Gentle Manne's Service Medal
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| Worn by: | Soldier | ||||
| Slot: | Cosmetic | ||||
| Equip region: | Medal | ||||
| Released: | August 13, 2009 Patch (Classless Update) |
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| Availability: | Distributed (expired) | ||||
| Tradable: | Yes | ||||
| Giftable: | Yes | ||||
| Craftable: | Yes | ||||
| Paintable: | No | ||||
| Nameable: | Yes | ||||
| Craft No.?: | No | ||||
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 Gentle Manne's Service Medal |
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| “ | All men gave some. Some men gave more than some.
Click to listen
— The Soldier
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The Gentle Manne's Service Medal is a cosmetic item for the Soldier. It adds a small, circular gold medal, worn on the chest with a team-colored ribbon.
The item's description was written by Lamech for the Hat Describing Contest.
This item was awarded to the first 11,111 players who visited a hidden page on the Classless Update website.
Update history
August 13, 2009 Patch (Classless Update)
- The Gentle Manne's Service Medal was added to the game.
- [Undocumented] The Gentle Manne's Service Medals became individually numbered up to #11,111 in the item's description.
September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)
- [Undocumented] Added a community-contributed description for the Gentle Manne's Service Medal.
- Fixed the medal number for the Gentle Manne's Service Medal not displaying properly.
- The Gentle Manne's Service Medal was made nameable.
October 27, 2010 Patch (Scream Fortress Update)
- [Undocumented] The Gentle Manne's Service Medal is now tradable.
- The Gentle Manne's Service Medal is now gift-wrappable.
- [Undocumented] Fixed issue with the Gentle Manne's Service Medal not appearing.
- Fixed the Gentle Manne's Service Medal not being drawn when equipped.
- [Undocumented] The Gentle Manne's Service Medal now makes small metal sounds in the backpack.
- Added the Limited attribute to the Gentle Manne's Service Medal.
Unused content
- A separate model under the name of
medals.mdlexists in the game files, albeit with broken UV mapping. The model that is used in-game uses a bodygroup setting from Soldier's player model instead.
Notes
- In the item description, "whom" is used incorrectly. The soldiers being the subject of the clause "those brave soldiers who stood guard", would be more appropriate.
Trivia
- The name of the hidden page (today_is_a_good_day) is a reference to one of the Soldier voice lines.
- On the Classless Update hidden page, the medal plate has the Team Fortress logo engraved on it, however, it's blank in game.
- 38 un-numbered medals were granted to Valve employees.
- A medal resembling this item was placed on the RED and BLU Soldier action figures.
- Upon winning a charity auction for Child's Play, a Team Fortress 2 player named Vulcnor received Gentle Manne's Service Medal No. 11,112, along with one of every other game item.
Gallery
medals.mdlon the RED team.
medals.mdlon the BLU team.
The associated hidden page, after all medals have been distributed.
See also
- Gentle Manne of Leisure, the non-playable character.
External links
- Classless Update - Hidden page: Today is a good day
- TF2 Backpack Examiner: List of Original Medal Owners
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