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Just wanted this to be a little work in progress - getting all our terms cemented. Please comment with terms you'd like to add, or terms you'd like to edit. Over time this should be a fairly complete glossary and maybe can be added to the holocron. ------------------------------------ # -------------------------------- #ja-aurochs: Official IRC channel for the Jedi Academy team: The Aurochs. See: Chat, How to get on IRC #ja-ctf: Unofficial IRC channel for Capture the Flag at the Academy. See: Chat, How to get on IRC #jedi-academy: Main IRC channel for the Academy. See: Chat, How to get on IRC A -------------------------------- Advancing Scissor: Technique used to create forward motion while performing the sissor combo. Aerial: Any attack that happens in the air or from the air. Any jumping attack. Aurochs: The Official Jedi Academy CTF/TFFA Team. It is a group of members that promote the Academy through their matches with clans. The Aurochs are divided into two teams: the TFFA team and the CTF team. See: The Aurochs B -------------------------------- Backstab: A special performed by single's blue stance and staff. The user stands with his back facing his target and is standing next to him. The user then takes his saber and thrusts it directly behind him, stabbing the target and causing considerable damage. Executed by holding backwards + primary fire. See: Blue Stance Specials Backslash: A special performed by Yellow, Red, and Dual stances. The user stands with his back facing his target and is standing next to him. The user then swings with one arm while rotating 180 degrees to face his target and delivers a very powerful slash. Executed by holding backwards + primary fire. See: Yellow Stance Specials Ban: Power of trainers and above to prevent someone from joining the Academy's servers. See: Rules Barrier: Considered the Kata for dual sabers, it is a special where the user crouches down and extends both arms. Then both sabers are released from the hands and fly in a circular repeating pattern creating a 'barrier' between the dual saberist and his opponents. After about 5 seconds the sabers return to the user's hands. Belouve: A Jedi Academy family where the name is passed from master to padawan. See: The Belouves Buzzsaw: A powerful move for dual sabers that uses a forward or backward diagonal swing followed immediately by the opposite diagonal swing. C -------------------------------- Capture: In Capture the Flag, when one team gets the other teams flag and returns it to their own flag station. This scores a point for that team. Capture the Flag (CTF): A gamemode available in the game where two teams fight to defend their own flag while trying to obtain the other team's flag and return it to their own base. See: Capture the Flag Circle Jump: The beginning of a strafe jump; it uses a combination of strafe and mouse movement to form a quarter of a circle and then a jump. The jump travels with greater speed and distance than a regular jump. See: Strafe Jump Corkscrew: An aerial performed by a single saber in red stance where the attacker jumps in the air, flips over sideways, and extends a right swing as he lands on the ground. Counter: 1- Attacking move performed directly after blocking/parrying the opponent's saber. 2- Attacking move timed to strike directly before or after an opponent's swing. D -------------------------------- Dance, The: Basic circular evasion tactic based on strafe movement and keeping an even space with your opponent. Death From Above: Also known as a RDFA (Red Death From Above). A special performed by single saber's red stance where the user quickly leaps directly forward bringing his saber over his head and down strongly. In some cases it can kill instantly. Executed by pressing forward + jump + primary fire. See: Red Stance Specials Delay: Instead of a combo (one swing after another), a second swing is performed just before the saber resets itself. This causes a 'delay' in the swings compared to what usually happens in a combo. Deflection: When a projectile or blaster shot is deflected by a lightsaber. Not to be confused with a parry. Derp: Multi-purpose word that can mean almost anything. Opposite to m00. See: SilkMonkey. DFA: See: Death From Above D'Kana: A Jedi Academy family where the name is passed from master to padawan. See: The D'Kanas E -------------------------------- Emote: An animation sequence that can be performed by the player's model in the game to express emotion or body language. Examples: bowing, standing with wrists locked behind the back, hugging. F -------------------------------- Fast Stance: See: Blue Stance Framerate: The rate of how quickly the game can render several consecutive images known as frames. It is measured in frames per second (FPS). High FPS results in very smooth gameplay while low FPS causes the game to be choppy. G -------------------------------- Gripfly: When two people use level 3 force-grip on eachother and lift themselves up into the air. This moves allow two people to acheive heights that jumping cannot reach. H -------------------------------- Heavy Stance: See: Red Stance Hesitation: a swing that is started, but a backward jump is added to 'hesitate' the swing. So the swing only completes after the jump finishes. I -------------------------------- J -------------------------------- JAA: The tag for the Jedi Academy Aurochs. See: Aurochs JABot: An IRC bot with a Napoleonic mindset that regulates the Academy's IRC channels. JAC: Jedi Academy Council. See: Ranks, About Us, Being a JAK+ JAK+: All ranked members (Knights, Trainers, Staff, and Council). See: Ranks, About Us, Being a JAK+ JAK: Jedi Academy Knight. See: Ranks, About Us, Being a JAK+ JAStaff: Jedi Academy Staff. See: Ranks, About Us, Being a JAK+ JAT: Jedi Academy Trainer. See: Ranks, About Us, Being a JAK+ JK1: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II