Talk:Christmas map

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Christmas map or Smissmas map?

So clearly there's been a bit of an issue with this name and people moving it back and forth without proper discussion. So I thought I'd start one.

Personally I'm in favour of Smissmas map, while Scream Fortress is the name of the update for Halloween, it's more consistently referred to as Halloween in the game. For example, it's called a Halloween restriction and not a Scream Fortress restriction. Multiple voice lines refer to it as Halloween. The only reference to Scream Fortress is Valve's own blog posts.

While Christmas is more consistently referred to as Smissmas. For example, the Festive Huntsman's tag refers to it as Smissmas, A Smissmas Story refers to both Christmas and Smissmas. To me, this implies that both Christmas and Smissmas are, in fact, separate holidays. Australia celebrating Christmas (See Australian Christmas 2011), while the US (Based on Soldier saying Smissmas) celebrates Smissmas.

To me, it makes more sense that they're called Smissmas maps, because that is what the game overwhelmingly uses.
GrampaSwood (talk) 11:43, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

It doesn't "overwhelmingly use" either, because this is a new thing since 2020. Also, the difference is that yes it's a Halloween map because "Scream Fortress" isn't a holiday and it has halloweeny elements. These maps are about Christmas (that said, you could make the argument that some of them are only about winter, but that's often just laziness on the developers part, there are very clearly Christmas elements in most of them. Like how some Halloween maps are just the same map but darker; again, laziness, doesn't make the theme not Halloween). I don't see why Smissmas maps are somehow more special, when it would be less so infact. Naleksuh (talk) 17:09, 4 December 2021 (UTC)