Acronyms And Abbreviations
Niteowl
Join Date: 2002-09-04 Member: 1274Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
<div class="IPBDescription">so you know what your team is typing</div> Thanx for the all the input, i'll edit this post and add more as appropriate. great jokes, btw guys. but only adding the informational ones <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
This is to help out all you newbies when comm or gorge or whoever is yelling a series of acronyms at you and you have NO idea what they are talking about.
Decided not to add the confusion of different map room names, that could make this list even MORE monstrous than it is.
<span style='color:orange'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>MARINES</span></span>
<span style='color:orange'>AA</span> Advanced armoury. Needed to get HMGs + GLs, as well as build a protolab. (SuddenFear)
<span style='color:orange'>AL</span> arms lab
<span style='color:orange'>CC</span> command chair (if you are playing eclipse, sometimes ppl use this to refer to COMPUTER CORE hive)
<span style='color:orange'>COM\COMM</span> commander (SoulSkorpion) (Hypergrip)
<span style='color:orange'>farm</span> turret farm see tfarm
<span style='color:orange'>GL SPAM</span> for 2.0 servers this is the exploit that means constant grenades.(Necrosis)
<span style='color:orange'>GL</span> grenade launcher
<span style='color:orange'>HA</span> Heavy Armored Marine (Fieari), or the Heavy Armour itself ("Comm i need HA/HMG stat!")
<span style='color:orange'>heavy/heavies</span> referring to rines outfitted with HA
<span style='color:orange'>HMG</span> heavy machine gun
<span style='color:orange'>IP </span> infantry portal
<span style='color:orange'>JP</span> jetpack
<span style='color:orange'>JPer</span> jetpacker
<span style='color:orange'>LA</span> Light armour.(Necrosis)
<span style='color:orange'>LMG</span> light machine gun (default gun)
<span style='color:orange'>meds, mp, med</span> med pack(killswitch1968)
<span style='color:orange'>MS</span> - Marine Spawn(Okabore)
<span style='color:orange'>MT</span> motion tracking ("Are we going to get motion tracking comm?"
<span style='color:orange'>obs</span> observatory
<span style='color:orange'>para</span> parasited
<span style='color:orange'>PG</span> phase gate
<span style='color:orange'>ping</span> Use of an obs on something. Used by marines to look for nasties or let siege shoot things - if you are alien it generally means incoming to wherever was pinged.(Necrosis)
<span style='color:orange'>proto</span> prototype lab
<span style='color:orange'>rines</span> marines, humans
<span style='color:orange'>shottie/sg</span> shotgun (obvious, i know)
<span style='color:orange'>tfac/tf</span> turret factory
<span style='color:orange'>tfarm</span> turret farm, a tfac with LOTS of turrets, say 5+ or so.
<span style='color:orange'>train</span> Heavy Train, a group of HA/hmg/gl/sg
<span style='color:orange'>turrs/t's/t</span> turrets
<span style='color:orange'>wp</span> waypoint
<span style='color:orange'>"here"</span> the single most overused as well as USELESS word for a grunt to tell the comm
<span style='color:orange'>"humping the armory"</span> loading up on full ammo (wastes time, you usually die before using it all, etc)
<span style='color:orange'>*guy in HA jumping up and down/blinking flashlight on and off*</span> WELD ME QUICK!!!(Typhon)
<span style='color:orange'>*guy with welder out, welding the air, coming towards you*</span> WELD MEEE!
<span style='color:yellow'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>KHARAA</span></span>
<span style='color:yellow'>BB</span> Bile bomb. Dig the F4ing marines. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> (SuddenFear)
<span style='color:yellow'>cara</span> carapace(Okabore)
<span style='color:yellow'>DT/DC </span> defense chambers/towers
<span style='color:yellow'>hoarder</span> generally in reference to keeping all your res in order to go Onos.(Necrosis)
<span style='color:yellow'>movement</span> movement towers. Common use: "Gorge get more movement"(Okabore)
<span style='color:yellow'>MT/MC</span> movement chambers/towers
<span style='color:yellow'>mvmt</span> movement towers
<span style='color:yellow'>OT/OC</span> offensive chambers/towers
<span style='color:yellow'>regen</span> regeneration(Okabore)
<span style='color:yellow'>RP</span> resource points ("gorge, how many RP left until 2nd hive?")
