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 Website

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

Day 1: Mobster Monday

Day 1 revealed mob-themed item packs for the Heavy and the Spy, the "Black Market Business" and "Man of Honor", respectively, as well as a new Payload map, Barnblitz.

Class sets

Main article: Item sets

Maps

Main article: List of maps

Name	Picture	Game mode	File name
Barnblitz		Payload	pl_barnblitz

Day 2: Timbuk Tuesday

Day 2 revealed desert-themed item packs for the Sniper and the Demoman, the "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 3: World War Wednesday

Day 3 revealed two World War II-themed item sets for the Soldier, the "General's Formals" and "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

Main article: Weapons

Pyro

Detonator

Day 4: Meet the Medic and Free to Play Announcement

Day 4 saw the unveiling of Meet the Medic, a new Medic item set called "Clinical Trial", and the announcement that Team Fortress 2 would become Free to Play.

Cosmetics

Main article: Cosmetic items

To compensate those who originally purchased Team Fortress 2, a promotional cosmetic item, the Proof of Purchase, was awarded to all who had bought the game before it became Free to Play.

All classes

Proof of Purchase

Day 5: Stuff Friday (Post-update blog post)

Day 5 was a blog post following the update. It announced the availability of the Meet the Medic and Schadenfreude taunts on the Mann Co. Store, the Limited Edition Meet the Medic Lithograph in the Valve Store, and added Über Update-related wallpapers to the Artwork section of the TF2 website. Day 5 was not featured on the Über Update mini-site.

Other additions

Paint

Main article: Paint Can

The update also introduced six Paint Cans which change color depending on the player's team.

The Strange Item Quality

Main article: Strange

This update added the first 11 items to the game that could be obtained in Strange quality. They were a potential reward from the newly-added Mann Co. Supply Crate, which could be opened with a Mann Co. Supply Crate Key.

The available Crates and items were:

Crate Number	Possible items
#19	Chargin' Targe Grenade Launcher Stickybomb Launcher Eyelander
#20	Rocket Launcher Direct Hit Pain Train Shotgun
#21	Gloves of Running Urgently Minigun Natascha

Trivia

• The numbers on the placards that the Heavy and the 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 letters "NM" on them, the abbreviation for the state of New Mexico in the USA.
  • The placards also read "Teufort", the locational name of 2Fort.
• The line "sleep with the fishes" on the Mobster Monday blog post is a reference to The Godfather movie. The line is a term for someone who has been murdered and then thrown into the ocean and is therefore "sleeping" with the fishes.
• Timbuk Tuesday refers to Timbuktu, a West African town that is commonly stereotyped as being exotically far away.
• 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.
  • The speech seen on Day 3 features Dr. Seuss-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 Winston Churchill's speech before the Battle of Britain.
  • 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 World War Wednesday page is similar to the one featured in Meet the Heavy.
• Shortly after each Day release, these pages would be later slightly modified to include a few other elements, mostly hidden pages.
  • On the original Day 2 page, the item type for the Bazaar Bargain was misspelled as "Sniper Rilfe". The updated Day 2 page fixed the typo, and included an empty can of Bonk! Atomic Punch, leading to the "The #1 Fan" hidden page.
  • On the original Day 3 page, the drawing of the battleplan was identical to the one seen on Meet the Heavy. On the updated Day 3 page, a Pyro head was added to the battleplan, leading to the "Detonator" hidden page.

Gallery

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  Day 1. The Black Market Business and the Man of Honor packs and the Barnblitz map were announced

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  Day 2. The Lawrence of Australia and One Thousand and One Demoknights packs were announced

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

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

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  Unused logo of the Über Update

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  The new menu page after the Über Update

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  In-game teaser

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  In-game announcement

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  Tactical plans from Meet the Heavy and the 3rd page

Hidden pages

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  #1 Fan hidden page.

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  The Detonator hidden page.

External links

• Über Update
• Valve Press Release - Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play