History VideoGame / Battlefield3

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield 4}}'' reveals, even if Blackburn saved New York, Solomon's plan to "set the world on fire" ultimately succeeded and now Russia and the U.S. are locked in a bitter global war for which neither side was actually responsible for, all because of [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare3 the will of a single man.]]

** PLR and Russian forces will usually call out whenever reloading, being shot at, dying, or throwing a grenade. They usually shout out[[OhCrap whenever a grenade lands near them,too.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield 4}}'' reveals, even if Blackburn saved New York, Solomon's plan to "set the world on fire" ultimately succeeded and now Russia and the U.S. are locked in a bitter global war for which neither side was actually responsible for, all because of the will of a single man.]]

** The achievement/trophy for completing the co-op campaign on Hard difficulty is named "ArmyOfTwo".

* TechDemoGame: ''Battlefield 3'' doesn't support DirectX 9, hence it can't run on Windows XP. It was one of the first applications to have a real impact in driving people to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7. The console versions have 4 rows of pixels on the top and bottom of the screen blacked out to speed up performance while maintaining graphical fidelity, since you mostly won't notice the blacked-out rows anyway.

Another sequel, VideoGame/{{Battlefield 4}}, was released on all major consoles and PC in October 2013.

* AirVentPassageway: In Operation Swordbreaker you have to go through one in order to defuse a bomb.

** Even worse is a ''vehicle'' being destroyed by the repair tool. When targeting a friendly (or unoccupied) vehicle, the torch repairs. When targeting a hostile vehicle, you slowly remove health at around 5% a second. Bonus points if, in an attempt to stop you, the crew bails out... only for you to get in and drive off. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x2WQ6XLv_o Corridor Digital demonstrates.]] In order to unlock the ''Back to Karkand'' and ''Close Quaters'' Engineer carbines (the [=G53=], the [=QBZ-95=] and the [=MTAR-21=]) you are explicitly required to do these.

* FiveManBand: The multiplayer is set up like this. The assualt is TheHero (being the main infantry unit of the game), the Engineer is TheLancer (choosing to focus on maintaing, controlling, and destroying vehicles), the Recon's TheSmartGuy (having the ability to spot, place beacons, and set up sensors to gather information), the Support is TheBigGuy (having ammo packs and some of the heavier ordinance), and the announcer acts as TheChick (co-ordinating the team from afar without actually doing anything). How it actually plays out is entirely up to the players, as many choose instead to disregard their roles.

* ShownTheirWork: Well, whoever worked on [[http://www.offdutygamers.com/wp-content/uploads/BF3-TacticalBreakdown.jpg?utm_source=wordtwit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wordtwit this piece of artwork]] for ''Battlefield 3'' apparently did, considering what off-duty soldiers found in it.

** The MP 412 REX, which didn't go to full production because of lack of market, as Russia does not permit firearms to civilians and lack of interest from Western countries. This time however, they properly show the automatic ejection mechanism.
** Both the AEK-971 and AN-94 were participating in the same "Abakan" trial contest which was aimed to find a replacement for the current AK-74M service rifle. Their advantages were considered insufficient for their increased production cost and complexity and both ended up in the arsenals of elite Russian forces and the Ministry of Home Affairs. This could be considered a justified example, as the Russian team in multiplayer IS Russian special forces.

** Close Quarters brings in the [=LSAT=] [=LMG=], which is only in the prototyping stages in the real world.

** Much to the chagrin of older Battlefield fans. It heals at a slow rate of 5HP/second and it takes a long time to kick in (at least twelve seconds). However, suppressive fire will reset the timer and stop any healing in progress, and it is completely off in hardcore. If people so desire, they can turn it off in their server, regardless if it is hardcore or not.
*** Medkits, however, heal at a speedy 10HP/second and force regenerating health to kick in for players within their effective range immediately, regardless of suppression.
** Vehicles have regenerating health as well. However, vehicles below 50% health (35% for transport helicopters, CAS jets and AMTRAC) will become disabled, [[DamageIsFire catch on fire]] and recieve a penalty to movement and control ([=MBTs=] and [=IFVs=] can barely move, jeeps and armored cars stop dead in their tracks, helicopters lose much of their yaw, pitch and climb capabilities and jets go into a barely controllable spin). At this point vehicle health will keep bleeding out unless repaired back up to 100%.
* RevenueEnhancingDevices: In the March 2012 patch, DICE rolled out the Rent-a-Server plan, allowing UsefulNotes/{{Playstation 3}} and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} players to customize their own personal server like PC players. The "revenue enchancing" part comes in when players, tired of custom settings and abusive server admins, try finding vanilla DICE servers, only to find out that EA phased nearly all of them out.

* ShortRangeShotgun:
** Generally averted, at least in comparison to most FPS games, especially if you have flechette rounds.
** Inverted with shotguns equipped with slug rounds if you compensate for bullet drop. Equipping a gun like the [=870MCS=] with slugs and a 6x rifle scope can be used as a makeshift sniper rifle for any class.

** Tanks or [=IFVs=] with an Engineer buddy are an absolute nightmare to take down with [=RPGs=]. Take out the Engineer as soon as he pops out when the vehicle is disabled, else you'll soon find yourself out of rockets.
* SlapOnTheWristNuke: The FGM-148 Javelin, capable of doing significant damage against any tank, is a two to three shotter against MBTs in the game (unless the target is laser designated).

** In the dog tags: [[Music/{{Motorhead}} Ace Of Spades]] comes with a song quote, [[VideoGame/CallOfDuty Cause of Death]] is called a "fishy abbreviation" (and comes with fish bones on it), "Are these subtitles" refers to a popular comedic fanmade ''Battlefield 2'' video called ''Mine'', the True Handgun Master tag quotes and depicts DirtyHarry, and then there's [[VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany HAGS WAS HERE]], of course. Plus extra logos of EA games you might already own. Back to Karland added a Dog Tag named Diving Dolphin, featuring a prone dolphin with a helmet and an M4, in a callback to Battlefield 2's GameBreaker tactic.

