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Glossary of Terms

TehBenju

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    • A2G, Air to Ground: Weapons that fire from an aircraft designed primarily for ground targets

    A2A, Air to Air: Weapons that fire from an aircraft designed primarily for airborne targets

    AA, Anti-Air:Weapons designed to counter aircraft.

    ADS, Aim Down Sights: As opposed to hipfiring, bringing up your gun and aiming with the sight.

    AI, Anti-Infantry: Weapons designed to counter infantry.

    AMS, Advanced Mobile Station: Vehicles known as AMS serve as mobile, forward respawn locations. Currently only Sunderers can fit this module.

    AV, Anti-Vehicle: Weapons designed to counter vehicles.

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A2G, Air to Ground: Weapons that fire from an aircraft designed primarily for ground targets

A2A, Air to Air: Weapons that fire from an aircraft designed primarily for airborne targets

AA, Anti-Air:Weapons designed to counter aircraft.

ADS, Aim Down Sights: As opposed to hipfiring, bringing up your gun and aiming with the sight.

AI, Anti-Infantry: Weapons designed to counter infantry.

AMS, Advanced Mobile Station: Vehicles known as AMS serve as mobile, forward respawn locations. Currently only Sunderers can fit this module.

AV, Anti-Vehicle: Weapons designed to counter vehicles.

Battle Bus: Sunderer outfitted for direct confrontation with the enemy.

CAP, Capture: The act of standing on the capture point to start or stop the taking over of a territory.

CP, Capture Point:The areas of a base that must be held to capture the base.

Certification Points, Certs: Used to sidegrade into additional skills, vehicles, and weapons. Earned with experience.

CQC, Close Quarters Combat: Fighting that occurs up close and personal.

CoF, Cone of Fire: The spread or area your weapon may discharge into.

Drop Pod: Used in hotdrops to deliver troops to the ground safely.

ESF, Empire Specific Fighter: Referring to each Empire’s unique air fighter.

Engineer, Engi: An infantry class devoted to support of all things mechanical. Probably the class most often run over.

Experience, Exp, XP: Points gained in battle, accumulating into Certification Points and Rank.

FOB, Forward Operations Base: A forward logistical sunderer for wind wraiths to land, repair and re-arm. Usually has Anti-air defenses as well. (GotR Specific)

Gal, Galaxy: A 12 man transport aircraft with 4 player controlled turrets. Jumping out at altitude causes no fall damage.

Gunship Galaxy, GG: A galaxy equipped for direct confrontation with he enemy.

Hack, Hacking: Infiltrators are able to hack enemy terminals and turrets, allowing their use for allies.

Heavy Assault, HA: An infantry class devoted to distance suppression and anti-vehicle counters.

HE Turret: High explosive: Vehicle weapons with large explosive area of effect designed to damage infantry.

Hipfiring: The act of firing your weapon without aiming down the sight.

Hotdrop: Airborne deployment using a Galaxy, spawn beacon, or any of the quick deploy features to drop onto contested territory or behind enemy lines.

Infiltrator, Infil:An infantry class known as a cloaker and sniper.

Instant Action:Hotdropping via a drop pod directly from the in-game map.

Jump Jets: Pack that allows a Light Assault soldier to fly or hover for short periods.

K/D, Kill Death Ratio: Total kills divided by total deaths

Liberator, Lib: A three seat fighter useful primarily for ground strafing.

Light Assault, LA: An infantry class noted for its mobility and use of Jump Jets.

Lightning: A single seat tank available to all Empires.

Magrider, Mag:A Vanu Sovereignty two seat tank known for its ability to hover.

MAX, Mechanized Assault Exo-Suit: A suit infantry classes can utilize for superior ground combat.

MBT, Main Battle Tank: Referring to each Empire’s unique two seat tank.

Medic: An infantry class known for healing and reviving allies.

Mosquito, Mossie, Mossy: The Terran Republic’s single seat fighter aircraft.

NC, New Conglomerate: A loosely connected group of rebel factions and idealistic freedom fighters, the New Conglomerate fights against the hegemony of the Terran. The New Conglomerate is a separatist faction determined to remain free of the controlling and domineering Republic.

OL, Outfit Leader: The leader of an Outfit.

