Abbreviations and Tremulous Lingo

Humans

Weapons

  • Painsaw = Saw, Psaw
  • Shotgun = Shotty
  • Lasgun = Las
  • Chaingun = Chain
  • Pulse Rifle = Pulse, Pulser, Prifle
  • Grenade = Nade
  • Flamethrower = Flamer
  • Lucifer Cannon = Luci
  • Mass Driver = MD

Upgrades

  • Helmet = Helm
  • Jetpack = Jet
  • Human Camping with a Jetpack = Jettard (derogatory)
  • Battery Pack = Battpack, Batt
  • Battlesuit = Bsuit, BS
  • Battlesuit and Chaingun = Chainsuit / CSuit
  • Battlesuit and Pain Saw = PainSuit / PSuit
  • Battlesuit and Lucifer Cannon = Lucisuit

Structures

  • Reactor = Reac, RC
  • Telenode = Spawn, Node, Tele
  • Medistation = Medi, Med
  • Machinegun Turret = Ret, MT
  • Armoury = Arm, Armo
  • Defense Computer = DC
  • Tesla Generator = Tesla

Aliens

Classes

  • Advanced = Adv, +
  • Large group of attacking dretches = dretch swarm, dretch storm
  • Basilisk = Lisk, Basi
  • Marauder = Mara
  • Dragoon = Goon
  • Tyrant = Rant, Tyr

Structures

  • Overmind = OM
  • Acid Tube = Tube
  • Trapper = Trap
  • Booster = Boost

Miscellaneous Terms

  • Not leaving the safety of your base = Camping
  • Camping with a Jetpack = Skycamping, Jettarding
  • Repeatedly giving the other team an easy kill = Feeding
  • Deconstructing a structure (both teams) = Deconning
  • One who maliciously deconstructs structures to disrupt the game = Deconner
  • Incoming Enemy = Inc
  • Fighting with a (advanced) granger (likely to die) = Battle granger
  • Human who hides in a hard-to-reach area and camps to kill dretches = Cracktard/Pipetard
  • Build points = BP
  • Friendly fire = FF
  • Server-specific system for giving credits and evolution points to specific players = share
  • Server-specific system for donating credits and evolution points to the team = donate
  • Sudden death = SD
  • Player who intentionally or repeatedly obstructs other players, preventing them from attacking or retreating = blocker
  • Credits = creds, cr, c
  • Evolution points = evos, evp, ep
  • Search for alien structures after main base has been destroyed = egghunt
  • Construction of eggs outside of / without a main base = eggspam
  • Arbitrarily scattered turrets = turret farm
  • Human player deliberately destroying human base = nader
  • A player who knows nothing, and is unwilling to listen or learn, but acts like they know everything = noob (Derogatory)
  • A player who is new to the game, but willing to listen and learn = newb, newbie
 
abbreviations.txt · Last modified: 2008/07/14 15:05 by 66.92.90.34
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