Hey guys and Gals, I need a hand with a writing project I have been doing. I am writing a dictionary of the terms in gaming culture for nerds. I need you guys to come up with terms for me too add, you don't need to describe it just give me a word, here is the dictionary so far. I will add words as they come up, enjoy.
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Admin:
Administrator of a dedicated server, tasked with keeping the server running and removing cheating, hacking or simply obnoxious players.
Avatar:
The name of the virtual character, car or whatever you control that is sometimes customisable to your desire.
Behavoural Pathing:
Setting the units to move along a path with a designated behavour attached to the movement, such as Patrol (loops the path) & aggressive (attacks any nearby hostile enemies.
Boss:
a crecendo creature, monster or opponent within an environment that the players must beat in order to progress through the content or finish it. An environment may include a single boss, or several bosses the players must defeat in linar or non-linar progression.
Broken:
A part of a game that can be exploited by a player to eliminate any form of challenge for the said player.
Bots/NPCs :
in game characters controlled by AI
Build Order:
The sequences of structures commonly agreed as being the best to obtain a specific mid/late game play style within an R.T.S
Camper:
The act of hiding in an action game and waiting for other players to come round the corner, often a camper will plant traps around him/her self and not move.
Cherry Tapping:
Using a very weak or inefficient process to accomplish a goal as part of a self-imposed challenge.
Clan:
A group of players (friends or not) who play together as a loyal team in competitive matches.
Commando:
Derived from Call of Duty, The act of playing the game with excessive use of the knife or melee attack in action games.
Dedicated Server :
a host (often owned by the development team) that others connect to play a game.
Defender:
When a player is hiding or in wait for enemies to attempt to complete his/her objective and defeating them as they approach. Not to be confused with camping
Dropshot:
The act of simultaneously going to a prone position and firing your weapon, in order to make oneself more difficult to hit.
Eco:
The collective name for all resources. Commonly used in R.T.S, but also referring to Civ games or other games with a collectable resource.
Fail:
The act of losing or dying in a game with embarrassing results, I.E blowing yourself up with a frag grenade.
Fanboy:
A male or female who recklessly and with some degree of bias defends one thing only, I.E a console fanboy.
Frag:
Term meaning a kill against an enemy...Slang for a fragmentation grenade and Slang for killing your superior.
FPS:
Abbreviation of the First Person Shooter Genre.
GG:
Abbreviation for "Good Game," a polite phrase often said at the end of a match an online match.
Ghosting:
The act of playing a multiplayer game, and being in communication with someone who has been eliminated, in order to gain unfair information regarding the level without Fog of War, hence, other players units.
Gibbed:
The act of blowing up someone?s avatar into a bloody mess of body parts.
Grinding:
The act of repeatedly performing an action to achieve something, most commonly levels or achievements.
Goomba Stomping :
Killing an enemy by jumping on their head
Gay/homo/******:
An insult an insecure player will call other players for being either better or worse than them.
Hacker/Cheater:
a person exploiting a feature/glitch in the game to his benefit.
Keeno:
Derived from the term Keen meaning like, when someone is addicted to playing one game only.
KDR:
Kill to death ratio, the mathematical equation used to judge ones skill in an action game, I.E one kill and one death is a KDR of 1.00%
Killsteal :
to kill someone at the last moment who was being killed by another.
Killstreak:
When a player achieves three or more kills in a row without death or defeat.
Lag :
When ones internet connection in an online match and the said player experience?s slowdown and glitches.
Minimap:
A small representation of the broad gaming environment. Can be held on the user interface or accessed via hotkeys.
Matchmaking:
The act of queuing for ranked games and being placed against an opponent of equal comparative skill to oneself.
Nerf:
when the developers/moderators weaken a given characteristic which was once powerful, in order to achieve balance.
Noob:
Derived from the term newbie meaning beginner, When a person is considered to play the game badly and denies it.
Noob tuber:
The act of excessively using the 40mm grenade launcher on a gun in an action game in order to succeed.
Owned:
Defeating other player/players without a doubt or with unquestionable skill.
Peer to Peer Gaming:
The opposite of dedicated servers. One player hosts a game and others join.
Rage quit:
When a player stops playing in order to escape the humiliation of defeat.
Rape:
The act of defeating other players with unquestionable skill, not to be confused with rape meaning forcing sex upon another without consent.
RTS:
Abviviation of the Real time Strategy Genre
Mana:
A points bar often used to represent Magic.
MMO:
Abbreviation of Massively Multiplayer Online
Montage :
a video edited to music of multiple clips deemed as skillful.
