Strange Terminology
Neoskeptic
Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3161Members
Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3161Members
<div class="IPBDescription">You've played on foreign servers?</div> Ok, everyone who plays on public servers has, on occasion, dropped into a server with mostly foreign players. Have you guys come across wierd terms for the gear, places or creatures in NS? and no, "Turrents" don't count. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
I have come across some Japanese players calling the HA a "mobile suit". Funny, the description fits. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I have come across some Japanese players calling the HA a "mobile suit". Funny, the description fits. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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scrims = pcw (practice clan war)
And if you only speak english the words won't make much sense to you I guess..
Did they call it "mobile suit" or whatever the japanese phrase is for mobile suit?
That totally normal, unless u count the whole of Europe being strange for the past year or so....(CS, NS and most HL mods)
skulks - dogs
There were listed things like:
Fatty = Gorge
Dogs = Skulks
Gas = Spore Cloud
and all the shortcuts like TF, MT, HA and so on...
I leave it to you to do a quick search.
Hyper
Yes, I do =D strange euros.. pcw? pfft.. its a scrim =D must you stilly euros be so violent. Doesn't scrimmage sound more politically correct than Practice Clan War. Note the <i>war</i> part!!!
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I have come across some Japanese players calling the HA a "mobile suit". Funny, the description fits. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
japs call them mobile suits because of all those mech animes they have over there. most of the mech suits are called mobile suits (at least in gundam they are). japs are mech/cyberpunk crazy
It's been called clan-war or clan-match ever since I remember, so i have absolutely no problem with that.
Ya, isn't it?
I'd have told you to SUYF, but each to his own.
The european NS scene appears to have no problems with the term 'pcw', and i see it used more often than scrimmage.
But it's probably worth pointing out that this is a "HL-ism" and prior to playing NS i'd never heard the term. From other games i've played the most common terms have been scrimm or friendly.
<NSPlayer> "Wth? A dog just attacked me???"
<someone else> "AHAHHA stupid noob"
*NSPlayer has quit the game
I was playing once when a newbie encountered an Onos for the first time.
"OMG there's a rhino in here! WTH?!?"
I was playing once when a newbie encountered an Onos for the first time.
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amusingly, that's not off topic at all <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
hive: spread v*g*na
welder: lighter / zippo (" Light me dude!")
comm: god
f4: salvation
Ive heard some other wack stuff but I found these the funniest <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Yes, I do =D strange euros.. pcw? pfft.. its a scrim =D must you stilly euros be so violent. Doesn't scrimmage sound more politically correct than Practice Clan War. Note the <i>war</i> part!!!
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I object to being called European!
I am Scottish!
Although dont really mind being called British.
Anyway PCW was a new one to me, but makes sense, scrimmage does just not sound right. But dogs sounds right (my newbie friend calls them that(yes we all laugh at him)) but prefer to call the gorge fat boy, usually call the comm sir.
Thankyou for making so much sense...
Dogs = Skulks
Gas = Spore Cloud
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Have seen those ones. Btw, I dunno if it's ur way to play NS but I noticed that on US servers (im french) u guys play slightly differently as we do. I mean the game often ends with HA/HMG, full upgrades and so on whereas in european game style, games are a lot shorter and we dont play onos very often. Dunno why it's like that but it is <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
It's most likely nothing to do with the location of the server, and simply a result of the skill levels of the players in a particular game you played at a particular time.
The US will have servers with experienced regulars and servers frequented by new players just as we have both types of server.
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I'm American, and I play on American servers all the time. I've found that fatty is quite common....in fact I hear it just as much as gorge. And I've heard gas a lot too. In fact, I personally prefer calling it gas...not sure why.
Well, don't you feel silly now.
Another innocent victim falls prey to forum enforced censorship.
shut-uppa-yaface!
Is it aussie terminology or heard all round, coz i only heard it in aussie servers??
-RD
Take THAT United States! We've finally become more crude than you! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
ive seen spore cloud called lerk fart.
to my non-gamer freinds i call skulks dogs and lerks bats to help them understand terminology.
ooh and once this guy with a british accent comming was calling the aliens bugs. like "watch out man theres a bug near you." i think he had seen too much starship troopers.
I should get out more and have a frolic from time to time <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
"time to go fart on some rines"