Team Fortress Wiki:April Fools' Day/Future

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Instructions

You are free to work on whatever you want as long as it follows the rules.

Important: Unlike previous events, if no ongoing effort is made towards the actual event, it will be postponed. Acceptable ideas may be considered for future events, but please keep in mind that a collaborative effort is necessary to make the April Fools' event happen.

Please see our previous events to get a sense of what we're looking for:

Update procedure

The April Fools' Day event will begin at 00:00 UTC+0 on April 1st and terminate at 00:00 UTC+0 on April 2nd.

On April 1st (UTC+0):

  • Editors: Move April Fools' content to the main namespace.
  • Staff: Use our social media platforms to announce the fake patch.
  • Staff: Publish any YouTube videos and related content.
  • Staff: Update protected pages, e.g. {{Updates}}, {{Trending topics}}

On April 2nd (UTC+0):

  • Editors: Tag April Fools' content with {{Humor}} and {{April Fools|2024}}.
  • Editors: Move April Fools' content to the Team Fortress Wiki:April Fools' Day/2024/ namespace.
  • Editors: Create Team Fortress Wiki:April Fools' Day/2024 page, listing the contributors (you can make this ahead of time if you like)
  • Editors: Transclude {{Team Fortress Wiki:April Fools' Day/2024}} onto the main April Fools' Day page
  • Editors: Clean up the Project status tracking on this page and archive the discussion.
  • Staff: Unlist YouTube videos and related content.
  • Staff: Restore protected pages.

Acceptable content

The following is allowed:

  • Original content
  • Steam Workshop content - Items from the Steam Workshop are only accepted with the creator's express consent.
  • Content based on other Valve games
  • Content based on third-party media (case by case) - Fake promotional items are allowed as long as they're not direct copies of the originals and do not put us or Valve in legal trouble.
  • Off-wiki content (update pages, playable TF2 content, videos, fan-games, etc)

Adding new ideas

  1. Check to see if your ides satisfies the criteria listed under Guidelines for April Fools' Events and Acceptable content.
  2. Create a new section to the Ideas section below.

Note: If your proposal introduces a new item or game mechanic, you or someone must write a wiki article about it.

Voting

  1. Vote for your preferred ideas by posting a Pictogram plus.png + ({{c|+}}) or Pictogram minus.png - ({{c|-}}) in topic.
  2. Upon reaching 5 Pictogram plus.png + votes, please update Project status tracking and start working on it.
    1. To create a sandbox page, please make it a subpage of this one (e.g., /Future/April 1, 2024 Patch, /Future/Main Page etc.) and add __NOINDEX__ to it.

Note: Judges (Wiki Admins) have the authority to veto or approve ideas as needed.

Project status tracking

Use this section to keep track of approved ideas.

Project tracking
Content Required work Progress Translation progress Notes
User tasks
Staff tasks (protected pages, social media posts, etc)
Admin-only tasks (additional coding, etc)

Ideas

Main Page / Wiki Theme

Post your Main page ideas below. Please try to provide detailed explanations of your ideas and/or make a concept (you can do so on your user space or by editing an image).

For inspiration, check out:


Mikado282's ideas

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   Pictogram plus.png 5 – Pictogram minus.png 0

  • Lego Update
Legofy the characters and some of the items.
It would probably be a lot of work to make Legofied versions one or two of the more notable taunts and Meet the Teams, but funny. (I'm thinking "Meet the Sniper" with a Legofied Sniper would be a natural.) (Or a stop action "Meet the Heavy" with actual Legos)
  • 90% Gib odds with Lego gibs when Lego cosmetics are equipped.

M I K A D O 282 ⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ (Contact Mikado282 (SM)) | (contribs) (Help Wanted!) 02:49, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Light Weapons Guy's ideas

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   Pictogram plus.png 2 – Pictogram minus.png 0

  • My idea is We make a fake weapon article for The gaster blaster from Undertale and a fake class about sans?

Light Weapons Guy (talk) 13:58, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   Pictogram plus.png 1 – Pictogram minus.png 1

  • My idea is a fake patch.

