The Hero That BROKE Overwatch

In Overwatch 2 Brigitte may be relatively peaceful, but there was a time when she completely broke Overwatch. Not only did she dominate the meta for a LONG time, but the comp she created - Goats - was even so game-breaking that Blizzard had to permanently change the entire game format. So, how did Brig break Overwatch?
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[@wingedbluj1674]

The domino that led to the 5v5 vs 6v6 argument

[@BPViking]

True, that’s kind of crazy

[@moezfoez]

Eh More like the counter play lol

[@its_lucky252]

*that led to 5v5

[@yaboytornado5150]

I like watching the history of OW1 after experiencing it myself…

[@pokerface4]

Real. It feels like researching some kind of historical golden age in textbooks that has long since passed. Except it's only been almost 10 years.

[@junkyporpoise4254]

I never like Brigitte since Overwatch 1, I didn't find her to play as or against. And whilst it's fine that the community despised the character, what was absolutely NOT ok was the community going after the voice actress of Brigitte, as if she had ANY impact on how the character was balanced. That to me was a huge wake up call to realising how toxic Overwatch was becoming.

[@BPViking]

Yeah that was ridiculous. Sadly a small group (proportionately) of people can do terrible things and reflect negatively on everyone else

[@cnaizhen]

Wait what?!? The OW fans went after the voice actress? Did some streamer start that and people followed like fools?

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

When people booed her in the Blizzcon, I think this is a fair way of showing discontent, all the spotlights, everyone will notice the fans protesting in a way (with reason). But that's the line right there, people who actually went on social media and cursed at her and so on, obviously that is stupid. But this soft mentality that people involved with awful decisions/performances shouldn't be criticized in any shape or form, that is toxic positivity right there

[@BPViking]

I agree, although in this case specifically I don’t think the voice actor had much to do with brig’s balancing

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

@@BPViking That's the thing, the actual people who works on the gameplay balance, they will never expose themselves. At best the director or a operation director. So, that was the opportunity for the players to sound their displeasure towards Brigitte. It's a dumb way to do it, but if the players stay quiet, the devs will just disregard the noise as "hate", meanwhile the product burns. And 6 years later, the cycle continues, the game is literally crumbling, the house is on fire, meanwhile Overwatch promotes "collaborations" with Transformers and Hero Academia

[@Rygabo]

Despite forcing role lock, I will never hate Brig more than Sombra.

[@arshad887]

Every person is born hating Sombra. Even if you’ve never played the game.

[@Rygabo]

@@arshad887 If Overwatch was a prison, Sombra mains would be below chomos.

[@viciousoz4188]

We feed off the hate

[@SocialExperiment232]

“Even tho people overreacted to the big shield it ended up being fine” lmao flats 😂 he made a video crying about how “the raid boss is back” and then the shield was fine lol those kinda creators cry about everything.

[@BPViking]

Lmao I love flats but that wasn’t his best take

[@mistake1197]

​@@BPViking he still sometimes rants about brig to this day.😂

[@WarsGrasp]

ngl, this video seems more of "Goats sucked" and not brig.

[@BPViking]

That’s fair, could maybe have focused a little more on Brig specifically

[@reesyloko5741]

As dominant overpowered and annoying as brig was i still hate kiriko more

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

Brigitte had a really awful start, both characterization + gameplay, but with time the voice actress got better, the character got more likeable, etc.. now Kiriko is straight up annoying, the bratty personality, the voice actress sounds unpleasant on purpose, etc.. shitty personality + broken gameplay, that's a winning combination right there. And to add salt to the wound, the character is popular among the "whales" because she was designed to be a "waifu" smh so shameful to share the hobby with these creatures, jerking off to a goddamn cartoon that looks like a rejected character from Naruto, even self-humiliation has a limit

[@Rygabo]

@@reesyloko5741 having two get out of jail free options is pretty ridiculous, plus her tiny, anorexic hit box 😞

[@randalljolla]

Man I miss op Brig.

[@nerdstorma8427]

Honestly, I liked Brig and I felt like she did her job in countering dive but bolstering brawl. She is too generalist, but I prefer her and Mauga to the recent ongoing onshot metas where Widow can one shot you from across the whole map without any contesting or engagement. Brig was strong, but fair. She could still be outplayed if you just played hard enough. Snipers just lock down the whole map and that's just unfun. I prefer GOATS meta that actually has coordination, participation and movement to maximize engagement and cover risks than Overwatch 2 where snipers just sit the back getting an inordinate amount of leverage for no participation.

