History VideoGame / Battlefield3

* TechDemoGame: ''Battlefield 3'' doesn't support UsefulNotes/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. One of the goals of the game's development was to show off the ability of the newly developed Frostbite 2 engine, which featured a number of impressive rendering feats including photorealistic lighting which created graphics which, by the standards of 2011, were way ahead of anything else at the time save for the ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'' series.

* 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 enhancing" 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.

* ObviousBeta:
** ''Battlefield 3'' on release was a very obvious late beta. It's simply not stable enough, especially in the online modes, to really be called a polished product. The integration between Origin, Battlelog, the game and the online servers is flaky and constantly being brought down for "maintenance." The reason was EA pushing the game for an early release out to beat the latest ''Modern Warfare'' game.

* JustForPun: One of the new maps in the ''Close Quarters'' expansion is called "Operation 925". It takes place in an office building. Think about it. [[spoiler:"Operation nine-to-five."]]

** Conveniently, they seem to ignore that, A) said commanding officer's stupidity got his entire company wiped out ''and'' probably caused a '''major''' international incident, B) [[spoiler: that Blackburn has a witness who can back up his claims, who they only bring in at the last minute and ask ONE incredibly biased question]], and C) [[spoiler: Solomon is so ObviouslyEvil that it's amazing they haven't walked in on him biting the head off of a puppy and still take everything he says at face-value. Despite having seen ''video evidence'' of him murdering an American soldier in cold blood, they never so much as bring him in for a psych evaluation and act as if he can do no wrong. Plus given how absolutely ''serious'' the CIA takes mole and leak accusations in real life, [[WhatAnIdiot there is no excuse for this kind of stupidity.]]]]

* InsaneTrollLogic: So, Cole's unit is sent in to capture an arms dealer with ties to the PLR when the Russians begin parachuting in as well. Since they just so happen to be there, and the arms dealer in question is Russian, he instantly assumes the entire Russian Army is in cahoots with them and orders his squad to attack them on sight. [[WhatAnIdiot It goes as well as you would expect.]]

* FiveManBand: The multiplayer is set up like this. The assault 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.

* PreAssKickingOneLiner:
-->Better get your fangs out, Hawkins. We're hunting big game today.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: How do you deal with a sniper shooting at you from another building? Blow up that entire building![[note][[RealityIsUnrealistic This is actually the standard method of dealing with snipers in real life too.]][[/note]]

* KillEmAll: The bodycount gets ''very'' high by the end the game. [[AnyoneCanDie Your squadmates aren't immune either]].

* TheStarscream: 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 affinity for their cause.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: DICE certainly thinks so. Not only do you have the figurine in the campaign, you can have a dinosaur dog tag for the multiplayer, and Wake Island even has an EasterEgg with more dinosaur figurines. The fascination is explained in a [[http://twitter.com/#!/gustavhalling/status/78029240041345026 developer's tweet]].
** There's also a [[http://www.pcgamesn.com/battlefield/there-live-flying-pterodactyl-battlefield-3-endgame pterodactyl flying around the Nebadan Flats in mulitplayer.]]

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Iran is shown having a large number of Su-35BM Flanker-E's in the mission "Going Hunting". In real life however, the Iranian army famously wields a large range of older American fighters like the F-14. They have little to no Su-35BM Flanker-E's in their inventory, instead having different russian jets IRL.