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Longratis Villore Sec Ops Gallente Federation 2	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:13:00 - [1] - Quote I'm very new to gaming...well, new to anything that dates past some very old consoles which I won't mention to age myself. Bottom line, I see a lot of terms being used on the forum and find myself wondering just what in the beep are they talking about? I really don't want to ask this every time I read one, because posting this once is embarrassment enough that I don't know these things. Any chance of posting a perm remark with the definition of common Dust and/or gaming terms (or acronyms) used on this forum? I'm asking mostly for the terms specific to Dust, but if anyone can add a few general gaming terms a newb like me wouldn't understand would also be much appreciated.
GoD-NoVa Imperfects Negative-Feedback 201	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:20:00 - [2] - Quote blue berries- players on your team who don't have a clue on how to play and are usually doing stupid things like shooting a tank with a pistol/assault rifle(AR) TAC-tactical assault rifle LR-laser rifle MD-mass driver FG-forge gun AFK-away from keyboard WP- warpoints SP- skill points
iceyburnz Crux Special Tasks Group Gallente Federation 394	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:21:00 - [3] - Quote Longratis wrote: I'm very new to gaming...well, new to anything that dates past some very old consoles which I won't mention to age myself. Bottom line, I see a lot of terms being used on the forum and find myself wondering just what in the beep are they talking about? I really don't want to ask this every time I read one, because posting this once is embarrassment enough that I don't know these things. Any chance of posting a perm remark with the definition of common Dust and/or gaming terms (or acronyms) used on this forum? I'm asking mostly for the terms specific to Dust, but if anyone can add a few general gaming terms a newb like me wouldn't understand would also be much appreciated. Which ones in particular.. there are loads. I'll get you started = Blueberry; a random public player. Often used unkindly to describe players who use selfish or ineffectual playstyles. CA= Caldari GA= Gallente AM= Amarr MI = Minmatar (could be wrong on that one). Oh and in refernce to God-Nova above prefixing M to any of the weapon abbeviations means its a militia weapon MAR, MMD, MFG.
XANDER KAG Crimson Wings Brigade 44	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:23:00 - [4] - Quote Longratis wrote: I'm very new to gaming...well, new to anything that dates past some very old consoles which I won't mention to age myself. Bottom line, I see a lot of terms being used on the forum and find myself wondering just what in the beep are they talking about? I really don't want to ask this every time I read one, because posting this once is embarrassment enough that I don't know these things. Any chance of posting a perm remark with the definition of common Dust and/or gaming terms (or acronyms) used on this forum? I'm asking mostly for the terms specific to Dust, but if anyone can add a few general gaming terms a newb like me wouldn't understand would also be much appreciated. Could you maybe come up with a couple you don't know? Or maybe some you do? I mean there are a LOT of terms out there for shooters alone. Here are some random ones anyway: Nerf: Weaken the stats of a weapon Buff: Increase the stats of a weapon blueberry: new player on your team who sucks bluedot: a player on your team who has some knowledge on how to play (redberry/dot versions have pretty much the same definitions) etc. etc.
Tiluvo Digital Mercs 40	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:26:00 - [5] - Quote Logi/logibro - A term of endearment describing those helpful chaps with all the pouches full of dope needles, nanohives, and repair tools. Nanite injector/dope needle - Equipment that revives fallen clones. Nanohives - Give out ammo. Repair tool - Self-explanatory.
