Mecha-Medes

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This article is about a cosmetic item. For other uses, see Archimedes (disambiguation).
Archimedes?
The Medic discovering Mecha-Medes

Mecha-Medes is a community created cosmetic item for the Medic. It is a robotic version of Archimedes. It is a robotic dove complete with team-colored eyes and body, which wobbles with the player's movements. The blood splatters found on the normal RED version of Archimedes are replaced with oil stains for both teams.

When players equipped with this item kill an enemy unassisted by another player, the killfeed shows everyone in Pyroland that it gets the assist, with its custom name if it has one.

Mecha-Medes was contributed to the Steam Workshop.

Pyroland Demonstration

Painted variants

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Single colors
Painted Mecha-Medes E6E6E6.png Painted Mecha-Medes E6E6E6 BLU.png Painted Mecha-Medes D8BED8.png Painted Mecha-Medes D8BED8 BLU.png
An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge (RED) An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge (BLU) Color No. 216-190-216 (RED) Color No. 216-190-216 (BLU)
Painted Mecha-Medes C5AF91.png Painted Mecha-Medes C5AF91 BLU.png Painted Mecha-Medes 7E7E7E.png Painted Mecha-Medes 7E7E7E BLU.png
Peculiarly Drab Tincture (RED) Peculiarly Drab Tincture (BLU) Aged Moustache Grey (RED) Aged Moustache Grey (BLU)
Painted Mecha-Medes 141414.png Painted Mecha-Medes 141414 BLU.png Painted Mecha-Medes 2D2D24.png Painted Mecha-Medes 2D2D24 BLU.png
A Distinctive Lack of Hue (RED) A Distinctive Lack of Hue (BLU) After Eight (RED) After Eight (BLU)
Painted Mecha-Medes 694D3A.png Painted Mecha-Medes 694D3A BLU.png Painted Mecha-Medes 7C6C57.png Painted Mecha-Medes 7C6C57 BLU.png
Radigan Conagher Brown (RED) Radigan Conagher Brown (BLU) Ye Olde Rustic Colour (RED) Ye Olde Rustic Colour (BLU)
Painted Mecha-Medes A57545.png Painted Mecha-Medes A57545 BLU.png Painted Mecha-Medes CF7336.png Painted Mecha-Medes CF7336 BLU.png
Muskelmannbraun (RED) Muskelmannbraun (BLU) Mann Co. Orange (RED) Mann Co. Orange (BLU)
Painted Mecha-Medes E7B53B.png Painted Mecha-Medes E7B53B BLU.png Painted Mecha-Medes F0E68C.png Painted Mecha-Medes F0E68C BLU.png
Australium Gold (RED) Australium Gold (BLU) The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants (RED) The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants (BLU)
Painted Mecha-Medes E9967A.png Painted Mecha-Medes E9967A BLU.png Painted Mecha-Medes FF69B4.png Painted Mecha-Medes FF69B4 BLU.png
Dark Salmon Injustice (RED) Dark Salmon Injustice (BLU) Pink as Hell (RED) Pink as Hell (BLU)
Painted Mecha-Medes 7D4071.png Painted Mecha-Medes 7D4071 BLU.png Painted Mecha-Medes 51384A.png Painted Mecha-Medes 51384A BLU.png
A Deep Commitment to Purple (RED) A Deep Commitment to Purple (BLU) Noble Hatter's Violet (RED) Noble Hatter's Violet (BLU)
Painted Mecha-Medes 2F4F4F.png Painted Mecha-Medes 2F4F4F BLU.png Painted Mecha-Medes 424F3B.png Painted Mecha-Medes 424F3B BLU.png
A Color Similar to Slate (RED) A Color Similar to Slate (BLU) Zepheniah's Greed (RED) Zepheniah's Greed (BLU)
Painted Mecha-Medes 808000.png Painted Mecha-Medes 808000 BLU.png Painted Mecha-Medes 729E42.png Painted Mecha-Medes 729E42 BLU.png
Drably Olive (RED) Drably Olive (BLU) Indubitably Green (RED) Indubitably Green (BLU)
Painted Mecha-Medes 32CD32.png Painted Mecha-Medes 32CD32 BLU.png Painted Mecha-Medes BCDDB3.png Painted Mecha-Medes BCDDB3 BLU.png
The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime (RED) The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime (BLU) A Mann's Mint (RED) A Mann's Mint (BLU)
Team colors
Painted Mecha-Medes A89A8C.png Painted Mecha-Medes 839FA3.png Painted Mecha-Medes 3B1F23.png Painted Mecha-Medes 18233D.png
Waterlogged Lab Coat (RED) Waterlogged Lab Coat (BLU) Balaclavas Are Forever (RED) Balaclavas Are Forever (BLU)
Painted Mecha-Medes B8383B.png Painted Mecha-Medes 5885A2.png Painted Mecha-Medes 483838.png Painted Mecha-Medes 384248.png
Team Spirit (RED) Team Spirit (BLU) Operator's Overalls (RED) Operator's Overalls (BLU)
Painted Mecha-Medes 803020.png Painted Mecha-Medes 256D8D.png Painted Mecha-Medes 654740.png Painted Mecha-Medes 28394D.png
The Value of Teamwork (RED) The Value of Teamwork (BLU) An Air of Debonair (RED) An Air of Debonair (BLU)
Painted Mecha-Medes C36C2D.png Painted Mecha-Medes B88035.png RED Mecha-Medes.png BLU Mecha-Medes.png
Cream Spirit (RED) Cream Spirit (BLU) Unpainted (RED) Unpainted (BLU)

Update history

May 17, 2013 Patch #1 (Robotic Boogaloo)

  • Mecha-Medes was added to the game.

February 11, 2014 Patch

  • Changed item type to "Mascot".

July 7, 2016 Patch #1 (Meet Your Match Update)

  • [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.

Trivia

  • The item's description refers to Bill's Hat, as the back-story to that item states that it "fell off a table and into the Team Fortress universe", similar to how Archimedes fell off a table into a parallel world. It also references the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes, where the Statue of Liberty is found by the main protagonist half-buried in the sand and decayed.
    • The comic number listed is based on the mathematical constant of Pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. The Greek philosopher and mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse helped prove this constant.
    • A Flight of Fancy is an idea or narrative that is extremely imaginative yet unrealistic.

Gallery

See also