now before you hate… read fully please
We all know bastion is the most hated useless throw pick… and always has been apart from that week when he had his ironclad buff and was usefull…
so… in the spirit of trying to make all heros usefull at most ranks I had a few ideas to make him more viable (p.s he is my favorite hero and I have a lot of experience playing him)
Step 1. recon mode… currently pretty useless as soldier just out performs him and his slow movement and large hitbox makes him a respawn simulator on legs
Changes: remove sentry mode altogether, Take his sentry mode mini gun and replace his recon mode autorifle with it… half its DPS, half its ammo capacity and double its Spread… make it a blanketing sustained damage and shield buster you could also lower movement speed while firing so he can still move, but not charge at you like a Gloves of running urgently heavy from tf2
step 2. increase his altogether non existent mobility.
changes: remove his iron clad passive and replace it with “Grapple tracks” allowing him to slowly “walk up walls” sort of like how lucio rides on walls but vertically… not as quickly as a genji or hanzo can and also allowing him to shoot while doing so, again you can slow the climb rate as he shoots… this will allow the bastion to take high ground and not just sit like a cute beeping potato waiting for death
Step 3. his ult… tank mode just doesn’t fit with an “area denial” hero… which is what bastion is
Changes: Remove tank mode… and replace it with “Bombardment” bombardment works by rooting the bastion in place and giving him a retical like DF’s meteor strike… you can “bombard” anywhere so long as you can reach it with the retical before time expires (yes even indoors)… you can bet you’re behind if I can get killed by sudden wall dragons I want cowardly hanzos to die from sudden mortar fire, when the retical is locked 2 seconds pass and a hail of mortar fire bombards the area for 6 or so seconds, little red dots on the ground can be used to show what area is being bombarded to allow for counter play
I know this is a lot to read… but I hope you find the ideas interesting if nothing else…
I would also like this thread to come up with other ideas to help our poor PTSD ridden robot friend
Help us Obi Jeff Kapnobi… you are our only hope