Remember Bastion, Overwatch 2's MIA Hero? He's Back Next Week - Kotaku

Remember Bastion? He was a robot onslaught quality successful Overwatch and its precocious released free-to-play sequel, Overwatch 2. However, if you’ve played Blizzard’s quality shooter successful the past 10 days, you’ll person noticed that the unsafe robot is uh…missing. Actually, Bastion has been retired of the crippled longer than he’s been successful the crippled astatine this point. Fortunately, Blizzard has revealed that Bastion arsenic good arsenic Torbjorn and a precocious removed representation volition each beryllium returning to the crippled connected October 25, by which constituent they volition person been retired of the crippled doubly arsenic agelong arsenic they were successful it.

Overwatch 2 hasn’t had a large launch. The leader shooter rolled retired crossed PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, and PC connected October 4. And astir instantly it ran into server issues caused by DDoS attacks. Then determination were issues with a compartment telephone requirement, problems with inviting friends to your group, extended downtimes, and more. It’s been a large mess!

And past connected October 10, aft players discovered immoderate nasty tricks that allowed for infinite and stacked abilities, Bastion was removed wholly from the game. The dwarf warrior and turret lover, Torbjorn, was besides removed, but lone from competitory play. At the time, Blizzard said the characters were taking a “quick trip” backmost into the store for immoderate fixes. 10 days later… they aren’t backmost yet. But astatine slightest we cognize erstwhile they volition return. And players volition person to hold an further 5 days to spot Bastion and Torbjorn instrumentality connected October 25. Character removals from unrecorded work games aren’t wholly unprecedented, of course, but they don’t typically hap close astatine launch, and they don’t typically spell connected rather this long.

Also, connected apical of each this, yesterday, Blizzard announced it volition present beryllium removing the Junkertown representation from Overwatch 2 owed to a bug that was causing “graphic show issues” during gameplay. It’s reported that folks could origin these issues connected purpose. So Overwatch 2 presently is down a representation and 2 characters, with 1 of them being wholly gone. You can’t adjacent play with Bastion successful signifier mode oregon against bots. You can’t adjacent look astatine your cosmetics for the robot. It’s similar helium ne'er existed, a imagination for immoderate players, nary doubt.

Despite these issues, Blizzard says that Overwatch 2 has reached 25 cardinal players crossed each platforms. It’s an awesome number, particularly compared to the archetypal game, but the sequel is besides escaped and disposable connected doubly arsenic galore platforms from the get-go.

While players won’t beryllium capable to bask Bastion, Torb, oregon Junkertown conscionable yet, if you log successful this weekend, it’ll beryllium the commencement of the double XP lawsuit that Blizzard is throwing arsenic an apology for the rocky motorboat of the game.