<span style='color:yellow'>sens/ST/SC/</span> sensory chambers/towers
<span style='color:yellow'>ungorge</span> evolve to something else BESIDES gorge, please (a bit outdated, articfact from 1.04)
<span style='color:yellow'>wall or lame</span> WoL
<span style='color:yellow'>WoL</span> Wall of Lame. A wall of OCs and DCs designed to block the enemy from getting past.(SoulSkorpion)
<span style='color:yellow'>*alien biting you while you are gorge*</span> HEAL ME!!!
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>GENERAL Natural Selection Terms</span></span>
<span style='color:red'>exploiters</span> People who use bugs in the mod to their advantage(Okabore)
<span style='color:red'>Rambo</span> To go off on one's own and try to take on aliens by themselves cuz they were a n00b (Untitled)
<span style='color:red'>res</span> abbrev. for resources.(SoulSkorpion)
<span style='color:red'>RFK</span> resources for kills.(Necrosis)
<span style='color:red'>RR</span> ready room
<span style='color:red'>RT/RN</span> resource tower/node (usually used interchangeble, where you "cap an RN with an RT", sometimes ppl say "hey, free RT in elevator access!")
<span style='color:red'>spawn</span> generally refers to the initial starting location, not just the place where you respawn. this is therefore the marine start, or the initial hive(SoulSkorpion)
<span style='color:green'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>GENERAL GAMING TERMS</span></span>
<span style='color:green'>AFAIK</span> as far as i know
<span style='color:green'>AFK</span> either away from keyboard or...A free kill (Untitled)
<span style='color:green'>BL</span> bad luck(SoulSkorpion)
<span style='color:green'>BRT</span> be right there
<span style='color:green'>FFS</span> for farks (the polite term) sake
<span style='color:green'>GG</span> good game
<span style='color:green'>GH</span> good half (in a scrim, 2 halves make a match)
<span style='color:green'>GL</span> good luck (Nomble)
<span style='color:green'>GT</span> good try
<span style='color:green'>GK</span> good kill (Necrosis)
<span style='color:green'>GJ</span> good job (Coyote399)
<span style='color:green'>GT</span> good try
<span style='color:green'>HF</span> have fun (Nomble)
<span style='color:green'>Llamer</span> One whose sole purpose is to ruin the game (i.e waste all res on medpacks and recycles everything) (Untitled)
<span style='color:green'>n1</span> nice one, referring to any action done that was impressive, say, Xenoing 5 marines, or shotgunning a fade.
<span style='color:green'>newbie</span> someone new to the game.(SoulSkorpion)
<span style='color:green'>n00b</span> 1 someone new to the game who refuses to learn, doesn't listen or read the manual, doesn't have a clue how to play and either doesn't give a damn or thinks he does know. 2: someone who's not very good at the game.(SoulSkorpion)
<span style='color:green'>NS</span> nice shot
<span style='color:green'>NT</span> nice try
<span style='color:green'>OMW</span> on my way, player1:'i need help attacking the CC!!'; player2: 'omw!'
<span style='color:green'>PCW</span> practice clan war , european expression for scrim
<span style='color:green'>rawr</span> uhm, just an expression. denotes playful malice, AFAIK
<span style='color:green'>WD</span> well done (SoulSkorpion)
feel free to add some more or correct me where i'm wonky.
Oh, and you ppl who have already submitted and have your entry edited into this first post, could you delete your post(or remove all the text)? that'd make this thread easier
to comb through.
This is to help out all you newbies when comm or gorge or whoever is yelling a series of acronyms at you and you have NO idea what they are talking about.
Decided not to add the confusion of different map room names, that could make this list even MORE monstrous than it is.
