Talk:Beaten and Bruised
Painted Variants / Galleries
This cosmetic has a lot of variance in how it displays paintable areas. Each class has the bandages placed on different areas of their faces, warranting at least something similar to what we did to document the Horrible Horns. However, there are five different styles on this item. Every style has paintable bandages, and each of them feature separate bandage placements and injuries on each class.
If we were to document them all, that would mean five style galleries, complete with nine classes each, or 1,710 images. So, I've come up with two proposals that we could utilize to move forward on this matter:
- We do a full paint gallery for each style, consisting of all nine classes, each. This one is probably incredibly excessive, but an option nonetheless.
- We do painted variants for only one class, and have an extensive class gallery instead, to showcase the different bandage placements that way. This way, we could display the painted areas, while still showing all the bandage placements. The images in the class galleries would have to make an effort to show as much of the bandaged faces as they can -- moreso than if we had done the painted variants option, but at far, far less of a risk for a potential loading crisis.
I personally am leaning towards the second option, for obvious page load reasons. While I was (and am still) in favour of documenting as much of an item as possible, as was the hill I stood on defending the practice for the Horrible Horns, there comes a point where I believe it to be simply unfeasible. Please discuss your thoughts, after viewing both options. -— 
09:41, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
- While I agree on painted variants for only one class, I disagree with the extended gallery. We don't do that to showcase styles, even when they change an item's appearance between classes, I don't think it's needed, and feel like doing so would open a huge can of monster worms. Besides, the combination of descriptions for the item and the styles already lets the reader know that the bandages and injuries change from one class to the other; if they want to know what each class looks like with the item, they can do so through loadout.tf, trading for the item, or unboxing it.
- Since the styles add injuries, but do not remove them, we could have an exception with this gallery and showcase the "Ultra Violence" style instead of the "default" "Too Young To Die" style. - BrazilianNut (talk) 14:15, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
