8/12/2023 0 Comments Overwatch bastion gun![]() ![]() An end-of-game highlight is a great idea for a system, but in practice it sometimes celebrates mundane multikills as godlike feats of heroism. Really, I wonder if all of the passionate conversation around Bastion arose from the Overwatch’s somewhat dense Play of the Game feature. He offers a role to players who don’t want to rocket jump or heal, but who instead want to exercise timing and deception to win. If you’re clever, you can prank an opposing Medic into healing you as a Spy. An effective Spy can infect an opposing team with McCarthyistic paranoia, prompting a Sniper to equip defensive gear or stay closer to teammates. He gives stronger purpose to Pyros, who are good at sniffing out phonies. But think about the variety of behaviors that the Spy-or even the possibility of a Spy-creates. He’s invisible, and when he isn’t invisible, he appears as one of your teammates. To someone unfamiliar with the game, The Spy might appear OP. We should fixate less on whether or not a character is balanced, and more on what interesting experiences that character creates for all players.Īs Blizzard tunes Overwatch’s characters or adds new heroes this year, I think it still has something to learn from the interconnectedness of TF2’s mercs, the way that each character enhances the identity of other characters. Bastion, maybe slightly more than most other heroes, encourages you to swap roles in order to deal with him. ![]() An offensive Bastion can be effective with a Reinhardt in front of it.Bastion is sometimes good at denying certain lanes of certain maps.Bastion gives Genji’s deflect ability and Reinhardt’s shield some extra utility.Bastion gives Overwatch’s snipers a high-priority target.Right now, Bastion’s sin is that it doesn’t promote many interesting interactions with other characters or systems. Even Pyros got some extra workload on defense, with their air blast being one of the only counters to ubered sentry attackers. To blow up a sentry, Spies had to master the act of sabotage, and Demomen the art of indirect fire. Separating an Engineer from a turret to make it temporarily vulnerable (as you can with Torbjörn in Overwatch) became a fun way to break a defense. It strengthened the relationship between Medic and Heavy, and the importance of protecting Medics so they could build an ÜberCharge. The power of the sentry made Team Fortress 2 more fun because it wasn’t simply a durable, deadly roadblock meant to hold chokepoints-for a period of TF2’s lifespan, it was the hinge on which dozens of other mechanics and roles swung. Image by by Legoformer1000 on DeviantArt. ![]()
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