Armagetron Terminology

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Post by BlackWolf »

yjgRD - you're just great Raoul Duke??

or maybe that should be.... FIGJAM :lol:
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amazingly close.

in fact, screw it, you're right.

i withdraw.
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lmao.. somehow "FIGJAM" suits ya better :lol:
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Post by Starbuck »

no new terms in 2 years?

here's one:


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hmm...ganker! stealer! kideater!
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Post by ender »

ganker hahahahahahah that gets my vote for the lamest term ever used in a.a.
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Post by epsy »

vulturer!

that stuff truly annoys me too, since ganking(crow'ding a zone) is just the goal of a fortress game, and vulturing(getting points) the goal of ... well, any arma game :|
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Nightingale wrote:stfumf=You should know this
I'm pretty sure stfumfYou should know this
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i do too
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Post by 2020 »

i didn't even know this thread existed...
came up with loads...

cut -- rapid entry to a zone despite a tight defence, as in "nice cut"

pipetail entry -- when defence is spiralling, offence has to fit between the impossibly tight gap between goalie and his wall risking a potentially lethal and normally easy shimmy from the goalie

zing -- as in amazing, but this didn't float

which reminds me of:

plop -- for some reason, i heard a few players come up with this

and i personally like:

tube -- as in "catching a tube", when you grind between two walls... reminiscent of catching a tube in surfing...

i think i used some terminology like this on various vids i produced, but i don't think they had enough stickiness for these memes to propagate...
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(base)camper - a person that makes respawn fanatics (like me :P) angry while it drives around the respawnzone to block the respawns. you will never think it's fair for as long as you are dead :)
runner - a player that does all not to be killed and doesn't care how many people's time he wastes by being a coward
flagwhore - a human being that forgets the players around him and steals the flag also in single player mode because he thinks it makes him gain points
laxist - a guy who cries "lag" almost everytime he gets killed
spawnkiller - someone who doesn't stop to respawn people (or waits for their respawns) and kills them directly afterwards
teamkiller/TKER/tkiller/tkl - a danger for his teammates
kickfreak - everyone who starts 4 polls against more than 3 different players in less than 10 minutes
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Rec - record time, referred to in racing.
Example: I lost all my recs! (which happens to me a lot :D )

Cut: short for shortcut in a race amp
Example: I missed the cut! (which happens to me, well you guessed it, a lot! :D
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run - making a run in fortress or sumo. Means following your tail in a specific path, but not as defense. Sweepers and attackers do it a lot.
capped - sealing a tunnel with turns rather than rubber
building a better fortress - training one's defense
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Word: Thank you for defining those, now I know what they mean!
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