Ninja/ Ninja?ed :
a person stealing a valuable item under the nose of his team mate.
No-Scope:
The act of killing someone using a sniper rifle without using the scope
Pro :
professional, a gamer with enough experience and skill to know what to do and how to do it right.
Pwn:
to obliterate an enemy beyond any reasonable degree.
PvE:
Player verses environment, where players will typically have to change setting in order to be attacked at anytime. Emphasis is on dungeons, raids or end game content exploration.
PvP :
Abbreviation of player versus player, fighting a human opponent as opposed to fighting Bots.
Quad:
The term often shouted after killing four enemies with one attack.
Ranker:
Someone who thinks his rank makes him better than everyone around him.
Re-spawn:
The term used to say re-entering a game after a defeat.
RPG:
Abbreviation of the Role Playing Game Genre.
Slagger:
someone who insults his or her own team mates and opposition members
Sniper :
A player who is using a sniper rifle and taking shots at any distance while hiding, not to be confused with camping.
Spammer:
When a player excessively uses a powerful tool in order to succeed I.E, a grenade spammer.
Spawn:
The term used to mean entering a game or starting a life.
Spawn Camping:
A variation of a camper who exclusively targets the spawn points of his opponents, aiming to kill them as they re-enter the game.
Spanwkill/spawnrape:
The act of spawncamping.
Squeeker:
The term used to describe a child/adult with a high pitched voice that often irritates other players.
Teabagging:
An insult used against a defeated player, in which the victor player crouches up and down on the corpse of his fallen rival, simulating 'tea bagging'.
TBS:
Abbreviation of Turn Based Strategy
Teamkill/Friendly kill:
to kill your allies.
Telefrag:
The act of killing someone by teleporting into the same space that the victim is occupying.
Triple:
The act of Killing three enemies with one attack.
Unbalanced:
When a team or game is divided or created with a bias or unfair advantage to certain players.
Waypoint:
A directional path the A.I will make your units travel along. Not to be confused with behavoural pathing. Or to place mark on a map for the player to head to.
Whore:
A player who use?s all the best kit in an unfair and unbalanced manner in order to succeed.
WTB:
Acronym for Want to buy.
WTS:
Acronym for Want to sell.
WTT:
Acronym for Want to trade. Trading raw items for other raw items is actually very unpopular in the MMO genre.
XP:
Experience Points that are earned by accomplishing objectives and completed tasks and quests.
Zerg Rush.
When every enemy comes at you and only you. regardless of team mates.
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Admin:
Administrator of a dedicated server, tasked with keeping the server running and removing cheating, hacking or simply obnoxious players.
Avatar:
The name of the virtual character, car or whatever you control that is sometimes customisable to your desire.
Behavoural Pathing:
Setting the units to move along a path with a designated behavour attached to the movement, such as Patrol (loops the path) & aggressive (attacks any nearby hostile enemies.
Boss:
a crecendo creature, monster or opponent within an environment that the players must beat in order to progress through the content or finish it. An environment may include a single boss, or several bosses the players must defeat in linar or non-linar progression.
Broken:
A part of a game that can be exploited by a player to eliminate any form of challenge for the said player.
Bots/NPCs :
in game characters controlled by AI
Build Order:
The sequences of structures commonly agreed as being the best to obtain a specific mid/late game play style within an R.T.S
Camper:
The act of hiding in an action game and waiting for other players to come round the corner, often a camper will plant traps around him/her self and not move.
Cherry Tapping:
Using a very weak or inefficient process to accomplish a goal as part of a self-imposed challenge.
Clan:
A group of players (friends or not) who play together as a loyal team in competitive matches.
Commando:
Derived from Call of Duty, The act of playing the game with excessive use of the knife or melee attack in action games.
Dedicated Server :
a host (often owned by the development team) that others connect to play a game.
Defender:
When a player is hiding or in wait for enemies to attempt to complete his/her objective and defeating them as they approach. Not to be confused with camping
Dropshot:
The act of simultaneously going to a prone position and firing your weapon, in order to make oneself more difficult to hit.
Eco:
The collective name for all resources. Commonly used in R.T.S, but also referring to Civ games or other games with a collectable resource.
Fail:
The act of losing or dying in a game with embarrassing results, I.E blowing yourself up with a frag grenade.
Fanboy:
A male or female who recklessly and with some degree of bias defends one thing only, I.E a console fanboy.
Frag:
Term meaning a kill against an enemy...Slang for a fragmentation grenade and Slang for killing your superior.
FPS:
Abbreviation of the First Person Shooter Genre.
GG:
Abbreviation for "Good Game," a polite phrase often said at the end of a match an online match.
