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[[Memetic Mutation|Be advised]]: You are now entering the ''Battlefield 3'' page.
''Battlefield 3'' is the latest of the [[Battlefield (
It is a [[First-Person Shooter]] with a heavy emphasis on
It was released on PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation, although as the console hardware has become long in the tooth, PC is the lead platform. Its
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== General Tropes ==
* [[Anti-Air]]: Campaign mode has one mission where the player is tasked with engaging an attacking Su-25 attack jet with a Stinger missile and another where you must destroy enemy anti-air batteries in preparation for an allied airstrike. In
* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: Civilian cars explode violently after shooting them with an entire magazine from an assault rifle or a few shots from a heavy machine gun or autocannon, making them a major hazard on the battlefield. Drivable military vehicles are more durable, but still explode after enough damage.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[First Person Ghost]]: Averted. You can see your legs when jumping down, mantling rails, or looking down while walking. You can also see your soldier's hands when crawling on the ground.
* [[Gun Porn]]: With plenty of [[Gun Accessories]] too.
* [[Lens Flare]]: The
* [[One Bullet Clips]]: Barring the ''[[Battlefield: Bad Company
* [[Post Processing Video Effects]]: And gratuitous applications of it. Really evident during night levels. The PC version even has two anti-aliasing settings which control the sampling ''and'' a post-processing filter on top to soften out the overall image.
* [[Quick Melee]]: There is the standard version of it, the "press the button and stab with one motion". That takes at least two swipes to kill someone however. If the player does it from behind a player, they will preform a takedown move instead, which kills in one stab and awards the player with the victim's dogtags.
* [[Qurac]]: Averted. All locations are real and named.
** Played straight with Karkand.
* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: Just about every US soldier in the game sports a fine shemagh, but a special example goes to the US
** Don't forget the Russian recon's [[Cool Mask|bandana]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: Played with some of the Dog Tags, Weapons and Assignment names:
** In the dog tags: [[Motorhead
** 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 [[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 "[[Zero Wing|Set us up the bomb]]".
* [[Shown Their Work]]: 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.
* [[Tech Demo Game]]: ''Battlefield 3'' doesn't support [[Direct X]] 9, hence it can't run on Windows XP. It is arguably one of the first applications that will 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.
* [[Tie-in Novel]]: ''Battlefield 3: The Russian'', a continuation of said game's single-player campaign written by military writer/former SAS operator Andy McNab.
* [[Unorthodox Reload]]: Totally 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 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.
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* [[The Dog Shot First]]: {{spoiler|Cole ''will'' kill you and Dima if you don't shoot him. Then again, you and Blackburn have absolutely no way of knowing this if you do shoot first like you're supposed to.}}
* [[Don't Ask, Just Run]]: A variant in "The Great Destroyer", where you climb out of the sewers after a long firefight aboard a train when suddenly {{spoiler|Montes, who was last seen shouting at you to jump on the train, shows up in a hijacked police car and says "Don't ask. Get in."}}
* [[Elites Are More Glamorous]]:
** Dima is ex-Spetsnaz, and a member of the Vympel unit (the Spetsnaz's best) at that, before becoming a GRU agent.
** Blackburn is an aversion. He's a U.S. Marine, though he's part of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, not an elite group like Force Recon.
* [[Enemy Chatter]]
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* [[Fighter Launching Sequence]]: The start of "Going Hunting" which even runs through the pre-flight checks.
* [[Fission Mailed]]: The end of {{spoiler|"Fear No Evil" where Miller is captured by the PLR}}.
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: We all know that the US and Russia are at war in
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Al-Bashir reveals that {{spoiler|Solomon had betrayed him, and also states that Solomon "uses everybody", like how he used Al-Bashir and the PLR for his own ends. It's later revealed that Solomon is a CIA informant.}}
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: The two CIA agents interrogating Blackburn definitely play the part. The grey-haired interrogator is very confrontational to Blackburn, while the bald one is calmer. [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Neither are willing to give Blackburn the time of day.]]
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* [[It's Personal]]: {{spoiler|Solomon killing Montes at the end apparently was the last straw for Blackburn, and he henceforth proceeds to [[Extreme Melee Revenge|lay down the smack]] which becomes the game's final battle.}}
* [[I Want Them Alive|I Want Him Alive]]: Referenced by Cole many times in Night Shift when looking for Al-Bashir.
