YMMV / Foxhole

• Fan Nickname: Prevalent enough that the fan-curated wiki has a page dedicated to compiling all the slang terms, shorthands and Reporting Names used by the playerbase:
  • Logistical jobs — driving supply trucks, manufacturing gear or collecting resources — are called "logi" for short, which can also refer to the players doing those jobs.
    • Dedicated sub-categories of logi players soon attracted their own nicknames. "Scrappers" focus on gathering tons of raw materials for other players to transport and refine. "Tech runners" or "tech maids" focus on progressing the Tech Tree by harvesting and delivering relevant resources like aluminum.
    • "Quartermasters" are logi who adopt a leadership/management role. Early on, quartermasters were vital to coordinating factories and supply chains for their factions, until crafting overhauls and the playerbase's growing average knowledge made them largely unnecessary. Nowadays, quartermaster usually refers to players who manage their faction's Tech Tree, usually from a secure back-ranks camp fed by a network of tech runners.
  • Small groups of players who sneak past the front to attack supply lines are called "partisans".
  • A "Quick Reaction/Response Force" (or QRF) are players who rapidly respond to sudden incursions or partisan banditry.
  • Players unaffiliated with any of the local Gaming Clans are referred to as "noots" (a corruption of "neutral").
  • The BF5 White Ash Flask Grenade, an anti-tank weapon used by the Wardens, is often called "booze" for its resemblance to a conventional hip flask.
  • "Shirts" for soldier supplies, named for the item's icon being a neatly-folded button shirt.
  • Colonial troops are often called "Collies" and "goblins", while Warden troops are nicknamed "blueberries" or more rarely "penguins"^note (The Warden inner territories to the north are a snowy environment, and the wardens wear blue-grey uniforms that appear dark against the white snow).
  • The town of Saltbrook Channel has become known as "Saltingrad" for the ever-present threat of extremely nasty and drawn-out urban combat.
  • Thanks to the Scunthorpe Problem, the word "scrap" was auto-censored by the game's word filter, leading the playerbase to coin "scroop" to discuss the resource. Even after the word filter was corrected and the resource re-named, the slang term remained.
  • The Warden Balfour Falconer 250mm field mortar, a two-man weapon platform armed with the same gun as the Colonial HC-7 "Ballista" siege tank, has the mocking nickname of "Baby Ballista".
  • "To HOI4" something means to completely encircle an entrenched enemy position and cut off their supply lines, starving the defenders of resources.
  • The Gallagher Thornfall, a variation of the Outlaw tank with eight Bonesaw launchers attached to the turret, is nicknamed the "Bonelaw."
  • Ballistic rockets are commonly called "nukes" or more rarely "V2s."
  • Rambo is a derogative nickname for a specific kind of new player who grabs whatever automatic weapon is in the stockpile, overloads with ammo for it and then charges blindly toward enemy position, only to be cut down five steps in.
• Game-Breaker: The Colonials' unique grenade, the Bomastone. It's very cheap, unlocked by default at the beginning of every war, and can be thrown incredibly far with a massive blast radius. Sure, it deals less damage than the Warden grenade and has a sharper damage falloff- but that's a small comfort when the damage is Shrapnel, meaning even the smallest brush with the Bomastone's blast (which is a bit larger than the visual indicator) will make you bleed to death if you can't find a bandage or a medic. Add the fact that Colonials have exclusive access to the Grenade Uniform which makes Grenade Spam even more viable, and it's no wonder that many Wardens don't even bother playing until the later stages of the Tech Tree.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "this game is NOT what I thought it was going to be" ^Explanation A meme that came from a particular joke negative review on Steam that came from a furry user complaining about how they interpreted the game's title literally and believed it to be a furry porn with foxes, only to learn that it was actually a war game.
  • "Impossible. They couldn't made it out of logi." ^Explanation Logistic in this game is an involved process that could keep the players doing it occupied for a long time. The quote is often used as a joke whether the game's community got up to do something such as participate in Reddit's r/place event.
  • "CUM" ^Explanation For whatever reason, this word was excluded from the game's automatic word filter. This led to both factions- but mainly the Wardens- spamming it in chat as a morale booster, to drown out bigots, or just whenever they felt like it.
    • Colonial Cultural Victory ^Explanation Once "cum" was added to the automatic word filter, the playerbase jokingly complained about the developers' implied Colonial bias.
  • Nuke Jade Cove ^Explanation In War 19, the first war to introduce ballistic rockets, the Warden regiment WNS launched their first rocket at the city of Jade Cove- which the Wardens had defended for the entire war and had only just lost- despite being given more strategically viable coordinates. This incident broke Warden morale for the war, caused WNS members to be harassed into quitting the game, and caused Jade Cove to be suggested as a launch target in all future wars regardless of the situation.
    • Nuke Atlantis ^Explanation In War 100, a glitch with the coordinates for another Warden rocket launch caused the rocket to land harmlessly in the water. Wardens tried to downplay this blunder by claiming they were launching a preemptive strike against the nonexistent Atlanteans.
  • Warden Weekend ^Explanation For whatever reason, a larger percentage of Wardens have full-time jobs and thus can only play during work hours on the weekends. This has caused the faction as a whole to generally favor major operations over slow-and-steady pushes in order to make the most of this limited time.
  • 15 minutes ^Explanation The universal time given for anyone asking when something will happen, such as a supply delivery, a new Tech Tree level being unlocked, or a rocket launch.
• Quicksand Box: It can be daunting for a new player to figure out what to do and where to go; there is no in-game direction as to what you should be doing to win the war. Especially since you start only with a pistol and a hammer, just getting a basic rifle or finding the action takes some getting used to.

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