![]() If you’d like to contact Kotaku with suggestions, comments, or product announcements, you can email us at Kotaku Australia is published by Allure Media in association with Gawker Media. Sure, you could mosey over to the US site, but you’d miss out on all the juicy gaming goodness that’s relevant – and important – to you. The Australian edition of Kotaku is focused on taking all this fantastic news and crafting it into a tasty treat for all you Aussies and Kiwis. ![]() Whether it’s the latest info on a new game, or hot gossip on the industry’s movers, shakers and smashers, you’ll find it all here and nicely packaged at Kotaku. They’d be one in the same in every lexicon on the planet if it were humanly possible. I was really excited to see how teams would overcome it. Time spent complaining about Bastion’s changes on social media could be spent forging new strategies. With that said, players should scale back the impulse to immediately burn a new, developing meta to the ground. I trust Kaplan’s assessments on Overwatch‘s balance. It forced my team to think more strategically. I suffered some gnarly deaths-by-Bastion in competitive mode last night, especially on the Anubis map. There are ways to counter it, and they will take coordination, Overwatch‘s greatest asset, to discern. Hit Bastion with a Discord Orb and send Sombra in. Can’t go after Bastion on your own anymore? Bring a tank with you. But adaptability is key for a live, online game.īastion’s buff could be an exciting opportunity to adapt to the new meta, not the end of the world. It’s no news that Overwatch players are precious about the game’s balance - as they should be, because it’s asymmetric. Even the release of Ana was met with fear and panic. Now, even after his recent nerf, players have learned to be more judicious about their hook attacks. When Roadhog’s Hook 2.0 was released, the sky was falling. Now, players have become more savvy using her shield. When Dva was nerfed, the sky was falling. Overwatch players tend to react strongly to buffs. With that said, Kaplan explains, “I do think there is a high amount of hyperbole around this particular situation.” That convinced him that some players’ complaints were valid, and to make some changes. He leaned on his self-heal and ended up besting that Tracer in recon mode, despite her being a better player, in his opinion. Kaplan added that he’d had an experience he’d considered unfair last night while taking Bastion out for a spin. When a team is coordinated, he is far scarier than when a team is just playing a pick-up/deathmatch style of play - and I’ve witnessed both over the past few nights.” Bastion isn’t the ‘I Win button’ and he can be focused and countered. We cannot just magically make Bastion get picked more so the stats look pretty and not make changes to make him more viable at the same time. The result is, people need to adjust to playing against Symmetra and Bastion more… and they are more powerful. We make changes to make those heroes more viable which means they will get played more. There is outrage if a hero does not get played a lot (like with Bastion or Symmetra). ![]() “Balance changes can be very difficult to make when emotions run so high in the community. ![]() The Bastion tag on Twitter has players calling the boost “OP,” “beyond broken,” “unkillable.” The buff is “the worst thing ever done to Overwatch.”īut two days post-buff, an entire player base isn’t going to magically know the best way to deal with an overhauled, powerful hero. Overwatch players swore they’d quit unless Bastion is nerfed. Bastion’s become a near-necessary pick in the days after the buff, something Overwatch players attribute to its apparent irreverence for balance. And, more damning, a Mercy-Reinhardt-Bastion triad is a fierce adversary. It can mow down Reinhardt’s shield in a matter of seconds. With the boost, Bastion can survive powerful ultimate attacks by healing through them or moving quickly out of the way. Also, Bastion is now “ironclad,” taking 35% less damage in sentry or tank mode.Įssentially, Bastion has become more flexible, durable and deadly. Switching to sentry mode takes less time, and in that mode, Bastion’s magazine size is larger, with a larger bullet spread. In recon mode, Bastion can heal on the go, although his bullet spread is more narrow, his magazine size is larger. It’s formidable now, finally a respectable defence hero who requires coordination to counter. Bastion received a huge boost on Tuesday after a few weeks of testing on the PTR.
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