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* Spiritual Predecessors

** ''Codename Eagle''

* Main Series:

*** ''Road To Rome''

*** ''Secret Weapons Of World War Two''

** ''Battlefield Vietnam''

*** ''Special Forces''

*** ''Euro Forces''

*** ''Armoured Fury''

*** ''Northern Strike''

** ''Battlefield 1943''

* ''Bad Company'' Series:

*** ''Battlefield Bad Company Vietnam''

* ''[[Battlefield Heroes]]''

* ''Battlefield Online''

 

 

 

These games are notable for being [[Trope Codifier|among the first]] to make a large-scale use of mobile vehicles in an FPS game, as well as using large maps. The games are designed to be played in multi-player mode. The earlier games had no 'single-player' campaign, only multi-player missions with bots. For games set in 'reality' these maps and missions recreated important battles in ''1942'' and ''Vietnam''.''Bad Company'', however, changed this, coming with not only a cohesive, new storyline, but a group of notable characters that stuck with you the entire game, with their own distinct personalities and voices.

 

 

Settings:

* [[World War II]]

* [[The Vietnam War]]

* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]

* [[The Future]]

 

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* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: ''Battlefield 2142'' has a shotgun that shoots C4!

* [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]: The Titans in ''Battlefield 2142.'' In the hands of a competent team, its ground attack guns could be devastating. However, due to performance issues, most servers would disable Titan movement.

* [[After the End]]: The setting in ''Battlefield 2142'', where the world is devastated by a new ice age.

* [[An Adventurer Is You|An Infantryman Is You!]]: The game uses a class-based system, generally basing the classes off effectiveness at certain ranges against infantry as well as vehicles, and other supportive abilities such as repairing, healing allies, laying traps or spotting enemies.

* [[Attack Drone]]: The squad sentry and recon drones in ''Battlefield 2142'', and the EOD Bot and MAV from ''Battlefield 3''.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The sniper rifle unlock for ''2142'', when fired at the body, docked off 90% of a player health who had heavy body armor on (or a one hit kill if they had light armor if shot at the upper torso), opposed to 70% for the default rifles. The rifle could also destroy player-set explosives. However, the rifle only had three shots, took longer to reload than the default rifles, had a red hue on the scope which make it hard to see on weaker computers, and had a loud report. Both the default rifles and the unlock rifle dealt an insta-kill at the head, but the default rifles had two more rounds, and reloaded faster, not to mention 70% damage, even when compared to 90% damage, is still pretty good, especially against enemies in a firefight. If a player was decent enough to score head shots, the extra power wasn't necessary.

** The hovering attack drone in ''2142'' was far less effective than its stationary cousin, the sentry gun. Unlike the sentry gun, which would kill anyone that would wander in its kill zone, the attack drone would only nail enemies that were spotted, or had a red indicator diamond on them. While it could be quite effective with a good squad, players in your typical squad in a typical game were just in it for an extra spawn point and a possible field upgrade.

*** Although the clever support user could plop an IDS onto the thing to give the squad the equivalent of a perpetual mobile UAV, turning the equally impractical (to non-campers) infantry sonar into a [[Game Breaker]].

** Mobile Artillery in ''1942'' and ''Vietnam''. If one player mounted the artillery piece, another player with the sniper class could use the binoculars to designate a point on the map. This would show the first player exactly where to aim in order to drop a shell right on that spot. But most of the vehicles you'd want to fire at moved too quickly to be hit by artillery, the shells seemed to do minimal damage to structures, and nobody worked as a team in public games anyway.

* [[Black Screen of Death]]: In the ''Battlefield 2'' mod "Project Reality," you get a black screen if you are killed or critically wounded. Some varieties of surprise attack will therefore cause true examples of the trope.

* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: There is no gore whatsoever, although little sprays of blood do appear with some mods. ''Battlefield: Vietnam'' has blood (without modifications).

* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: Played straight. Sniper rifles are a one-hit kill, and other small arms deal more damage when fired at the noggin.

** In ''Battlefield 3'', various flavors of Colonel are the highest rank one can attain, and basically signify that the player has earned most of the unlockable items.

