Glossary

A

• Ability

• Achievement

• Aggro (Aggression)

• AI (Artificial Intelligence)

• Alpha Test

• Alt (Alternate Character)

• Ammo (Ammunition)

• AoE (Area of Effect)

• Arcade Mode

• Auto-Aim

• Avatar

B

• Backpack

• Battle Pass (BP)

• Battle Royale (BR)

• Beta Test

• Boss

• Buff

• Bug

• Build

• Bullet Hell

• Buy-In

C

• Campaign

• Cap (Level Cap)

• CC (Crowd Control)

• Character Class

• Checkpoint

• Clans

• Combo

• Cooldown (CD)

• Crafting

• Critical Hit (Crit)

D

• Daily Quest

• Deathmatch (DM)

• Debuff

• DLC (Downloadable Content)

• DPS (Damage Per Second)

• Drop Rate

• Dual Wield

• Dungeon

E

• Easter Egg (EE)

• Emote

• Endgame

• Enemy NPC (Non-Player Character)

• Event Boss

• EXP / XP (Experience Points)

• Exploration

F

• Faction

• Farming

• Fast Travel

• FPS (First-Person Shooter)

• Frag

• Free-to-Play (F2P)

• Friendly Fire (FF)

G

• Gacha

• Game Engine

• Gauntlet

• GM (Game Master)

H

• Hitbox

I

• Input Lag

• Instanced Dungeon

• Inventory

• Item Tier

J

• Joystick

• Juking

• Jump Scare

• Jungling (MOBA)

K

• K/D Ratio (Kill/Death Ratio)

• Kart / Racing Mechanics

• Keybinding

• Kill Streak

• Knockback

L

• Lag Compensation

• LAN Party

• Level Up (LVL Up)

• Life Steal

• Lobby

• Loot

• Looter Shooter

M

• Mana

• Map Objective

• Melee

• Meta (Metagame)

• Microtransactions (MTX)

• Minimap

• MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game)

• MOB (Mobile NPC)

• Mod (Modification)

• Mount

• Multiplayer

N

• Nerf

• Node Control

• Noob / Newbie

• NPC (Non-Player Character)

• Nuke

O

• Objective

• Online Pass

• OP (Overpowered)

• Open World

• Overclock

• Overlay

P

• Party (Group)

• Patch

• Permadeath

• Ping

• Platformer

• Power-Up

• Prestige

• PvE (Player vs Environment)

• PvP (Player vs Player)

Q

• QTE (Quick Time Event)

• Quad Damage

• Quest

• Queue

R

• Raid

• Rank / Ranking

• Respawn

• Respawn Timer

• RNG (Random Number Generator)

• Roguelike

• RPG (Role-Playing Game)

• Rush

S

• Sandbox

• Save Point

• Side Quest

• Skill Tree

• Skin

• Smurfing

• Spawn

• Speedrun

• Stealth

• Stunlock

T

• Tank

• Target Dummy

• Teleport / Teleportation

• Third-Person Shooter (TPS)

• Title Screen

• TTK (Time to Kill)

• Tutorial

U

• Ultra Settings

• Underpowered (UP)

• Unlockable

• User Interface (UI)

V

• Vehicle / Mounts

• Vendor

• Victory Conditions

• Vitality

• Voice Chat

• VR (Virtual Reality)

W

• Walkthrough

• Waypoint

• Weapon Tier

• Win Streak

• Wipe (Team defeat in raids)

• World Boss

X

• X-Axis / Y-Axis (Movement)

• XP Boost

• XP Farm

Y

• Yellow Bar (Shield / Health in shooters)

• Yield (Resource Gain)