PA, Pump Action Shotgun: A shotgun weapon with a slower rate of fire, does increased damage over standard shotguns

PL, Platoon Leader: The leader of a Platoon (multiple Squads).

Prowler: A Terran Republic two seat tank known for its ability to rapid fire.

RoF, Rate of Fire: How fast a weapon fires.

Reaver:The New Conglomerate’s single seat fighter aircraft.

Resupply Terminal: Terminal where soldiers can change their class or spawn ground and air vehicles.

Rez, Res, Resurrect: Getting a revive from a medic tool instead of redeploying.

Scythe: The Vanu Sovereignty’s single seat fighter aircraft.

Skyguard: A Lightning equipped with the skyguard anti aircraft flak cannon.

SL, Squad Leader: The leader of a Squad.

SMG, Sub Machine Gun: A class of fully automatic weapon designed primary for hipfire.

Sunderer, Sundy: A 12 seat ground transport. Also often used as an AMS (Advanced Mobile Station).

TR, Terran Republic: With a militaristic government, the Terran Republic uses its Imperial and authoritarian might to impel humanity in peaceful coexistence through any means necessary.

TTK, Time to Kill: How long a weapon takes to kill a specified target.

UBGL, Under-Barrel Grenade Launcher: Attachment for some carbines/assault rifles that fire either frag or smoke grenades. Does not take grenade slot.

VS, Vanu Sovereignty: A technocratic faction that believes humanity can only evolve by rediscovering and tapping the lost technology of the Vanu. The Vanu Sovereignty are a transhumanist cult of academics, intellectuals, and technology worshippers who believe that human destiny lies in the further development and exploitation of the alien technology.

Vanguard: A New Conglomerate two seat tank known for its shield.

Warpgate, WG:The home base of any Empire on each continent.

Wraith: Cloaking module for the flash, usable by infiltrators only.

WUTU, Wait up Team up: Used by leadership to ask members to form up as a group (GotR specific)

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TehBenju

This is pulled from the PS2 forums, if anyone wants to know any more, or does, please add them here. I will keep an eye on it and keep it edited and up to date. Will also be adding outfit specific ones.


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Grott

Teh I would think about making this an article after your done adding and editing it all.  Not bad.


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j0k3rCPG

Battle Bus: Sunderer equipped for direct confrontation with enemy.


Gal Gunship, Battle Gal: Galaxy equipped for direct confrontation with enemy.

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Orikx

Wraith: Flash with the Wraith Utility Slot attachment equipped.


HE Turret: High Explosive - Anti Infantry turret


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TehBenju

I had to look up Bungle, lol.

 

Removed, like i said i pulled this straight from PS2, still reviewing it

Teh I would think about making this an article after your done adding and editing it all.  Not bad.

 

That's the plan

Battle Bus: Sunderer equipped for direct confrontation with enemy.

Gal Gunship, Battle Gal: Galaxy equipped for direct confrontation with enemy.

added, thanks!

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TehBenju

Wraith: Flash with the Wraith Utility Slot attachment equipped.

HE Turret: High Explosive - Anti Infantry turret

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Grott

GG- Gunship Gal


Mag- Magrider


AH- Air hammer (Reaver front gun)


Infil- Infiltrator


TTK


K/D


Rez


 


Not all these i've listed necessarily need to go in but I added them for your discretion.


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TehBenju

GG- Gunship Gal

Mag- Magrider

AH- Air hammer (Reaver front gun)

Infil- Infiltrator

TTK

K/D

Rez

 

Not all these i've listed necessarily need to go in but I added them for your discretion.

added all except AH, this isn't a weapon list, it's a term list. and AH isn't all that common as an abbreviation

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torokokill

Steel Rain: Coordinated use of hot dropping to initiate an assault on an enemy position.

Honey Pot: A sunderer loaded with infantry equipped with anti-vehicle weapons, with the intent of luring in greedy ground and air vehicles.

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Koopak

Haven't read yet, suggestion go with a less harsh color than red, some line spacing and bold and colon is enough, like so.


 


A2A: air to air


 


Had to point this out as red is the worst color to have txt in as it is stress full on the eyes and is also the most common form of color blindness.


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Koopak

Teh I would think about making this an article after your done adding and editing it all.  Not bad.

