Template talk:Did you know
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Rules for adding facts
- Add new facts in bullet points (*) at the end of the current list of unused facts, nowhere else.
- Make sure your fact is either cited or undeniably true.
- Facts can be no more than one line in length, or they may mess up the main page layout.
- Phrase your fact to carry on from the words 'Did you know..' and end with a '?'.
- Leave a break (----) after every fifth rule to make updating easier.
- Make sure the fact is at least somewhat useful or interesting.
As long as you follow all these rules, feel free to share your interesting tips and factoids with the rest of the TF2 community!
--Wilsonator 21:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Meet the Sandvich
Technically, Meet the Scout is the first video where RED and BLU communicate, as the Scout says "Yo, what's up?" to the BLU heavy.
- Well caught. --Wilsonator 03:43, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Demoman's lost eye
I guess it's a bit late to point this out since it was among the first of the facts to be displayed, but the demoman's bio doesn't actually say he lost his eye in the effort to kill the Loch Ness Monster. The bio rather implies that he lost his eye sometime after that...
Pyro's reflections
I did some private testing with a bot and it turns out that a Pyro can reflect the rockets from a sentry gun. (Although this may have gone without mention due to the generalization of the term "rocket" in most references to it.) Additional information shows that it only takes about three direct hits to destroy it. With a personal screenshot to prove the events.
Though a few friends were surprised as to how I managed it and were unaware that it was possible, I didn't know if it was worth mentioning. I could add a few sections on the Pyro strategy about it. Could redefine the pyro "peekaboo" strategy or pry an engineer away from his sentry if applied correctly.
--GutsMan 14:18, July 21 (EDT)
- I'm surprised this isn't already a well-known thing. I killed someone with a reflected sentry rocket like an hour after the pyro update. --Harbl Gentleman 20:24, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Spies knife
I am removing the 'fact' about the spies knife never critting (even during humiliation). I have witnessed many times that this is not the case, and the knife will always crit in humiliation. -˜˜˜˜
Sniper Headshot Sign
That the road sign in the begining of "meet the sniper" is the symbol for a headshot in-game
The Ubermensch
Was not a nazi ideal but rather a perversion of Nietzsche's ideas. The medic would not be shouting out nazi propaganda in valve's game (at least I hope not) so it should probably be removed as a "Did you know?" fact. That being said, the ubermensch was just an idealized way of overcoming the death of god and nihilism in Thus Spoke Zarathustra and has nothing to do with creating a perfect, "arian" person. --He7ium 03:50, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
- "Raised in Stuttgart, Germany during an era when the Hippocratic oath had been downgraded to an optional Hippocratic suggestion", "Kritzkrieg"? Valve have heavily hinted that the Medic was a Nazi. (TF2 is set in the 60's remember.) --Wilsonator 09:44, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
- 1940's German != Nazi. Maktaka 09:49, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
- Wrong again, Blitzkrieg is just german for "lightning war" and was used in world war I before hitler even came to power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzkrieg --He7ium 18:35, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
- Yeah but the term is most known regarding WW2. Valve aren't trying to be historians here. Wouldn't being a citizen in Nazi Germany make the Medic a nazi by default whether he wanted to be or not? -and the quote in my above comment hints so strongly at it they're pretty much saying "HE'S A NAZI"
- Also, don't tell me the Medic isn't the sort of person who wouldn't embrace some of the more extreme ideals to get away with some ethically incorrect surgery. You know he is. ;)--Wilsonator 23:38, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
- I still think valve was just making a joke about Nazi germany, there's nothing to suggest the Medic is *actually* a nazi. Then again, they do imply that the heavy is a communist. This begs the question of why the medic and heavy get along so well. --He7ium 02:56, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
- The only link we can make with the Medic and Nazism is Josef Mengele (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele), and it's still a tenuous link at best. Nothing in the game overtly suggests the Medic is a Nazi. Also, the living in Germany during the Third Reich did not necessarily make one a Nazi. There seems to be a commonly-held confusion over this, but a good number of German soldiers during WW2 fighting under the Nazi flag claimed they were fighting in defense for their country, rather than the Nazi party and its associated ideologies. In any case, the term Ubermensch is a Nietzchean concept and has no ties to Nazism or the hypocritical Nordic master race BS whatsoever. Such factual inaccuracy should be removed from the main page. YPKA 09:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
- Think about the sort of game TF2 is, it's chock full of tongue-in cheek stereotypes. Of course the Medic is a mad nazi scientist, even if they don't state it overtly. His exagerratedly camp accent, science-gone-awry weapons, it's all an obvious parody of film and pop culture stereotypical nazis. Valve aren't exactly implying all serving Germans were evil nazis, that all Scotsman are inebriated and violent, that all Bostonians are baseball obsessed hooligans, that all Russians are massive, hulking man-bears who love to shoot people with heavy weaponry etc etc. On the other hand I agree with your comment on that particular fact, it doesn't really belong. I guess I'll remove it.--Wilsonator 12:48, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Team Fortress series
They say that Valve have planned makeing a Team Fortress serie, but hven do they relase it, and hvere can you watch them?
