History VideoGame / Foxhole

* RespawnPoint: Town Halls and Port Bases serve as infinite respawn points where weapons, ammo, and other equipment are conveniently stashed. Players can construct Encampments and Barracks, both of which can store Soldier Supplies which are consumed upon respawning a player.

* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: Averted. Most structures require basic or refined materials to build, and players have to hit it with a hammer for as many times as the required amount of materials. A foxhole takes 50 hits, while barracks would take 100. Construction Vehicles can build them slightly faster, but buildings requiring them have even higher costs and can take minutes to build.

* SkeletonKey: While players can lock vehicles for themselves or their squad, nothing can't be handled by a Wrench in a couple of seconds. Locking is more of a suggestion, really.

* TheNamesake: Foxholes are the most basic defensive structures of the game. They're cheap, automated, and effective against infantry. If you haven't taken the hint yet, you should build as many of these as possible.

* AntiVehicle: A number of anti-vehicle weapons exist, including; [=RPGs=], high-explosive grenades, [[StickyBomb Sticky Bombs]], and anti-tank mines.

* GenreBusting: Foxhole combines multiple game genres to create a unique war experience, taking the social aspects of a MMORPG, the "massive dynamic war" from VideoGame/PlanetSide, isometric top-down shooting from VideoGame/RunningWithRifles and also has the [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas logistics and supply system]] of a RTS game.

* ShowsDamage: 0.5 added visible damage states to structures with three catagories; healthy, damaged, and critical. As the structures take damage visible effects are added like bent metal or cracked concrete, aiding players in identifying what needs to be repaired...or focused fired on. Images can be found [[http://www.foxholegame.com/single-post/2017/09/26/Devblog-30 in this devblog]].

** Vehicles emit smoke when damaged enough to be disabled, and erupts in flames when near destruction.

* TechTree: By submitting Tech Parts to a Research Centre, new technology can be researched using this style. Later,blueprints can be made to use some thech.

* BoringButPractical: The Rifle is the default primary weapon. While it's slow to fire and requires quite a bit of steadying for a good aim, it's the cheapest weapon and can dish out a good amount of damage.
** The truck is cheap to manufacture, can transport a good amount of troops and supplies to the front. Expect to see a lot of trucks around.

* TierSystem: (Removed and replaced with tech tree) Production facilities have a technology tier level, which is improved by install the tech parts that are randomly found within resource piles. Each facility must be leveled individually, usually the starting town since it's furthest from the fighting--though that means an extended supply chain to get said material to the front. An overview follows; weapon factory items first, workshop items second, all weapons tiers include their ammunition.
** 1 - Rifles, HE and frag grenades; [[BayonetYa bayonets]], wrenches, radios, artillery shells.
** 2 - [=SMGs=], [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolvers]], [[StickyBomb Sticky Bombs]]; [[GrenadeLauncher Grenade Launchers]], binoculars.
** 3 - Shotguns, [=RPGs=], [[TrickBomb smoke grenades]]; sledgehammers, satchel charges.
** 4 - Heavy machine guns, [[DeadlyGas poison gas grenades]]; gas masks, howitzer kits and shells, light tank kits and shells.
** 5 - Carbines, mortars.
** 6 - Storm Rifles

* {{Nerf}}: Fists were nerfed in version 0.2. Originally they were a OneHitKill to enemy soldiers since you'd have to risk getting shot to reach melee range to deal it; when bayonets were added the instant-kill was given to the bayonets to serve as a direct upgrade to fists, which now dealt half damage.

* OneHitKill: Some ordnance and equipment are powerful enough to kill in one shot.
** The Sniper Rifle is one of only firearm capable of incapacitating a full-health player in one hit--if you are patient enough to steady its aim, that is.

** Bayonets can be affixed to Rifles and Carbines, allowing a one-hit melee kill.
* PvP: While there are [[SentryGun automated AI defenses]], ''Foxhole'' is predominately PvP and does not have bots or AI enemies. Automated defenses are considered a NecessaryWeasel--the game simply can't support the hundreds of players necessary to harvest, build, supply, fight, ''and'' garrison towns away from the immediate fighting.