Beyobi Soldiers Of One Network Orion Empire 83	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:29:00 - [6] - Quote TLDR - Too Long, Didn't Read SMH - Shaking my head OP - Original Poster OP - Over Powered OPP- Just be down with it OS - Orbital Strike OB - Orbital Bombardment LFS - Looking for Squad RF# - Room for # in Squad
bunnywink Improvise. 68	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:29:00 - [7] - Quote LAV light armoured vehicle. HAV heavy armoured vehicle. RDV rapid deployment vehicle (ie. the poorly piloted things that bring in your LAV/HAV/dropship).
gbghg L.O.T.I.S. Legacy Rising 773	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:30:00 - [8] - Quote Tiluvo wrote: Logi/logibro - A term of endearment describing those helpful chaps with all the pouches full of dope needles, nanohives, and repair tools. Nanite injector/dope needle - Equipment that revives fallen clones. Nanohives - Give out ammo. Repair tool - Self-explanatory. repair tools explain themselves who knew? fatties/heavies- people who use the heavy suit HMG- heavy machine gun chubby chaser- logi following a heavy repping him/rezing him/resupplying him rez- revivng someone rep- repairing someone
hershman001 Creepers Corp. Creepers Alliance 39	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:33:00 - [9] - Quote If you are very new to modern gaming, especially fps I suggest you look elsewhere. There are plenty of other good fps games that are also free, and Dust 514 in my opinion does not qualify in its current state. Its really not a good example for games
gbghg L.O.T.I.S. Legacy Rising 773	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:38:00 - [10] - Quote hershman001 wrote: If you are very new to modern gaming, especially fps I suggest you look elsewhere. There are plenty of other good fps games that are also free, and Dust 514 in my opinion does not qualify in its current state. Its really not a good example for games shush you, let him play it and experience it for himself. he is right that you should try out other fps's to see what they're like though

cranium79 ZionTCD Legacy Rising 38	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:46:00 - [11] - Quote Beyobi wrote: TLDR - Too Long, Didn't Read SMH - Shaking my head OP - Original Poster OP - Over Powered OPP- Just be down with it OS - Orbital Strike OB - Orbital Bombardment LFS - Looking for Squad RF# - Room for # in Squad you down with OPP? yeah you know me! OPP= other people's kitten (literally). wow, i'm dating myself by knowing that song .
hershman001 Creepers Corp. Creepers Alliance 39	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:48:00 - [12] - Quote gbghg wrote: hershman001 wrote: If you are very new to modern gaming, especially fps I suggest you look elsewhere. There are plenty of other good fps games that are also free, and Dust 514 in my opinion does not qualify in its current state. Its really not a good example for games shush you, let him play it and experience it for himself. he is right that you should try out other fps's to see what they're like though considering how unplayable dust is, he wont know anything what an actual fps should be like and he will probably just quit
gbghg L.O.T.I.S. Legacy Rising 774	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:52:00 - [13] - Quote hershman001 wrote: gbghg wrote: hershman001 wrote: If you are very new to modern gaming, especially fps I suggest you look elsewhere. There are plenty of other good fps games that are also free, and Dust 514 in my opinion does not qualify in its current state. Its really not a good example for games shush you, let him play it and experience it for himself. he is right that you should try out other fps's to see what they're like though considering how unplayable dust is, he wont know anything what an actual fps should be like and he will probably just quit dust is hardly unplayable, it has it's problems but it's not that bad.
gbghg L.O.T.I.S. Legacy Rising 774	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:53:00 - [14] - Quote stupid double post
Laheon Osmon Surveillance Caldari State 180	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:55:00 - [15] - Quote DUST, in it's open beta stage, has about 450 players online, playing matches, at the moment. 14 games x 32 players each. Can't be too bad for a game which hasn't been released yet.
gbghg L.O.T.I.S. Legacy Rising 774	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:56:00 - [16] - Quote Laheon wrote: DUST, in it's open beta stage, has about 450 players online, playing matches, at the moment. 14 games x 32 players each. Can't be too bad for a game which hasn't been released yet. are you just counting the merc battles? there's always plenty of instant matches going as well so those aren't the most reliable statistic
Laheon Osmon Surveillance Caldari State 180	Posted - 2013.03.22 19:59:00 - [17] - Quote Yeah, just counting merc battles. Probably getting close to 700 including instants.
