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Jargon
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This page hopes to clarify some common jargon, acronyms and slang used by many players in game. They can be useful to know, especially in team situations, as other players will assume that you know what they are talking about.
Acronyms
CTF | Capture the Flag |
FFA | Free For All |
RH | Rabbit Hunt |
GG | Good game |
TK | Team Kill, to kill one's own team. |
RF | Red flag |
GF | Green flag |
BF | Blue flag |
PF | Purple flag |
G | Genocide flag, often accompanied with a ! or a "watch out!" |
Jargon
Bots | Non-human-player tanks. |
Capping | Capturing the other teams flag, verb to cap. |
Ours | Protect your team flag |
Theirs | Attack the other team's flag |
Geno | Genocide Flag, usually when seen it chat by itself it means an opposing team player has the flag so be careful |
Pyr | Pyramid |
Jump/Launcher/Jumper | Either a world object that launches a tank in the air, or a tank that has used said world object. |
Spamming | Either filling the chat box with meaningless text, or filling the list server with empty servers. |
Laser Spamming | Uselessly filling the game world with laser shots, often causing team kills. |
Camping | Staying in one place with the same flag for a long time. If you do this you are a camper. |
Watch! | Watch out! |