* SprintMeter: Played straight. The player's stamina bar goes down as they sprint, but it is also affected by terrain and encumberment. Walking on grass instead of roads, as well as carrying too much, will significantly increase the drain on the stamina bar. If that bar goes down too much, the player character collapses for a moment.

* BoringButPractical: The rifle doesn't have the automatic power of the SMG, speed of the Carbine or short-range power of the shotgun. But it is the cheapest weapon (Meaning that ammo and rifles are always available), are very precise and [[JackOfAllTrades useful in any situation]].

* CombatMedic: Often ignored in favor of stocking your respawn structures, but the field hospital allows you to manufacture medical supplies for the front lines. Players can stock up with first aid kits to heal their teammates while trauma kits allow them to stabilize dying allies. Nothing stops you from hauling weapons along other than having to deal with encumbrance and the trauma kit occupying the main weapon slot.

* CosmeticallyDifferentSides: As of 0.5, the Colonials and the Wardens now have different designs for their infantry uniforms, half-tracks, tanks, utility vehicles, and landers. Despite the lore differences in vehicle design, they are otherwise identical.

* DashAttack: Once you've fixed a bayonet you can sprint with the blade extended to impale an enemy.
* DeadlyGas: Green Ash grenades create a cloud of poisonous green gas at the target location. It kills very quickly and can even take out vehicle crews. However, since gas masks offer complete protection from gas with no drawbacks, players rarely actually use gas, preferring [[StuffBlowingUp more direct means]].

* EasyLogistics: The meat of this game is in [[AvertedTrope Averting]] this trope. Resources must be collected in the battlefield and must be transported to facilities that produce actual war material. The weapons, equipment, and vehicles must then be taken to the front lines or otherwise distributed to your army. Crippling the enemy supply line is critical for victory, they can't fight without weapons and armor, and these convoys are vulnerable to attack. Capturing certain towns can flat-out deny the enemy the production facilities to produce vehicles or medical supplies--in the case of vehicles, a lack of supply trucks will further hamper the enemy's ability to move what resources they have. Playing as a logistical worker (or "[[FanNickname logi]]" as they are known to the playerbase) is a useful and profitable (though complicated and often [[DudeWheresMyRespect thankless]]) role for players.

* GarrisonableStructures: Aptly named "garrisoned houses" are large houses that exist within towns, wrecked from previous battles and needing to be rebuilt with a construction vehicle. Once rebuilt they'll function as a SentryGun when near a TunnelNetwork or players can pile inside to fire on enemies from cover, including heavy machine gunners.

** The Sniper Rifle is the only firearm capable of incapacitating a full-health player in one hit--if you are patient enough to steady its aim, that is.

* SentryGun:
** While too primitive to field actual automatic turrets, static defenses can function as this provided that an Encampment or Town Hall is within range. If the Encampment / Town Hall are destroyed, the defenses will go silent after a couple of minutes.

* CosmeticallyDifferentSides: As of 0.5, the Colonials and the Wardens now have different designs for their infantry uniforms, half-tracks, tanks, utility vehicles, and landers. Otherwise the two factions are identical. Additional faction-specific models for vehicles are planned.

* DamageOverTime: The structure decay system, were buildings take damage over time and must occasionally be repaired. This is an attempt to {{Nerf}} the amount of defensive structures that players build; gameplay in early access beta has become about spamming foxholes and bunkers and turning matches into a pseudo-TowerDefense game.

* DeadlyGas: Green Ash grenades create a cloud of poisonous green gas at the target location. It will kill you in about three seconds if you don't have a gas mask to protect yourself. However, since gas masks offer complete protection from gas with no drawbacks, players rarely actually use gas, preferring [[StuffBlowingUp more direct means]].

* GenreBusting: Foxhole is a truly unique game, it takes the social aspects of a MMORPG, the "massive dynamic war" from VideoGame/PlanetSide, isometric top-down shooting from VideoGame/RunningWithRifles and also has the [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas logistics and supply system]] coming from the RTS genre.

* LostTechnology: Part of the backstory its actually set in the future but there's been something like a century of constant warfare between the Colonials and the Wardens. This on-going war has cost them some of their technological advancements which is why the war resembles the World War-era. Their tanks in particular are both outdated and a rare sight on the battlefield.

