XBlast Dictionary Page
If you want to understand XBlast and the philosophy behind it, you'll
have to master the terminology of XBlast used by the real
XBlasters. To facilitate this tremendous task, I compiled a small
dictionary with the most important terms.
I'll see whether Yves Bresson will put a copy of this dictionary on
his XBlast-Center and maybe even add to it.
- Aim
- Naturally, every player has a different aim when
playing. Baiscally, we have 5 different player types:
- The alpha-player. He tries to actually win the game, an attitude
which earns him the disdain of the other players.
- The beta-player. His primary aim is to keep a particular player
from winning, and he tries to achieve this by using the
sniper-tactics
against this player, without any consideration for the
general situation.
- The gamma-player. He tries to prolong the game as a whole, which
means that he always uses the sniper-tactics against the
leading player.
- The delta-player. He simply wants to have fun. Usually
achieves this
through applying the SWS-tactics and laughing at his
opponents, especially at those representing type beta and
gamma.
- The epsilon-player. He has no clue as to how to play in
civilized way,
and therefore runs around, dropping bombs without plan,
thus appearing to be similar to those using the
SWS-tactics.
- Bomb
- A device constructed in order to prove that peaceful coexistence
is impossible.
- Enemy
- Everybody who has the unfortune to be in the reach of your
weaponery. This may sometimes include your teampartner. On the
other hand, if he is a worthy partner, he'll stay in a safe
distance.
- Friend
- Everybody who has the fortune to be out of the reach of your
weaponery.
- Idiot
-
- Any player who, when being in the final stage of a level, loses
against the personal enemy of myself, thus allowing this player
to win the level and the game.
- Any player who, after being hit lethally by my ingenious
strategics, droppes a bomb, killing me as well.
- Nice guy
-
- Any player who, when being in the final stage of a level, loses
against me, thus allowing me to win the level and the game.
- Any player who, after being hit lethally with a bomb
dropped by a pure streak of luck from any other player
(exluding myself) droppes a bomb, killing the other one as well.
- Hasenfuß-tactics
- Named after the famous hunter Johann Hasenfuß, a tactics,
where you keep at the edges of the field, trying to avoid any
attention from the opponents and to survive long enough to be
killed by the shrink.
- Sniper-tactics
- A tactics,
where you concentrate on a particular player and try to
neutralize him.
- Schwarzenegger-Willis-Stallone-tactics
- Also known as SWS-tactics, a tactics,
where you run around, blindly dropping bombs and kicking and
blowing everything in reach, in the desperate hope that either
you or your partner will be the survivor in the end.
- Shrink
- The natural enemy of the Hasenfuß-player. Ensures that he
doesn't win often.
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