[@noontide1209]

the goats comp does still exist in some strange capacity. In open queue, you can play 4 tanks and one support. My group likes to use Rein, Hog, Mauga, Dva and some kind of mass healer like moira or mercy. We shot from bronze to plat in a week, it was nuts.

[@Omnicron800]

Tbh I’ve played the game since launch I’ve seen literally everything from shielded turret bastion, to six turret sym, hook 1.0, moth meta, double shield even nothing was more miserable more unfun and less skillful and more brainless than goats with brig on your team her numbers were so strong she could straight duel tanks relatively problem free and she literally justified role lock by just existing as a concept. She to me was the long long spiral downhill and the nail in the coffin for how blizzard tended to release heroes instead of adding more variation and flavor to the game in general each one was a reaction to the community asking for something different to be strong, Ana was a reaction to the sheer lack of burst healing sombra was because disruption and a silence was desperately needed at the time and brig was to just obliterate dive but the thing is when you make the skill floor just above mercy and create an entire character so strong it dominates the meta for like a year it kinda throws balance completely out of whack, brig is in my opinion genuinely the worst example of this style of balancing they were so insistent on at the time so glad she’s just eh no but man nothing ever felt worse mauga was the only similar feeling but even then compared to the release versions mauga is infinitely more counter able and much easier to counter at his strongest than brig ever was and i will die on that hill.

[@therebelfrogy9287]

A heroes so terrifying she puches the game from being healthy to live support state for years And even now, Overwatch has not left the ICU

[@MercysNo.1]

At least she didn't break the OWR34 community...

[@lenkagiminesrefrigerator]

was a Reinhardt main during the brig goats meta. most of the game was just finding which bring was better. genuinly miserable. she forced the game into role lock.

[@AliA-g3m]

As someone who didn’t play much during goats all I can say is wow. Also I’d like to see mercy’s history next or soon since she’s been one of the most popular characters.

[@BPViking]

I don’t think she’ll be next but she is around the top of the support list

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

There's a strong argument Mercy is The most popular character in Overwatch, surpassing Genji. Which is interesting looking at the "culture wars" stupidity, Mercy is one of those pinky cutesy characters who is very appealing for the mytical "modern audience", they love her (and they love Lifeweaver, the male swap version of Mercy). But sadly, there's also the scum who jerks off to cartoons, Mercy's popularity is a mix of these very special audiences

[@AlessandroPioltelli]

I literally just typed in “Overwatch Brigette” and this video came up…. What are the odds you’d post this right when I wanted it!

[@BPViking]

Probably pretty low, but today the odds are in your favour :)

[@PlatinumAltaria]

Brig wasn’t that bad at all, it was the OWL that did this.

[@sk0l0pendrra]

Thank you for this vid, i re experienced my trauma

[@BPViking]

Happy to not help :)

[@jm4050]

She's often considered as "game breaking", because she defines what a support should be, and why other supports (minus Lucio) dont seem as fun to play, especially with/against DPS. Instead of choosing whether to heal or damage someone, she does both at the same time (plus damage mitigation) so providing damage isn't preventing teammates from getting healed. This makes her and Lucio less of enablers (like Mercy and Lifeweaver), and less of Flex Supports (like everybody else). They try to make other characters provide that same input as well (Ana, Bap, Illari, Moira, Juno, Zen), but they are not as consistent, or team-centered as Brig or Lucio.

[@cake6851]

As a flex player role queue was my 9/11. I miss switching through any character on the fly. GOATS really killed the fun of overwatch. If only Overwatch 2 brig was in overwatch 1. Then the monstrosity of role queue wouldnt exist.

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

Not a stretch to say she killed the game, straight up. I wonder who will be the Brigitte of Marvel Rivals... maybe Ghost Rider if the devs makes him a tank who has one shot mechanics? Roadhog riding a bike, oh boy, you can see the smoke coming from here

[@riptose9252]

I've always hated Brig since OW1. I'm mostly a deathmatch player, and back when competitive deathmatch was added to the game, everyone was using either Brig or Reaper

[@drantino]

i knew brig was overtuned when she first came out, the fact i couldnt really pick any DPS to directly deal with her and she would still normally win those encounters. like reaper someone who works good at the range brig is optimal, needed to use his entire clip/mag(tbh the entire how its even "reloaded" makes naming this part weird) just to take out her shield on her release shield HP, not even including brig can swing and heal inbetween shots proloning that 1v1 longer in her favor. ...i still dont get why they will allow brig to have stun shieldbash even in a limited state of her ult and not even see if cass flash bag would be to opressive or not(its slowly getting to it with the micro changes they keep doing). those 2 stuns are not at all on the same level of strong, brig uses it in a defensive state and has more defensive tools, well cass is scales more vulnerable

[@midoripuca]

i remember when brig launched and people were climbing to ranks they never deserved immediately just by insta locking her

[@cesar-mn5ts]

What? Who hates rien? The only people who hated rien was rien mains when he was unplayable😂😭

[@brizzleyoh]

Let’s not forget that everytime Brigette shield bashed it stunned. That was so annoying 😅

[@BigDaddy-mr1pu]

id rather fight broken brig than mei ball or sombra every fucking day

[@thekingofawesomeness9173]

I cant help but feel like this video shows brig wasnt the problem as much as the comps around her were.

