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r/tf2 • … • u/ShadowGuyinRealLife

What if Valve Made Screenshots with Callouts and them Removed them?

Suppose starting with the Uber Update, Valve released a bunch of screenshots of their maps on their blog, and put labels on certain locations. For example, in Upward (yeah I know it's Engineer Update not Pyro Update), a fan could take a screenshot of the C area from the bottom (where BLU is approaching) without players and put labels on things like "shithouse" "A Point" "Balcony" "tracks" and so on. By the way "Balcony" is where the sentry is on this picture [right here](https://imgur.com/7WlXW) and "Balcony" would be visible from where I was making the hypothetical screenshot. But there are some duplicates such as multiple places called "stairs." Every single medium health pack is labeled "medium health" but small and large ones get more unique labels. For payload maps each point is labeled... well the point. So A gets labeled "A" in the screenshot. They did this for every single Valve created map, every Arena map, every CTF map, stage 2 and 3 of every 3 stage community payload map, 1/3 of every other community Payload map, Kong King, Snowplow, Suijin and Harvest until 2020. Starting from 2017, they only release 8 images on each map they do this on, 1 top down view like [this](https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/File:2Fort_overview.png) and 7 1st person screenshots with a player on an empty server, leaving large sections of maps unlabeled. From 2020, they stop posting these. Summer 2023, all of these are removed. Would the community adopt the labels assigned if they are mixed usefulness like "Balcony, tracks, siding" and less useful ones like "medium health pack"? Would they be still be used with the removal from the blog?

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