Glossary

[Quazie]

 

As a relatively new player I scanned through the forum today, and observed in chat and in the games a number of abbreviations and phrases that mean nothing to a new player.

When you see sometihng like..

I went "seal Clubbing" the other day in the lower tiers and the MM was crap, my DPM ended up rubbish.

That may mean nothing as I made it up to explain my point.

What the hell are all these abrieviations, I worked some out but to someone new they mean nothing.

How about a glossary somewhere to tell us what they all mean. (Or is there one somewhere)

Seal Clubber, dd, cv, bb etc, etc..

 

[procrastinatingStudent]

there probly is somewhere but i cant remeber/ find it.

DD = destoyer

CV = aircraft carrier

BB = battleship

CA/CL = cruiser (generally)

  -also CA mean a heavy cruiser (over 155mm guns), CL is light (= to or less than 155mm)

(i tend to put these as higher case so muitl is easier to see ex. bbs to BBs)

DPM = damage per minute 

seal Clubbing= a person with more experience going to lower tiers, say a person with 2k games playing guy at lower tier with maybe 500 game. (im not 100% on this though)

MM = match making

 

if you have any other feel free to ask 

 

[XbodzioXplX]

Seal clubber - ships that are brawling in close distance

DD - destroyers

CV - carriers

BB - battleships

CA - cruisers

CL - light cruisers

HE - high explosive shells

AP - armour piercing shells

DPM - damage per minute

MM - match making (a system that collects players into teams)

 

 

As for new player I advise you to watch and understand those videos:

 

Especially how to shoot, how to aim, citadels, overpenetration etc

[Nethraniel]

Seal clubber - ships that are brawling in close distance

That is a definition I never heard of.

 

Seal Clubber = well experienced player using all means (e.g. OP ships, high level captains, full signal loadout, etc.) to play low tier matches and dominate inexperienced newbies.

[mtm78]

There was a post on this stickied earlier I thought, I been looking for it since I saw this thread but I seem to be unable to find it. Either way, above summary's are correct, other then seal clubber.

 

A seal clubber is a man with a club who beats baby seals to death because of their fur.  -> true story.

 

Another kind of seal clubber is me, taking a Gremlin  putting in my 18p captain, and then invisi firing ( shooting without being seen ) at ships 9.9km away from me, burning them with a fire chance higher then available in the normal tech tree, and while having long range torps, also not available in the regular tech tree. 

 

Or, me in an Arkansas Beta, a ship which is hardly overpowered on it's own, and playing matches against players with a few hundred games in at most. 

 

Seal clubbers are either very experienced players playing against new players who don't yet have the insight in game mechanics, or a player using a ship which is stronger than ships which are available to the majority of the community ( and yes, I also have a PzII-J .. with maybe 8 games on it though ).

 

 

[xXx_Blogis_xXx]

There was a post on this stickied earlier I thought, I been looking for it since I saw this thread but I seem to be unable to find it. Either way, above summary's are correct, other then seal clubber.

 

A seal clubber is a man with a club who beats baby seals to death because of their fur.  -> true story.

 

Another kind of seal clubber is me, taking a Gremlin  putting in my 18p captain, and then invisi firing ( shooting without being seen ) at ships 9.9km away from me, burning them with a fire chance higher then available in the normal tech tree, and while having long range torps, also not available in the regular tech tree. 

 

Or, me in an Arkansas Beta, a ship which is hardly overpowered on it's own, and playing matches against players with a few hundred games in at most. 

 

Seal clubbers are either very experienced players playing against new players who don't yet have the insight in game mechanics, or a player using a ship which is stronger than ships which are available to the majority of the community ( and yes, I also have a PzII-J .. with maybe 8 games on it though ).

 

 

 

oh you dam clubber

[mtm78]

 

oh you dam clubber

 

[deadly_if_swallowed]

Zuiho reigns supreme

UNLESS you meet a Bogue with 15 pt, captain.

[ollonborre]

Another kind of seal clubber is me, taking a Gremlin  putting in my 18p captain, and then invisi firing ( shooting without being seen ) at ships 9.9km away from me, burning them with a fire chance higher then available in the normal tech tree, and while having long range torps, also not available in the regular tech tree.