 And if you manage to, tell me how, because iv been trying to since i first wrote my infil guide months and months ago.

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Master

 And if you manage to, tell me how, because iv been trying to since i first wrote my infil guide months and months ago.

I only think that global mods / admins can do that. 

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TehBenju

i will edit the hell out of the format, the red text is because the bulk of this so far was ripped DIRECTLY out of the PS2 glossary on their forums. i will reformat it including text colour when i have the time to go line by line. Also yes it WILL be an article.... it can actually be elevated to an article anytime, i just gotta kick someone to do it, and i want it a little more fleshed out first.


 


PLEASE KEEP BRINGING ME MORE TERMS/ABBREVIATIONS


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inigma

ASL - Air Superiority Liberator aka chaingun liberator with CAS30 and Walker - for direct confrontation with enemy air


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TehBenju

considering ASL, more format updates to come, and someone nudge a mod to make this an article please


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AcrimoniousBird

For things that are tactics, put those in the playbook (which I need to update) i.e. Honeypot.

 

Perhaps, include them, but just give a link to their section in the playbook?  If this is intended as a go-to "wtf does this mean?" article, it seems like it would be good to have listed.

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Laylos

Skyguard - Lightning with AA Skyguard turret.


Galaxy is more refered to as "Gal" then anything didn't see Gal in the definition.


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TehBenju

Skyguard - Lightning with AA Skyguard turret.

Galaxy is more refered to as "Gal" then anything didn't see Gal in the definition.

added

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Nihil

Proposed Changes:

 

When you introduce an abbreviation (within a paragraph), write the whole word and put the abbreviation in parenthesis. This is an Advance Mobile Station (AMS).  The AMS is the most powerful vehicle in the game.

 

A2G, Air to Ground: Weapons that fire from an aircraft designed primarily for ground targets

A2A, Air to Air: Weapons that fire from an aircraft designed primarily for airborne targets

- Replace the tweenspeak 2 with t.


Cap, Capture Point: The areas of a base that must be held to capture the base.

- Cap is what you do at a capture point.  "We'll cap the point as soon as we can."  "Need troops on all the control points/CPs."

 

Recommend being consistent with either showing the shortened version first, or the full version first.  Suggest putting the short version first, chances are they looking for the meaning of CP, not Capture Point.  Pick a way and stick with it. 


Certification Points, Certs: Used to sidegrade into additional skills, vehicles, and weapons. Earned with experience.
Heavy Assault, HA: An infantry class devoted to distance suppression and anti-vehicle counters.
Gunship Galaxy, GG: A galaxy equipped for direct confrontation with he enemy.
Infiltrator, Infil: An infantry class known as a cloaker and sniper.
Liberator, Lib: A three seat fighter gunship/bomber useful primarily for ground strafing.
Light Assault, LA: An infantry class noted for its mobility and use of Jump Jets
Magrider, Mag: A Vanu Sovereignty two seat tank known for its ability to hover.
Mosquito, Mossie, Mossy: The Terran Republic’s single seat fighter aircraft.
Sunderer, Sundy: A 12 seat ground transport. Also often used as an AMS (Advanced Mobile Station).
Warpgate, WG: The home base of any Empire on each continent.

- You have all of the classes labeled as infantry.  That would be meaningful if there were non-infantry classes, so it's redundant.  Try infantry classes: HA, LA, MAX and Infil.  Support classes: Medic and Engie.

 

ESF, Empire Specific Fighter: Referring to each Empire’s unique air fighter.

- Redundant.  All of the fighters are empire specific.  There are zero (0) common pool fighters.  We can call them Reaver, Mossie and Scythe, or just fighters.

 

Mosquito, Mossie, Mossy: The Terran Republic’s single seat fighter aircraft.
Reaver: The New Conglomerate’s single seat fighter aircraft.
Scythe: The Vanu Sovereignty’s single seat fighter aircraft.

- All of the fighters are single seat.  Liberators and Galaxies are not fighters.  A lib is more like an AC130 or Hind than an F16.  F117 is mislabeled as a fighter to get around treaty limitations on bombers.


Change it or leave it.  i'm not going to follow the thread either way.  It's all yours.  This is what *i* think will make it better.

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