Difference between revisions of "Abbreviations"

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Common Abbreviations

• AB - Action Boy
• AC - Armor Class
• 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
• BRD - Bonus Ranged Damage
• BRoF - Bonus Rate of Fire
• CA - Combat Armor
• CA MKII - Combat Armor Mark II
• CA2 - An even shorter abbreviation for Combat Armor Mark II
• CC - Close Combat
• CH - Charisma
• CLJ - Combat Leather Jacket
• CtH - Chance to Hit
• CW - Carry Weight
• DCA - Desert Combat Armor
• DR - Damage Resistance
• DT - Damage Threshold
• EMC - Even More Criticals
• EN - Endurance
• ET - Even Tougher
• EW - Energy Weapons
• FA - First Aid skill
• FCC - Fuel Cell Controller
• FEV - Forced Evolutionary Virus
• FLC - Friendly Lending Company, the bank located in some towns
• FoV - Field of View
• 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
• 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
• MA - Metal Armor
• MA2 - Metal Armor Mark II
• MC - More Criticals
• MoS - Man of Steel
• MPF - Mega Power Fist
• MRD - More Ranged Damage
• 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
• PK - Player-Killer, those who murder others (as opposed to APK, or Anti Player-Killer)
• PP - Party Points
• 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
• SD - Silent Death
• SF - San Francisco
• SG - Stealth Girl
• SPECIAL - Combination of Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, and Luck.
• SR - Silent Running
• SS - Shady Sands commonly called NCR
• ST - Strength
• TB - Turn-Based (mode), as opposed to RT above
• TC - Town Control
• TH - Treasure Hunter
• TP - Themepark
• TPR - Turbo Plasma Rifle
• VC - Vault City
• VCP - Vault City Patrols
• WH - Warehouse or sometimes Weapon Handling
• WW - Waterworks