* [[Combat Medic]]: Everyone in the game with healing abilities can still try to kill you just as hard [[Shoot the Medic First|as you try to kill them]], including with their [[Magical Defibrillator]] in ''Battlefield 2'' and subsequent games.

** ''Battlefield 2142'' and ''Battlefield 3'' combined the previous Assault and Medic classes into an Assault class armed with the usual assault rifle, and a medical kit consisting of health packs plus a defibrillator. Several DICE employees have even referred to this combination as a [[Combat Medic]] in interviews. The main difference here is that the ''2142'' Assault troopers always have their medkit handy, while ''BF3'' Assault troopers always have their defibrillator (once unlocked).

* [[Cool Mask]]: Several games in the series have these as available clothing customization options for the player-character; ranges from a simple bandanna, to ski masks, even gas masks.

** ''BF3'' added ''Nimitz''-class aircraft carriers in the single-player mission "Going Hunting" as Shark 4-6 and Shark 4-2's mothership.

* [[Crapsack World]]: The first game trailer, promotional, manual, and map descriptions describe that the ice age in ''2142'' is dwindling resources, thus pushing billions of people to the last remaining fertile land around the equator. One promotional states "Few will live, most will die."

** Of course, any player can also man any portion of the vehicle - just hotswap, and you can gun down people pestering your humvee or tank (though you're vulnerable to more rocket fire, due to the vehicle stopping because of a lack of a driver). This also leads to certain gunship pilots swapping seats in midair in order to launch the gunner's TV-guided missiles.

*** ''[[Project Reality]]'' averts this. The driver no longer mans the main gun on heavy attack vehicles. In order for a vehicle to be fully combat effective, one player must drive while another must gun. Of course, a person could simply just switch positions from driver to gunner, but this would give the enemy a time advantage. All vehicles, except for cars and FAVs, now require a crewman kit (or pilot for air vehicles) to be driven.

** This is somewhat averted by the vanilla unlock for the AT class in ''[[BF 2]]'', the DAO. As a semi-auto shotgun with 12 rounds is it absolutely devastating at close range. Beyond approximately six inches it is pretty useless though. Another example?

** Also unexpectedly suffered by the Assault class in Battlefield 2, which is meant to be the game's plain combat-oriented rifleman class, only to end up relatively less-played because it's ''only'' good at combat. Several other classes can do that while also having additional useful abilities (especially the Medic, which is almost identical minus body armor and plus a longer sprint and the ability to heal/revive), while the Assault's only unique perk is the grenade launcher, which isn't terribly useful especially after it was [[Nerf|Nerfed]] in a patch. Unsurprisingly later games in the series made sure to give the Assault more useful and unique abilities and equipment.

* [[Death From Above]]: Artillery and air vehicles. Also, [[Improvised Weapon|supply- and vehicle drops]].

* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: The Baur in ''2142'' and by lesser extent, the Scar.

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Everyone, especially in ''Battlefield 2'', where you can control fighter jets.

** Taken to its logical extreme with ''[[BF 2]]'''s scout helicopters. Flying a littlebird sideways full throttle through a maze of trees with barely enough space to fly and being only inches from the ground, while simultaneously taking out a squad of enemy infantry? All the time.

** Or why Russia is going apeshit on the entire world in ''Bad Company 2''.

** [[Wild Mass Guessing|It's probably]] [[Phlebotinum War|being fought over oil]].

* [[Fake Longevity]]: The requirements for ''Battlefield 2'' ranks were changed when it was pointed out that the #1 player in the world (who was really a team of guys sharing an account), would take over 2 ''years'' to even reach the General's ranks, let alone progress through them.

* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: Averted in ''BF2'''s ''Special Forces'' [[Expansion Pack]], wherein part of the player's standard equipment includes night-vision goggles which can be of great benefit on pitch-dark night time maps.

* [[Gaia's Lament]] / [[Gaia's Vengeance]]: Earth in ''2142.'' The Northern Hemisphere was left uninhabitable because of a new ice age, which was caused by human-caused global <s>warming</s> climate change.

* [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]: More like zipline crossbow, for some classes in ''BF2: [[Expansion Pack|Special Forces]]''. Other classes have a thrown grappling hook used to climb up onto the roof of buildings.