<span style='color:orange'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>MARINES</span></span>
<span style='color:orange'>AA</span> Advanced armoury. Needed to get HMGs + GLs, as well as build a protolab. (SuddenFear)
<span style='color:orange'>AL</span> arms lab
<span style='color:orange'>CC</span> command chair (if you are playing eclipse, sometimes ppl use this to refer to COMPUTER CORE hive)
<span style='color:orange'>COM\COMM</span> commander (SoulSkorpion) (Hypergrip)
<span style='color:orange'>farm</span> turret farm see tfarm
<span style='color:orange'>GL SPAM</span> for 2.0 servers this is the exploit that means constant grenades.(Necrosis)
<span style='color:orange'>GL</span> grenade launcher
<span style='color:orange'>HA</span> Heavy Armored Marine (Fieari), or the Heavy Armour itself ("Comm i need HA/HMG stat!")
<span style='color:orange'>heavy/heavies</span> referring to rines outfitted with HA
<span style='color:orange'>HMG</span> heavy machine gun
<span style='color:orange'>IP </span> infantry portal
<span style='color:orange'>JP</span> jetpack
<span style='color:orange'>JPer</span> jetpacker
<span style='color:orange'>LA</span> Light armour.(Necrosis)
<span style='color:orange'>LMG</span> light machine gun (default gun)
<span style='color:orange'>meds, mp, med</span> med pack(killswitch1968)
<span style='color:orange'>MS</span> - Marine Spawn(Okabore)
<span style='color:orange'>MT</span> motion tracking ("Are we going to get motion tracking comm?"
<span style='color:orange'>obs</span> observatory
<span style='color:orange'>para</span> parasited
<span style='color:orange'>PG</span> phase gate
<span style='color:orange'>ping</span> Use of an obs on something. Used by marines to look for nasties or let siege shoot things - if you are alien it generally means incoming to wherever was pinged.(Necrosis)
<span style='color:orange'>proto</span> prototype lab
<span style='color:orange'>rines</span> marines, humans
<span style='color:orange'>shottie/sg</span> shotgun (obvious, i know)
<span style='color:orange'>tfac/tf</span> turret factory
<span style='color:orange'>tfarm</span> turret farm, a tfac with LOTS of turrets, say 5+ or so.
<span style='color:orange'>train</span> Heavy Train, a group of HA/hmg/gl/sg
<span style='color:orange'>turrs/t's/t</span> turrets
<span style='color:orange'>wp</span> waypoint
<span style='color:orange'>"here"</span> the single most overused as well as USELESS word for a grunt to tell the comm
<span style='color:orange'>"humping the armory"</span> loading up on full ammo (wastes time, you usually die before using it all, etc)
<span style='color:orange'>*guy in HA jumping up and down/blinking flashlight on and off*</span> WELD ME QUICK!!!(Typhon)
<span style='color:orange'>*guy with welder out, welding the air, coming towards you*</span> WELD MEEE!
<span style='color:yellow'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>KHARAA</span></span>
<span style='color:yellow'>BB</span> Bile bomb. Dig the F4ing marines. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> (SuddenFear)
<span style='color:yellow'>cara</span> carapace(Okabore)
<span style='color:yellow'>DT/DC </span> defense chambers/towers
<span style='color:yellow'>hoarder</span> generally in reference to keeping all your res in order to go Onos.(Necrosis)
<span style='color:yellow'>movement</span> movement towers. Common use: "Gorge get more movement"(Okabore)
<span style='color:yellow'>MT/MC</span> movement chambers/towers
<span style='color:yellow'>mvmt</span> movement towers
<span style='color:yellow'>OT/OC</span> offensive chambers/towers
<span style='color:yellow'>regen</span> regeneration(Okabore)
<span style='color:yellow'>RP</span> resource points ("gorge, how many RP left until 2nd hive?")
<span style='color:yellow'>sens/ST/SC/</span> sensory chambers/towers
<span style='color:yellow'>ungorge</span> evolve to something else BESIDES gorge, please (a bit outdated, articfact from 1.04)
<span style='color:yellow'>wall or lame</span> WoL
<span style='color:yellow'>WoL</span> Wall of Lame. A wall of OCs and DCs designed to block the enemy from getting past.(SoulSkorpion)
<span style='color:yellow'>*alien biting you while you are gorge*</span> HEAL ME!!!