JK2: Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast JK3: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy jk3ctf: The Academy's CTF Server See: jk3ctf jk3classes: The Academy's Classes Server See: jk3classes jk3home: The Academy's Main Server See: jk3home jk3projects: The Academy's Experimental Server See: jk3projects jk3wireplay-uk: The Academy's European Server See: jk3wireplay-uk K -------------------------------- Kata: A preanimated pattern of attacks where the user quickly moves his saber in a series of very powerful combos and rotations while the saber creates a blurred image. Kick: 1- Power held by ranked members to removed someone from the game by causing the server to cease it's connection with them. 2- Secondary attack for staff users. See: Rules KOTOR: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic L -------------------------------- Lag: A condition that occurs when the delays in the connection become severe enough that the server and client briefly lose and then reestablish contact, causing data to be delivered in bursts, often with delays. This creates 'choppy' gameplay. Laming: Intentionally attacking another without both parties having some mutual understanding that combat is taking place. Example: attacking someone with their saber down, attacking someone while they are chatting, ect. See: Informal Rules Lunge: A special performed in blue stance by single and dual sabers. The user holds his saber facing directly infront of him around waist level. As he quickly steps forward, the saber is lowered so that it is just off of the ground, then is quickly brought up to head-level. See: Blue Stance Specials M -------------------------------- Medium Stance: See: Yellow Stance m00: Multi-purpose word that can mean almost anything. Opposite to Derp. See: massadoobie. N -------------------------------- O -------------------------------- Overhead: a swing that goes straight over the head. Pressing primary fire and forward, or with no motion at all performs this swing. P -------------------------------- Padawan: 1- Someone who has a personal instructor or master. 2- The personal student of a ranked member. See: Master/Padawan Relationships Paddie: See: Padawan Parry: When one saber's impact counteracts the swing/impact of another. This is usually followed up by a second motion striking the opponent. See: Counter Ping: Measure of milliseconds it takes a data packet to travel from the player's computer to the server and back. The lower the ping, the faster the overall data throughput between player and server, thus the smoother the play. PM: Private Message Q -------------------------------- R -------------------------------- RDFA: See: Death From Above Rollstab: A low attack where the attacker goes into a roll, comes to a crouching stop, and extends his saber directly forward in a powerful stab. Performed by holding forward, crouching, and then pressing primary fire before the roll completes. Rotation: In a combo, setting your second or third movement backwards + current strafing direction while holding primary fire, causing your character rotate automatically. S -------------------------------- Scissor: Chaining left/right movements to create a combo (in yellow stance primarily, also in staff and duals). Silence: Power held by ranked members to prevent someone in the game from talking. Different levels of silence can be applied. See: Rules Sleep: Power held by ranked members to force someone in the game immobile by having their character lay down on the ground and unable to move. They still have the ability to talk however. See: Rules Special: An attack in the game that requires a combination of keys to perform and does an unique attack. Example: Kata, Butterfly, Lunge, Rollstab, DFA, yDFA, Backstab, etc. Spin: Using the mouse to rotate the character rapidly. Splash Damage: Damage inflicted from close proximity to a detonation or impact from a projectile. Stance: The mode of saber combat selected for a particular saber. Example: Single saber on red/strong stance, dual sabers on blue/fast stance. See: Stances (incomplete) Statz0r: A notoriously slow and often absent IRC bot that performs scans of the Academy's game servers, Google searches, lastseens, manages quotes, and collects trivial information about the channel. Strafe: Sideways movement. Strafe Jump: 1- Jumping technique that increases the height and distance of a normal jump. 2- Hopping technique that greatly increases speed (strafe jumping). See: Special Moves Strong Stance: See: Red Stance Swaying: Using mouse movement to exaggerate swing movements. T -------------------------------- Teleport: A power reserved to ranked members, it allows them to travel instantly from one part of a map to another. They also have the ability to teleport others. U -------------------------------- V -------------------------------- W -------------------------------- Wallrun: A special movement where the user runs directly up a wall roughly the same distance as a full force level 3 jump and then backflips off or runs alongside a wall roughly 2 meters off the ground for a short distance. See: Special Movement Warping: A latency issue where the number of packets a user sends to the server is restricted, causing him to move in a very choppy fashion. Unintentional warping is known as packet loss. w00t: An exclamation of happiness or being excited. A celebratory statement. X -------------------------------- Y -------------------------------- Yellow Death From Above: (YDFA) A special performed in single's yellow stance where the user leaps in the air, flipping over so he is upside down directly over his target. The user then swings his saber in a horizontal swing while he is suspended upside down in the air, effectively hitting his target in the head. Executed by pressing forward + jump + primary fire. See: Yellow Stance Specials YDFA: See: Yellow Death From Above Z -------------------------------- This post was edited by Tido on Aug 11 2004 04:34pm. |
