History YMMV / Battlefield3

* BaseBreaker: Various server options. Hardcore mode. Killcam. Rush. Conquest. Xbox. PC. Playstation.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Nuke detonates in Paris while you are there. Your character, Miller, is captured and has his throat slit on camera as an example. Cities are on fire...]]

* AcceptableTargets: Being Russian. Dima makes fun of this when he's warned by Bulganov in the novel that he'll be looked at as the bad guy when he hunts for Solomon in Paris.

** In the community itself, snipers who refuse to move forward, USAS users, MAV riders, M26 Dart glitchers.

** The PC gamimg community after DICE announced that the PC would be the definitive platform for ''VideoGame/Battlefield3''. They rejoiced even more when [[SceneryPorn previews of the game engine]] surfaced. Even more so when leaked gameplay footage was clearly from the PC version.

** The USAS is no longer the broken mess it used to be pre-patch, and MAVs have a chance of exploding upon ramming into someone now.

* GameplayDerailment: [=MAVs=] are ostensibly used for spotting enemies, but most players don't actually use it that way, preferring to use it in two ways: as an elevator to reach high, normally-inaccessible areas, or as a flying wrecking ball. On PC, with its 32v32 matches, it's just annoying. In 12v12 matches on consoles, however, with 4-6 Recon players sniping on rooftops or ramming players, your team is effectively cut in half and it turns the game into a boring slog, with the added annoyance of getting constantly sniped from anywhere and [[GoddamnedBats avoiding the MAVs out for blood]] by the other team's Recons doing the same. Fortunately, an incoming patch will make [=MAVs=] unridable and become destroyed as soon as it rams a player.

** After finally squashing overpowered USAS and MAV Riding, dice managed to introduce yet another stupid glitch/exploit. The M26 Dart when certain attachments are used will give each of the 9 darts fired in a shot the same damage as the assault rifle it was attached to. It also massively increases accuracy, and shotguns do not suffer from suppression either. If attached to a G3 it generally ensures one-hit kills from medium-long ranges when it ordinarily would barely scratch a player.

** The QBB weapon in the Back To Karkand pack is garbage. It's pretty much a hybrid LMG and Assault Rifle. Except it has the worst of both worlds. It's inaccurate, underpowered and slow to shoot. It's only advantage over other LMG's is it's reload time. It was either pre-nerfed to make sure it wasn't a JackOfAllTrades, or a generic filler gun for the expansion pack.
** The SVD is a gun that is abandoned by almost every player the moment they unlock the other Recon weapons. Which is after about 5 minutes play-time.
** The 93R Raffica pistol is the worst pistol in the game. It is a 3 shot burst fire pistol. It has several issues. The gun is held by both hands, and this causes obscured vision when running. It is slow to ready up when pulled as a backup pistol. It's recoil is high and is harder to aim with multi-burst fire. Finally, there is a far better fully automatic pistol in the game, the G18. Additionally, the G18 can also has a suppressor version.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Many players complained that the Russian announcer does not speak in Russian like the previous games.

* TierInducedScrappy: As of late, the USAS-12 with Frag rounds has definitely become this. It basically turns your automatic shotgun into a handheld IFV cannon, with all the power and accuracy of one. If you use this weapon, you are guaranteed to piss a lot of people off. Hell, there are Metro 24/7 servers that ban the RPG, M320, MAV ram kills and the USAS because of overuse for being very easy to spam for kills as opposed to using guns.

** All of ''Bad Company 2'''s annoying shortcomings (suppresion fire, curvy bullets, etc) are back, ''with a vengeance''.

* GoodBadBugs: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0H_W155zKw Tourettes Medic.]]

* TierInducedScrappy: As of late, the USAS-12 with Frag rounds has definitely become this. It basically turns your automatic shotgun into a handheld IFV cannon, with all the power and accuracy of one. If you use this weapon, you are guaranteed to piss a lot of people off.
** There are Metro 24/7 servers that ban the RPG, M320, MAV ram kills and the USAS because of overuse for being very easy to spam for kills as opposed to using guns.

* TaintedByThePreview: Leaked details and the trailer showcasing one of the maps for the Close Quarters expansion have been met with much disappointment.

