History YMMV / DirtyBomb

* FaceOfTheBand: Proxy appears in the most promotional art as in the middle of the Free Merc Weekend Poster. She also has the pleasure of having two events revolve around her and her missing eye.
** Phantom may count because he narrates both trailers, is the leader in the "Scrubs" trailer and was instantly infamous upon his release.

* TierInducedScrappy:
** Sparks is considered this because her REVIVR rifle is pinpoint accurate, doubles as a sniper rifle, and revives teammates. This is countered by her having the least health in the game, but she's usually found in the back lines.
** [[FragileSpeedster Proxy]] and [[GlassCannon Kira]] perform well in the chaos of public servers but lose out in coordinated settings because of their low health.
** Phantom used to be one because he was [[LightningBruiser fast, tanky]], perfectly invisible and could kill almost all mercs with two swings of his [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]]. Since then, he was nerfed to the ground and now people hate him for being useless. His speed and health have been decreased, his visibility was raised and his cloak now emits a constant hum.
** Vassili, being the only "pure sniper" until Aimee was introduced, is popular among newer players who don't understand the nature of this fast-paced game. But a good Vassili can effectively stop a push by themselves.
*** Aimee suffers from this as well, but she's less popular than the other snipers because her lower health puts her at an extreme disadvantage during duels. She's often run by more experienced players who know how to mitigate her weaknesses.
** Thunder was underwhelming, despite being advertised as the mercenary who could push Fragger off his throne. He has a weaker LMG, slow speed, a huge hitbox without enough health to compensate, concussion grenades that are likely to blind him as well. People say that there is no reason to ever choose Thunder over Fragger. He's a high tier scrappy now, with buffs to his health and the effect of his concussion grenades.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Aimpunch [[note]]where your aim becomes less accurate as someone is shooting at you[[/note]] is universally loathed by players because the game has a high time-to-kill. Because of how it affects your spread, someone who has better aim has a decreased chance of surviving against the person who already had the first shot advantage (not to mention the effect when two people are shooting at you). The Melee Mayhem update significantly decreased it, causing the fans to rejoice.

* {{Fanon}}: Phoenix having red hair. While there isn't any official art without his helmet, [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPr0WQmUEAAxJaA.png:large concept art]] shows he has red hair under his helmet and artists go with that.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Thunder. Either he's a perfectly fine mercenary who edges over the strong side because of the well-deserved buffs, or a completely broken and OP merc with an ability that leads to a frustrating death.

* FanPreferredCouple: While ships aren't very common within the community, Fletcher and Sparks is a popular one because of [[https://youtu.be/HH0sHqvvhV8?t=75 Fletcher's reaction]] to her saving him.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Even though the game isn't out of beta yet, a lot of map areas have stunning views. Special mention goes to the defender's spawn on the last point. Turning 180 degrees reveals the city's skyline.

* MostAnnoyingSound: Playing as a medic, the incessant calls for medic.

** Fletcher was considered useless on his release because he had roughly the same stats as Bushwhacker but with worse primaries and buggy sticky bombs. It was only when everyone figured how to best play him effectively (flanker focusing on sticks rather than tanky soldier relying on guns) did the community actually do a 360 degree, bringing him back to the scrappy heap for the opposite reason: he was practically an assault class with the bonus of having engineer perks. It wasn't until the Unlock and Load update were the fans satisfied with him as they nerfed his splash radius and his damage.

* InternetBackdraft: The implementation of weapon skins, which were a requested feature, is outright despised by the community due to being a blatant cash grab. You need to be really lucky if you want a specific wear for specific skin for a specific weapon, because the crates are layers of RNG. In addition to that, you can only equip the skin to ''one'' character at a time, meaning you need to roll again if you want more than one merc on your squad to use it. To top it all off, the worn out skins stand out for looking really bad.

* CounterpartComparison
** A FragileSpeedster that typically wields [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter shotguns]] and [[BatterUp bats]], who also completes objectives faster. Are we talking about Proxy or [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Scout]]?

* TearJerjer: While a lot of mercs have some sort of tragedy, this is usually downplayed, mixed in with some black comedy, or not particularly cared about by the mercs, Hunter's backstory is particularly tragic: His mother died when he was a child, leading his father to take care of him alone. His father was stoic because of his wife's death and the horrors of being in the army, which made him come off as cold, so Hunter did everything he could to make him proud. When he was 18, he enlisted in the army because he needed money for his ailing father and his sniping skills were all he knew. This caused the two to part on bad terms. He was presumed dead, imprisoned, and lost his arm. Upon returning back home, his father was dying in the snow, and his last words were about how he failed his son.

** The Dreiss AR is this. It's current iteration requires a lot of trigger discipline, which is often pushed aside in favor of automatic weapons.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming: In early May, 2017, a talented sniper by the name of Kim Loe [[TearJerker lost her battle against cancer]] and the devs mentioned her in one of their weekly updates and linked one of her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8slEfK6qso gameplay montages.]] With the release of Vault, the devs included a [[https://imgur.com/a/eI82N little shrine of her]] in the map.

* MostWonderfulSound:

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Even though the game isn't out of beta yet, a lot of map areas have stunning views. Special mention goes to the defender's spawn on the last point. Turning 180 degrees reveals the city's skyline.

** 2% [[note]]Prior to the Unlock and load event, Thunder was considered one of the bottom tier mercs because his default weapon is a high spread weapon that deals abysmal damage and his health wasn't enough to compensate for his hitbox and speed, despite having the second largest health pool. The developers addressed that issue on the February 24, 2016 patch by reducing his hit box by a whopping 2%[[/note]]

** During the ''Shell Shock'' event, players got to choose among [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEOKsVWXkAAYpYw.jpg three different prosthetic eyes for Proxy.]] All potential replacements, however, clashed with Proxy's default earthy colour scheme and the color wouldn't even change depending on one's loadout card. This is on top of how a futuristic prosthetic messes up her more natural look.
* AuthorsSavingThrow: Aimpunch [[note]]where your aim becomes less accurate as someone is shooting at you[[/note]] is universally loathed by players because the game has a high time-to-kill. Because of how it affects your spread, someone who has better aim has a decreased chance of surviving against the person who already had the first shot advantage (not to mention the effect when two people are shooting at you). The Melee Mayhem update significantly decreased it, causing the fans to rejoice.

** During the ''Shell Shock'' event, players got to choose among [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEOKsVWXkAAYpYw.jpg three different prosthetic eyes for Proxy.]] All potential replacements, however, clashed with Proxy's default earthy colour scheme and the color wouldn't even change depending on one's loadout card. This is on top of how a futuristic prosthetic messes up her more natural look.

** The Caulden pistol is often considered the worst pistol because of its low magazine capacity, iffy damage and slow fire rate. Previously, the DE. 50 was a straight upgrade because they shared the same stats except for damage.