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Stuff[edit]
About the "did you know..." things. How can I add new facts? --FireMan 01:39, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- Inside one of the lots of '<choose>' tags, add a new fact surrounded by <option> tags, like so: <option>fact</option>. It should be easy enough to figure out, just follow the example set by the existing text. --MattyDienhoff «talk» 01:51, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- Great, except.. it's locked. it says I can't edit it. --FireMan 03:19, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- Oh! That's Klow's doing. I'll unprotect it for the moment so you can edit it. --MattyDienhoff «talk» 03:38, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks. Oh, and, for some reason the apc link i added doesn't want to work. --FireMan 04:31, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- It's all sorted. What's the source for the APC statement? When do the Resistance ever use APCs? --MattyDienhoff «talk» 05:06, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- Oh, nevermind: I just saw the statement in Armoured Personnel Carrier. Well, all I can say is that's false. I've played through that part of the game well over a dozen times and I can say with complete confidence that no APC is seen moving or shooting at anything at all, let alone attacking Striders. If you saw one there, you're either mistaken or you have a mod of some kind installed. The only APC seen outside the Nexus in the official game is an abandoned, overturned one that does nothing. --MattyDienhoff «talk» 05:19, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- That's interesting, because I saw about 3 APC's, and one of them fired a few rockets and then stopped. When I looked at a nearby strider, i saw it get hit, but I must have been mistaken. Oh, well. --FireMan 22:52, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- Oh, nevermind: I just saw the statement in Armoured Personnel Carrier. Well, all I can say is that's false. I've played through that part of the game well over a dozen times and I can say with complete confidence that no APC is seen moving or shooting at anything at all, let alone attacking Striders. If you saw one there, you're either mistaken or you have a mod of some kind installed. The only APC seen outside the Nexus in the official game is an abandoned, overturned one that does nothing. --MattyDienhoff «talk» 05:19, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- It's all sorted. What's the source for the APC statement? When do the Resistance ever use APCs? --MattyDienhoff «talk» 05:06, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks. Oh, and, for some reason the apc link i added doesn't want to work. --FireMan 04:31, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- Oh! That's Klow's doing. I'll unprotect it for the moment so you can edit it. --MattyDienhoff «talk» 03:38, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- Great, except.. it's locked. it says I can't edit it. --FireMan 03:19, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Link[edit]
"...that the cake isn't a lie?"
the link leads to a disambiguation page.GordonGMan 06:09, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Locked?[edit]
Why is the did you know page permanently locked? It's not as if there are lots of vandals on the combine overwiki. JgcxCub 20:44, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
- This prevents users from adding dumb facts. Darkman 4 22:07, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
"The HL2 intro ride was at one point a bus ride"[edit]
One of the DYK lines reads: ...that the train ride at the start of Half-Life 2 was originally much longer, and at some point a bus ride?
I believe this old presumption was disproven with the discovery of the Old Friends vignette.
Long ago various community members interpreted the existing bus ride map, c17_road, as some kind of alternative city intro. The vignette reveals that the bus was to be driven by Barney and end up overturned in a canal (which means the bus present in several early canal maps is likely a placeholder for that bus).
So that probably should be altered now. Cvoxalury (talk) 20:15, 9 March 2025 (MSK)
- That's correct. I've removed the bit about the bus from the trivia point. Marphy (talk) 07:41, 10 March 2025 (MSK)
Not Only that, But the Page for Point Insertion claims it's related to a Comment by Marc Laidlaw that was reposted on the Facepunch Forums where he talked about "the idea of doing various kinds of ghost-train rides on different types of vehicles." That Should probably be corrected as well. --HoodwinkedHalfLifeFan (talk) 07:15, 10 March 2025 (MSK)
- The Point Insertion article is currently not in the mainspace, so it's not a high priority at the moment since there's little means to actually reach it. It's perfectly open to editing for such corrections right now. Marphy (talk) 07:41, 10 March 2025 (MSK)
EP3[edit]
The option "... that Half-Life 2: Episode Three was publicly announced in May 2006 for a Christmas 2007 release?" can link to Half-Life 2: Episode Three. Cvoxalury (talk) 12:16, 29 July 2025 (MSK)