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* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: Averted, Kiril and Vladimir speak completely in Russian.
* [[Kick the Son of
* [[Kill'Em All]]: The bodycount gets ''very'' high by the end the game. [[Anyone Can Die|Your squadmates aren't immune either]].
* [[Locked Door]]: Most doors are scripted to have an NPC open it for you.
* [[Missile Lock On]]: Played almost constantly during "Going Hunting". Expect to encounter this a lot when piloting a jet or chopper in
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* [[The Neidermeyer]]: Captain Cole has shades of this, with his willingness to stubbornly sacrifice his men to complete the mission, even when it's clear the situation is out of hand.
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'''Montes''': Yeah okay. We're just gonna finish one war by starting another, that is out-''fucking''-standing! }}
** The reason Montes is pissed? Because Cole is leading a platoon of Marines (about 20) across an open field with no cover, no vehicles and no air cover, against ''Russian elites'', who are airdropping at ''least'' a company (200 soldiers), probably more, and their equipment and armor consisting of armored personnel carriers, while enjoying air superiority from fighter-attacker jets. There's crazy, and then there's suicide. Not to mention that open assault on the Russians will, as Montes points out, inevitably and predictably result in war between the US and Russia. All because one captain can't exercise discretion.
* [[The New Tens]]: The game is set in 2014, and was released during the time in real life.
* [[Next Sunday
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Dima did this to Kaffarov, and later Blackburn to Solomon.
* [[No Points for Neutrality]]: In the "Kaffarov" level {{spoiler|Blackburn catches up and finds Dima, who tells Solomon's plans for the nukes and urges you to find the last one. You are forced to shoot a friendly soldier as you cannot be seen working with the Russians on charges of treason.}}
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* [[Oh Crap]]: The Marines' reaction when they realize they're not fighting PLR soldiers, but Russian paratroopers.
* [[One-Man Army]]: Generally averted, although certain parts of the story this trope does come into play.
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* [[Plot Lock]]: For all the destruction abilities showcased by the developers, you still need an NPC to open wooden doors despite having rocket and grenade launchers in hand.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: If the Russians had actually told the Americans why the hell they wanted Kaffarov so bad, many of the events of the game could have been avoided.
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]:
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* [[Press X to Not Die]]: Loads of it. If you miss, the enemy will stab you or shoot you dead. There's even a QTE sequence against a {{spoiler|rat! If you fail that QTE, you get bitten, and make enough noise to attract a PLR trooper who blows you away. While dying you also flip off the rat.}}
** [[Smashing Survival]]: Only 3 times in the campaign thankfully (the two are actually the same place where you have to climb the maintenance ladder on a moving train), but the last one is a subversion where {{spoiler|you beat the hell out of the [[Big Bad]]'s head with a brick}}.
* [[Regenerating Health]]: Of the "red jam all over your screen" variety. The health percentages you get in
* [[Ramming Always Works]]: In the beginning of "Comrades", your companions debate about the best way to infiltrate a target building and accounting for the fact that you are just 3 guys against an entire army. They end up just ramming down the main gate with the car you're riding in and you shoot your way through.
* [[Retirony]]: {{spoiler|Miller is the only character known to have family (a son) back home, and he is the first character to die}}.
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* [[Smug Snake]]: Solomon.
* [[Sniping Mission]]: In the middle part of "Night Shift", you are tasked with covering Cole's squad as they clear a building where Al-Bashir is supposed to be located.
* [[Spared
* [[The Squad]]: Misfit 1-3.
* [[The Starscream]]: Al-Bashir states that Solomon betrayed him, and is the one responsible for giving the Americans the intel they needed to locate and kill him. He also states that he only wanted the nukes as leverage, whereas Solomon has stolen them from Al-Bashir and plans to actually detonate them. It's heavily implied that Solomon is only using the PLR to deliver his nukes, rather than having any
* [[Story-Driven Invulnerability]]: Most of the time, your teammates are invulnerable (though the various unnamed [[Red Shirt]] characters are not).
