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They typically have large budgets and a lot of marketing surrounding them. AAA games contrast with \"indie\" titles, which are made by smaller development teams. |\n| Adds | Refers to \"additional enemies\" that typically appear during boss encounters. You often have to balance taking care of adds and doing damage to the boss. |\n| AFK | Stands for \"away from keyboard.\" This means that a player is temporarily unavailable. |\n| AoE | \"Area of effect” refers to attacks or abilities that affect a certain area. This contrasts with abilities that only hit one target, like a rifle. Usually, you'll see a circle or other indication of where the ability is currently in effect. |\n| Bots | Bots, CPUs, and \"computers\" all refer to non-human opponents in multiplayer games. Some multiplayer titles let you play the game modes by yourself or with friends in local multiplayer against bots. Alternatively, calling another player a \"bot\" is an insult. |\n| Buff/Nerf | A change that makes a character or weapon more powerful in someway. Conversely, a nerf is a change that reduces the power of an element. |\n| Bullet Sponge | An enemy that takes an excessive amount of damage to kill (because it \"soaks up\" damage like a sponge) . |\n| Camping | Sitting in one place, as opposed to continually roaming around the map. People who do this are referred to as campers, and they do it to get the drop on other players. |\n| Cheese/Cheesing | You employ a cheap tactic to complete a task without much trouble. For example, you might repeat a certain powerful combo against your opponent over and over to beat them. |\n| Clans | In multiplayer games, groups of players who play together. Titles like Call of Duty allow you to add a clan tag to your username and join a clan. Typically, these are informal; they aren't properly organized professional teams. |\n| Cooldown | In many games, once you use an ability, you have to wait a certain amount of time before using it again. This is called a cooldown period. Generally, more powerful abilities have longer cooldown periods. |\n| Crafting | Using materials gathered in a game (like plants or scrap metal) to make other useful items, like weapons or healing potions. |\n| DLC | Stands for downloadable content. It refers to any extra elements that you can download separately from the main game, including characters, levels, cosmetics, and similar. DLC sometimes, but not always, comes at an additional cost. |\n| DPS | Short for \"damage per second”, DPS is a measurement for how much damage a particular weapon or attack outputs. \"DPS\" can also refer toa class of characters that is primarily meant to deal damage, as opposed to other classes like tank or healer. |\n| DRM | Stands for \"digital rights management\" and refers to tools that manage copyright protection for games. It includes everything from built-in anti-piracy measures in games to needing to check in with Steam to play games on PC. |\n| Easter Eggs | Like their real-life counterparts, Easter eggs hidden messages or features in games. This can include a small nod to another title in the series, a funny message hidden by the developers, or similar. |\n\n\n| Feeding/Throwing | Feeding is the act of being repeatedly killed by the enemy team. Feeding can be unintentional if done by an unskilled player, or done intentionally to throw.\u003Cbr>Throwing is intentionally acting in a way that will lose the game. Someone who's throwing might stay at their spawn and avoid attacking the enemy, never use their abilities, run in alone and ignore their team, or otherwise make no attempt to win. |\n| --- | --- |\n| FPS | A first-person shooter game. This refers to a genre where you see the world through your character's eyes, instead of a camera behind them. Shooters in first-person usually show you a weapon in your floating hands, as if you're the character.\u003Cbr>FPS ca","cbCaie86Ml0Tu2fI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaie86Ml0Tu2fI","pdf",69790,"English","# Glossary of common gaming terms\n## Core gameplay and combat terminology\n## Multiplayer culture and match behaviors","[{\"question\":\"What do terms like AFK and AoE mean in games?\",\"answer\":\"AFK means a player is temporarily unavailable, typically away from the keyboard. 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