gbghg L.O.T.I.S. Legacy Rising 774	Posted - 2013.03.22 20:05:00 - [18] - Quote Laheon wrote: Yeah, just counting merc battles. Probably getting close to 700 including instants. hmm but that just guessing, would be nice if ccp released some official figures for what the average player count is at any time
Aqil Aegivan The Southern Legion 82	Posted - 2013.03.22 20:12:00 - [19] - Quote CB = Corp Battle. FW = Faction Warfare. PC = Planetary Conquest. Shield Tanking/Armor Tanking = The primary area you're boosting your EHP (Effective Hit Points) in. It can be misleading as some tanks are better shield tanks because they have better shield tanks and vice-versa. Tanking also applies to dropsuits so a Type-II Caldari assault suit for example has a better shield tank than the Type-I.You can also speed tank (for shotgun scouts mostly) or omni-tank, i.e. boost shield and armor. Flux = Flux Grenade. Prox = Proximity Mine. RE = Remote Explosive. AV = Anti-vehicle. TD = Tank Destroyer. AI = Can mean either Artificial Intelligence or Anti-Infantry. DT = Downtime. Between 11:00 and 11:30 hours GMT daily the servers are offline. ISK = Inter Stellar Kredit. In game money. MCC = Mobile Command Center. The big ships in skirmish matches that people spawn in. CRU= Clone Reanimation Unit. It's the hackable spawn point that doesn't display a huge glowing letter at all times. And there are probably others that aren't used as much. I think I've seen MQ for Merc's Quaters and DU for drop uplink but they're not very common.
hershman001 Creepers Corp. Creepers Alliance 39	Posted - 2013.03.22 20:14:00 - [20] - Quote gbghg wrote: hershman001 wrote: gbghg wrote: hershman001 wrote: If you are very new to modern gaming, especially fps I suggest you look elsewhere. There are plenty of other good fps games that are also free, and Dust 514 in my opinion does not qualify in its current state. Its really not a good example for games shush you, let him play it and experience it for himself. he is right that you should try out other fps's to see what they're like though considering how unplayable dust is, he wont know anything what an actual fps should be like and he will probably just quit dust is hardly unplayable, it has it's problems but it's not that bad. It has the potential to be playable, however as it is right now, no. By todays standards for games its unplayable. Mostly because the controls are so bad, but that doesnt mean you cant try to play it. Still even then, dust is 'tolerated' rather than 'played' imo

gbghg L.O.T.I.S. Legacy Rising 775	Posted - 2013.03.22 20:22:00 - [21] - Quote hershman001 wrote: gbghg wrote: hershman001 wrote: gbghg wrote: hershman001 wrote: If you are very new to modern gaming, especially fps I suggest you look elsewhere. There are plenty of other good fps games that are also free, and Dust 514 in my opinion does not qualify in its current state. Its really not a good example for games shush you, let him play it and experience it for himself. he is right that you should try out other fps's to see what they're like though considering how unplayable dust is, he wont know anything what an actual fps should be like and he will probably just quit dust is hardly unplayable, it has it's problems but it's not that bad. It has the potential to be playable, however as it is right now, no. By todays standards for games its unplayable. Mostly because the controls are so bad, but that doesnt mean you cant try to play it. Still even then, dust is 'tolerated' rather than 'played' imo I have no choicd but to use the overplayed card here- it's a beta. There's still plenty of kinks to be worked out and you just need to find something fun to do in dust, for me it's flying and running people over in an LAV. but back to the original topic EHP- effective health points (how much hp you have when you combine base hp values of shields and armour and any bonus's from plates,hardeners, resistance amps,energized plating etc)
Laheon Osmon Surveillance Caldari State 180	Posted - 2013.03.22 20:25:00 - [22] - Quote hershman001 wrote: It has the potential to be playable, however as it is right now, no. By todays standards for games its unplayable. Mostly because the controls are so bad, but that doesnt mean you cant try to play it. Still even then, dust is 'tolerated' rather than 'played' imo Unplayable as a proper game, perhaps, but very playable as an open beta.
hershman001 Creepers Corp. Creepers Alliance 39	Posted - 2013.03.22 20:26:00 - [23] - Quote As I said before it has potential to be playable. But if you make excuses like 'it's a beta' then you agree its unplayable. Its a beta so we tolerate it.
hershman001 Creepers Corp. Creepers Alliance 39	Posted - 2013.03.22 20:29:00 - [24] - Quote If the current build was final, there was nothing else planned, the controls remain as is... How many players would be online for this free to play game? Zero. Unplayable.