* [[Teased
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: How do you deal with a sniper shooting at you from another building? Blow up that entire building!
** This is actually the standard method of dealing with snipers. Shell 'em.
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== Multiplayer Tropes ==
* [[Ascended Glitch]]: Every mention of sound going out? That's actually a glitch that occurs when too much stuff around you is making noise. The game can't keep up and causes other sounds to go out, such as the ambiance, engine sounds, footsteps, and such. But, it has come to be accepted as [[Shell-Shock Silence]].
* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: While most of the time you get your rewards in items or new abilities when leveling up, at certain levels you are instead given more custom uniforms. The uniforms ''are'' useful, ''sometimes'', if you can match the camouflage to the map type.
* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]: Similar to the [[One-Man Army]] example below, attempting it will likely get you killed. A lot.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The EOD Bot is capable of remotely repairing/destroying vehicles, removing explosives, and arming M-COM stations, but is hampered by touchy controls, a conspicuous spotting icon, and loud operating noise.
* [[Blinded
** What didn't help was that in the beta version of the game, you could be blinded by your allies' flashlights and laser sights as well, which made it a popular [[Griefing]] tactic. Unfortunately, it hasn't been fixed in the retail version of the game, on both consoles and PC.
*** By several accounts, the effectiveness of tactical weapon lights at blinding others [[Reality Is Unrealistic|is ''completely'' realistic]], as mentioned below.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: Oddly comes into play when getting a kill with the knife. Averted for other weapons though. So far, only blood though, just like previous Battlefield games, no [[Gorn]] ever.
* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]]:
** The ''Physical Warfare'' pre-order bonuses are a minor example of this at release, with a handful of items being released for early use by players. It took a concerted campaign against the game for it to be 'clarified' by EA that those items were not going to be locked out for people who didn't pre-order or use a pre-order location with the Physical Warfare pack, except in the case of the Type 88 LMG, which IS only available through the PW pack. Many players were not amused, until the entire pack was made available to everyone for free. It was somewhat mitigated for a time (before the entire pack's release) by the December 6th patch changes, after which it wasn't much better if at all than other LMGs unlocked through normal gameplay.
** With the March patch, one can pay money to instantly unlock all weapons and vehicle upgrades. It doesn't mean new players will become [[Instant Expert|Instant Experts]] just by having all the unlocks though, and since most weapons in a category have the same damage values (with a few exceptions such as the G3A3 and the SCAR-H), they're not appreciably better than the starter weapons anyway. It's more of an option for players that want to avoid grinding.
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* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: Averted hard for vehicles. Vehicles in low HP will burn and cannot be moved unless it is repaired to working condition.
** It's a standard feature for the ''Battlefield'' series, though vehicles in older games outside of mods tended to get destroyed outright instead of being brought down to critical, burning condition first.
* Subverted with infantry. It is possible to survive with 0% health displayed. Due to how the assist system works that means it's entirely possible that you can get a 100 point assist - or if your still firing a [[Beyond the Impossible|150 point]] assist for the
* [[Desperation Attack]]: On Conquest on Caspian Border, when one team is brought down to ten respawn tickets, they'll enact an air strike on the huge radio tower, bringing it down and killing anyone unfortunate enough to be near it.
* [[Do Well, But Not Perfect]]: The only way to get the MVP 2 and 3 Medals, Ribbons and Dog Tags is to place in the respective overall positions.
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** Operation Metro has two usable photo booths. They only give off a bright flash every time you press the button though, no photos.
** Operation Metro also has a sandcastle with the Swedish and Norwegian flags on it, the same castle found in ''Bad Company 2'' and ''1943''.
** A top-secret document found in the Airfield point on Wake Island mentions there are five or six dinosaur figurines scattered throughout the island, and there are indeed six of them to be found. The document also mentions, "[[Shout-Out|The General promised]] [[Portal (
** On some locations on Strike at Karkand and Sharqi Peninsula, you might hear the MEC Theme (the ''Battlefield 2'' loading screen music for Middle Eastern maps) playing from a room or a radio.
* [[Elites Are More Glamorous]]: You play as elite force from both factions, partially justifying how they get access to [[Rare Guns]].
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* [[Improvised Weapon]]: The engineer's blow torch.