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Tido - Student 
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Added: Wallrun Belouve Circle Jump Kata Backslash D'Kana Aurochs JAA w00t phew, plenty more to go...feel free to post your definitions  . |
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Put this in the holocron when it's done, please  |
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Axion - Student 
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where's n00b? _______________ Axion - Yeah. |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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Quote: /me looks for Nipple or Belouve  Hey, good point! Don't forget we also have some kind of family called D'Kana, but i've never seen anyone of those ... (jk) Oh, we also got the Aurochs... Don't forget those! _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
Want to know Vladarion? Read the Article about his life here. This comment was edited by Bail Hope of Belouve on Aug 01 2004 06:09pm. |
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speaking of laggin through stuff. wtf is up with ppl grabbing the flag and lagging? are ppl exploiting the game and taking a ton of screenies when they get the flag so you can't hit 'em right then or what? _______________ this is the internet, be serious damn it! |
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What about Wallrun and Backflip/Flip ^^ _______________ Find out more about the Jedi Academy Aurochs here and more about Masta here! Married to Kain. |
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Fire - Student 
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Also to add, IRC Keep up the great work Tido!  |
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Roan Belouve - Retired 
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/me looks for Nipple or Belouve _______________ *Bro to Vaxxla,Padawan of FiZZandOdan-Wei Part of the mighty Belouve Dynasty-Knight of Nippledom.Twin of Selphestal!**Proud Master to Kaelis and Acura Friend to anyone who would call me the same  . Pic by the amazing Majno (merry)
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
Circle jump is a jump where you use the momentum of a 90 degree turn to get maximum speed on strafejumping (the small jumps, not the long ones). |
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Tido - Student 
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ah help me out, what's a circle jump? |
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Fire - Student
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haha Kit Great job on this glossary Tido. Just to add, there's Kata EDIT: Almost forgot, offense, defense, and circle jump as well. This comment was edited by Fire on Jul 29 2004 06:15am. |
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R2D2 - Staff 
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LOL _______________ "Do or do not, there is no try" Jedi Master Yoda Dual Saberist |
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Mreoton - Student |
lies, you can do it if you hold the screeny button down and lag enough going right through the lasers |
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Tido - Student
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no thats called luck |
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Mreoton - Student |
is it warping when you setup a load of trip mines and lag through them without any going off? |
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Tido - Student
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ok added: DFA YDFA Backstab Laming Warping Heavy Stance still plenty to go |
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Tido - Student
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yes cmad, when its completed I think that is where it should go. |
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_cmad_ - Ex-Student 
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Shouldn't this be added in the holocron? _______________ Your friends of today, are your enemies of tomorrow. |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
Still no warp? |
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Setementor - Jedi Master 
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Kick can also be a kick from the server! |
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Mreoton - Student |
i have a suggestion =^_^= Lamer? |
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R2D2 - Staff
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that would be swift kick heh _______________ "Do or do not, there is no try" Jedi Master Yoda Dual Saberist |
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Thomasooo - Student 
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I've got another submission for the term kick: Kick: a move in JK2 that is executed by running towards your opponent, then, when close enough, you can kick him/her by tapping the jump button twice. Can also be done if your opponent is right next to you by tapping strafe + jump. Can only be done if your selected weapon is lightsaber. Feel free to edit it, because I know it's a bit long-winded. _______________ In the navy and LOVING it!
Recipient of comment no. 1000 and heart-warming words from Ataris!
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Tido - Student
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hehe, I'll be sure to update when I get home from work today  |
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R2D2 - Staff 
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Well yellow has some importance. I'm sure Virtue would agree heh. _______________ "Do or do not, there is no try" Jedi Master Yoda Dual Saberist |
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