 

To be fair you only need fire flags and/or Demo expert to make the Gremy more broken than it already is

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[Quazie]

Thanks Guys, the seal clubber going back to club pups makes sense..

 

I also found this http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/4828-meanings-of-slang-basic-pointers/

 

Have watch a number of ICG videos.

Have watched numberous videos on youtube, like Flamu and he has plenty to watch.

Also watched the navel Academy ones, all good stuff.

 

I do hate this newbie call out every time someone isn't playing as other want, I do Ok for someone new at the game. Some of the calls I see are positively suicidal even for experienced players. And I have been left over extended a few times when players turn tails and run to hide under their beds when someone sneezes in their direction, but I guess that's the game.

Grinding up the Tiers.

I have a couple of T5 Cruiser, Couple of T6 and I think 2 T7. A few DD which I haven't really played and a number of battleships including 3 or 4 ARP's (in squeeky excited girly japanese voice over).

My aim at the moment is to get Jap, USA, UK, German and Ruski Cruisers all to T7, Only started in September so things are not going to badly.

I am not an online player, this is the only realtime online game I play, Had a go at Chatham Dockyard in Kent and liked what I saw, so here I am and you will have to put up with me..

[Yaffle1234]

CVE - Carrier Escort

CVL - Light carrier

Both terms incorporated under CV ingame but sometimes the sub terms are still used/seen

Poi - 'Yes' or 'Excited yes' or used for expression of any emotion. 

Kek -  'kek' is the Korean approximation in english of laughter when typed on a Korean keyboard during Starcraft matches. As Starcraft was made by Blizzard as is world of warcraft, their connection to laughter in both games seems to be an homage of sorts. 

Hugger/Border Hugger - A player who uses the map border to drift in an unusual manner throwing off an opponents aim.

Kite - to sail away from an enemy ship at an oblique angle making oneself more diffcult to hit

Torpedo beat/Beat - a players skill at dodging torpedos

Weed Generator - Smoke consumbable

Light up - use Hydro or radar search

Pinkie - team killer, as indicated by the player appearing pink in the team line up

Newb - new to some task* and are very beginner at it, possibly a little overconfident about it, but they are willing to learn and fix their errors to move out of that stage

nOOb - know little and have no will to learn any more. They expect people to do the work for them and then expect to get praised about it, and make up a unique species of their own.

Cupid Stunt - a phrase that escapes the chat filter and by selectively swopping three letters describes a person

pop - use a consumable i.e 'pop' your defensive AA

Fun and Engaging gameplay - a term used by WG to describe random events, such as randomly blowing up - often the source of much mockery i,e when someone blows up the terms gets typed in chat.

RNG - Random number generator another term to describe random events, often quoted to RN Gesus (pray to).

RU - An imaginary navy that never existed

RN - A real Navy that is useless in game for newer players

JMT - Jedi Mind Trick Used by WG on players but only works in WG's mind i.e 'Epic deals' (that are not actually epic at all)

USN - A navy that turned up last but first in game

IJN - Famous for yolo'ing its best battleship

Yolo - rush forward at full speed, often resulting in getting sunk (see IJN)

KM - A navy that popped out of port every now and then and got face slapped

CS - Customer Support, An imaginary term, An exercise in futility.

Ticket - as in, raise a ticket (see customer support)

Report - The in-game system using an automated 'report' function. Doesn't actually do anything other than make some folk feel better i.e 'reported' typed in chat 

Wallet Warrior - A term to describe a player who uses premium ships, in particular those considered to be OP (see RU)

Sale - Rip off (see JMT)

Premium shop - similar to meeting RichardTurpin (although he had to wear a mask)

Stalenium shells - a term to describe RU shell characteristics.

Nerf - alter the characteristics of an ingame ship lowering its performance

Buff - the opposite to Nerf

OP - Over powered 

 

Plenty more

 

 

[Taliesn]

CVE - Carrier Escort

CVL - Light carrier

Both terms incorporated under CV ingame but sometimes the sub terms are still used/seen

Poi - 'Yes' or 'Excited yes' or used for expression of any emotion. 

Kek -  'kek' is the Korean approximation in english of laughter when typed on a Korean keyboard during Starcraft matches. As Starcraft was made by Blizzard as is world of warcraft, their connection to laughter in both games seems to be an homage of sorts. 

Hugger/Border Hugger - A player who uses the map border to drift in an unusual manner throwing off an opponents aim.