** The PC gamimg community after DICE announced that the PC would be the definitive platform for ''BF3''. They rejoiced even more when [[SceneryPorn previews of the game engine]] surfaced. Even more so when leaked gameplay footage was clearly from the PC version.

* ScrappyMechanic: ''Battlefield 3'' was arguably the first DICE game to really have DICE's owners [[ElectronicArts EA]] pushing them towards EA's overall strategy. This resulted in Origin, EA's rebadged 'EA Download Manager' being forced to be used with BF3. It is a bloated and completely unnecessary rival to Valve's {{Steam}} and is required to run the game even if bought as a DVD retail copy. Battlelog does not integrate with Origin except to launch the game, making it another pointless step done purely so that EA could try and wrest some control of digital distribution away from Valve. Needless to say, when EA yanked VideoGame/{{Crysis}} off Steam, and then confirmed that ''Battlefield 3'' would not be part of Steam, gamers were not happy.

* WhatAnIdiot: EA had a genius idea and released ''Star Wars: The Old Republic'' and ''Back to Karkand'' on the same day (December 13th). Needless to say, the entire Origin system crashed and burned, preventing the vast majority of BF3 players from playing the game. Even the ''password recovery system'' broke.

* ScrappyWeapon: The Type 88 LMG is hated by most players, especially by players that do weapon reviews, because of its very underwhelming performance in all areas compared to the other [=LMGs=]. One weapon reviewer described it as the M249 SAW, except worse.

* ScrappyMechanic: ''Battlefield 3'' was arguably the first DICE game to really have DICE's owners [[ElectronicArts EA]] pushing them towards EA's overall strategy. This resulted in Origin, EA's rebadged 'EA Download Manager' being forced to be used with BF3. It is a bloated and completely unnecessary rival to Valve's {{Steam}} and is required to run the game even if bought as a DVD retail copy. Battlelog does not integrate with Origin except to launch the game, making it another pointless step done purely so that EA could try and wrest some control of digital distribution away from Valve. Needless to say, when EA yanked {{Crysis}} off Steam, and then confirmed that ''Battlefield 3'' would not be part of Steam, gamers were not happy.

*** It is a toned-down version of what was in ''Bad Company 2'', though, and was generally received as positive. You can no longer spot people through foliage or smoke, you can no longer spot people obscured more than three-quarters of the way by level geometry, depending on server settings, you can only see spotted enemies if they are actually considered "visible" by the spotting rules. Of course, for many players from ''Battlefield 2'' or ''Battlefield 1942'', they want no spotting at all except on the mini-map.

* MemeticMutation: "Be advised: You are being advised. Repeat: You are being advised. Over."[[hottip:*:The multiplayer announcer in the beta had a very limited vocabulary; nearly everything he said was prefixed with "be advised."]]

*** '''"FALL BACK! MILLET!"'''
*** '''"The anemy hahs seht the charch!"'''

* GameplayDerailment: [=MAVs=] are ostensibly used for spotting enemies, but most players don't actually use it that way, preferring to use it in two ways: as an elevator to reach high, normally-inaccessible areas, or as a flying wrecking ball. On PC, with its 32v32 matches, it's just annoying. In 12v12 matches on consoles, however, with 4-6 Recon players sniping on rooftops or ramming players, your team is effectively cut in half and it turns the game into a boring slog, with the added annoyance of getting constantly sniped from anywhere by the other team's Recons doing the same. Fortunately, an incoming patch will make [=MAVs=] unridable and become destroyed as soon as it rams a player.

** There are Metro 24 7 servers that ban the RPG, M320, MAV ram kills and the USAS because of overuse as being very easy to spam for kills as opposed to using guns.

* TierInducedScrappy: As of late, the USAS-12 with Frag rounds has definitely become this. Imagine you have an automatic shotgun. Now imagine firing it and having grenades come flying out of it and doing more damage than any other shotgun or shotgun attachment in the game. Still not satisfied? How about firing it from over about a yard or so away from an enemy, and watching the grenade fly out and hit him from that far? If you use this weapon, you are guaranteed to piss a lot of people off.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The inclusion of hand-held anti-air [=SAMs=] and effective AA vehicles. Also the removal of dumb bombs, and a major reduction in the damage output of the jet cannons.