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>GENERAL Natural Selection Terms</span></span>
<span style='color:red'>exploiters</span> People who use bugs in the mod to their advantage(Okabore)
<span style='color:red'>Rambo</span> To go off on one's own and try to take on aliens by themselves cuz they were a n00b (Untitled)
<span style='color:red'>res</span> abbrev. for resources.(SoulSkorpion)
<span style='color:red'>RFK</span> resources for kills.(Necrosis)
<span style='color:red'>RR</span> ready room
<span style='color:red'>RT/RN</span> resource tower/node (usually used interchangeble, where you "cap an RN with an RT", sometimes ppl say "hey, free RT in elevator access!")
<span style='color:red'>spawn</span> generally refers to the initial starting location, not just the place where you respawn. this is therefore the marine start, or the initial hive(SoulSkorpion)
<span style='color:green'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>GENERAL GAMING TERMS</span></span>
<span style='color:green'>AFAIK</span> as far as i know
<span style='color:green'>AFK</span> either away from keyboard or...A free kill (Untitled)
<span style='color:green'>BL</span> bad luck(SoulSkorpion)
<span style='color:green'>BRT</span> be right there
<span style='color:green'>FFS</span> for farks (the polite term) sake
<span style='color:green'>GG</span> good game
<span style='color:green'>GH</span> good half (in a scrim, 2 halves make a match)
<span style='color:green'>GL</span> good luck (Nomble)
<span style='color:green'>GT</span> good try
<span style='color:green'>GK</span> good kill (Necrosis)
<span style='color:green'>GJ</span> good job (Coyote399)
<span style='color:green'>GT</span> good try
<span style='color:green'>HF</span> have fun (Nomble)
<span style='color:green'>Llamer</span> One whose sole purpose is to ruin the game (i.e waste all res on medpacks and recycles everything) (Untitled)
<span style='color:green'>n1</span> nice one, referring to any action done that was impressive, say, Xenoing 5 marines, or shotgunning a fade.
<span style='color:green'>newbie</span> someone new to the game.(SoulSkorpion)
<span style='color:green'>n00b</span> 1 someone new to the game who refuses to learn, doesn't listen or read the manual, doesn't have a clue how to play and either doesn't give a damn or thinks he does know. 2: someone who's not very good at the game.(SoulSkorpion)
<span style='color:green'>NS</span> nice shot
<span style='color:green'>NT</span> nice try
<span style='color:green'>OMW</span> on my way, player1:'i need help attacking the CC!!'; player2: 'omw!'
<span style='color:green'>PCW</span> practice clan war , european expression for scrim
<span style='color:green'>rawr</span> uhm, just an expression. denotes playful malice, AFAIK
<span style='color:green'>WD</span> well done (SoulSkorpion)
feel free to add some more or correct me where i'm wonky.
Oh, and you ppl who have already submitted and have your entry edited into this first post, could you delete your post(or remove all the text)? that'd make this thread easier
to comb through.
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<span style='color:red'>u suk</span> I'm a whiny **** who needs a beating.
cheater: I suck compared to him
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these are my personal ones:
Robocops: HA+HMGs (Heavy Armor + Heavy Machine Gun)
Tanks: GL+HAs (Grenade Launcher + Heavy Armor)
Well I havent really made any for Jetpacks, I just call them jets no matter their weapon <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
these are the rest:
Vanilla: No HA/JP lmger
Fatty: gorge
wol: Wall of Lame (too infamous)
hmm I think I summed it up basically...
jetbo: A marine with a jetpack and perhaps HMG/Welder going to a hive.
oh
ping - means to use the observatory to scan something. in order to find cloaked aliens (not used for this purpose much) or to find out if a hive is built or built up.
<span style='color:red'>inc </span> - incoming, as in "inc to base", "inc to eclipse" used when enemy troops are making their way to X.
though most call them turrets, or maybe turrents <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->, but I call them SGs, carry over from TFC I suppose.
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aahhh. dustbowl, how i loved thee!!
Pwned = Owned, just a little adaptation that makes us all so 1337
1337 = Elite, or Computer/Internet Jargon for the super internet savvy peeps.
though most call them turrets, or maybe turrents <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->, but I call them SGs, carry over from TFC I suppose. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Can I suggest we dont use SG = Sentry Gun, I haven't seen it used but the servers I play use SC a lot. SC or sc = Seige Cannon.
