Meet the Medic

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Meet the Medic
Meet the Medic Titlecard
Video Info
Released: June 23, 2011
Run time: 4:09
For the taunt item, see Meet the Medic (taunt)

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 announce that Team Fortress 2 would be free-to-play forever.

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.

"Meet the Medic" Video Transcript

Gallery

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.
  • A mysterious woman resembling Miss Pauling can be seen through the window at 0:56 and again at 1:22.
  • At 1:03, the entire contents of the fridge can be viewed: three hearts, a Sandvich, three bottles of Red Shed beer, a BLU Spy's Head (alive), a battery for his head, and an ashtray for his cigarettes.
  • Throughout the Heavy's procedure, an X-Ray of his body can be seen in the background, which shows a bomb lodged inside. The extracted bomb can be seen in a bucket behind the Medic.
  • Despite the Medic using the Quick-Fix, he is able to make the Heavy invulnerable. This is explained on the fourth day of the Über Update as the invulnerability function shorting out following the Übering of the RED Heavy.
  • At 3:48, the Pyro can be seen reading a magazine while playing with a lighter. The back of the magazine appears to be The Insult That Made a "Jarate Master" Out of Sniper.
  • For a short period before the Über Update, doves would sometimes fly out of Scouts after they were killed. This is a reference to the end of the video, where in Archimedes is left inside the Scout's chest after he is operated on.
  • The various hats worn by the army of BLU Soldiers include the Frontline Field Recorder, Stainless Pot, Proof of Purchase, Soldier's Stash, Lumbricus Lid, Grenadier's Softcap, and Armored Authority.
  • A broken-down van similar in appearance to the Sniper's camper van can be seen in the tunnel the Medic comes out of. Whether the two vehicles are one and the same is unknown.
  • Medic's dove "Template:W" is the name of a greek mathematician, physicist, Engineer, inventor, and astronomer.
  • When the Heavy and Medic reach the top of the Soldier pile the Medic is seen to deactivate his Medi Gun yet the Heavy remains invunerable.
  • The Heavy's Minigun can be seen resting on its own stretcher in a few shots of the operating room.
  • A heart monitor can be seen working behind the Heavy early in the video. When his heart is destroyed, the line on the monitor goes flat. The next time it is seen, after the Medic retrieves a new heart, it resumes its old display. Strangely, it should not be displaying anything but a flat line when there is no heart in his body.
  • The Heavy's lungs expand and retract with his breathing. Like the situation presented with the heart monitor, the Heavy shouldn't be able to breathe, as his vital organs wouldn't be able to function without a supply of oxygenated blood from his heart. In both cases, however, the overhead Medi Gun likely provides a strong, blood-like energy source that keeps the Heavy's body alive.
  • A drill-like tool can be seen next on the wheel-table next to the Heavy's hospital bed. Considering the Medic, it's likely he used it to perform surgery in some form, possibly as a heart removal tool.
  • The Medic ÜberCharges the Heavy for 25 seconds while in-game the ubercharge only lasts for 8 seconds.
  • As seen a few seconds into the video you can see that the Demoman has his eye-patch over the band-aid.
  • When the Medic heals the Demoman with the Quick-Fix it should have fixed his eye like it did with the Heavy's rib cage.

Related merchandise

See also

References

  1. "Back from Valve" on Steam Users' Forums, Political Gamer, posted March 22, 2011. Accessed June 18, 2011.
  2. "Videogame.it Valve HQ Article posted April 1, 2011. Accessed June 20, 2011.
  3. "The Über Update, Day One", TF2 Team, TF2 Official Blog, posted June 20, 2011. Accessed June 21, 2011.