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* AB - [[Action Boy]] | * AB - [[Action Boy]] | ||
* AC - [[Armor Class]] | * AC - [[Armor Class]] | ||
* AFK - Away from keyboard | |||
* AG - [[Agility]] | * AG - [[Agility]] | ||
* AP - [[Action Points]], or [[Penetrate|Armor Piercing]] | * AP - [[Action Points]], or [[Penetrate|Armor Piercing]] | ||
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* SS - [[Sharpshooter]] the perk, [[Shady Sands]] commonly called [[NCR]], or [[Solar Scorcher]] | * SS - [[Sharpshooter]] the perk, [[Shady Sands]] commonly called [[NCR]], or [[Solar Scorcher]] | ||
* ST - [[Strength]] | * ST - [[Strength]] | ||
* Stat/Stats/Statted - Refers to bonus properties on ''some'' [[Weapons]] and [[Armor]], which makes them more effective. A "statted" item can be found, enchanted, or sometimes [[Crafting|crafted]]: | * Stat/Stats/Statted - Refers to bonus properties on ''some'' [[Weapons]] and [[Armor]], which makes them more effective. A "statted" item can be found, enchanted, or sometimes [[Crafting#Crafted_Items_and_Chance_for_Bonus_Stats|crafted]]: | ||
** Quality: the item will have 1 bonus property, like +1 Range, or +25 Max Damage, or -1 [[AP]] or [[Carry Weight]] for armor. | ** Quality: the item will have 1 bonus property, like +1 Range, or +25 Max Damage, or -1 [[AP]] or [[Carry Weight]] for armor. | ||
** Improved: the item will have 2 bonus properties, like +15 Min Damage ''and'' +10 Max Damage. | ** Improved: the item will have 2 bonus properties, like +15 Min Damage ''and'' +10 Max Damage. | ||
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** They are often preferred for [[Levels|leveling]] up since a player [[Character]] can stand back and pick off all members of both groups while they mainly fight each other. | ** They are often preferred for [[Levels|leveling]] up since a player [[Character]] can stand back and pick off all members of both groups while they mainly fight each other. | ||
* WH - [[Warehouse]] or sometimes [[Weapon Handling]] | * WH - [[Warehouse]] or sometimes [[Weapon Handling]] | ||
* WiP/WIP - Work in Progress | * WiP/WIP - [[Changelogs|Work]] in Progress; [[Wipe]] is pending | ||
* WoF - [[Way of the Fruit]] | * WoF - [[Way of the Fruit]] | ||
* WW - [[Waterworks]] | * WW - [[Waterworks]] | ||
Revision as of 20:03, 18 February 2021
These are some common abbreviations in this game:
- AB - Action Boy
- AC - Armor Class
- AFK - Away from keyboard
- AG - Agility
- AP - Action Points, or Armor Piercing
- APA - Advanced Power Armor
- APK - Anti Player-Killer, those who fight against tyranny (as opposed to PK, or Player-Killer)
- AR - Assault Rifle, or Adrenaline Rush
- Ares - Ares Rocket Silo
- BC - Better Criticals
- BG - Barter Grounds, or Big Guns, or Boneyard Guard perk.
- BH - Broken Hills, or maybe Bonehead, and sometimes Brotherhood Combat Helmet
- BoA - Book of Achievement
- BRD - Bonus Ranged Damage
- BRoA - Bonus Rate of Attack, a merging of BRoF and Bonus HtH Attacks
- BRoF - Bonus Rate of Fire, a retired perk, replaced by BRoA.
- CA - Combat Armor
- CA MKII - Combat Armor Mark II
- CA2 - An even shorter abbreviation for Combat Armor Mark II
- CC - Close Combat or Crit Chance
- CCM - Closed Combat Master
- CH - Charisma
- CLJ - Combat Leather Jacket
- CtH - Chance to Hit
- CW - Carry Weight
- DCA - Desert Combat Armor
- DL - Dual-Log is when a player is logged into multiple Characters at the same time
- DoC - Deck of Cards
- DR - Damage Resistance
- DT - Damage Threshold
- EMC - Even More Criticals
- EN - Endurance
- EP - Exit Package
- ET - Even Tougher
- EW - Energy Weapons
- FA - First Aid skill
- FCC - Fuel Cell Controller
- FEV - Forced Evolutionary Virus
- FF - Fortune Finder (undocumented perk), or Friendly Fire, or Focus-Fire.
- FLC - Friendly Lending Company, the bank located in some towns
- FM - Field Medic
- FOnline - This game, in its various forms. See FOnline Servers. Related details:
- F1 - The original Fallout game from 1997, now owned by Bethesda, sometimes called Fallout 1
- F2 - Fallout 2, the sequel released only 1 year after F1 due to F1's immediate success
- FO2238 - FOnline: 2238 (now offline) was hosted by Rotators
- FOR - FOnline: Reloaded, this game, hosted by Kilgore, DocAN and mojuk
- FO2 - FOnline 2, one of the other FOnline servers, not to be confused with Fallout 2
- F3 - Fallout 3
- FNV - Fallout New Vegas
- FoV - Field of View
- FR - Fast-Relog, something that is against the rules if applicable in any way to PvP
- GM - Game-Master. The only GMs are the devs. There are no other GMs beyond the devs.
