Über Update

This article is for content released in the update. For the patch itself, see June 23, 2011 Patch.

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We've been holding one of the surprises pretty close to the vest for months now. We don't want to ruin it, but we'll give you four clues to get you guessing: 1.) It IS a "Meet the" short. 2.) It involves ONE of the two remaining classes. 3.) It's NOT the Pyro. 4.) It's the MEDIC. — TF2 Official Blog

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The Über Update is a major content update for Team Fortress 2 and was released on June 23, 2011. It was heralded as, "the biggest, most ambitious update in the history of Team Fortress 2." Similar to other major updates such as the Sniper vs. Spy Update and the Engineer Update, the Über Update followed a four-day-long system of daily content previews, the last of which featured the release of Meet the Medic.

Day One: Mobster Monday

Day One revealed mob-themed item packs for the Heavy and the Spy, Black Market Business and The Man of Honor, respectively, as well as a new Payload map, Barnblitz.

Maps

Name	Picture	Game mode	File name
Barnblitz		Payload	pl_barnblitz

Day Two: TimbukTuesday

Day Two revealed desert-themed item packs for the Sniper and the Demoman, "Lawrence of Australia" and "One Thousand and One Demoknights," respectively. A hidden page, accessed by clicking on a crushed can of Bonk! Atomic Punch, also revealed a Bonk-themed set for the Scout known as "The #1 Fan".

Day Three: World War Wednesday

Day Three revealed two World War II item sets for the Soldier, the General's Formals and the Airborne Armaments. Later in the day, a hidden page, accessed by clicking on the drawing of the Pyro on a whiteboard, revealed a hidden secondary weapon for the Pyro, the Detonator.

Weapons

Pyro

Detonator

Day Four: Meet the Medic and Free to Play Announcement

Day 4 saw the unveiling of Meet the Medic, a new Medic item set called The Clinical Trial, and the announcement that Team Fortress 2 would be free to play.

To compensate those who originally purchased Team Fortress 2, a promotional headgear is being awarded to all purchasers.

All classes

Proof of Purchase

Day Five: Stuff Friday (Post-update blog post)

Day 5 was a blog post following the update, it announced the availability of the "Meet the Medic" & Schadenfruede taunts on the Mann Co. Store; the Limited edition "Meet the Medic" lithograph in the Valve store and Über Update related wallpapers added to the Artwork section of the TF2 website. Day 5 was not featured on the Über Update mini-site.

Trivia

• The numbers on the placards Heavy and Spy are holding up in their mug shots on the Mobster Monday page are the release dates of their respective Meet the Team videos. Meet the Heavy was released on May 14th, 2007 and Meet the Spy was released on May 19th, 2009.
  • The placards have the area code NM on them, which in the USA is the standard abbreviation of New Mexico.
  • The placards also read "Teufort," 2Fort's locational name.

• TimbukTuesday refers to Template:W, a West African town that is commonly stereotyped as being exotically far away.

• The Lawrence of Australia Sniper Pack is a reference to the 1962 film Template:W, which is based on the life of T.E. Lawrence, a British commander and his experiences in Arabia during World War I.

• "One Thousand and One Demoknights" is a reference to Template:W, a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic.
  • "Demoknight" is a term referring to Demomen wielding either of his shields paired with any of the Demoman's swords or axes.

• The helmet the Soldier wears on the top of the page for Day 3 resembles the helmet of Template:W. In keeping with theme, Patton was a General in World War II (for which a film was made about him), and was well-known for being eccentric, and for use of a riding crop, similar to the Soldier.

• Before a big battle or the start of a war, the commanding officer of a group of soldiers may give a speech in order to raise morale and rally the strength of their troops, similar to how the General's Formals Soldier on Day 3 is.
  • The speech seen on Day 3 features Template:W-style writing, including lines like "We will fight them on a BOAT!", "We will fight them in a MOAT!", and "WE WILL NOT EAT GREEN EGGS AND HAM!".
    • The first part is also a reference to Template:W speech before the Battle of Britian.
  • The line "Do you maggots remember the speech from Braveheart?" refers to this scene in Braveheart.
  • The line "MISTER GARPABARP, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" refers to the famous speech given by President Ronald Reagan at Brandenburg Gate, in which Reagan challenged then-Head of State of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

• The battleplan on the War Wednesday page is identical to the one featured in Meet the Heavy. [1].

Gallery

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  Day 1. The Black Market Business and The Man of Honor Packs were announced

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  Day 2. The Lawrence of Australia and One Thousand and One Demokights Packs were announced

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  Day 3. The General's Formals and Airbourne Armaments were announced

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  Day 4. Meet the Medic released and The Clinical Trial announced.

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  Unused logo of the Über Update

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  The new menu page after the Über Update

Hidden Pages

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  The #1 Fan hidden page

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  The Detonator hidden page

External links

• The Über Update