6KP is confirmed nerfed (no guaranteed pick up). The person who confirmed it isn't sure about others like 1PP, the guy he was playing might've been teching too slow
I know for a fact that with the exception of US, EU, Berzerk and Taiwan, no one really gives a shit or knows this character at all, so I'm guessing the person using him probably didn't know how to play Bass in the first place.
Set the scene , Bass vs Kasumi A , for reasons unbeknownst to me someone actually uses Bass against Kasumi , he works his ass off to get the first knockdown of the match , he reads wake up wrong and gets stuck in Kasumi's pressure and loses the round with NO optional move to get out NO DP nothing but block duck and hope she button mashes wrong. This is a world without force techs, you go play a good Kasumi with Bass and watch her wake up jab you.
If what Synce is saying is true, then you're looking at possibly the worst character in the game when it comes to match-ups. You have a risky linear string with shit mix-up that has an average start-up for a mid (i14) and taking away the hard knock-down would reduce its usefulness to being a very unsafe poke with predictable follow-ups. If other similar moves have also lost their hard knock-down properties, then playing this character will be equivalent of playing a musical instrument with no hands.
However, I have a theory regarding all this; this could all be a build where these changes where made specifically to measure public reaction to these changes, so this could all be temporary. It's not even July yet and there could be a whole lot more they could be doing rather than screwing up with a character's main toolset.
Also, if this was actually true, then we're looking at the scenario KidArk posted and I know for a fact that
Mr. Wah would have tried his hardest to prevent this from happening, unless Bass magically turns into a Fist Of The North Star character, which I highly doubt. He can't win the popularity contest anyway.
This is not something where you can just go "Oh, it's alright, I'm sure he can pull something else out of his ass to help with his bad match-ups". No, it would be very bad and no one would play him, since he's already an unpopular character as it is.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I just have to say something to not lose it.