SALUTE bastion friends and blizzard‘s and whoever..
I’d just wanted to share honest feedback torwads the small change made for bastion, starting with the decision to remove his armored artillery perk exchanging it with another grenade perk, here’s the weird thingy now… he already has a perk focused on his grenade, so? there’s nearly no varying playstyle options. I have the choice to take something for my grenade, and take something for my grenade, i don’t know why exactly Blozzard took it out, it was dope to have the option to be a tanky bastion making everything around him explode, or take the grenade perk from last season with the 4 second cooldown buff.
but THIS, this instantly made me sad about having to adjust to his seasonal changes that they add to him, but without his armored artillery perk or atleast some variation in his minor perk, cooler options etc would make him cool (again), but now may be the worse state of bastion and his gameplay, having no choice of variation between the minor perks.. you just get something for your grenade which is a bit RNG anyways since the grenade likes to flip around.
To his removed grenade perk, if anyone remembers bastion had the option to take the cooldown perk WITHOUT just 4 seconds. This allowed bastion to have actually good mobility and being a robotic omnic grenade launcher! especially when having to move quickly out of spawn you were able to bounce via the grenades quickly, in my mind it wasn’t even busted since he still took damage from it, so you had movement as exchange you lost hp. seems fully fair to me and sad that blizzard chose to add a weird 4 second gap between, not fully letting his cooldown return.
In summary it be cool to have the armored artillery perk back, when choosing to play a suicide bastion blowing everyone up! or being the grenade bouncer, i mean at the end bastion makes boom anyways.
About his major perks, they’re good! as for many youtube videos i saw and other opinions this is one of the best game changing perks, this litereally helps to vary between certain playstyles for the hero. this got flattened out again with the removal of the artillery perk..
I don’t know how the state is about bastions overwatch 1 ult, wouldn’t it be cool to add that back? besides i do think it’s a smaller problem, it’s completely fine to not having it added back besides it would be much more creative then just stoic 3 circles which go boom.
I hope any of my robotic Friends can relate to that, and really plead for having his minor perks given back some variation.
and now i’m going to touch grass