* OneHitKill: Fists were originally an instant-kill attack until bayonets were added in 0.2; bayonets are now the instant-kill melee option.
* PvP: Ultimately, ''Foxhole'' is a PvP game, without AI bots or any kind of PvE mode. Defense structures are permitted to function as AI [[SentryGun Sentry Guns]] but this is something of a NecessaryWeasel--the game simply can't support the hundreds of players necessary to harvest, build, supply, fight, ''and'' garrison towns away from the immediate fighting. 0.5 added a special game mode that disables the automatic "SentryGun" function of defense structures that's called "[=PvP=]".

* RefiningResources: Scrap, components, and sulfur must be refined before being used; they produce basic materials, refined materials, and explosive materials respectively.
* RespawnPoint: The base Respawn Point is the town hall/Port Base , conveniently where weapons, ammo, and other equipment will be stashed; an unlimited number of players can respawn at the Port Base. Players can construct the barracks and the Foward Operating Base, the barracks will only permit a small number of players to spawn there, the FOB is unlimited like the town hall. However, three of those structures (Exept Port Bases) have to be stocked with Soldier Supplies; without the resources required to field soldiers on the battlefield...well, you can't field soldiers on the battlefield. Each respawn will consume a unit of supplies; ''without'' the above structures you're stuck with respawning in the Home Region or in another Town Hall.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: The revolver is a pure upgrade over the standard starting pistol. You lose two rounds of ammo for much higher damage and better range.
* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: Pretty slow by the standards of many games, but you can build pillboxes and other structures within a minute or two.

** While too primitive to field actual automatic turrets, static defenses can function as this provided that there is a TunnelNetwork within range. These structures will deactivate within a few minutes if they're disconnected from the network.
** Version 0.5 added events that change the way the game works. Some happened to alter how the Sentry Gun defenses function. The first called "PvP" completely disables them, the second is "Town Fortress" that restricts the automated functionality within a radius around the town halls.

* SprintMeter: Limits how long you can sprint before your character keels over for a few seconds to catch their breath. Interestingly, it is affected by terrain: sprinting on soft ground depletes the meter much faster than sprinting on a road. It also depletes based on your encumbrance level; if you're overburdened then your regular jog speed is reduced and you'll have to regularly stop.
* StarterEquipment: Whenever you spawn you're given a pistol with two magazines and a hammer, allowing you a very basic defense or the ability to start gathering resources. If you spawn near a town hall that's well supplied you'll immediately have access to better equipment.
* StickyBomb: Sticky bombs will stick to walls, buildings, and vehicles, but they can't be thrown and instead have to be hand-placed.
* SuperDrowningSkills: In alpha, bodies of water are less deadly pools to drown in and more ''bottomless pit''. You die but the game shows you plummeting off the map.

*** Subverted again with more swimming capabilities and oportunity to be rescued by a boat by keeping still.
* TacticalDoorUse: Heavy gates can only be opened by your faction. Thus it's possible to escape enemies by closing the gate behind you, but you can also trap them within your fortifications.
* TargetSpotter:Field Artillery requires a two-man team, partly due to this trope and partly due to being too heavy to move with one person. A spotter with binoculars is required to accurately land shells on targets; needing to calculate the range between the target and their location before adjusting for the actual position of the artillery gun. It's ''extremely'' DifficultButAwesome.

* TunnelNetwork: While the tunnels don't allow soldiers to warp across the battlefield, they do permit defensive structures to operate without a player in them (they're implied to be manned and supplied using the tunnels).

* RespawnPoint: The base Respawn Point is the town hall, conveniently where weapons, ammo, and other equipment will be stashed; an unlimited number of players can respawn at the town hall. Players can construct the barracks and the Outpost, the barracks will only permit five players to spawn there, the outpost is unlimited like the town hall. However, all three structures have to be stocked with Soldier Supplies; without the resources required to field soldiers on the battlefield...well, you can't field soldiers on the battlefield. Each respawn will consume a unit of supplies; ''without'' the above structures you're stuck with respawning in the wild--a random location on the map.

** While too primitive to field actual automatic turrets, static defenses can function as this provided that there is a TunnelNetwork within range. These structures will deactivate within ten minutes if they're disconnected from the network.
** Version 0.5 added two game modes that alter how the Sentry Gun defenses function. The first called "PvP" completely disables them, the second is "Town Fortress" that restricts the automated functionality within a radius around the town halls.

