History VideoGame / Foxhole

* Scunthrope Problem: The games profanity filter would censor words containing "scrap". To get around this, the playerbase started to use the term "scroop" instead. The profanity filter would eventually be changed, but the term "scroop" stuck around.

** War 95, at 42.4 days, has officially dethroned War 83 as the longest war ever fought in ''Foxhole''. Unlike War 83, where the war initially went by quickly with only a small Colonial force managing to stall for time later on (see LastStand below), War 95 ground to a halt almost immediately, with neither side able to make much of an advance on the other, leading to a stalemate meat-grinder that would put UsefulNotes/WorldWarI to shame. The war concluded mere hours before Update 1.0 was due to drop, and likely would've been forcibly ended by the devs if it had gone on.

** War 95, currently ongoing at the time of this writing, has officially dethroned War 83 as the longest war ever fought in ''Foxhole''. Unlike War 83, where the war initially went by quickly with only a small Colonial force managing to stall for time later on (see LastStand below), War 95 ground to a halt almost immediately, with neither side able to make much of an advance on the other, leading to a stalemate meat-grinder that would put UsefulNotes/WorldWarI to shame.

** War 95, currently ongoing at the time of this writing, looks to be about to dethrone War 83 as the longest war ever fought in ''Foxhole''. Unlike War 83, where the war initially went by quickly with only a small Colonial force managing to stall for time later on (see LastStand below), War 95 ground to a halt almost immediately, with neither side able to make much of an advance on the other, leading to a stalemate meat-grinder that would put UsefulNotes/WorldWarI to shame. Casualties currently sit at just shy of 3.5 million.

* AKA47: Most of the weapons are given generic names like "Rifle" or "Submachine Gun"; many of the weapons are generic in their designs as well, but a few resemble real-life weapons. The "Storm Rifle" is pretty clearly a WWII-era [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons FG 42]], while the Grenade Launcher resembles the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_grenade_adapter M1 Grenade Adapter]], to name two examples.

** The Sniper Rifle is one of the only firearms capable of incapacitating a full-health player in one hit--if you are patient enough to steady its aim, that is.
** If sitting in the back isn't your style, the [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Shotgun]] is also capable of doing such a feat at point-blank.

** [[TheNamesake Foxholes]] (the dugout defenses) are the namesake of the game for good reason. They are effective for their cost and can be spammed to prevent enemies from sneaking by.
*** {{Downplayed}} now that mantaining them requires heavy logistics, but still efficient if replaced.

* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: Averted. Most structures require basic or refined materials to build, and players have to hit it with a hammer for as many times as the required amount of materials. A foxhole takes 50 hits, while a watchtower would take 125. Construction Vehicles can build them slightly faster, but buildings requiring them have even higher costs and can take minutes to build.

* TheNamesake: Foxholes are the most basic defensive structures of the game. They're cheap, automated, and effective against infantry. If you haven't taken the hint yet, you should build as many of these as possible (until you need to mantain other structures).

* ForeverWar: The game takes place at some point in the future but a century of warfare has left the battlefield resembling the World War period. The current conflict isn't some major push for victory for either faction, but a campaign to capture the resource-rich lands to continue the war.
** The "Battle of the Red River" event was stated to be set in the past of the current wars, the troops instead had Napoleonic-era muskets and uniforms.

* WarfareRegression: It's stated that the setting of the game is in the far future, where the fighting between the two factions has gone on for so long that the fighting has regressed into a WWII-like state.

* SoldiersAtTheRear: Players doing logistics fit this role, as in back regions with no conflict, it is indeed the safest job in the team.

* EasyLogistics: The meat of this game is in [[AvertedTrope Averting]] this trope. Resources must be collected by hand at specific sites and sent to refineries, then into factories to produce actual equipment and vehicles. After that, these supplies and vehicles must be physically taken to the front and stockpiled in a Town Hall or Encampment with a truck. All of these are done by individual players. This means it's feasible and actually crucial to sabotage supply lines by ambushing enemy logistics vehicles. Capturing certain towns can flat-out deny the enemy production facilities, and also seizing whatever equipment they have in the stockpile. Playing as a logistical worker (or "[[FanNickname logi]]" as they are known to the playerbase) is a useful and profitable (though complicated and often [[DudeWheresMyRespect thankless]]) role to take on.
* EquipmentBasedProgression: Player characters don't get any stronger during a war; instead, research allows better equipment and vehicles to make them more powerful.

