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: Publish any YouTube videos and related content.
  • Staff: Update protected pages, e.g. {{Updates}}, {{Trending topics}}

On April 2nd (UTC+0):

Acceptable content

The following is allowed:

  • Original content
  • Content based on other Valve games
  • Content based on third-party media (case by case)
    • Fake promotions are allowed as long as they do not put us or Valve in legal trouble. If a company has a history of strict policies against fan content (Nintendo, Disney), don't provoke them.
  • Steam Workshop content
    • Items from the Steam Workshop are only accepted with the creator's express consent.
    • To avoid concerns of bias, Workshop items should either be original (created for this event and then published on the Workshop) or at least five years old.
  • Off-wiki content (update pages, playable TF2 content, videos, fan games etc.)

Note: "content" includes all forms of creative contributions and is not limited to fake items.

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, 2026 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

Section: 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:

Main Page ideas

Wiki vs. Machines

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   + 1 – − 0

Since we are aware of the upcoming Mann vs Machine update is upon us, my initial plan would be to have the robots "highjack" the wiki as well.
Replace some names and texts to be robotized or to have a style and such. The classes being linked to their robot counterparts. Hell even the Tf2 wiki logo would be robotized with the easter egg konami code being sapped by a robot spy.
The ui colored blue/gray instead of orange. Replace images of for the classes as robots.
Machine propaganda
  • Changing the Did you know section for robot appropriation and jokes like "When the robot's show up, just sit in spawn and do nothing. You win the game when the robots reach the bomb hatch!" Similar to Plants vs Zombies help note[1]
  • Latest Updates being like the recent wiki cap holder is Sir Nukesalot or any robot names.
  • Featured Article being about robot hats.
  • Index images relating to robots like the trading image as the Robo Crate or the mann vs machine part making fun of humans.
  • Valve Wiki Network being replaced as "Our next plan to world domination"
Any mention of Gray Mann Co.
Shame Demoman for saying the forbidden SLUR
"Bad Word!!!"
The Demoman saying the C word
Humans are NOT welcome unless they wanna help edit haha ^^.

⋆˚࿔ ♕ 𝑅𝑒𝑔𝒶𝓁 ♕ ࿔˚⋆ User Regal Talk Icon.png 𝕋𝕒𝕝𝕜 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕖! ⊹₊˚‧︵‿₊୨♕୧₊‿︵‧˚₊⊹ 𝕄𝕪 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕗𝕗 𝕟 𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕥𝕤 09:17, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm worried this may get a bit too close to being similar to an MvM ARG (or perceived as such), but I'm personally fine with the idea. BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood Praise the Sun! (talk) (contribs) 18:20, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
Personally this idea was inspired by the Robot Boogaloo Update and the good humor of how current Mann vs Machine is playing so far, poking fun of it. (Toxic players, gamblers, australium hoarders, crippling debt and the small underapreciated humor for the robots. ⋆˚࿔ ♕ 𝑅𝑒𝑔𝒶𝓁 ♕ ࿔˚⋆ User Regal Talk Icon.png 𝕋𝕒𝕝𝕜 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕖! ⊹₊˚‧︵‿₊୨♕୧₊‿︵‧˚₊⊹ 𝕄𝕪 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕗𝕗 𝕟 𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕥𝕤 12:34, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Half-Life 3 on Current_Events

Voted by  No one. Please vote.
  • Add to Template:Current_Events next line so it appears on main page:
  • April 1, 2026 - TF2 Official Blog updated. The announcement of Half-Life 3 After 19 years of development, we are pleased to announce the release of Half-Life 3 on Steam. + 0 - − 0


Liverfull User Liverfull sig.pngTalkContributions 18:08, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

With all the HLX stuff, this is a bit too close to promising something that people want/are hyped about even if it's not about TF2. BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood Praise the Sun! (talk) (contribs) 18:20, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
What if instead we made the announcement "TF2 Official Blog updated. After over 22 long years, Valve announces the release of the continuation of its most beloved franchise." and have it link to a page on Day of Defeat 2. The original Day of Defeat was released in May of 2003 technically it will have only been 22 years since its release. User Fisherboy800 Fisherboy.gifUser Fisherboy800 User Talk Page.gifUser Fisherboy800 Contributions.gif 00:04, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
If you want to make something instead, please, create a different topic with suggestion. Otherwise, it will just remain in words.
Liverfull User Liverfull sig.pngTalkContributions 06:30, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Poor English Main Page

Voted by  No one. Please vote.


Liverfull User Liverfull sig.pngTalkContributions 20:01, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

The 2019 main page already sorta did the broken English thing and had the comic sans and stuff so there would need to be something to differentiate Mediarch User Mediarch PFP.pngTalkMy Edits

Deadlock Fortress

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   + 1 – − 0

I thought of a brand new idea. Deadlock as we know is still in its alpha stage of development and is subject to large changes. Both Team Fortress 2 and Deadlock share the same status of being hero shooters and occurring close to the mid 1900s, so what if as a fake event we made up the scenario that to satisfy both crowds of their old and new hero shooters that they simply merged the projects.