* TargetSpotter: Artillery requires a two-man team, partly due to this trope and partly due to being too heavy to move with one person. A spotter with binoculars is required to accurately land shells on targets; needing to calculate the range between the target and their location before adjusting for the actual position of the artillery gun. It's ''extremely'' DifficultButAwesome.
* TierSystem: Production facilities have a technology tier level, which is improved by install the tech parts that are randomly found within resource piles. Each facility must be leveled individually, usually the starting town since it's furthest from the fighting--though that means an extended supply chain to get said material to the front. An overview follows; weapon factory items first, workshop items second, all weapons tiers include their ammunition.

* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: You require more scrap, fuel, sulfur, "technology parts", and "components"!
** Scrap, fuel, and sulfur can be found in respawning points across the maps, fighting for control of them will be critical to your war effort. Scrap must be refined into basic materials before being used.

* AKA47: Most of the weapons are given generic names like "Rifle" or "Submachine Gun"; many of the weapons are generic in their designs as well, but a few resemble real-life weapons. The "Storm Rifle" is pretty clearly a WWII-era [[NazisWithGnarlyWeapons FG 42]], while the Grenade Launcher resembles the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_grenade_adapter M1 Grenade Adapter]], to name two examples.

* AKA47: Most of the weapons are given generic names like "Rifle" or "Submachine Gun"; many of the weapons are generic in their designs as well, but a few resemble real-life weapons. The "Storm Rifle" is pretty clearly a WWII-era [[NazisWithGnarlyWeapons FG-42]], while the Grenade Launcher resembles the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_grenade_adapter M1 Grenade Adapter]], to name two examples.

* BayonetYa: 0.2 added bayonets to the game. They occupy the gun accessory slot and can be fixed to rifles or carbines, giving the user an EmergencyWeapon with a little more reach than just swinging their fists.
* CombatMedic: Sometimes forgotten in favor of stocking your respawn structures, but the field hospital allows you to manufacture medical supplies for the front lines. Players can stock up with first aid kits to heal their teammates while trauma kits allow them to stabilize dying allies. Nothing stops you from hauling weapons along other than having to deal with encumbrance and the trauma kit occupying the main weapon slot.

* CosmeticallyDifferentSides: As of 0.5, the Colonials and the Wardens now have different designs for their half-tracks, tanks, utility vehicles, and landers. Otherwise the two factions are identical. Additional faction-specific models for vehicles are planned.

* StickyBomb: Sticky bombs will stick to walls, buildings, and vehicles, but they can't be thrown.

** Subsequently averted with later updates: players can now tread water for a few seconds before drowning, as an [[AntiFrustrationFeature anti-frustration feature]] reducing the number of accidental drownings from accidentally falling off the dock while trying to board a vessel.

* AKA47: Most of the weapons are given generic names like "Rifle" or "Submachine Gun". Most of the time the designs themselves are fairly generic as well, but one notable exception is the "Storm Rifle", which is pretty clearly a WWII-era [[NazisWithGnarlyWeapons FG-42]].

* AKA47: Inverted. While the side-loading, FG-42 like "Storm Rifle" loads 7.92mm and is selective fire, much like the World War 2-era STG-44 or "sturmgewehr", it looks nothing like it.
* AmphibiousAutomobile: The Amphibious Warfare Update will be adding the Landing APC; an open-topped amphibious "tank". A small squad of troops can ride on-board while it crosses the water, able to shoot out and vault over the sides should they need to disembark quickly.

* BayonetYa: 0.2 added bayonets to the game. They occupy the gun accessory slot and can be fixed to rifles or carbines.

* CosmeticallyDifferentSides: As of 0.5, the Colonials and the Wardens now have different designs for their half-tracks and landers. Otherwise the two factions are identical. Additional faction-specific models for vehicles are planned.

* DeadlyGas: Green Ash grenades create a cloud of poisonous green gas at the target location. It will kill you in about three seconds if you don't have a gas mask to protect yourself.

