Doves
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Doves appeared in all Valve-made maps, with the exception of Arena maps, Target and Item Test.
There were two types of doves, perched and flying. The perched doves did not move, blink, or fly; they remained perfectly stationary, unless attacked or touched by a player then they would explode. The explosion caused no damage or knockback. Doves that had exploded would re-appear at the beginning of a new round. Flying doves appeared when a Scout was killed, appearing to come from gibs.
There were 78 perched doves in total.
On June 17, 2011, the Team Fortress website was updated with pictures of doves and dove droppings across the top of the main page. Additionally, clicking on one of the three doves "perched" at the top of the page lead to three different pictures, each with different connotations to the Medic: a bombed, ruined hospital, a waiting room, and a doctor's office, respectively, and all of which appeared empty and abandoned.
On June 20th, 2011, the doves on the main page of the Blog were removed due to the redesign of the Team Fortress website.
Locations
See Dove locations for a listing of all dove sightings.
Update history
- [Undocumented] Doves have been added to all Valve-made maps.
- Fixed a problem related to spawning multiple entities unnecessarily between mini-rounds.
- Fixed a server crash triggered during entity cleanup.
- [Undocumented] Added a new "Dove" model with flight animations.
June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)
- [Undocumented] Removed doves from the maps.
Bugs
- There was a dove near the center of Well on a rafter that could not be killed through conventional methods, as it was inside of a clip brush that blocks all weapons fire or entry. This dove could only be killed by sticky jumping and hitting it with the Ullapool Caber or through the use of noclip. None of the other doves had this problem.
Trivia
- Doves can be seen in a teaser image of Meet the Medic,[1] and the final panel of Meet the Director.[2]
- The dove that flew from the gibs of a Scout was a reference to the ending of Meet the Medic.
- A dove appears on the icon of the Medic achievement, Ubi Concordia, Ibi Victoria.
Gallery
A dove seen on Dustbowl.
A dove seen on Well that seemingly could not be killed.
Flying Dove model, added on June 17, 2011 Patch.
Dove flying animation
Doves on the official website
Hospital hidden image
Waiting Room hidden image
Doctor's Office hidden image
See also
References
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