* [[Griefer]]: Because both killing and reviving were worth a point, farmers would work in pairs, one on each team. They would find a schmuck who was off by himself (usually a sniper) and stab him, revive him, and stab him again. Because the interface would keep resetting, it was nearly impossible for the victim to escape.

** With all other forms of teamkilling disabled, griefers can still rely on empty moving vehicles.

** In ''Bad Company 2'' some players encourage the use of Tracer Darts on their fellow Recons that tend to camp during objective based game types (usually when the Recon in question is on Attacker). Players on both sides can see the glow of the dart, giving the opposing team an easy kill.

* [[Guns Do Not Work That Way]]: Several accounts, but the most notable are RPG-7s with homing warheads and an MG-3 with an ammo box that blocks the ejection port, and magically ejects brass to the right instead of downward.

* [[Hit Scan]]: Averted, from a distance, you have to follow your target.

* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Some supposedly benign abilities of commanders in ''Battlefield 2'' and ''Battlefield 2142''

** The defibrillators through ''2'' to ''Bad Company 2''. Its ability is hinted at in the description in 2. One lame thing about in 2142, is that it wouldn't give you the dogtags that a knife kill would.

** Ramming ships with larger ships generally works well in ''Battlefield 1942'', especially when you ram a submarine with a destroyer, or a destroyer with a carrier or a carrier with a battleship.

** Up to ''2142'', parachutes—slightly known for their ability to help players stomp infantry—prove quite implacable to air vehicles or freefallers above you.

* [[Invisible Wall]]: ''Battlefield 1942'' makes you take damage when leaving the map, while playing a radio message telling you that deserters will be shot. In the later ''Battlefield'' titles, leaving the field for too long is an instant suicide.

** It can also be raining [[FA Vs]], Humvees, and Vodniks, if a hacker gets into the server and hacks the vehicle drop feature.

** ''1943'' also gives the achievement and an in-game Stamp 'Parachutist' for spending 2 seconds using one. ''2142'' gives you a HALO award after spending ten seconds in parachute.

* [[Obvious Beta]]: DICE has a notorious reputation for crash bugs and balance issues out of the box. This is counter-balanced by their generally good support for their products post-launch.

* [[Obvious Rule Patch]]: The first patch to ''Battlefield: Vietnam'' fixed some ''serious'' balance issues; ''Battlefield 2142'' patches are a litany of attempts to fix level geometry to stop people glitching their way inside Titans.

* [[Oh Crap]]: ''[[BF 2]]'' is simply one moment after another. The roar of incoming jet engines, and the sight of an F-18 emptying its entire bomb payload on top of you; the screech of incoming artillery; the rat tat tat of an Mi-28's main cannon... death is imminent.

** Also, the horrifying, whizzing sound of a billion incoming artillery shells. You have less than a second before your body flies through the air.

** The various vehicle alarms and missile warnings; the *s-snikt* of a knife being drawn from behind you; [[Improvised Weapon|that car racing towards you]] in plain sight…

* [[One Bullet Clips]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]] everywhere except ''Heroes'' titles and ''Play4Free''.

** If a knife hits you as an infantryman in ''2142'' or ''Bad Company 2'', you are dead. Certain other games take a few slices to kill, with the exception of ''[[BF 1942]]: Secret Weapons of WWII'''s throwing knives.

** [[Boom! Headshot!]] by most sniper rifles, unless it's a Barrett, in which case any part of the body works.

** Don't be in a vehicle when it [[Every Car Is a Pinto|blows up.]]

** What we're saying is be very careful in this game.

* [[PVP-Balanced]]: ''Battlefield Heroes'' has been claimed to eschew realism very far for balance - all vehicles are supposed to be fun options and easily countered by all players. Also, the standard grenade launcher for Assault class in ''Battlefield: Bad Company'' does very little damage to enemy players and exists for utilizing the game's environment destruction system. (Indeed, it will give you a [[Cosmetic Award]] for killing, or rather, finish off, 3 players in one match with it.) That is, blow holes in stuff that are enemy players, or blow up stuff that aren't enemy players.

