We’ve had it teased on and off for the previous few days, nevertheless it’s formally confirmed now: Brigitte Lindholm, Torbjörn’s eldest daughter, goes to be taking over flail and protect and wading out onto the more and more crowded Overwatch entrance traces.
Within, we’ve acquired her official origin story, giving us a take a look at precisely who Brigitte is as an individual, adopted up by a developer replace that includes director Jeff Kaplan detailing what precisely, she’ll be doing on the battlefield.
We first noticed her in Reinhardt’s backstory video, listening to the previous rocket-knight’s tall tales. It seems that she’s formally his squire, there to patch up his armor (and his incessantly bludgeoned physique) after battles. Now she’s determined to get on the entrance traces to stop a few of these blows from touchdown within the first place, even when that does imply caving in a number of heads with a bloody nice rocket-boosted weapon.
You can see a little bit bit extra of her backstory in this little bit from Blizzard’s lore archives. Apparently after saving Torbjorn’s life from the assault that took his arm, Reinhardt was promised the chance to call his brief Swedish buddy’s subsequent child, in addition to being named godfather, so she’s very near each of the beardy previous gits, and has picked up each her dad’s knack for bashing issues with a wrench to repair them, and Reinhardt’s love of breaking issues with a hammer.
Mechanically, she’s a heavyweight help character, armed with a rocket-boosted flail and clad in armor just like Reinhardt, though with out the full-sized projection protect. Her flail extends outwards a bit whereas swinging, giving it extra vary than it’d initially seem to have, and he or she has a particular assault known as Whip Shot which launches it out additional nonetheless, knocking again enemies and doing additional injury.
She’s additionally kitted out with a giant power protect like her massive buddy Reinhardt, nevertheless it’s much less of a team-support wall and extra of a private defensive software in order that she will absorb a bit extra harm whereas saving another person’s bacon utilizing her Repair Pack, a ranged, semi-homing therapeutic potential that may quickly over-heal to a level. If push involves shove, she will shove again simply as onerous although – the protect comes with a Shield Bash talent that lunges in rapidly, beautiful whoever it hits, superb to intercept mild, harassing characters.
Her defining perk sounds prefer it lies in her very battlefield presence. Her passive Inspire potential is, in impact, a healing-over-time aura that prompts each time she’s out bashing heads on the entrance line. Her final talent, Rally sounds the cost (blaring Germanic horns and all) and provides all close by allies additional armor, and buffs Brigitte herself with elevated motion velocity, letting her rush in to bash much more heads. Her position, then, may be very a lot the D&D Paladin, main from the entrance traces, and doubtlessly appearing because the glue between an in any other case aggressive group and the Reinhardt that’s meant to be defending them.
Brigitte’s official profile page is up on the Overwatch website now. The sport additionally obtained a small patch in the present day, buffing Doomfist, Mei and Sombra a little bit every, and tweaking the well being pack placement within the new Blizzard World map. You can see the patch notes here.