[@BPViking]

Yeah, I mean this is kind of true. At the end of the day brig was most problematic because of goats. Then again, if you look at her original stats and how she kept getting nerfed even after goats was gone, she was overpowered for a good while. Aside from goats (which brig was a prevalent factor in but not the sole one) I also feel like her entire kit simply countered dive too hard. She was designed to be good against dive sure, but she was way too strong against it. I think even if goats didn’t happen, people would still eventually have realised how broken brig was in some other comp. Although it may not have been as oppressive as goats

[@trentgawd4292]

When a hero is released that’s so strong they had to add role restrictions so half their heroes see play, something’s wrong

[@BPViking]

Definitely. The real mistake though was how reluctant they were to nerf brig once they realised she was op. I’m not saying role lock was the wrong play but if they’d just been more decisive with their nerfs it may never have happened

[@demigurlxd5781]

I have been a brig main since goats was in its prime. I never played her cause she was strong I played her cause I love playing paladins. But I will tell you the post goats time frame when she was hated was traumatizing I had never been flamed so much for picking my favorite charecter. But I still played her, and now I have embraced the hatred. I proudly main the most hated charecters in the game because the disabling playstyle has become my way to play. People wanted to be my fun police when all I wanted to do was play my pretty paladin. Now they have created a Dva Sombra Mei Brig Sym nightmare that is just waiting to stop your ults in thier tracks. And if you flame your team mate for thier charecter choice you bet I will be there to spawn camp you for yours... think twice before you flame some one you have no idea what you will create.

[@BPViking]

I generally think it’s better to just keep your negative thoughts to yourself. If you get annoyed at someone in your game that’s fine, but don’t start harassing them just because of who they want to play or if they make a mistake or whatever. It only hurts the both of you

[@marcilmp]

for first time reading this i can't connect Paladins(the game) with the fact you love playing Brig after 2nd time i finally understand what you mean :D

[@GINGI9519]

Still love brig ❤️

[@JoaoPedro-fd8re]

im so tired of seeing the top of the mountain being considered the WHOLE mountain...

[@BPViking]

In what way?

[@JoaoPedro-fd8re]

​@@BPViking she didnt break anything (alone), i am yet to see a "how sigma and orisa BROKE Overwatch" or "How goats BROKE meta" title it was a team effort but she is always THE poster, its a jigsaw puzzle and she is just a piece, its a GODDAMN STEW AND SHE IS BUT A CARROT!!!

[@geert574]

orisa started the downfall

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

Naah, Sombra started. Then Doom, Orisa, Brigitte straight up killed the game, then here it comes Kiriko dancing on Overwatch grave. What a ugly downfall, Overwatch had potential to be a multimedia franchise, but the only byproduct was "porn" created by the fans

[@beansmckenzie9162]

Nice video i hated brig the game is most fun when the faster paced characters are good for me

[@BPViking]

Thanks, also yeah that’s fair enough

[@countercontrol122]

Ah yes the Azaan of Overwatch

[@BPViking]

Very sorry but I don’t know what or who that is

[@kiwi6726]

@@BPViking a paladins character that had a similar impact as brig or mauga, shaping the entire meta around his existence

[@BPViking]

Oh I see

[@fredmertz8191]

Now we're getting the moji experience

[@rachetmarvel931]

Azaan imo was worse,he had people getting 70% win rates in rank.

[@PatrickArcato]

I quit for a while during goats, Brig ruined the game just because the devs wanted strong women in the game. Damn politics

[@hillwoop9101]

I mean, they made JQ and she’s the most fun and balanced OW2 tank

[@PatrickArcato]

@@hillwoop9101 Good, but we're talking about Brigitte here, focus dude

[@fredmertz8191]

Surely this is satire

[@PatrickArcato]

@@fredmertz8191 They literally said it, were you even alive when Brig came out?

[@fredmertz8191]

@@PatrickArcato lol yes I was