Kite - to sail away from an enemy ship at an oblique angle making oneself more diffcult to hit

Torpedo beat/Beat - a players skill at dodging torpedos

Weed Generator - Smoke consumbable

Light up - use Hydro or radar search

Pinkie - team killer, as indicated by the player appearing pink in the team line up

Newb - new to some task* and are very beginner at it, possibly a little overconfident about it, but they are willing to learn and fix their errors to move out of that stage

nOOb - know little and have no will to learn any more. They expect people to do the work for them and then expect to get praised about it, and make up a unique species of their own.

Cupid Stunt - a phrase that escapes the chat filter and by selectively swopping three letters describes a person

pop - use a consumable i.e 'pop' your defensive AA

Fun and Engaging gameplay - a term used by WG to describe random events, such as randomly blowing up - often the source of much mockery i,e when someone blows up the terms gets typed in chat.

RNG - Random number generator another term to describe random events, often quoted to RN Gesus (pray to).

RU - An imaginary navy that never existed

RN - A real Navy that is useless in game for newer players

JMT - Jedi Mind Trick Used by WG on players but only works in WG's mind i.e 'Epic deals' (that are not actually epic at all)

USN - A navy that turned up last but first in game

IJN - Famous for yolo'ing its best battleship

Yolo - rush forward at full speed, often resulting in getting sunk (see IJN)

KM - A navy that popped out of port every now and then and got face slapped

CS - Customer Support, An imaginary term, An exercise in futility.

Ticket - as in, raise a ticket (see customer support)

Report - The in-game system using an automated 'report' function. Doesn't actually do anything other than make some folk feel better i.e 'reported' typed in chat 

Wallet Warrior - A term to describe a player who uses premium ships, in particular those considered to be OP (see RU)

Sale - Rip off (see JMT)

Premium shop - similar to meeting RichardTurpin (although he had to wear a mask)

Stalenium shells - a term to describe RU shell characteristics.

Nerf - alter the characteristics of an ingame ship lowering its performance

Buff - the opposite to Nerf

OP - Over powered 

 

Plenty more

 

 

 

There is a chat filter??? Blimey. How does it work? I once called someone a badly spelled Anglo-Danish king and nothing happened (AFAIK)

 

 

[Quazie]

Blimey.. So many.. and theres more.

 

Still think they should all go in a glossary (Well most of them) its all the simple things like Port and Starboard (Which I know by the way), a lot of people that play don't have any naval history in their families. How are they supposed to know, I suppose there is always Google..

 

Like the humour, have raised a ticket and it did get answered.

Server change over lost out on Xp and credits on 3 games, wasn't worried about it but thought they should know, can't fix what you don't know about.

Pity one game was a good score for me, 3 sunk loads of damage, credits, ribbons and 3 achievements in a T5 cruiser.

 

Remember don't cry "Stupid Noob team", educated them.. the sooner they learn what they did wrong or could have done better the faster they will improve and the better the games will be.

I have noticed that it is noticably worse at the weekends..

Even I can spot a lot of the mistakes after only 3 months playing only when I can, and sometimes still get it wrong myself, but I am learning.. it just takes a while (older folk learn more slowly) lol..

But it's good fun even when you lose sometimes, although my stepson (age 24) who got me into this nearly took out my keyboard after several bad games in a row by thumping my desk very hard (narrowly missing said keyboard) and sending a stream of obsenities at the screen.

 

 

[deadly_if_swallowed]

Kek -  'kek' is the Korean approximation in english of laughter when typed on a Korean keyboard during Starcraft

 

From what I know: "kek" is displayed to Alliance players in World of Warcraft whenever a Horde player types "lol" in global chat.

"kek" coming close to "lol" on a Korean keyboard is quite doubtful seeing how far those keys are separated. Compared with the Western key layout you'd need to type "rpr" to get 겍

[Yaffle1234]

 

 

From what I know: "kek" is displayed to Alliance players in World of Warcraft whenever a Horde player types "lol" in global chat.