* OnSiteProcurement: In an active battlefield, lots of people dying will mean lots of dropped equipment, including juicy grenades, life-saving medkits, or an advanced weapon your side doesn't have yet. It's not always worth running into the crossfire to snatch whatever's there, but it is definitely tempting.

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Relics are vehicles that can be found abandoned our as a blueprint randomly drop from mining components, they are meant to be a small boost on the early-war and justified that they are outdated models of modern versions of their vehicles. They are the "UsefulNotes/WorldWarI" equivalent to the more modern "UsefulNotes/WorldWarII" tanks seen in the battlefield.
** The ''Armored Fighting Tractor'' is an old colonial vehicle used as a predecessor for the current armored car, it acts as substitute for the Light Tank in the early game. As the name indicates, it's similar to a rural tractor but with armor and a machine-gun turret attached to it.
** The ''Storm Tank'' is a huge and long tank designed to push foward and support the infantry coming behind, similar to how early tanks were designed to break the stealmate of the trench war in WWI. As such, it has a very strong front armor and reverse speed but it lacks at it's turrent movement.
** The ''Repurposed Truck'' is an old agriculture truck that has been reprurposed as a military truck. It has the advantage of holding more then a normal truck (20 instead of 10) but it's slower and more fragile.
** The ''Transport Bus'' is [[ShapedLikeItself a bus]]. [[ShapedLikeItself It transports people]]. That's it.

* DifficultButAwesome:
** The sniper rifle: it can one-shot an enemy and has an extremly long range, but in return it has a slow rate of fire, expensive ammo and it takes a very long time achieve a steady aim, in which the target can escape.
** Battle Tanks. Badass death-machines of destruction with thick armor, a big canon and a deadly machine gun. But needs a crew of 5, chugs a lot of fuel and to produce you need a lot of refined materials and expensive blueprints.

* CosmeticallyDifferentSides: As of 0.5, the Colonials and the Wardens have different designs for their infantry uniforms, half-tracks, tanks, utility vehicles, and landers. Despite the lore differences in vehicle design, they are otherwise identical.

* TankGoodness: ''Foxhole'' features two kinds of tanks: the Light Tank and Battle Tank. Both are late-game vehicles and are very expensive to build, thus they can be a rare sight in the battlefield. Tanks function as a heavy fire support to the infantry and to break through enemy entrechment. Both light and battle tanks have their differences, but seeing any of both as an enemy is enough for a MassOhCrap, considering how hard is to destroy one even with the right tools, a charge of platoon of tanks can be a game-changer.

* ZombieApocalypse: The "Dead Harvest" seasonal Halloween event has the Wardens and Colonials [[EnemyMine teaming up]] to battle hordes of zombies. However, there isn't actually anything stopping the two factions from killing each other during this time; occasionally mixed crowds of Wardens and Colonials will [[WeAreStrugglingTogether wipe each other out]] before the zombies even get there.

** The ''Repurposed Truck'' is an old [[ShapedLikeItself agriculture truck that has been reprurposed as a military truck]]. It has the advantage of holding more then a normal truck (20 instead of 10) but it's slower and more fragile.

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Relics are vehicles that can be found abandoned our as a blueprint randomly drop from mining components. They are meant to be a small boost on the early-war.

* TankGoodness: ''Foxhole'' features two kinds of tanks: the Light Tank and Battle Tank. Both are late-game vehicles and are very expensive to build, thus they can be a rare sight in the battlefield. Tanks function as a heavy fire support to the infantry and to break trhough enemy entrechment. Both light and battle tanks have their differences, but seeing any of both as an enemy is enough for a MassOhCrap, considering how hard is to destroy one even with the right tools, a charge of platoon of tanks can be a game-changer.

* QuicksandBox: It can be daunting for a new player to figure out what to do and where to go; there is no in-game direction as to what you should be doing to win the war. Especially since you start only with a pistol and a hammer, just getting a basic rifle or finding the action takes some getting used to.