About Abbreviations
While playing Tremulous, you might encounter players using abbreviations in chat. Since the game is very fast and some of the game elements take long to write, players often use shorter versions that are easier and faster to write. For a new player, it takes time to adjust and learn how to understand and use these abbreviations properly. Here is a list of the most used abbreviations:
Humans
Weapons
Upgrades
Structures
Aliens
Classes
Structures
Miscellaneous Terms
- Not leaving the safety of your base = Camping
- Camping with a Jet Pack = 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 an Advanced Granger and you are likely to die = Battle granger
- Human who hides in a hard-to-reach area and camps to kill dretches = Cracktard/Pipetard
- Human player that constantly fires his weapon in the same spot from the safety of the base with hope that he might hit an incoming alien = spammer
- Build points = BP
- Friendly fire = FF
- 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 with a grenade = nader
- A player who knows nothing, and is unwilling to listen or learn, but acts like they know everything = noob, nub (Derogatory)
- A player who is new to the game, but willing to listen and learn = newb, newbie
- A player who intentionally attacks or kills a teammate (Team Killer) = bleeder, tker