UT glossary

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Community patch for UT99, approved by Epic: modern renderers, widescreen, fixes. Practically required online.

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Anti-cheat that runs on the server and checks players. Nothing to install on your side.

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Gone for a moment.

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Triples the damage of all weapons for 30 seconds (about 27 at Hardcore speed). Whoever carries it glows – and becomes a target.

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100 points, absorbs three quarters of incoming damage.

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One team attacks and must complete objectives in order, the other defends. Then sides swap, and the first attack's time is the one to beat.

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Offense: grab the flag and escort the FC home.

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"Base" can mean a team's whole half or just the room with the flag – be specific in callouts.

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150 shield points that soak up all damage first.

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A command on a key, e.g. "set input F5 say gg" in the console or directly in User.ini.

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Fires sticky goo. Hold secondary to charge a big blob that bursts into smaller ones.

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Three extra-high jumps.

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Timed jump courses built on CTF: finish the run and cap at the end.

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Folder where UT stores downloaded files under cryptic names; cache.ini lists which file is which.

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Waiting at one spot for someone to show up. Unpopular in DM, everyday business on CTF defense.

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A point in CTF: the enemy flag delivered to your own.

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A regular group of players who train and play clan wars together – like SanTiTan.

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Large European platform for leagues and ladders where UT clans competed – long gone.

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A short tag before or after your name that shows your clan.

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Hit your own shock ball with the beam for a massive explosion.

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Command line for commands like open, netspeed or demorec. Which key opens it depends on your settings.

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Escorting your FC and clearing chasers. Without cover, hardly any FC makes it home.

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Two teams, two bases, two flags. Grab the enemy flag and bring it to yours – it only counts while your own flag is at home.

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Cup: a tournament over a few days. League: a fixed season. Ladder: a ranking where you challenge others.

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An arranged match, clan against clan. Results and reports under Clan wars.

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Nuclear missile with a huge blast radius – yourself included. With secondary fire you steer it, while your body stands there unprotected.

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Defending base and flag. Camping isn't an insult here – it's the job.

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A match recording: "demorec name" starts, "stopdemo" stops, "demoplay name" plays it back.

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Everyone against everyone; most frags wins.

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Double-tap a direction key to dodge sideways. A basic of every fight.

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Capture and hold control points; each point held keeps scoring.

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Several frags in quick succession, escalating: Double Kill, Multi Kill, Ultra Kill, Monster Kill.

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Captains take turns picking players from a pool for balanced teams, e.g. in the iCTF Draft Cup.

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The enemy flag carrier – whoever has your flag right now. Stopping them comes before everything else.

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Pistol: primary is accurate, secondary ("gangsta" style) fires twice as fast at half the accuracy. Pick up a second one to dual-wield.

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Your own team's flag carrier. The whole team works to get that flag home safely.

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The first frag of the match.

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Primary sprays hot shrapnel like a shotgun, secondary lobs a shrapnel grenade. Best at close range.

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Field of view, default 90, e.g. "fov 100" in the console. Since 469f, UT adapts it to widescreen automatically.

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Frames per second. More FPS feels more responsive.

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A kill. Suicide costs you one frag.

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A clan war that doesn't count for a league or cup – for fun and practice.

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Once the masterserver and server browser for many games, shut down in 2014.

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At the end – win or lose.

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When a player bursts into pieces. That's where "Instagib" gets its name.

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At the start of a match.

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The extended 2000 edition with bonus content. Today's free installers build on it.

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Taking the flag from the enemy base. Call it out so your cover is ready.

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110 % game speed and 50 % more damage – standard on most online servers.

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A shot to the head, usually with the sniper – the announcer calls it out.

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+20 health, but only up to 100.

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Weapons that hit instantly with no travel time: Enforcer, Minigun, Sniper and the shock beam. Pure aim.

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Melee piston: hold primary fire and touch an opponent. Secondary fire deflects projectiles.

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Fire the hammer at the ground while jumping for an extra-high jump – at the cost of some health.

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Config files in the System folder: User.ini (keys, player) and UnrealTournament.ini (graphics, sound, network).

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Everyone gets the Enhanced Shock Rifle, one hit kills, no weapons or items on the map. Pure aim and movement.

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Makes you nearly invisible – only a faint shimmer remains.

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Chat networks like QuakeNet with clan and PUG channels such as #ctfpug. Most of it moved to Discord.

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+100 health, even above 100 (up to 199).

