There was a time when the Overwatch team spent months dripping out information about a new hero for fans to obsess over. But now it’s content to simply drop a new one out of nowhere like a dropped mic and revel in the game’s overjoyed community. Today is one of those days: Brigitte, a new melee support hero, has joined the fray — and you can play her right now on the game’s PTR servers.
Brigitte has been in the background of the game for years, first shown repairing Reinhardt’s armor in the ‘Dragon Slayer’ comic, though the Overwatch Twitter account has been teasing her reveal. In the lore, she’s the daughter of everyone’s favorite dwarf Swede, Torbjörn, and goddaughter of the heroic hammerer Reinhardt. In the game, she’s a melee healer that balances armor, defense and health restoration — in essence, the first true ‘support’ character in the game. And like the last new addition Moira, Brigitte is a cool reshuffling of existing heroes’ powers.
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Introducing Brigitte—an engineer turned valiant squire ready to protect her allies on the front line.
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