A
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AC: Asheron's
Call
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afaik: as far
as I know
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afk:
Away from keyboard. Some people joke around saying it stands for 'away from komputer.'
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AI:
Artificial intelligence, which is normally computer controlled characters.
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AO: Anarchy
Online
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AOE:
1) Age of Empires game by Ensemble Studios
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AOK:
1) Age of Kings II game by Ensemble Studios 2)
Everything is A Okay
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atm:
At them moment. Most people would get confused and think
you're talking about the bank teller.
B
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b/f: boyfriend
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b4: before
√ Baba:
A special someone. Sweety or Honey term that originated from
the South African gamers but its part of my online lingo now after 4 years of using it with my
IRC friends.
√ Babyshoes:
Usually only
said to the female gender. Another word that originated from SA.
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Barrel Jump: A Quake 2 move, where you stand on top of a barrel, shoot it and jump at
the same time.
√ bbiab: be back in a
bit
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bbl: be back later
√ bbs:
1) bulletin board 2) be back soon
√ BFG:
Big Freaken Gun (PG version)
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Blast Radius:
(See Splash Damage)
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Bootlegger: A defensive move which involves turning a corner while being chased,
hugging the inside, waiting until your hunter turns the corner, and scooting off the way you
came. It is said to work well.
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Bots:
(also can be known as AI): Computer controlled opponents.
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Boomstick: shotgun
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Bounding Box: The area of each model that you can actually hit
that is invisible. A
good way to think of this is the area of damage.
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brb: be right
back
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btw: By the way
C
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C&C:
Command and Conquer strategy game by Westwood Studios.
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Cable: Cable modem. A fast
enough net access, giving you pings of less than 100.
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Camper:
Many people call other gamers who are camping this name, which normally is a put
down in general. It's a person who stays in
one spot with a high damage weapon while waiting for people to come by.
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Camping: To
camp is to find a hiding place or to spot a particular item on the map that
is important; such as armor, a weapon or some type of power-up. It's also
called camping if you find a respawning zone and constantly shoot anyone
that respawns from it. (See also Whore)
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Cap:
Normally used in Capture the flag games.
This means as soon as you capture the flag, you must get to your base to cap the
flag to earn your points.
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Cesspool:
A term used frequently with many Quake I old school gamers. This is a massive
gib fest in a small quarter area. A way to describe it in a FFA game is crazy
amounts of chaos, which was usually caused when everyone got in the same area
with someone having Quad.
As for team matches, it starts being general
chaos usually due to bad players in pick-up games. So if you ended up on a team
server with 7 other people running around like maniacs, you'd be prone to say
"this is cess or a cess pool".
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cfg:
(see config)
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Cheap Kill:
Much like camping, this is normally something you are where you aren't
playing fair with. A cheap kill can be anything from killing your own team
mate or simply doing what campers do.
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Cherry
Picking: (see Cheap kill or Camping)
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Circle Strafe: Running a circle around your opponent while keeping your gun pointed at
him.
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Circle Jump: A quake 2 physics exploit which involves the gradual movement of your
mouse while strafe jumping, to get some insane airtime.
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config: A gamer's configuration file
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CS:
A modification of Half-Life that became one of the most popular mods out
there. So much that they made it into a retail game.
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CTF: Capture the Flag.
This is a type of mode of a game much like Deathmatch. Only there are two
teams where the object of the game is to capture the flag.
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CCTF:
Classic Capture the Flag mod.
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Clan:
A regular team of players who
come together to play against opposing teams.
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cul8r: see you
later
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cya:
See ya or See you later
D
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DAOC:
Dark Age of Camelot
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Deathmatch:
Most games that are action normally will consist of deathmatch. This is
another game mode normally done in multiplayer. In some cases you can play 1
vs. 1, player against one other player.
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DM:
Deathmatch
E
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EQ:
EverQuest game (MMORPG)
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eye-candy: The
graphics when they're on with all the bells and whistles... like lightmap
lighting, dynamic lights, hi-res textures and so forth. All eye-candy is usually
turned off when playing something like Quake 3 competitively. Again for maximum
fps or so see things better.
F
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ffs: for
fudge sakes. (PG-rated)
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FOV: Field Of Vision, in degrees. Some players make their FOV larger, so they can see
more things that are going on around them.
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FPS:
1) Frames per second. 2) First
Person Shooter
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Frag:
A kill. One Frag normally equals to one kill. This can be another
player through multiplayer mode or a bot/AI opponent. Frag was actually a
military term before the 3D gaming world borrowed it.
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ffa: free for
all
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Flick Rail: When a player performs a
very fast "flick" of the mouse and
accurately hits another player with the railgun.
G
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g/f:
girlfriend
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g2g: 1)
got to go 2) good to go (in game)
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gg: good game
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Gib:
To shoot someone so much that they explode into something that looks
like dog food.
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gl:
1) Good Luck. 2) short term for OpenGL
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gr8: great
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gs: good shot!
H
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h4x: hacks
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hf: have fun
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HPB:
High Ping Bastard
I
√
ic: I see
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Ice skating:
If you are playing any game over the internet (multiplayer) and your
connection ping keeps going up and over 300, you will be experiencing hand
on ice skating. Also see lag. The typical feeling of this all is that you'll
feel like your running forward in the game but you aren't moving at the same
speed as everyone else, you're either frozen or just looking stupid to other
gamers on the game server.
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IMO:
In my opinion.
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IMHO: In
my humble opinion
K
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kak: An
South African word meaning 'shit'. Often used on game servers to express
disbelief at a shot or something when one is killed.
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Keyboarder:
A player who doesn't use the mouse
for any PC games.
L
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l33t:
1) to say how someone/something is
elite as in *really* good.
2) to describe l33t-speak which is
the substitution of certain letters of the alphabet with numbers usually. As
in h4x0r for hacker and so on.
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Lag:
This is when the server and your machine can't communicate as well as you'd
like it to. It results in a higher ping.
Also known as HPB.
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LAN:
Local Area Network. This is where you connect computers together for a VERY
fast, very smooth PC game. Whereas on the net with a
modem you get about 200-400 ping, on a LAN you get 0-40, depending on the game's netcode.
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LG: Lighting Gun
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Llama: Quake
equivalent to idiot, stems from the terms "lame"
"lemur" and "Llama", the latter two being curiously strange mammals. Normally
this consists of a loser in general.
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LMK: Let
me know
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lo:
short for hello, another word
stolen from South Africa gamers.
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loe: low
on endurance (EQ/DAOC terminology)
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lol:
laughing out loud
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lom: low
on mana (EQ/DAOC terminology)
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lop: low
on power (EQ/DAOC terminology)
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LPB: Low Ping Bastard.
Normally this person gets accused by HPB (high Pingers) that they are either
cheating but in reality they just have a better/faster connection to the
server.
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ltns: long
time no see
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Lumberjack:
One who uses a rocket launcher, BFG, or any other mass splash damage weapon to
knock campers out of their places of hiding!
M
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MA: This
is a term is often used in Tribes 2 to describe a Mid-Air shot, which is
usually difficult to achieve.
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Mod:
1)
A modification to quake, due to the available source code and open license
agreement, many individuals and teams of individuals modify areas of the Quake code and
graphics (Textures and Skins) to create a different feel to the game or even a completely
new game type. Some people can get this confused with Models, listed below.
2) Sometimes used for the
term as moderator of a forum (ie. xtremeprejudice clan forum or
quake3world.com forum).
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MMORPG:
Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
