ironically it will probably be easier to counter him not harder. Reaper’s wraith will allow him to get rid of your bomb, meaning your only real choice is to flee if you see him approach. Hammond will win the 1v1 against you now. Widow can no longer be affected by you in sentry mode since you do half the damage. In recon mode you can damage her though so that’s a nice trade off, doesn’t change the fact you are one of the easiest characters in the game to headshot. McCree will be able to corner peak you to death if you don’t have your cooldown (the movement means jack…, since it is slower than transforming and walking back now). Hanzo counters you even harder since you do less damage to him than he does to you. Hook still can’t be dodged Sleep as well. You are going to need to rely on your ability to land the grenade since you’ll need it to win any 1v1s from now on, whether in recon or sentry. Poke is far more effective since you need healers to recover now or to find a health box. You are going to need to stick with your team more not less.
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Spoken like someone who hasn’t spent a single minute of his life playing bastion.
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If it’s Deflectable, it’ll likely be a real projectile because they’d need to account for Genji’s ability to redirect it.
Oh yeah. With multiple new heroes being added i wonder if they are going to give them some similar cutesy icons in the game.
If you are going to claim a crucial part of his kit is garbage then perhaps this is why he needs a rework in the first place. (And with proper positionning and teamwork, storm arrows dont have jack on sentry mode. This thing can bust barriers and even god damn ice walls with ease.)
But yeah by the sound of how you seem to play him you might as well go play 76 or Baptiste. Cause that’s a big waste of his kit if you just ditch sentry mode like this.
Can you confirm anything about the Doom rework? How many abilities are planned to stay?
I think people are reading a bit too much into a doom rework. They only said it was an idea they tried, they never said it was going to be it.
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The better question is if any work has even been started on him.
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Checked in with Hero balance and design on this to make sure:
Geoff G: Like Doomfist’s Meteor Strike, Bastions new ult, Configuration: Artillery, ignores ceilings. Rooms may not provide safe cover.
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I still am worried about him. Stuns being removed, tanks having knockback reduction passive, bugs caused by engine, etc…
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From the Hero balance and design folks:
Geoff G: We decided to add both a duration and a cooldown to the new Turret mode to allow us to keep the ability tuned to have a high damage output, while still taking into account his newfound mobility.
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We’re seeing what we can do to get the rest of the footage out in the wild.
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And Andy, another question:
Have someone took the mantle of being the voice designer of Bastion? What can we except for OW2 in that matter? Will he get new voice lines in OW1?
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I think the stun situation is why they are concidering a switch to the tank role. Perhaps he is going to lose his damage potential but he would be able to make the most of his CC tool and work as a tank mobile dedicated disruptor. And i think meteor strike could still work with such a kit. Perhaps either as a finisher or reworked into a stun tool similar to shatter but with more range at the cost of a heads up.
Newfound mobility??? Do you mean the rocket jump?
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To manage expectations: nope.
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One last question…
Baby D.Va emotes in OW2??
LMAOO
well that and the whole…you know…
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thats if baby dva remains…
dun dun…DUUUUUNNNNNNNN 
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