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I'm very interested in Valve's little code words for different things.
General[edit | edit source]
- Combat Character - Anything that NPCs should be able to react dynamically to. (
CBaseCombatCharacter
) - DNC - Do Not Compile. Denotes a visgroup that only exists for helping the mapper in some way and needs to be turned off before the map is compiled.
Alien Swarm[edit | edit source]
- Alien - NPC. Probably specifically
CASW_Alien
s. - Commander - Non-bot player?
- Marine - A game character
- Swarm - Any alien lifeform. Equivalent to "Infected" in L4D.
Half-Life 2[edit | edit source]
- Streetwar - War-torn City 17
- Monk - Father Grigori
- Physgun or Physcannon - Gravity gun
- Striderbuster - Magnusson device
Left 4 Dead[edit | edit source]
- Biker - Francis
- Charge - Charger
- Coach - Coach. Presumably, Valve realized the name fits him just fine during development.
- Common Infected - Normal zombies
- Coop, Normal - Refers to the normal four-player gamemode.
- DLC3 - The Sacrifice
- Gambler - Nick
- Girl, TeenGirl, TeenAngst - Zoey
- Hulk, Throw - Tank
- Infected - Zombies
- Leap - Jockey
- Lunge - Hunter
- Manager - Louis
- Mechanic - Ellis
- NamVet (Vietnam veteran) - Bill
- Producer - Rochelle
- PZ (Player Zombie) - A player-controlled special infected, for Versus mode.
- Self Destruct - Leaker
- Spit - Spitter
- Special Infected - The not-regular zombies
- Survivors - The non-infected players
- Terror - A very old codename for L4D. The game that eventually evolved into L4D1 was called "Terror-Strike".
- Tongue - Smoker
- Vomit - Boomer
Portal[edit | edit source]
- Antique, Under - Old Aperture
- Aperture AI - GLaDOS
- Ball - Atlas
- Bounce - Repulsion gel
- Egg - P-body
- Erase - Cleansing gel
- Paint - Gel
- Portal (in the context of gel) - Conversion gel
- "The portal mod" - Sometimes said in code to avoid confusion with visibility "portals".
- Reflect - Reflection gel
- Stick - Adhesion gel
- Speed - Propulsion gel
- Tbeam - Excursion Funnel
- Wall - Light Bridge
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive[edit | edit source]
- 2v2 - Wingman
- Creep - Name for the red area in danger zone.
- CS:S 1.5 - Internal name for CS:GO.
- Survival - Danger Zone
Team Fortress 2[edit | edit source]
- Train Escort - Payload