Ghosting:
The act of playing a multiplayer game, and being in communication with someone who has been eliminated, in order to gain unfair information regarding the level without Fog of War, hence, other players units.
Gibbed:
The act of blowing up someone?s avatar into a bloody mess of body parts.
Grinding:
The act of repeatedly performing an action to achieve something, most commonly levels or achievements.
Goomba Stomping :
Killing an enemy by jumping on their head
Gay/homo/******:
An insult an insecure player will call other players for being either better or worse than them.
Hacker/Cheater:
a person exploiting a feature/glitch in the game to his benefit.
Keeno:
Derived from the term Keen meaning like, when someone is addicted to playing one game only.
KDR:
Kill to death ratio, the mathematical equation used to judge ones skill in an action game, I.E one kill and one death is a KDR of 1.00%
Killsteal :
to kill someone at the last moment who was being killed by another.
Killstreak:
When a player achieves three or more kills in a row without death or defeat.
Lag :
When ones internet connection in an online match and the said player experience?s slowdown and glitches.
Minimap:
A small representation of the broad gaming environment. Can be held on the user interface or accessed via hotkeys.
Matchmaking:
The act of queuing for ranked games and being placed against an opponent of equal comparative skill to oneself.
Nerf:
when the developers/moderators weaken a given characteristic which was once powerful, in order to achieve balance.
Noob:
Derived from the term newbie meaning beginner, When a person is considered to play the game badly and denies it.
Noob tuber:
The act of excessively using the 40mm grenade launcher on a gun in an action game in order to succeed.
Owned:
Defeating other player/players without a doubt or with unquestionable skill.
Peer to Peer Gaming:
The opposite of dedicated servers. One player hosts a game and others join.
Rage quit:
When a player stops playing in order to escape the humiliation of defeat.
Rape:
The act of defeating other players with unquestionable skill, not to be confused with rape meaning forcing sex upon another without consent.
RTS:
Abviviation of the Real time Strategy Genre
Mana:
A points bar often used to represent Magic.
MMO:
Abbreviation of Massively Multiplayer Online
Montage :
a video edited to music of multiple clips deemed as skillful.
Ninja/ Ninja?ed :
a person stealing a valuable item under the nose of his team mate.
No-Scope:
The act of killing someone using a sniper rifle without using the scope
Pro :
professional, a gamer with enough experience and skill to know what to do and how to do it right.
Pwn:
to obliterate an enemy beyond any reasonable degree.
PvE:
Player verses environment, where players will typically have to change setting in order to be attacked at anytime. Emphasis is on dungeons, raids or end game content exploration.
PvP :
Abbreviation of player versus player, fighting a human opponent as opposed to fighting Bots.
Quad:
The term often shouted after killing four enemies with one attack.
Ranker:
Someone who thinks his rank makes him better than everyone around him.
Re-spawn:
The term used to say re-entering a game after a defeat.
RPG:
Abbreviation of the Role Playing Game Genre.
Slagger:
someone who insults his or her own team mates and opposition members
Sniper :
A player who is using a sniper rifle and taking shots at any distance while hiding, not to be confused with camping.
Spammer:
When a player excessively uses a powerful tool in order to succeed I.E, a grenade spammer.
Spawn:
The term used to mean entering a game or starting a life.
Spawn Camping:
A variation of a camper who exclusively targets the spawn points of his opponents, aiming to kill them as they re-enter the game.
Spanwkill/spawnrape:
The act of spawncamping.
Squeeker:
The term used to describe a child/adult with a high pitched voice that often irritates other players.
Teabagging:
An insult used against a defeated player, in which the victor player crouches up and down on the corpse of his fallen rival, simulating 'tea bagging'.
TBS:
Abbreviation of Turn Based Strategy
Teamkill/Friendly kill:
to kill your allies.
Telefrag:
The act of killing someone by teleporting into the same space that the victim is occupying.
Triple:
The act of Killing three enemies with one attack.
Unbalanced:
When a team or game is divided or created with a bias or unfair advantage to certain players.
Waypoint:
A directional path the A.I will make your units travel along. Not to be confused with behavoural pathing. Or to place mark on a map for the player to head to.
Whore:
A player who use?s all the best kit in an unfair and unbalanced manner in order to succeed.
WTB:
Acronym for Want to buy.
WTS:
Acronym for Want to sell.
WTT:
Acronym for Want to trade. Trading raw items for other raw items is actually very unpopular in the MMO genre.
XP:
Experience Points that are earned by accomplishing objectives and completed tasks and quests.
Zerg Rush.
When every enemy comes at you and only you. regardless of team mates.