 

"kek" coming close to "lol" on a Korean keyboard is quite doubtful seeing how far those keys are separated. Compared with the Western key layout you'd need to type "rpr" to get 겍

 

“Kek” is a translation of the acronym “LOL” (laugh out loud) when reading text written by members of the Horde faction as an Alliance player in the online multiplayer game World of Warcraft (WoW)

 

The term has its origins in the Korean language, as the onomatopoeia ㅋㅋㅋ, in which ㅋ stands for the “k” sounds, like in raspy, stifled laughter. In the real-time strategy game Starcraft, because the game originally did not support the Korean language, the onomatopoeia was written as “Kekeke” which can be translated to “Hahaha” in English. Players of separate factions are unable to communicate with one-another, as their typed text is run through an in-game translator. For players of the Horde faction, typing the letters “LOL” results in members of the Alliance faction reading “KEK”.

Ps I had to look that up as well as onomatopoeia

[Talladega_Night]

There was a post on this stickied earlier I thought, I been looking for it since I saw this thread but I seem to be unable to find it. Either way, above summary's are correct, other then seal clubber.

 

A seal clubber is a man with a club who beats baby seals to death because of their fur.  -> true story.

 

Another kind of seal clubber is me, taking a Gremlin  putting in my 18p captain, and then invisi firing ( shooting without being seen ) at ships 9.9km away from me, burning them with a fire chance higher then available in the normal tech tree, and while having long range torps, also not available in the regular tech tree. 

 

Or, me in an Arkansas Beta, a ship which is hardly overpowered on it's own, and playing matches against players with a few hundred games in at most. 

 

Seal clubbers are either very experienced players playing against new players who don't yet have the insight in game mechanics, or a player using a ship which is stronger than ships which are available to the majority of the community ( and yes, I also have a PzII-J .. with maybe 8 games on it though ).

 

 

 

or like i do when i take my 16point secondary captain out in my Fat Albert. Tier 4 BB classified as a Tier 3, always guaranteed to be top tier 

[deadly_if_swallowed]

 

“Kek” is a translation of the acronym “LOL” (laugh out loud) when reading text written by members of the Horde faction as an Alliance player in the online multiplayer game World of Warcraft (WoW)

 

The term has its origins in the Korean language, as the onomatopoeia ㅋㅋㅋ, in which ㅋ stands for the “k” sounds, like in raspy, stifled laughter. In the real-time strategy game Starcraft, because the game originally did not support the Korean language, the onomatopoeia was written as “Kekeke” which can be translated to “Hahaha” in English. Players of separate factions are unable to communicate with one-another, as their typed text is run through an in-game translator. For players of the Horde faction, typing the letters “LOL” results in members of the Alliance faction reading “KEK”.

Ps I had to look that up as well as onomatopoeia

 

Okay, this makes sense then. Though I have never seen anyone from the Korean part of my family write ㅋㅋㅋ in chat. I only know "kkkkkk" from latin countries.

 

edit: oh, and I just noticed I got your original quote wrong. I looked it up myself and saw a site stating it as the exact transscription of "lol". And I then falsely took reference to your post.

[Yaffle1234]

@ _Kyoshi - tbh I didn't know, I just saw folk typing kek and poi  and I was like wtf does that mean. In particular atsf uses the terms an awfull lot. He's from the sea server - anyways I looked it out and the penny dropped....

[RobS80]

and yes, I also have a PzII-J .. with maybe 8 games on it though .

 

 

 

You have not lived until you have taken the old B2 740 out! Am I sorry for what I did? NOPE!

[mtm78]

 

You have not lived until you have taken the old B2 740 out! Am I sorry for what I did? NOPE!

 

Don't have one I hear they fixed the weakpoint, that hatch on the side? 

 

[RobS80]

 

Don't have one I hear they fixed the weakpoint, that hatch on the side? 

 

 

Really?! That was its only weakness apart from its turret. But it pretty much needs another of the same tank to pen it, with gold, or a lucky hit from a derp gun on the Hetzer. That was the only thing it feared lol.

 

Sorry for offtopic

 

 

[Yaffle1234]

 

You have not lived until you have taken the old B2 740 out! Am I sorry for what I did? NOPE!

 

Oh no thats so wrong... it should read 'You have not lived until you have taken the old B2 740 in a three man platoon with full APCR'....... 

[Quazie]

Ramble away I don't mind..

 

[Quazie]

Anyone got any fun definitions..

 

Like BB = Big Bastard

DD = Dirty Dog

 

[Ze_Reckless]

Ballless Baby