- Deciphering what you wrote is difficult but I assume you're asking about the potential film/tv series fact. It was stated by a Valve employee in an early interview that they were interested in perhaps bringing TF2 to those mediums and while it's unlikely anything will come of it, it's an interesting prospect nonetheless. As Valve have likely scrapped or postponed the idea, I have no idea when we'd expect to see it. I suppose the closest thing to a tv series is watching the upcoming Meet the Team videos.--Wilsonator 20:49, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Sandviches
Chanegd the first fact to "...that any class may consume dropped Sandviches and not just the Heavies that wield them? " from just Scouts, as I spent a few hours once wondering why I kept picking up +50 health as a Medic on a level without health packs.
Early Sandman peek?
If you look at the bottom shelf in "Meet the Sandvich" you can notice a wooden bat laying there. I think its the Sandman, but it doesn't have a crack in it. Could this be a beta of the Sandman? And why is it there?
I'd like to point out that it isn't a bat, the wood you see is the floor, the refrigerator door is just at a position that makes the ground look like the shape of a bat.
Dead Ringer animation
using a 'experimental'(altough they exist for some long) program,a 3d printscreen,i managed to find the exact position from first person of a spy with the dead ringer activated.I managed to see that he has four hands instead of two,and not three,like the bug present on consoles while reloading... http://s446.photobucket.com/albums/qq187/sadysadycool/?action=view¤t=spy.jpg --Sady von schattig
- Madness! He has 4 arms! Quite a nice bit of work there. But please try and sign your posts with ~~~~ Thanks.. Smashman 14:35, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Scout Achievement "A Year to Remember" Did you know? Wrong?
...that the Scout achievement "A Year to Remember" that requires 2004 kills, is a reference to the October 2004 release date of the Source Engine?
This was on the front page and I find this to be misunderstood. As a baseball fanatic, I know that the year 2004 was the year the Boston Red Sox broke the Babe Ruth curse and actually won the a World Series after decades of missing the title.
The Scout is from Boston, so I claim that this "Did You Know" is wrong and should be replaced.
- This makes more sense, since it's more relevant to the Scout himself. - Balphezar 05:36, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Huntsman left handed
It's not weird, it's how bows are held. Try it yourself.
It's easier to load an arrow with your right hand if you are right handed. Ask any people using a bow in real life. Cloakedboltz
Duplicates
Can't help but notice there's many duplicates of the same facts, just worded differently. Cloakedboltz
- We are going to crack down on this article. Also, Please sign your comments with ~~~~. Smashman 15:46, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Who's your daddy?
In the notes on meet the spy writes that on alarm-o-tron exists three tablets : |blu scout|has evil twin|red spy| is more likely that the spy to be scout's father,regarding to his relationship with his mother and the achivement who's your daddy -- Sady von schattig sun-jul05-2009
Sniper's scar
During Meet the Spy we all seen the fight between the spy and the sniper.Nearly at the end,the spy scrached the sniper on the face.The scar is hardly-visible in-game,but i found it: [1]-- Sady von schattig sun-jul05-2009
New hats :D
That's kinda stupid i've seen some new hats on a server,but they were not from the actual sets i seen a medic with a pair of yellow bunny ears,a spy with a red bandane and a scout with ushanka what means this?
sady von schattig --aug 18 2009
How often do the facts get updated?
I'm sorry, but there are some facts in there that I put in 6 or 7 months ago that still haven't been featured. I think that they should be updated more often, maybe every two weeks or so. Just an idea. Bolmedias14 17:54, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
- It used to be once a week, now it's once a month along with the featured article. The problem is we don't have many regular editors, so i'm in charge of the section, and it was getting rather troublesome keeping it updated, especally with holidays and work and all that. I could try for a more frequent update schedule, maybe every two weeks or back to one again. --Wilsonator 19:38, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
> Project?
Can this whole Did you know facts thing be wrapped up and restructured in to it's own project, similar to the Featured articles project? With how it stands at the minute, it's a bit easy to add any text which will then be transcluded in to the main page and it also seems quite troublesome to police. --
urora (talk | contribs) 18:08, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
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