[2021] Bastion Rework already looks awesome

Can confirm.

Bouncy Bastion is terrifying.

We’re not quite at the point where we’d be discussing those changes. Hopefully soon.

The build we’re playing on for our daily playtests is close to what you saw on stream. A lot of the changes that have been mentioned, like the double Zarya shield pool and adjusted barrier values, were present and seen in the exhibition match.

That shouldn’t be taken as any indication of where we are vis-a-vis hero reworks. There are plenty of smaller playtests focused on testing other changes that haven’t made it into the main playtest build. Just as there are stages of public development and testing (like the experimental card and PTR), we have varying stages of testing internally.

Just to manage expectations: that’s not something I would reveal here on the forum.

Checked in with Hero balance and design on this to make sure:

Geoff G: Like Doomfist’s Meteor Strike, Bastions new ult, Configuration: Artillery, ignores ceilings. Rooms may not provide safe cover.

From the Hero balance and design folks:

Geoff G: We decided to add both a duration and a cooldown to the new Turret mode to allow us to keep the ability tuned to have a high damage output, while still taking into account his newfound mobility.

We’re seeing what we can do to get the rest of the footage out in the wild.

To manage expectations: nope.

well that and the whole…you know…

If you can, try to avoid comparing the damage numbers you saw on OWL stream with what you see in retail.

It’s all relative.