🐦 The Last BASTION of Hope (A Community Made Bastion Ultrathread) OVER 300 LIKES!11!

[PeacefulYew-1533]

I rarely play Bastion, so I’d be open to changes, but wouldn’t be devestated if they don’t happen. It definitely seems like a niche-pick, shield-breaking, pop-off hero. Soldier possesses less damage, but more sustainability and more viability in situations. The Mei changes will definitely help it. The two work well together, her wall helping the unit get into position in high vantage points, and she can freeze tanks and other targets to allow Bastion to have free picks.

[DekuNut-1500]

While I don’t particularly want a Bastion Meta, a swapped meta where the offence heroes are considered “throw” picks would be interesting.

[Haychii-2819]

That’s a really nice thread you have there!
Good job

[DekuNut-1500]

That’s a really nice thread you have there!
Good job

Not just mine
Thank you though
I’m nowhere near creative enough as my fellow Bastions are

[Protonhunter-1920]

Bastion will never be buffed if his buff increases the power of pirate ship.

I have suggested in a few threads that the only way to fix this is to place sentry on a cool down without the ability to reload. This would allow the devs to invest power in other areas of his kit while still allowing him to have mini bursts of power where the team can shove the objective.

I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but I don’t see them making a meaningful change without taking away bastions ability to always be in sentry mode

[DekuNut-1500]

The only way you could do something like that is if you tie the cooldown to his ammunition as in if you have 300 bullets not cool down where as if you ise 150 then it is 5 sec or whatever.

If you do anymore then that you might as well get rid of sentry and turn him into robo 76.

Thats just imo tho.

[Protonhunter-1920]

You have to think beyond that, I’m talking about another major rework that would likely require assets be created (something they only do for reworks)

I lay out an example change in this thread here:

https://
us.forums.blizzard .com/en/overwatch/t/bastion-needs-a-change/60015/54

[chosenone-4183]

To me, bastion is fine but its counters are op. Consider how busted tracer genji and dva is in ow. And blizzard is never gonna nerf them.

[DekuNut-1500]

If they aren’t going to nerf them, all the more reason to buff Bastion

[Terranguard-11978]

This Camp basically asks for a full revert of Sentry while leaving the Recon Changes. In a nutshell that means this:

Old Spread and Headshots are reinstated.

Old transformation time reinstated.

No healing while taking damage in Sentry

No resource bar while healing in Sentry

I never said the healing part, that’s entirely separate from sentrymode. It should stay.

[DekuNut-1500]

Well the original sentry mode orignially you couldnt heal while taking damage but i will take that out. Give me a moment

Edit: its done

[Terranguard-11978]

Other than that, I love the thread! Let’s keep it going, the Bastion Apocalypse Uprising Crisis (all the names together :3) must continue!

[DekuNut-1500]

Thank you means alot. Hopefully we will get some notice here soon.

[Terranguard-11978]

Way too lazy to read anything posted here, but I have a thought: let him heal while switching modes. Bam. Instantly more useful.

Although that’s useful that’s not enough. That encourages running which is not what he’s supposed to do. There is such a thing as retreating when needed which is when it’s useful, but if sentry remains it’s regular sucky self it will just make him run 90% of the time.

[Terranguard-11978]

You guys ever heard of a game called Gigantic? Well there’s a character in that game named HK-206 and he does Bastion better than Bastion. Search up some gameplay if you wanna see what I mean.

That looks perfect…
E is a railgun shot that’s basically one single shot from his tankmode on a cooldown that can possibly be charged to reach 205 damage.
and shift gets a barrier while also being more accurate.

[ChibiFox-11511]

Ok, If not a Simple Sentry revert, I want this.

That sounds Amazing, Actually.

Imagine Deleting a Tracer with a Perfectly timed Railgun Shot…

The more i think about it, the more i like it.
Such a thing would be a “Skill Shot” So even though it would “Delete” Annoying Tracers, You would have to have some pretty good aim.

[Terranguard-11978]

Camp #4 I would love if sentry and tank get flipped, but it would come down to the end result. If there are no tradeoffs for using tank then it would be pointless.

My/Zirkel’s rework involves keeping sentry on Shift but putting a weaker Tankmode on E so they wouldn’t be flipped. Also, the tradeoff for tank is it has the lowest damage potential of all his modes. Sentry can do 525 or with a revert 1050 dps. Recon can do 160 or 320 on headshots dps while tank would do 133 dps (he fires every 1.11 seconds in tank).

[Terranguard-11978]

Thank for the positivity

You might be right but like the title says, this thread is a last bid of hope that they will hear us

Let’s make it our loudest last bid of all, although I don’t think we’ll overcome the “Bastion is being forgotten” thread.

[Terranguard-11978]

They are not likely to ignore this stuff, I would bet that they do read, and are compiling the info, but it’s likely that the oppressive heroes are more important to balance, and tone down, vs one who is just a shell of a hero.

They’re buffing all of the other F tier heroes so I have hope. Every single F tier is being buffed or has been addressed other than Bastion so far. IDK if I should feel happy or sad about that.

[DekuNut-1500]

Maybe not but then we have more threads available for Blizzard to look at