Overwatch's Bastion is Getting Buffed

Could Bastion be a contender once again?

By Lucy O'Brien

Overwatch's big friendly robot is getting a rework.

Overwatch's game designer Geoff Goodman confirmed the news that Bastion will be getting a buff in response to a complaint on the game's official forums, and said a PTR build where you can test the revamped character out will be coming "fairly soon". Check out the full list of changes in Goodman's comment below.

"Here are some high level stuff we're likely to have testable in the next PTR:

Recon Mode - Lowered spread and increased magazine size, to help with general viability in this mode.

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. To that end we're testing stuff like increased spread and removing headshots, but taking less damage while transformed.

Self-Repair - We've been testing a few big changes to this that are feeling really good so far. Currently our internal build has Bastion able to use Self-Repair while moving and also having it no longer interrupted when taking damage. To balance that out it is now on a resource system (similar to the route D.Va's defense matrix went). These changes have turned this ability from a more niche rarely used ability, to a much more powerful and core survivability tool.

We're still testing and tweaking things with Bastion but we'll hopefully have a PTR build coming fairly soon so you guys can try it out!"

Bastion is currently used primarily in quick play and lower competitive elos, but is very easily countered by more experienced players in upper elos. "Bastion is currently in a pretty bad spot," original poster Rarithlynx said. He has the most counters out of all heroes in the game, including quite a bit of hard counters. He's big and immobile, and has no defensive or escape abilities, and requires the team to babysit him all the time"

Hopefully this rework will make Bastion a contender on the battlefield once again.

Lucy O'Brien is an editor at IGN’s Sydney office. Follow her ramblings on Twitter.

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