* EasyLogistics: The meat of this game is in [[AvertedTrope Averting]] this trope. Resources must be collected in the battlefield and must be transported to facilities that produce actual war material. The weapons, equipment, and vehicles must then be taken to the front lines or otherwise distributed to your army. Crippling the enemy supply line is critical for victory, they can't fight without weapons and armor, and these convoys are vulnerable to attack. Capturing certain towns can flat-out deny the enemy the production facilities to produce vehicles or medical supplies--in the case of vehicles, a lack of supply trucks will further hamper the enemy's ability to move what resources they have.

* RareGuns: The storm rifle is a 7.92mm rifle with a large side-loading magazine and a selective-fire option, fulfilling long and short range duties admirably. It's also a rarity in the game's battlefields, having been too difficult to produce and falling out of favor for the far cheaper bolt-action 7.62mm rifle. Building them requires having an advanced war factory.

* RespawnPoint: The base Respawn Point is the town hall, conveniently where weapons, ammo, and other equipment will be stashed; an unlimited number of players can respawn at the town hall. Players can construct the barracks and the Outpost, the barracks will only permit five players to spawn there, the outpost is unlimited like the town hall. However, all three structures have to be stocked with s. supplies; without the resources required to field soldiers on the battlefield...well, you can't field soldiers on the battlefield. Each respawn will consume a unit of supplies; ''without'' the above structures you're stuck with respawning in the wild--a random location on the map.

* SprintMeter: Limits how long you can sprint before your character keels over for a few seconds to catch their breath. It also depletes based on your encumbrance level; if you're overburdened then your regular jog speed is reduced and you'll have to regularly stop.

* TargetSpotter: Artillery requires a two-man team, ''partly'' to shove the thing into place. A spotter with binoculars is required to accurately land shells on targets; needing to calculate the range between the target and their location before adjusting for the actual position of the artillery gun.

** 6 - Storm rifles
* TrickBomb: Smoke grenades obscure vision with a dense cloud of smoke, which can blind enemy fortifications or cover your allies' movement.
* TunnelNetwork: While the tunnels don't allow soldiers to warp across the battlefield, they do permit defensive structures to operate while unmanned.
* VestigialEmpire: The Wardens were once a mighty empire but the war against the Colonials have broken them. The Deadlands map takes place where the empire's capital was located; now just a sprawling ruin that's home to smaller settlements.

* SentryGun: While too primitive to field actual automatic turrets, static defenses can function as this provided that there is a TunnelNetwork within range. These structures will deactivate within ten minutes if they're disconnected from the network.

''Foxhole'' is a 2017 game by {{Creator/Clapfoot}}.

Set in an AlternateTimeline that resembles the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI world]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII wars]] , ''Foxhole'' is a TopDownView, WideOpenSandbox war game. Players choose one of two factions--the Wardens or the Colonials--and battle for dominance over different battlefields, capturing resources and occupying the various towns. The war is persistent, the fighting continues whether you're logged in or not, and the logistics are completely player-driven. Players must gather resources, produce materials, deliver them to the battle, and then defeat their enemy in combat.

* AKA47: Most weapons in the game don't have specific names; like the SMG, pistol, rifle, etc. However the ''storm rifle'' is an advanced 7.92mm rifle capable of selective semi- and full-automatic fire--aka, the famous ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StG_44 Sturmgewehr 44]]'' assault rifle.

* LostTechnology: Part of the backstory its actually set in the future but there's been something like a century of constant warfare between the Colonials and the Wardens. This on-going war has cost them some of their technological advancements which is why the war resembles World War-era. Their tanks in particular are both outdated and a rare sight on the battlefield.

* RareGuns: The storm rifle is actually the AKA47 Sturmgewehr 44. It's also actually a rarity in the game's battlefields, having been too difficult to produce and falling out of favor for the bolt-action 7.62mm rifle. Building them requires having an advanced war factory.

* AntiVehicle: A number of anti-vehicle weapons exist, including; [=RPGs=], high-explosive grenades, [StickyBomb Sticky Bombs]], and anti-tank mines.

* TrickBomb: Smoke grenades obsucure vision with a dense cloud of smoke, which can blind enemy fortifications or cover your allies' movement.

* StarterEquipment: Whenever you spawn you're given a pistol with two magazines and a hammer, allowing you a very basic defense or the ability to start gathering resources. If you spawn near a town hall that's well supplied you'll immediately have access to better equipment .