NintendObs Daily. Monday, September 27.
Over the weekend, during the Overwatch League Grand Finals 2021, key figures of the Overwatch team took to the stage to introduce the latest news on Overwatch 2 at the beginning of the show, first revealing Bastion's new look and then the retooling of Sombra and Bastion. The philosophy behind the changes is one of reducing both Damage Heroes' crowd control abilities which in all honesty made them overpowered in Overwatch 1. For example, in Overwatch 2, Sombra's nullifying of enemy abilities through hacking now lasts for only one second while Bastion has its Self-Repair removed entirely. In exchange, among other additions and changes, Sombra's hacking has a way shorter cooldown of three seconds and Bastion can now move while in Sentry mode.