* RevenueEnhancingDevices: In the March 2012 patch, DICE rolled out the Rent-a-Server plan, allowing {{Playstation 3}} and {{Xbox 360}} players to customize their own personal server like PC players. The "revenue enchancing" part comes in when players, tired of custom settings and abusive server admins, try finding vanilla DICE servers, only to find out that EA phased nearly all of them out.

** One of the government agents that investigates Blackburn is a spitting image of voice actor Glenn Morshower. As Morshower is well known as Aaron Pierce, Presidential Bodyguard on 24, this is also a case of HeyItsThatGuy.

* HarsherInHindsight: Throughout the "Comrades" mission, you control Dima [[spoiler: in an attempt to stop a terrorist attack in Paris, dated on November 13]]. Cue back to reality, where [[spoiler: there was actually a city-wide terrorist attack on Paris on November 13, 2015]]. The game's date is supposedly set one year before, [[spoiler: but the similarities of the attacks are amazing, specially with the terrorists who attempted to attack the stadium and were stopped at the train stations, much like Battlefield 3's mission has you fight on a train station]].

** In Back to Karkand, running an enemy over with the [[JokeItem Skid Loader]] will unlock the "[[TheLonelyIsland Like a Boss!]]" achievement.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything:
** The Russian team has a "Paratrooper" camouflage available in Multiplayer that matches the camo pattern worn by Russian Federation paratroopers during the "Rock and a Hard Place" mission in the single player campaign.
** On the map Seine Crossing, the attackers must pass through an alley or a road, with the road being flanked on both sides by tall buildings. Engineers with [=RPGs=] or Assaults with grenade launchers can shoot at the buildings, and the rubble will crush whoever was unfortunate enough to be caught in it.
** Before the End Game DLC, the only way to get the M1911 S-TAC(an M1911 with both suppressor and flashlight) was to pick it up off the dead bodies of a DICE Dev's soldier, in a practace known as kit hunting. After End Game, however, there is an assignment which unlocks the M1911 S-TAC and a dogtag for you. What does the dog tag say on it? "No more kit hunting".

** All major characters are based on their voice actors. The exception is Dima; his character model is based on Oleg Taktarov of ''{{Predators}}'' fame, but he's actually voiced by André Sogliuzzo.

* ShoutOut: A [[EasterEgg newspaper]] in the Strike at Karkand remake says "[[ImageBoards /v/-The Vidya]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azGXoUmlvG0 Why haven't you got a girlfriend yet?"]] [[note]]It may sound like a TakeThat, but it's more of an in-joke; it's the most common off-topic thread OP text on /v/.[[/note]]

* FourManBand: Most squads in-game. The best squad will get an award at the end of a round.

-->--'''Dmitri 'Dima' Mayakovsky'''

* ShoutOut: Some shout outs are made in the campaign to GenerationKill, given that Blackburn serves in the same battalion as the real-life Force Recon Marines from the book. In one section during the assault on Tehran, one of Blackburn's superiors says that he's "not hearing the aggressiveness [he] would like" from his subordinates, directly quoting Lt. Fick from the book and show. Borders on Real Person Shout Out with Chaffin, Blackburn's teammate who gets wounded in the first mission, who shares his name with Cpl. James Chaffin from the book.
** Speaking of name sharing, Blackburn is also the name of the soldier who falls out of the black hawk in BlackHawkDown.

** A newcomer from the Close Quaters DLC, the [=ACW-R=] (Better known as Masada or [=ACR=]) for the Engineer fires 6.5x38mm cartridge dealing 20 max and 17 min damage as opposed to 25 and 14 respectively dealt by other carbines. It's balanced out with a 26-round magazine instead of the regular 30.

** Generally adverted, at least in comparison to most FPS games, especiallyif you have flechette rounds.

* AwesomeYetPractical: The (in)famous "jihad jeep" technique from previous titles is still useful. [=IFVs=] and [=MBTs=], have gained countermeasures against guided weapons and anti-tank infantry. A jeep covered in C4, on the other hand, comes out of nowhere and can pierce every defense that they can muster. It's still not as useful as it was in Battlefield 2 though due to the C4 firing delay and the tendency for vehicles to glitch through other vehicles, neither of which happened in the old games and both can cause an attack to fail.
** The M16 and the M416 assault rifles have the fastest reloads in their category, have very easy to control recoil, and both are very early unlocks in the Assault class.

** Some of the Assignments released with Back To Karkand and Close Quarters are shout outs. "Professional Russian" to unlock the [=L85A2=] is a shoutout to Website/YouTube gun and weapon video maker FPS Russia. The PP-19 and Jackhammer assignments were called "Familiar Territory" and "Scared Veteran" as those guns were from ''Battlefield 2''. The SCAR-L assignment in Close Quarters is called "[[ZeroWing Set us up the bomb]]".

* UnorthodoxReload: Averted. Every weapon is reloaded correctly. From the .44 Magnum, with which the player will properly eject the casings with the ejector rod and insert new cartridges with a speed loader, and close the chambers with his thumb to prevent misalignment; to every shotgun, where when loaded from empty the first shell is put directly into the chamber via the breach. The only thing that could be considered unorthodox would be reloading of the AN-94 or AEK-971, where the player pushes the magazine release with a new magazine and flicks the old magazine out of the way, but even this method of reloading is legitimate, as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz9n3ABm1S0 demonstrated]] in the training video for Russian Ministry of home affairs.