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Frags in a row without dying: 5 Killing Spree, 10 Rampage, 15 Dominating, 20 Unstoppable, 25 Godlike. Ending someone's spree gets announced too.

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Network delay; players then jump around jerkily ("warping").

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The lineup for a clan war.

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Everyone has a limited number of lives – the last one standing wins.

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The maps allowed in a league, cup or clan war.

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The start of a map name tells you the mode: DM-, CTF-, AS-, DOM-.

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Voting for the next map at the end of a match.

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The list of all servers your server browser reads. The old masterservers are gone.

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Co-op against Unreal's monsters all the way to the map's exit.

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Plays between the bases: holds the middle, backs up offense and defense, keeps track of item timers.

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Rapid fire; secondary is twice as fast at half the accuracy and eats ammo.

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A team made of players from different clans.

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Rule add-on for a match, e.g. Instagib or Low Gravity.

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Praise for a nice frag.

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How many bytes per second the server may send you. For DSL or fibre: "netspeed 20000" in the console.

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So close.

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Tied when time runs out? Play continues until one team leads – in CTF, the next cap wins.

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50 points, absorb half of incoming damage.

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Round trip time to the server and back, in milliseconds. Lower is better.

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Data packets lost on the way. Even a few percent makes play choppy.

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Public server anyone can join.

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Teams put together on the spot; once via IRC channels, today mostly on Discord.

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Primary fires fast plasma balls, secondary a short-range beam that melts opponents in seconds while you stay on target.

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Older server package against cheats, with extras like teamsay placeholders. Largely replaced by ACE today.

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Back again.

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Taking down the EFC and returning your flag – the core job of defense and mid.

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Download server for maps and packages. Without one, UT downloads files painfully slowly from the game server.

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The game's graphics driver. With 469 you can choose, e.g. Direct3D 11, OpenGL or Vulkan.

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Coming back after being fragged – or an item reappearing after a fixed time.

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If your flag is lying around, just touch it and it jumps back to base. Left alone, it returns by itself after a while.

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A borrowed outside player helping out in a clan war – agree on it with the opponent first.

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Razor disks that bounce off walls – aim for the neck to decapitate. Secondary fires explosive disks.

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Load up to six rockets or grenades and fire them at once. Keep it on a target and it locks on.

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Locking down your base while your FC waits inside for your flag to come back – nobody gets in.

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Primary is an instant-hit beam, secondary fires slow energy balls. The name ASMD comes from Unreal.

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Your player model's look; many clans had their own.

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Popular server add-on with a detailed scoreboard that counts caps, covers, seals and more.

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Secondary zooms up to 8×. Headshots often kill instantly.

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Firing projectiles into chokepoints and corners (flak, rockets, pulse, bio), even without a clear target.

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Fragging players right after they respawn. Tactically strong, but often banned or frowned upon in clan wars.

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Watching instead of playing; "behindview 1" switches to third person, "behindview 0" back.

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Area damage from explosions – it hurts even when the shot misses.

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A team within a clan. At SanTiTan each has its own record under Squads.

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Both flags are out and nobody can score. Whoever gets the EFC first breaks the deadlock.

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Deathmatch in teams; team frags add up.

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Message to your team only. With the right server add-on, placeholders like %H (health) and %A (armor) work.

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The clans' voice chat in the 2000s – today mostly Discord.

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Throw the disc into an opponent and teleport – instant frag.

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How often per second the server sends out the game state. Higher means smoother but needs more netspeed and server power.

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Tracking when strong items come back and calling it out. Saying the second is enough ("belt at 34") – everyone knows the minute.

The clock counts real seconds, items count game time – at Hardcore speed (110 %) they are back sooner.

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Standalone tactical mod for UT, similar to Counter-Strike.

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Primary throws the disc, secondary teleports you to it. Carrying the flag in CTF? You'll drop it. If enemies shot your disc, it's disrupted – teleport anyway and you get gibbed.

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Jumps that reach shortcuts or hidden spots on a map – often with the hammer, boots or translocator.

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Faster movement at the same game speed.

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Spectator proxy that broadcast matches live with a delay. Streams do that today.

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Error when one of your files differs from the server's copy – deleting and redownloading usually fixes it.

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Small vial, +5 health, also up to 199.

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Picked-up weapons stay on the map for everyone else.

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Well played.

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Lag compensation mods: hits count as you saw them on your screen. Common in Instagib.