Barrel abuse

Why does everyone (including me) like to break those barrels in Dustbowl stage 2? I myself like to break them as they have some animation when they break unlike some other items in the game.

It's good to blow them up as red because it gives blu another way to hop up onto the ledge instead of going up the stairs.

yeah, it just makes the courtyard easier to suppress because it means that the middle tunnel or the path around the raised area are the only real paths through it, both of which are easily suppressed. The attackers can still jump up the wooden skid or the corner to get up but since the corner to the grate is usually so well defended it means that they don't usually make it any farther. I know that as an attacker I always love the new option of it when it isn't broken, the only time I break it as an attacker is when my team routes some defenders so they can't escape up it.