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“ We've been holding one of the surprises pretty close to the vest for months now. We don't want to ruin it, but we'll give you four clues to get you guessing: 1.) It IS a "Meet the" short.

2.) It involves ONE of the two remaining classes.

3.) It's NOT the Pyro.

4.) It's the MEDIC. — TF2 Official Website ”

The was a major content update for Team Fortress 2, which was released on June 23, 2011 Patch. It was heralded as "the biggest, most ambitious update in the history of Team Fortress 2." Similar to other major updates, such as the Sniper vs. Spy Update and the Engineer Update, the Über Update followed a four-day-long system of daily content previews, the last of which featured a new short, Meet the Medic.

Day 1: Mobster Monday

Day 1 revealed mob-themed item packs for the Heavy and the Spy, Black Market Business and The Man of Honor, respectively, as well as a new Payload map, Barnblitz.

Class sets

Maps

Name Picture Game mode File name Barnblitz Payload

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Day 2: Timbuk Tuesday

Day 2 revealed desert-themed item packs for the Sniper and the Demoman, "Lawrence of Australia" and "One Thousand and One Demoknights", respectively. A hidden page, accessed by clicking on a crushed can of Bonk! Atomic Punch, also revealed a Bonk-themed set for the Scout known as "The #1 Fan".

Class sets

Day 3: World War Wednesday

Day 3 revealed two World War II item sets for the Soldier, The General's Formals and Airborne Armaments. Later in the day, a hidden page accessed by clicking on the drawing of the Pyro on a whiteboard revealed a hidden secondary weapon for the Pyro, the Detonator.

Class sets

Weapons

Day 4: Meet the Medic and Free to Play Announcement

Day 4 saw the unveiling of Meet the Medic, a new Medic item set called The Clinical Trial, and the announcement that Team Fortress 2 would be Free to Play.

Class sets

Cosmetics

To compensate those who originally purchased Team Fortress 2, a promotional cosmetic item was awarded to all who had bought the game before it became Free to Play.

Day 5 was a blog post following the update.[1] It announced the availability of the Meet the Medic and Schadenfreude taunts on the Mann Co. Store; the Limited Edition Meet the Medic Lithograph in the Valve Store, and Über Update-related wallpapers added to the Artwork section of the TF2 website. Day 5 was not featured on the Über Update mini-site.

Other additions

Cosmetics

Weapons

Paint

The update also introduced six Paint Cans which change color depending on the player's team.

The Strange Item Quality

This update added the 11 first Strange items to the game that could be obtained through all of the newly-added Crates by opening them with a Key.

The available Crates and items were:

Trivia

The numbers on the placards that the Heavy and the Spy are holding up in their mug shots on the Mobster Monday page are the release dates of their respective Meet the Team videos. Meet the Heavy was released on May 14th, 2007 and Meet the Spy was released on May 19th, 2009. The placards have the letters 'NM' on them, the abbreviation for the state of New Mexico in the USA. The placards also read 'Teufort', the locational name of 2Fort.

was released on May 14th, 2007 and was released on May 19th, 2009.

The line sleep with the fishes on the Mobster Monday blog post is a reference to The Godfather movie. The line is a term for someone who has been murdered and then thrown into the ocean and is therefore "sleeping" with the fishes.

Timbuk Tuesday refers to Timbuktu, a West African town that is commonly stereotyped as being exotically far away.

Gallery

Hidden pages