Laheon Osmon Surveillance Caldari State 181	Posted - 2013.03.22 20:29:00 - [25] - Quote Here's another term that's been missed, but is bandied around a lot. Redline - generally there's an "out of bounds" area. For team A, it includes their initial spawning area (skirmish only) but not team B's spawn area. Redline snipers snipe from this out of bounds area, meaning most things can't get to them.
Chris F2112 Killshot Corp 10	Posted - 2013.03.22 20:30:00 - [26] - Quote This is a really good thread! Trying to read these forums is sometimes like trying to read another language with all the abbreviations and acronyms. http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/internetglossary/a/glossary-of-internet-jargon-and-abbreviations.htm This seems like a pretty extensive list, just keep in mind not all of these are used. The ones other posters have mentioned are the most important. The two I seem most often here are: OP: can mean either overpowered or original poster depending on context TLDR: too long, didn't read You'll pick up the rest as you go and play the game. See you on the battlefield!
Longratis Villore Sec Ops Gallente Federation 2	Posted - 2013.03.22 20:30:00 - [27] - Quote hershman001 wrote: gbghg wrote: hershman001 wrote: gbghg wrote: hershman001 wrote: If you are very new to modern gaming, especially fps I suggest you look elsewhere. There are plenty of other good fps games that are also free, and Dust 514 in my opinion does not qualify in its current state. Its really not a good example for games shush you, let him play it and experience it for himself. he is right that you should try out other fps's to see what they're like though considering how unplayable dust is, he wont know anything what an actual fps should be like and he will probably just quit dust is hardly unplayable, it has it's problems but it's not that bad. It has the potential to be playable, however as it is right now, no. By todays standards for games its unplayable. Mostly because the controls are so bad, but that doesnt mean you cant try to play it. Still even then, dust is 'tolerated' rather than 'played' imo I'll definitely check out others, thanks for then suggestion...but doubt I'll just quit Dust. I like the concept of it, so I'm fine with being patient while they work on the bugs. As far as which terms, I think most I have seen are listed in this thread, so thanks for adding them. It helps a lot.
Laheon Osmon Surveillance Caldari State 181	Posted - 2013.03.22 20:31:00 - [28] - Quote hershman001 wrote: If the current build was final, there was nothing else planned, the controls remain as is... How many players would be online for this free to play game? Zero. Unplayable. I would be. I'm enjoying the game in its current state, and I'm very much looking forward to what's coming. That said, I wouldn't play it for too long. Games like DUST in its current state (no metagame) get me very bored, very quickly. Give me a game where my actions actually mean something, and I'll play.
Altina McAlterson TRUE TEA BAGGERS 404	Posted - 2013.03.22 20:31:00 - [29] - Quote SMG - Submachine Gun ADS - Aiming Down Sights DPS - Damage per Second ROF - Rate of Fire SHTCRUOIWMYSHYNFCWCSOOS - Stop Hacking That CRU Or I Will Murder You So Hard Your Next Five Clones Will Commit Suicide Out Of Shame Just a few that popped in to my head.
gbghg L.O.T.I.S. Legacy Rising 777	Posted - 2013.03.22 20:39:00 - [30] - Quote Longratis wrote: I'll definitely check out others, thanks for then suggestion...but doubt I'll just quit Dust. I like the concept of it, so I'm fine with being patient while they work on the bugs. As far as which terms, I think most I have seen are listed in this thread, so thanks for adding them. It helps a lot. if your missing a couple, post them and we'll answer



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