Most common gaming slangs every gamer should know
Asking your friend what a term means during the game can disturb the flow of the game. Instead, you can refer to this guide whenever you hear a new term, after your gaming session, of course.
1. AFK
AFK gaming slang/term means away from the keyboard. Typing AFK in-game chat during a match lets your teammates know that you won’t be available to play for a while.
2. Gg
GG gaming slang means good game. Mostly used at the end of online multiplayer matches to let your teammates and opponents know that you had a good game and enjoyed playing with the lot.
3. Smurf
These are not the little blue people you watched growing up. Smurf refers to a player with a high skill set in gaming terms who competes with players of low skill set via a new “smurf account” or someone else’s account.
4. Camping
In gaming, camping refers to the tactic where a player sits in a strategically advantageous position in the game map.
5. Bot
The gaming term Bot refers to a character that is controlled by a computer. In most games, bots are non-playable characters.
6. Buff/Nerf
In gaming slang, Buff is when a weapon or tool is rendered with good stats with the latest updates making it good for use. On the other hand, Nerf is when a weapon is deemed inferior to other weapons with inferior stats.
7. Easter Egg
An easter egg is a hidden message; it could be in any form inside a game. It can be an image, a video, or even a hidden feature in the gameplay. Easter eggs are hard to find, but finding one is always worth it.
8. Lag
In online gaming, Lag refers to the delay between the input (action of the player) and the output (reaction of the in-game character).
9. NPC
NPCs in Genshin Impact
A non-player character (NPC), as the name suggests, is a character that you cannot control. Most NPCs in games have important roles to play for you to progress in the game’s storyline.
10. Gacha
Taken from real-life Gacha vending machines found in Asian countries like Japan, Gacha is a mechanic that allows you to draw from a pool of items for a chance to win exclusive weapons or characters with different play mechanics.
