Meet the Medic
| Meet the Medic | |
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| Released: | June 23, 2011 |
| Run time: | 4:09 |
Meet the Medic is the penultimate short in the Meet the Team series, featuring the Medic. It was released on Thursday, June 23rd, 2011, the final day of the Über Update.
The final few seconds of the film announced that Team Fortress 2 would be free-to-play forever. Currently, the game is free for a week, a promotion that started on June 20, 2011.
Speculation
In March 2011, user "Political Gamer" visited Valve headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, and confirmed the production of Meet the Medic. [1]. They took a photograph of a poster at the Valve HQ, depicting the Medic posing alongside several flying doves.[2]
The comic Meet the Director, released alongside the Replay Update on May 5, 2011, featured a page which depicted the Administrator at her control panel, with a number of screenshots from Meet the Medic on the displays.
On June 8, 2011, a patch to Team Fortress 2 was released and included an update that placed several doves in various positions in Valve maps. The doves explode upon contact but do not cause players damage. On June 17, 2011, an additional patch was released which added a secondary dove model with animations. Later the same day, the page layout of the TF2 Official Blog was updated to feature three doves perched upon the title banner, which was covered by bird droppings. Each dove linked to three separate hidden images depicting a rundown hospital, an empty hospital waiting room, and a doctor's office.
Part of the rundown hospital seen in the first hidden image can be seen in the background of the Medic's page on the official site, fully modeled.
On June 20, 2011, Meet the Medic was confirmed by TF2 Official Blog, and its release was announced to coincide with the Über Update, to be released on June 23.[3] The doves that were perched on the site banner of the TF2 Official Blog were removed as part of the website redesign.
Gallery
Poster assumed to be of Meet the Medic
Page 10 of Meet the Director, showing an unreleased Medi gun.
The dove model.
Flying dove model.
Doves on the old official website
Hospital hidden image
Waiting Room hidden image
Doctor's Office hidden image
Meet the Medic Teaser Image
The Trailer logo
A Character in the window, looking like Miss Pauling
Trivia
- The hospital seen in one of the hidden images resembles the Pacific Medical Center in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, close to Valve headquarters.
- This marks the first instance on how the Ubercharge works: An Ubercharge device is plugged into a class's heart (a strong one, as seen from the initial explosion of Heavy's), and is altered by a laser to an always in Ubercharge state.
- A mysterious woman can be seen through the window at 0:56, resembling Miss Pauling.
- The Heart in the fridge put in Heavy has the name "Mega Baboon" on the Petri Dish. Another Heart has the name "Loch Ness Hamster", which would possibly be a heart for the Demoman.
- The fridge used in the video seems to be the very same used in Meet the Sandvich, as there is one Sandvich missing from the plate and a Red Shed beer bottle knocked over.
- At the start of the video, the Demoman has the Stickybomb Launcher in his lap. Later on, he has the Grenade Launcher in his lap. Shortly thereafter, it is the Stickybomb Launcher again.
- At 1:03, the entire contents of the fridge can be viewed: The 2 Hearts, A Sandvich, 2 Bottles of Red Beer, the Spy's Head, the Battery for his head, and the ashtray for his cigarette.
- The Blu Soldiers can be seen wearing the new hats from World War Wednesday, along with Soldier's Stash, Lumbricus Lid, Stainless Pot, and Frontline Field Recorder, and Proof of Purchase.
- At about 3:45, there is a ticket with the number 11 on it in the ticket dispenser, meaning a tenth ticket has been taken. This could be a possible reference to the 10th class.
- This is the first time the Medic has received new lines since the games release.
- It is possible that several scenes and elements from the video are based or inspired by scenes from the 1985 film Re-Animator, from the similar music to the Spy's head kept inside of the freezer to the Medic's slight resemblance to the film's "protagonist" Herbert West
- Throughout the Heavy's procedure, an X-Ray of his insides can be seen in the background. It appears he swallowed a missle.
Related merchandise
- MeedTheMedicLithograph.png
See also
References
- ↑ "Back from Valve" on Steam Users' Forums, Political Gamer, posted March 22, 2011. Accessed June 18, 2011.
- ↑ "Videogame.it Valve HQ Article posted April 1, 2011. Accessed June 20, 2011.
- ↑ "The Über Update, Day One", TF2 Team, TF2 Official Blog, posted June 20, 2011. Accessed June 21, 2011.
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