As SC and SG can look similar I suggest we (as in anyone whe reads this thread) use T for turret and SC for Seige Cannon.
As in:-
"need T" = "Commander, I/we would be most grateful if could you see your way clear to spending a few resources on some extra turrets to guard this location."
or
"SC here" = "Commander, I believe that placing a Seige Cannon in this area is a tactically wise move."
If the Commander drops the wrong one you waste 20 res. That can cost you the game. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
"com u suxx" = I was whining about an HMG but the com did not give it to me"
(btw: did anyone mention "com(m)" = commander before ? *g*)
"wallhack !!!" = A marine just shot me down from the ceiling, although I was hanging in a dark corner. I don't know what Motion Tracking is, because there's no such thing in CS"
"dbl res" = 'double resource' -> and area with two resource nodes close to each other (for example "atmospheric processing" in ns_bast or "holoroom" in ns_hera").
gj=good job
bl: bad luck
wd:well done
com\comm: commander
WoL: Wall of Lame. A wall of OCs and DCs designed to block the enemy from getting past.
spawn: generally refers to the initial starting location, not just the place where you respawn. this is therefore the marine start, or the initial hive
main: either Maintenence hive (see below) or synonymous with "spawn"
res: abbrev. for resources.
temp. gorging: going gorge only briefly (temporarily), usually to drop a res tower.
Map locations:
CC\Compcore: Computer Core hive, on ns_eclipse
eclipse: Eclipse Command on ns_eclipse (the whole facility is called Eclipse, but it is commonly used to refer to the hive)
reception\Hera: Hera Entrance and Reception on ns_hera (as with "eclipse", the whole base is called Hera.)
main\maint: Maintenence hive, on ns_eclipse
Red Room (sometimes rr): the small room accessible by vents near Great Viaduct, on ns_nothing. So called because of the red vent-lighting. This location can only be accessed by Lerks, Skulks or Jetpacks. It is within siege range of Viaduct hive, so it's of incredible tactical importance (whoever controls redroom controls viaduct, basically).
via: Great Viaduct hive on ns_nothing
gen: Generator hive on ns_caged
psilo: Power Silo hive on ns_caged
cargo: Cargo Bay hive on ns_caged
vent: often used to refer to Ventilation hive on ns_caged. Depends on the context, eg "I need a gorge at vent" means ventilation hive, but "watch the vent" means ventilation duct.
processing: a spot just outside Data Core hive on ns_hera which is within siege range of both Data Core and Ventilation hives.
port: Port Engine Hive on ns_nancy
noname: The unnamed hive on ns_nancy
By the way, the term "SG" to refer to "Sentry Gun" comes from Team Fortress Classic. I don't call turrets SGs becuse SGs make mincemeat out of anything that crosses their line of fire, unlike NS turrets. Oh, and if anyone's curious I wrote a <a href='http://www.planetfortress.com/misanthropy/glossary.asp' target='_blank'>guide to TFC slang</a> a long time ago under an old name (and what a crappy name it was, too <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->) which has lots of terms common to all HL mods.
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heheheh.
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yes, when talking to buds. as in are you going to play ns tonight?
but like most language, it's context sensitive. i get whacked as alerk in mid air with a pistol, i say "ns", when i spawn in, or just as i die.
MS - Marine Spawn
atmo - Atmospheric Proscessing on the map ns_bast. Got a double res
feed - Feedwater on ns_bast
Kharaa terms
cara - carapace
regen - renegeration
movement - movement towers. Common use: "Gorge get more movement"
General
Exploiters - People who use bugs in the mod to their advantage
Might be an idéa to webb this thread and update the first post with all the sensible non agressive terms ie not "nub", "u suk", "wtf" and "exploiters" <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
HAHA, yup, this is a good one to put in, lol.
heh heh you said wonky
meatpopsicle - what i call grunts after i run across them armoury humping and make them a quick snack
hf = have fun
gl = goodluck
People usally say gl hf in the beginning of the round of clanmatches
when i am alien, i refer to JPers as:
"WTF!! OMG!!! they got jp in HIVE!!1 needhe lp!!! ned HELP!!!! gogogogogo!"