1. A new wave in MVM is added with Freddy Fazbear and co. attacking the mercy 2. Pyro is now an scp, specifically scp 69. 3. Medic x Heavy is canon 4. ✋︎ 🕆︎🏱︎👎︎✌︎❄︎☜︎👎︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎ ☹︎⚐︎👍︎✌︎☹︎✋︎☪︎✌︎❄︎✋︎⚐︎☠︎ ☞︎✋︎☹︎☜︎💧︎ ☹︎⚐︎☹︎ 5. ☞︎🕆︎👍︎😐︎ 👌︎☹︎✋︎☪︎☪︎✌︎☼︎👎︎ ☜︎☠︎❄︎☜︎☼︎❄︎✌︎✋︎☠︎💣︎☜︎☠︎❄︎ 6. I̵ ̴h̶a̴v̷e̵ ̸p̵l̴a̷c̷e̷d̵ ̸a̵ ̴l̸a̶n̸d̷ ̷m̷i̵n̶e̵ ̷i̴n̶ ̵y̵o̵u̶r̶ ̷h̴o̶u̸s̵e̵ 7. 01010000 01101111 01101111 01110000 01111001 00100000 01001010 01101111 01100101 00100000 01110111 01100001 01110011 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100001 01100011 01100011 01101001 01100100 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000

Light Weapons Guy (talk) 20:23, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

BEUFK's ideas

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   Pictogram plus.png 2 – Pictogram minus.png 1

Fake Patch:

  • Players consume 1 Refined Metal per step.
    • If you have run out of your metal, your weapons are acceptable for us too.
  • Introducing :
    • Blind Mode: Your screen turns dark throughout the whole game.
    • Deaf Mode: All sound effects are disabled.
    • Dumb Mode: Players no longer use Voice command etc.
      • The above is enabled by default.

祝编安/All the best
||| BEUFK the nonsense - contrib. - have a talk 06:59, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

ShadowMan44's ideas

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   Pictogram plus.png 3 – Pictogram minus.png 0

ShadowMan44 (talk) 22:55, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Slimyboi500's ideas

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   Pictogram plus.png 0 – Pictogram minus.png 2

  • My idea is a new weapon called the Full-Zatoichi, a weapon based on this video:

--Slimyboi500 User Slimyboi500 Profile.jpg Talk Speech voice.png Contribs Wrench IMG.png Steam Steam tray.png 23:12, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Luno's ideas

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   Pictogram plus.png 1 – Pictogram minus.png 1

  • Badly translated tf2 wiki.
In the vein of the popularity of running popular games or historical events through a translator to obtain funny reactions,
The main page of the wiki would receive its text (except language bar text) changed from a pool of X randomized variants that would have been passed ahead of time through a hyper-translator 50–100 times or more (keeping only the results that are funny).
The language selection bar would have the current selected language being Australian instead of English. Below all the languages would be a notice informing in English that the viewer might want to click on a link present in the notice if they don't understand anything, bringing them back to the normal page, and cite between parenthesis that it may be due to lack of virility and a mustache in general.

Example: The Über Update is a major content update for Team Fortress 2 and 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 the release of Meet the Medic.
⬇️
Turns into: It was completely Up here is a major update released on June 23, 2011. It is called "the most big and fast" in the history of Army Squad 2. Technology has changed and improved, the It was completely Up here also includes the Meet the Medic app, which is supported in a four-day trial program.

Luno 🪐🌕 Talk / Contributions / Team 00:46, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   Pictogram plus.png 0 – Pictogram minus.png 1

  • Fake patch or undocumented change.

Luno 🪐🌕 Talk / Contributions / Team 01:07, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Andrew360's ideas

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   Pictogram plus.png 2 – Pictogram minus.png 0

  • Raised -unrestricted_maxplayers limit to 1000 (feature is now even more unsupported).
  • Added Saxton Hale as a playable class for all game modes.
  • Added controller support for the Wii Balance Board.
  • Crates now have a 100% chance of unboxing a Self-Made item.
  • Added Battle Royale as a game mode in Casual mode.
  • Automatically added 'unbindall' to autoexec.cfg.
  • Updated the engine to Source 3.
  • Added Walkway to Competitive mode.
  • Removed ÜberCharge.
  • Added Role Queue to Casual mode.
  • Removed every single localization file.

Andrew360 Edit icon.png Speech typing.png Photo Badge Decal Example.png 00:56, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

GrampaSwood's ideas

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   Pictogram plus.png 0 – Pictogram minus.png 0

  • General fake patch note ideas:
    • Renamed Unusual and Strange to Ordinary and Very Regular. They're not unusual or strange anymore, it's been 10 years, guys.
    • The Demoman has sobered up, resulting in the following changes:
      • The Bottle and Scottish Handshake has been replaced with a glass of milk.
      • Flying above 15 meters in the air causes the Demoman to scream due to his fear of heights.
      • Voice lines no longer randomly cut out due to the Demoman falling asleep.
      • He no longer tries to drink from a pan or a sign.
      • The Ullapool Caber can now be thrown, like a sober person would...
    • Fixed a bug that caused German translations to show up in English (e.g. "OverCharge" appearing as "ÜberCharge", "The Superhuman" appearing as "Ze Übermensch").
    • Fixed a bug that caused trucks on maps to not be driveable.