  • In current events, we put "April 1, 2026 - TF2 Official Blog updated. The Beginning of Something Great Valve announces the merger of Deadlock Project with Team Fortress 2."
  • We'd theme the main page as a mix of the color palettes of Deadlock and TF2, create a combination of their logos for the new wiki emblem.
  • We add every single Deadlock hero to the class boxes template and among them include the Guard Dog. Madcap, the Mercenary from Open Fortress, Winston from Overwatch, Eric Smith, Peter Griffin, and like a MLP character (someone more educated on these things can choose what'd be best). (The characters chosen can be workshopped if its risky to use characters of a particular franchise or we think of something funnier)
  • Featured Article is for a map that is a combination of Deadlock's map and 2fort, we can just photoshop the two main bases of 2fort in an open area of deadlock's map or do something higher effort.
  • Did you know section could have a couple real facts about deadlock mixed with things like this.
    • ...that the original nine classes hate how crowded its getting in here.


Section: Fake patch

Post your fake patch ideas below. Please remember that if you're suggesting a new item or feature, you should be able to write an article about it. While throwaway ideas are fun, wiki events should be focused on wiki work.

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Fake patch ideas

Slimyboi500's ideas

Voted by  No one. Please vote.
  • Added the Portal Gun. + 1 - − 0
  • Added Toast. + 0 - − 0
  • Slowed Righteous Bison's projectile speed by 30%. + 0 - − 0
  • Increased RAM prices by 500% (thanks, A.I.!) + 0 - − 0
  • Reduced Adam Warlock's movement by 110%. + 0 - − 0
  • .. ..-. / -.-- --- ..- / - .-. .- -. ... .-.. .- - . / - .... .. ... --..-- / -.-- --- ..- .----. .-. . / --. .- -.-- .-.-.- + 0 - − 0
  • Turned off the snare drum. (thanks, Lars Ulrich!) + 0 - − 0
  • Fired yet another band member. + 0 - − 0
  • Removed Herobrine. + 0 - − 0

My current ideas so far. Will probably add more later. User Slimyboi500 Logo.png User Slimyboi500 Profile.jpg Talk Speech voice.png Contribs Wrench IMG.png Steam Steam tray.png 23:20, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

BrazilianNut's idea

Voted by  No one. Please vote.
  • Added the Plumber's Cap to the Mann Co. Store
    • Every purchase of a Plumber's Cap until May 4th comes with a ticket for the Super Mario Galaxy Movie

+ 0 - − 0

For anyone unaware, the Super Mario Galaxy Movie will be released on April 1st.

I chose May 4th because it felt like a decent length for a promotional period, and also because that's Star Wars Day. – BrazilianNut (talk) 23:34, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Liverfull's ideas

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   + 0 – − 0

My worry with this would be that this is too close to the upcoming MvM update. Maybe change it to a regular gibus instead. BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood Praise the Sun! (talk) (contribs) 18:20, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
Yes, that is exactly the point and the joke I wanted to convey. If there are 2 or more votes against this, i will propose a regular gibus instead in another topic.
Liverfull User Liverfull sig.pngTalkContributions 18:25, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   + 0 – − 0

  • Funny audio with door knocks at 2:59 and 5:59. The rest of the time is silence.
    integrate this audio file thru HTML on all tfwiki articles, if possible, or just the main page, including other languages. It should plays by itself, without launching through the audio box. Since the track consists entirely of silence, the playing sound will not be displayed on top of the browser pages. Audio should start playing as soon as the page opens.

Liverfull User Liverfull sig.pngTalkContributions 10:34, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Plutonium's suggestions

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   + 1 – − 0

User:Plutonium/'Toast'

  • Random weapon article I've made. Hopefully it is most funny for the most frivolous foolers.

Plutonium | (talk) | (contributions) | User Plutonium Profile.png 19:46, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Mediarch ideas

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   + 0 – − 0

  • My idea is portal gun. We could make a page for it and demonstration video and stuff. Using a Portal 2 mod I can load TF2 Maps and use the portal gun on something like 2fort as seen here sOMSw0W.png

It's a bit janky but portals work as expected on flat surfaces.

Custom player model is pretty easy to get working just haven't done it yet. So I can replace the "chell" model with something like Scout or Heavy instead. Only thing that might be challenging is getting tf2 hud working I haven't tried modifying the hud yet but I can look into it. Mediarch User Mediarch PFP.pngTalkMy Edits 21:12, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Mediarch User Mediarch PFP.pngTalkMy Edits 21:12, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I managed to get heavy working as a player model but has fire textures for some reason. I'll try and sort that out but here's a lil video showing the proof of concept. https://youtu.be/ieruw0Zcv6s Mediarch User Mediarch PFP.pngTalkMy Edits 03:41, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

ShadowMan's idea

Status  Pending review. Please vote and discuss.
Votes   + 0 – − 0

  • Players hit in the crotch with the Sandman ball are now marked for death

This idea was actually accepted for AF '23's page, but was never added (I was also never credited for the "airblast now works on bullets" idea on the credits page either) so hoping that this will be added in this year's. (If we do it) ShadowMan44 (talk) 23:57, 4 March 2026 (UTC)