Meet the Medic

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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, alongside the new Meet the Medic (Taunt). The final seconds of the short announce that Team Fortress 2 would be free-to-play forever.


Meet the Medic
Meet the Medic Titlecard
Video Info
Released: June 23, 2011
Run time: 4:09


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.
    • Considering the over turned bottle and the half eaten Sandvich at the bottom shelf of the fridge, this fridge may be the very same featured in Meet the Sandvich.
  • 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 spotted in a bucket behind the Medic.
    • This is the same bomb seen in the "Meet the Medic" title card.
  • Despite the Quick-Fix being incapable of providing invulnerability in-game, the Medic is able to use it to make the Heavy invulnerable via Übercharge in Meet the Medic. The fourth day of the Über Update explains that the Quick-Fix's first Übercharge, seen in the video, permanently shorted out the invulnerability feature of the gun and it could never be used again.
  • In the waiting room at the end of the video, the Pyro can be seen reading a magazine. 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 foreshadowed the final gag of the video, in which Archimedes is left inside the Scout's chest after his operation.
  • 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 number of Soldiers are seen wielding unlockable weapons as well, including the Direct Hit, Black Box, and the Equalizer.
  • The large number of Soldiers charging to their deaths may be a reference to Trailer 2, where a swarm of Soldiers charged in front of an Engineer's Sentry, a Heavy's Minigun, and Rocket Jump all over the map to show off those abilities.
  • A broken-down van similar in appearance to the Sniper's camper van can be seen in the tunnel the Medic comes out of when he heals the Demoman and the Scout. Whether the two vehicles are one and the same is unknown.
  • One of the Medic's doves shares its name with "Template:W", the Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.
  • The Heavy's Minigun can be spotted in the background of a few operating room shots, resting on its own stretcher.
  • The Medic's Overdose can be seen underneath the bucket containing the extracted bomb.
  • 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, one would not expect the monitor to display anything but a flat line when there is no heart connected to the body.
  • When the Demoman is fleeing from the Soldiers in the second battlefield scene, his Grenade Launcher rests on his lap and is his only visible weapon. An explosion sends him flying out of his wheelchair, and the weapon that lands in front of him is, mysteriously, the Stickybomb Launcher instead of the Grenade Launcher he was just holding.
  • Despite the Heavy being fully healed after his procedure, during the process it should be noted that his rib never does grow back even when everything else does, confirming the Medic's statement that ribs do not grow back.
  • During the scene where the Demoman attempts to escape the BLU Soldiers, a RED Pyro is briefly seen running away behind a rock in the humiliation pose. The Pyro is holding the Flamethrower despite the humiliation animations disabling weapon models when seen in-game.
  • In the beginning of the video, the Scout is seen with bandages over his shirt. Later in the video when he is being healed by the Medic, the Scout no longer has those bandages on.

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.