Gaming Dictionary
AFK - Away From Keyboard, Unavailable for an unknown amount of time
Aggro - An invisible ring around an enemy, when entered alerts the enemy to you and causes an attack
Aliasing - Playing as another character to hide your identity
Alias Clanning - A group of Aliasing players; To create a team of Aliasing players
Autocast - A program that sets an "Automaticly Use" timer on abillities in a game. A form of cheating.
Ban - To not allow a player to continue playing or visiting something for a certain amount of time.
BFG - Big F-ing Gun, Big Friggin' Gun; A Large uber weapon from Doom; A derragatory term for obnoxiously big weapon
Bot - An automated computer program that updates things or searches for pre-programmed spam to delete
BT - A Beta Test, to test a game before release
BTing - The act of Beta Testing
BTer - A Beta Tester
Boot - To angerly remove a player from a game or chat room. Less polite than a Kick.
Camper - A Player who waits in one place for item spawns or player respawns for cheap kills. Inappropriete behavior to all but snipers.
Co'op - A local multiplayer mode involving teamwork, usually twoplayer.
CO-OPette - A derrogatorry name implying that a Co'op gamer is gay with his team-mate
Ch0b0 - A lesser known name for a N00B. May also be spelt Chobo.
CL - Clan Leader. (Church's is Drayco90)
Clan - A team of allied players working together to complete a task
Clanserver - A dedicated chat room or game world for a clan
Clantag - A short series of letters and numbers to identify clan members. (The Church's clantag is COG)
Clanwar - A series of conflicts between 2 opposing clans
Clanwarf - A series of conflicts between 2 allied clans, usually for fun.
Cleanup - Killing an enemy damaged by another player, more positive "Teamy" version of Kill Stealing/Kill Theft
Console - A platform dedicated to gaming (SNES, Playstation, Xbox)
CV - Center View
Death Knight - An overpowered character who becomes more powerfull through death. An explective used by Drayco90 *Son of a Deathkingt!*
Decals - An appliable "Sticker" effect in games, such as bulletholes, footprints, or blood.
Dedicated Server - A permenant server for a PC game that will never close or shutdown.
Demorec - A company-recorded clip of a game for demonstration reasons.
DLC - Downloadable Content
DS - Dual Screen
DSing - The act of creating a Dual Screen Setup
DP - Dual Processor
DPS - Damage-Per-Second
Exile - To permenatly remove a player from a game or website.
FF - Friendly Fire, to Shoot your own teammate
FPS - First-Person Shooter
FPS - Frames Per Second
Frag - Explosive kill, often using grenades; An Explective used by Drayco90 *Frag it!*
FS - Full Screen
Ghost Cam - A camera allowing players to view the game map freely upon death.
Hack - The act of entering a system and reprogramming or repurposing game files to suit your needs. Sometime illegal, almost always cheating.
Hacker - One who hacks.
Hacked - Something that has been hacked by so many people it is beyond usable/playable.
Haksorz - Derragotory term for morons who blame all their deaths on other peoples Hacks, even in fair fights. See also Laggsorz.
Healer - A team member whose main or sole purpose is to heal other players.
HUD - Heads-Up-Display, health bars and radar along with any in game vitals.
Kick - To forcibly remove a player from a chat room or game. Less aggresive than boot.
L/P - Log-in and Password
Lag - A slow down or time stop/skip caused by poor connection.
Laggsorz - Derragatory term for morons who blame every death on lag, even when everyone had perfect connections.
LAN - Local-Area-Network
LAN Party - Gathering of people on a single LAN to play competitive multiplayer PC games
Leet Speek - Talking in acronyms developed for RTS games- LOL, AFK, ZOMG, Ect.
l33t Sp3aK - The Leet Speeker prefered spelling of their language.
Map - Game enviroment.
Mod - A redesign of content or adding new content to a game by someone unofficialy.
Modder - One who creates Mods.
Modded - Something that is Modded.
Mesh - The texture wrapped around a character model.
MMORPG - Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. See World of Warcraft or Everquest.
Multiplayer - Gaming with one or more other people.
Patch - An online update to a piece of software.
Polies - A slang term for Polygons, sometimes spelt Polys.
Port - To recode a game to make it available on other systems
Pubs - Public Servers
RPG - Roleplaying Game
RTS - Realtime Strategy Game
Roger Wilco - Understood
Rush - RTS Style where player barrages opponets with cheap units within 10 minutes of game start. Considered highly insulting and inappropriete.
Skin - Player-Avatar appearance. Costumes.
Spawn - The act of joining or reappearing in a game.
Spawn Point - The location of a spawning player
Spawn Kill - Unfair murder of a player as soon as they spawn.
Strafe - Moving sideways while shooting an enemy.
Sithis - A fictional god in the Elder Scrolls games. Explective used by Drayco90 *Rose of Sithis! For the love of Sithis*
TPS - Third-Person Shooter
ZOMGer - Derrogatory term for someone who speaks in Leet Speek