** This also results in the A-10 and Su-39 being fairly poor aircraft in ''Battlefield 2''.

** Throughout the entire series, rocket launchers have always had almost no splash damage. This is to prevent players from pulling a [[Macross Missile Massacre]] on infantry, because rocket launchers frequently come with about 5 rockets.

* [[Qurac]]: Many of the locations shown in ''BF2'' and the ''Bad Company'' series are set in generic middle-eastern locations, such as the notorious Karkand map from ''BF2''.

* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]: The strongest handgun in ''Battlefield 2142'' is a revolver with 8 shots that can be upgraded to hold 10. It also reloads by removing the entire cylinder. This is really a moot point though, as there are only two handguns in the game, and the EU just has higher power, lower ammo capacity weapons than the PAC in general.

** Played straight in ''Bad Company 2'' with the [[MP 412]] Rex, which can drop an enemy in just a couple of shots. The flip side is the slow rate of fire and low ammo capacity.

* [[Selective Historical Armoury]]: See the trope page for details.

* [[Sprint Meter]]: Used in ''2'' and ''2142''.

** Averted in ''1943'', where the health systems was switched to ''[[Call of Duty]]''-style [[Regenerating Health]] and the Medic class was removed as a result.

** More often averted in public matches, where eager medics revive teammates only for those players to be immediately re-killed.

* [[Shout-Out]]: You can hear broadcasts from [[Good Morning Vietnam]] in certain spawning points of some maps of Battlefield: Vietnam.

** One of the trailers for ''Bad Company'' was a parody of a ''[[Gears of War]]'' trailer, including the song Sweetwater sings.

* [[Soft Water]]: Sort of. While you'll take less damage falling into water, you'll still die (or go into "critically wounded" mode if you hit water at a high enough height). In ''2'' and ''2142'', if you hit the water from a high height, you'll go into this state, but you'll never be out right killed like if you hit land.

* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: ''Battlefield 2'''s revive ability for the medics. Some players would revive at bad times, such as when a person is trying to respawn with a different class, or at a more important location.

* [[Suicide Mission]]: The whole point of B Company.

** Also, {{spoiler|Operation Aurora}}

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: The National Army in ''Battlefield Heroes'' is a collection of various Nazi and generally German stereotypes. It even references the trope, by naming one of the weapons "The Wacky Machine Gun"

* [[Title Drop]]: "I belong to Bad Company. I don't wanna end up in some ''good'' company!" Also, the page quote. To be fair, it's kinda hard to go through a military shooter and ''not'' legitimately say "battlefield" anyway.

* [[Translation Convention]]: The player has the option to have non-English-speaking armies speak in their native language or have their speech "translated" into perfect English.

** In ''Battlefield 2'', toggling the switch would simply make every character sound like an American Marine, which was actually a gameplay disadvantage because you couldn't use all the audio cues any more. ''Bad Company 2'' averts this by making the Russians speak accented English.

* [[Unbreakable Weapons]]: All of them, though kits players can drop can be destroyed by explosives or bullets. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] with its weapon entry on the knife in ''Bad Company 2'', saying it is designed to stay sharp indefinitely and is guaranteed to not rust, bend or break.

* [[Urban Warfare]]: Strike at Karkand is considered to be one of the best urban maps in modern [[FP Ses]].

* [[Weaponized Car]]: ''Project Reality'', the Special Forces expansion pack of ''Battlefield 2'', and ''Battlefield 3'' all include "technicals"; pickup trucks fitted with machine guns or SPG-9 recoilless rifles.

* [[We Are Not the Wehrmacht]]: ''Project Reality'' includes the Bundeswehr as of version 0.95.

** I'M FRIENDLY!

** FRIENDLY GODDAMNED FIRE

** In the single-player mode of ''i cant see reason for this'', the player will occasionally have the AI bots engage in grenade spamming too. Most notably when an opposing tank or APC shows up.

* [[World War Two]]: Obviously the ones with ''1942'' or ''1943'' in the title.

* [[Yanks With Tanks]]: Most of the games feature the United States Armed Forces in some capacity. ''Project Reality'' doubles this by having both the [[Semper Fi|US Marine Corps]] from ''BF2'' and adding in the US Army for good measure.

* [[You All Look Familiar]]: The ''Battlefield'' games typically only had 3 different faces for each side.

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