Meet the Medic
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Meet the Medic is an unreleased short in the Meet the Team series, featuring the Medic. It is set to be released by the end of the Über Update.
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Speculation
In March 2011, user "Political Gamer" visited Valve headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, and confirmed the production of Meet the Medic.[1] Videogame.it 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 panel that depicted the Administrator at her control panel with a similar image of the Medic appearing on one of the displays. The image shows the Medic surrounded by doves again in a similar setting to the photograph from Valve HQ.
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 TF2 Official Blog's "select a class" Medic information page. Since every single class information page has a faded image of the setting in their respective "Meet The" videos behind the class (except for the Heavy, his image is Viaduct instead of Dustbowl), we are left to assume this as substantial proof that the Hospital will be a setting in Meet the Medic.
- Following the same logic, we may be left to speculate that Meet the Pyro will take place in Pipeline, unless it is just a placeholder.
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
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.
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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