- GR - Gunrunners
- HC - Hit Chance
- HH - Heavy Handed
- HP - Hit Points
- HPA - Hardened Power Armor
- HR - Healing Rate
- HtG - Hit the Gaps
- HtH - Hand-to-Hand aka Close Combat
- IG - Iron Grip or Incendiary Grenade
- IL - Iron Limbs
- IN - Intelligence
- IRL - In Real Life
- IYF - In Your Face!
- LA - Living Anatomy, or Los Angeles area aka Boneyard
- LG - Lifegiver
- LK - Luck
- LP - Lockpick skill
- LR - Laser Rifle
- LSMG - Laser SMG, the EW version of an SMG (see SMG below)
- LSW - Light Support Weapon (Big Guns), or Laser Support Weapon (EW)
- MA - Metal Armor
- MA2 - Metal Armor Mark II
- MC - More Criticals
- MDoC - Marked Deck of Cards
- ML - Multi-Log, something that is against the rules
- MoS - Man of Steel
- MPF - Mega Power Fist
- MRD - More Ranged Damage
- MS - Motion Sensor
- NCR - New California Republic but commonly refers to Shady Sands
- NR - New Reno
- NRA - New Reno Arms, a guns store in New Reno
- OD - Outdoorsman skill
- OoC - Out of Character, as in text chat in brown color via /O, one of the In-Game Chat options
- PA - Power Armor
- PC - Player Character - not the player, but any one of a player's in-game Characters
- PE - Perception
- PJ - Pancor Jackhammer
- PK - Player-Killer, those who murder others (as opposed to APK, or Anti Player-Killer)
- PP - Party Points or YK32 Pulse Pistol
- PR - Poison Resistance
- PTK - Poisoned Throwing Knife
- PvE - Player versus Environment
- PvP - Player versus Player
- Pyro - Pyromaniac
- QP - Quick Pockets
- QR - Quick Recovery
- rAP - Recharge Action Points
- RBtE - Right Between the Eyes
- RL - Rocket Launcher, or Real Life (IRL above)
- RoF - Rate of Fire when Shooting
- RP - Role-Play
- RR - Radiation Resistance
- RT - Real-Time (mode) as opposed to TB below
- SAD - Sierra Army Depot
- SB - Stealth Boy
- SD - Silent Death
- SE - Special Encounter
- SF - San Francisco (or Small Frame, which is no longer a working Perk)
- SG - Stealth Girl
- SMG - Submachine Gun, a class of weapon that includes the 10mm SMG, H&K P90c, H&K G11, H&K G11E, and the Laser SMG.
- SPECIAL - A Character's SPECIAL is a combination of Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, and Luck.
- SR - Silent Running or Sniper Rifle
- SS - Sharpshooter the perk, Shady Sands commonly called NCR, or Solar Scorcher
- ST - Strength
- Stat/Stats/Statted - Refers to bonus properties on some Weapons and Armor, which makes them more effective. A "statted" item can be found, enchanted, or sometimes crafted:
- Quality: the item will have 1 bonus property, like +1 Range, or +25 Max Damage, or -1 AP or Carry Weight for armor.
- Improved: the item will have 2 bonus properties, like +15 Min Damage and +10 Max Damage.
- Superior: the item will have 3 bonus properties, maybe to Accuracy, Crit Power, Crit Chance.
- Advanced: the item will have 4 bonus properties, some combination of the above.
- Unique: the item will have 5 bonus properties.
- TB - Turn-Based (mode), as opposed to RT above
- TC - Town Control
- TH - Treasure Hunter
- Tier - Abbreviated and combined with a number, expresses the general power level of an item. Examples:
- Any Level 1 Character can craft a double-barreled Shotgun which is considered to be t1
- Get first level of Small Guns profession and craft Combat Shotguns, which are also t1
- But get Small Guns 2 and the right blueprint to craft the H&K CAWS which is t2
- The Pancor Jackhammer is even better, and cannot be crafted, so it's considered t3
- A crafted Minigun is considered to be t2 even with stats
- Meanwhile, the Avenger Minigun is t3
- The Vindicator Minigun is even better than the Avenger, so it is t4
- TLA - Thermal Leather Armor, and is also another of the FOnline Servers called The Life After
- TP - Themepark
- TPR - Turbo Plasma Rifle
- VC - Vault City
- VCI - Vault City Inoculations
- VCP - Vault City Patrols
- vs Encounters - random encounters that include two or more NPC groups that are hostile to each other.
- WH - Warehouse or sometimes Weapon Handling
- WiP/WIP - Work in Progress; Wipe is pending
- WoF - Way of the Fruit
- WW - Waterworks
| See Also | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | SPECIAL · Traits · Perks · Skills · Skill points · Carry Weight · Levels · Armor Class · Reputation · Skins · NPC Factions · Player-Driven Factions · Reroll · Vault-Tec DB | |
| Combat | Hit Chance · Critical Chance · Critical Hit · Aimed Attack · Resistances · Hit Points · Death · Miss · Critical Miss · Range · Sight · Fog of War · Shooting | |
| Items | Weapons · Armors · Ammo · Resources · Blueprints · Craftables · Books · Drugs · Implants · Miscellaneous Items | |
| And Other | Guides · Quests · Jobs · Telltales · Caravans · Caravan cart · Dungeons · Player Farm · Commands · Abbreviations · Merchants · Town Control · Vehicles · Tents · Safe Houses · Bases · Group Encounters · Special Encounters | |