* [[Interface Screw]]: The aforementioned Laser Sight and Flashlight when shined in your eyes. The suppressive fire mechanic reduces accuracy and blurs the game to represent the distraction that incoming fire causes. Killing someone who is suffering from suppression effects gives bonus points to the suppressor.
* When under heavy suppressive fire, the screen will blur like it was covered in Vaseline.
** When you're hit with a stealth kill from a knife, your viewpoint will be violently turned around, and you'll see the face of the guy stabbing you and taking your dogtags, before letting you fall to the ground. It can be ''incredibly'' jarring.
** Sometimes, after a large amount of nonlethal [[Stuff Blowing Up|explosions]] near your soldier, he may become briefly [[Shell-Shock Silence|shell shocked]], tuning out most sounds (except for any sounds that actually come from him). [[Shell-Shock Silence]] may also happen because of a glitch in the sound.
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** Averted with the Russian Federation Medic and Engineer that wear "Gorka" suits that in reality come in a huge variety of different camos. [[Reality Is Unrealistic|Post-Soviet troops also seemed to have problems with issuing matching uniforms until recent years]].
* [[Nostalgia Level]]: The entire Back to Karkand expansion. Wake Island especially, since it was a map in ''Battlefield 1942'', the very first Battlefield game.
* [[One-Hit Kill]]:
** [[Zig
** Bolt-action sniper rifle headshots are these at any range, while semiauto sniper rifle headshots are only one-hit kills within their "max damage" range before damage dropoff begins.
** Shotguns are one-hit kills at close range and can get headshot one hit kills at longer ranges.
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* [[One-Man Army]]: Heavily, heavily averted. You can't survive more than a couple shots from your average weapon. Overall, you're very, very squishy.
* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: The Russians are notably more patriotic than the Americans, occasionally shouting phrases such as "For Mother Russia!" and (when losing) "You're Russians, for fuck's sake! Turn it around!"
* [[PVP-Balanced]]:
** The game continues the tradition of rockets doing very little splash damage to infantry.
** Helmets, goggles, and [[Armor Is Useless|armor]] have no effect, and everyone has 100 heath points with a .95 multiplier to the legs and a 2.1 multiplier to the head, except in hardcore, where everyone has 40 health with the same multipliers.
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** The G3 Battle Rifle and the Scar-H carbine are balanced by their natural statistics compared to the other assault rifles. They get better damage than the other assault rifles because they both use the 7.62 cartridge as opposed to the 5.56 that all the other rifles uses, but like reality, they only have 20 rounds available. By sticking a foregrip, scope (anything from a 3.4x, 4x ACOG up to a 8x ballistic sight) heavy barrel you can turn either into a semi-automatic marksman rifle at the cost of suffering several drawbacks in close combat.
** The MP7 doesn't have a foregrip attachment as it would make the already amazing close combat ability even better. That and the base gun already has a hinged foregrip.
* [[Rare Guns]]:
** The Magpul PDR (called "PDW-R" in-game) didn't even make it to working/firing prototype before Magpul shelved it, citing a lack of interest from the biggest potential customer.
** The MP 412 REX, which also didn't go to full production because of lack of market, as Russia did not permit firearms to civilians and lack of interest from Western countries. This time however, they properly show the automatic ejection mechanism.
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** Close Quarters brings in the SCAR-L assault rife (which was cancelled in favor of the SCAR-H), SPAS-12 shotgun, and the LSAT LMG. The LSAT is especially rare since it's still undergoing testing and prototyping.
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: Many players complained about the tactical flashlights being too bright. In reality, the flashlights used on guns can be pretty bright. Blinding bright. They can be used to disorient a target.
* [[Regenerating Health]]:
** 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 and AMTRAC) will become disabled, [[Damage Is Fire|catch on fire]] and
* [[Revenue Enhancing Devices]]: In the March 2012 patch, DICE rolled out the Rent-a-Server plan, allowing [[Play Station 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.
* [[Reverse Grip]]: How the knife is held.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Killing someone with the knife from behind will also have your character take off their target's dog tag with the knife in the same motion of pulling the knife out as well. Because... it looks cool.
* [[Shell-Shock Silence]]: May happen after a large amount of explosions near your soldier that don't actually kill him. It'll tune out most sounds, except for the ones that actually come from him.
