Brigitte’s kit just does too much and requires too little. I haven’t felt this depressed and helpless since Cloud and Bayonetta were added to Sm4sh.
It honestly feels like Blizzard grafted a healer onto a defense hero with zero care or thought. She reliably wins in almost all 1v1 dueling situations thanks to her shield and CC, and she can get back 1/3rd of her health per hit. They took an extremely powerful peeler and gave her her own pocket heals. Imagine if someone decided to give Doomfist self healing, a shield, an orange wig, and called it “meta changing”.
If Blizzard removed Brigitte from the game tomorrow and replaced her with a wild honey badger that gets let loose on every map, I wouldn’t even notice.
I have been exclusively playing arcade, comp, and custom games because Brigitte made QP into an unfun cesspool.
She is the worst addition to the game yet.
i have to agree, i’m insisting on playing qplay instead of comp to see if its me not adjusting easily but nah. even with the initially broken doomfist the game didn’t feel as bad
I got one shot killed by a Brigitte today as Ana in QP when I was missing like 10 HP. I couldn’t do anything other than stay off the point and that’s not realistic either. I switched to Lucio and got slaughtered by her again. Fun. Yay. Of course I can switch to Soldier or Pharah but I don’t want to play those heroes only.
I don’t know if she’s OP but she feels super oppressive and unfun.
She’s a new hero so she’s gonna be in every game for at least a week or two. Then her playrate will drop and everything will be back to normal. It’s not the end of the world.
Yes of course, let me just get 2 peacemaker headshots in before she hits me with her mace once and heals back all the health she lost and lowers my health to 45 in a single shot and then tracer blinks towards me without creating any openings to close the distance between us before killing me instantly.
Good thing her permanent armor (not to mention her bonus armor), 250 hp, and shield bash range make McCree’s stun combo useless! I would hate it if I accidentally ended up killing someone with that thing!
Like, I know that overwatch is a game about counters, and you shouldn’t be playing Genji into a Winston/Sym and whatnot, but like. It bums me to no end that there’s only a handful of 3 or 4 heroes that counter a healer when we have a roster of 27 playable heroes.
We’ve gone through so many tiring metas where one hero is just so unbelievably overpowered that the entire game caters this one hero because if you don’t play to this one hero’s strengths in every match for the next 2 months you’re basically throwing. It creates a stale meta and removes the variety that makes Overwatch feel like Overwatch.
She certainly turned me from primarily a tank/healer player to a dps/healer player.
Playing Roadhog these days feels like being a pingpong ball. You barely get to play anymore. It’s only really Orisa that still feels good, and even then I don’t want to only play Orisa.
No seriously. This game ran on a dynamic of flankers trying to infiltrate, healers being targets, tanks protecting like a bouncer, and damage dealers trying to create oportunities.
But now you have a healer that can take down tanks, shield herself, increase her team’s HP pool with damage reducing armor, and has a mobility move that doubles as a stun. Usually a flanker has the potential to take down a high value target, but Brigitte has a kit that allows her to burst kill a majority of the 200hp cast, and enough sustain and shield penetrating potential to survive Winston and D.Va solo jumping her. It completely ruins the structure of how this game works, and it feels like Brigitte has the ability to just walk wherever she wants and kill whoever she wants with no recompense. It’s like old roadhog and dva all over again.
Every bridge thread before release “I can’t wait for her to put flankers in there place!” Every thread after release “she’s too damn much nerf her” are these the same people making these posts? Some people just wanna watch the world burn.