** While not all Assault players have medkits, all of them have defibrillators. A single Assault player can easily revive all the enemies you took out once you've been put down.▼
** 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.▼
* [[Short-Range Shotgun]]: Inverted. The Shotguns can be used at ludicrous ranges with slug rounds if you compensate for bullet drop.
** Equipping a gun like the 870 MCS with slugs and an 8x Ballictic scope can [[Inverted Trope|be used as a sniper]] for any class
** Played straight with the semi-auto shotguns with buckshot or frag, which only kill reliably within 20 meters or with a headshot while aiming down the sights. At least the shotguns work
* [[Shout-Out]]: A [[Easter Egg|newspaper]] in the Strike at Karkand remake says "[[Image Boards|/v/-The Vidya]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azGXoUmlvG0 Why haven't you got a girlfriend yet?"] <ref>It may sound like a [[Take That]], but it's more of an in-joke; it's the most common off-topic thread OP text on /v/.</ref>
** In Back to Karkand, running an enemy over with the [[Joke Item|Skid Loader]] will unlock the "[[The Lonely Island|Like a Boss!]]" achievement.
* [[Slap-On-The-Wrist Nuke]]: The FGM-148 Javelin, capable of doing significant damage against even Abrams tanks, is a two to three shotter against tanks in the game (unless the target is laser designated).
** The Jet guided missile unlock is an even better example: the Maverick missile that it's based on WILL destroy any tank it hits, but in game it has the same stats as a Javelin, is stupidly inaccurate unless you maintain the lock, and leaves you as a sitting duck to any other jets out there. But it makes a REALLY [[Stuff Blowing Up|big explosion]].▼
* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: Thankfully averted for the first time in the series. ''Battlefield 3'' allows a player to ignore the revive and 'tap out' to stop the revive.
** See [[Blinded
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: A hasty engineer feels like this the first time he goes to repair a tank in the heat of battle and accidentally selects the RPG instead of the repair tool.
▲* [[Shoot the Medic First]]:
▲** While not all Assault players have medkits, all of them have defibrillators. A single Assault player can easily revive all the enemies you took out once you've been put down.
▲** 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.
▲* [[Slap-On-The-Wrist Nuke]]: The FGM-148 Javelin, capable of doing significant damage against even Abrams tanks, is a two to three shotter against tanks in the game (unless the target is laser designated).
▲** The Jet guided missile unlock is an even better example: the Maverick missile that it's based on WILL destroy any tank it hits, but in game it has the same stats as a Javelin, is stupidly inaccurate unless you maintain the lock, and leaves you as a sitting duck to any other jets out there. But it makes a REALLY [[Stuff Blowing Up|big explosion]].
* [[Universal Driver's License]]: Back again in ''3''. Buggies, cars, IFVs, tanks, helicopters, and jets are free to be driven by anyone. The "Back to Karkand" expansion even allows you to drive a ''[[Crazy Awesome|skid loader]]''.
* [[Urban Warfare]]: Operation Metro, Seine Crossing, Tehran Highway, and Grand Bazaar maps. And of course Karkand again. The upcoming Close Quarters DLC will focus heavily on this type of maps.
* [[Weaponized Car]]: The "technicals"; pickup trucks with machine guns mounted in the bed.
* [[You Have Researched Breathing]]: After sinking hours into the online
▲* [[You Have Researched Breathing]]: After sinking hours into the online Multiplayer, you finally receive the Grenade Specialization. It increases your measly amount of one grenade... to a measly two grenades. When the Explosives specialization can give you up to 6 extra RPG rockets, this perk feels [[Power-Up Letdown|extremely worthless]]. This was most likely done as a response to complaints in earlier games, which tended to have problems with grenade spam.
** Subverted later when you unlock the squad-wide version of it. Giving a total of four people two grenades each. That's 8 delicious eggs of destruction! And that's not taking into account Assault classes with the M320 grenade launcher, of which the specialization also affects.
** And if you are in one of the oh so popular 64 player metro conquest maps. With 32 players a side, each with 2 grenades, and very short resupply times, you can essentially have a never ending hail of grenades raining down the staircase and elevator.
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