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It refers to firing all of your available weapons at once - I believe this term dates back to the old MechWarrior games, where there was usually a single key that would fire every weapon at once, frequently with disastrous consequences for both your target and yourself.
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Patch terran/zerg/protoss is a derogatory term for somebody who is only good/successful because in the current state of the balance (patch) his race is too strong.
Supposedly this player's success will quickly fade once the game has been "fixed"/balanced.
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Alpha strike in video games typically means an all out attack using every available weapon. This is done early in the fight in an attempt to cripple or completely destroy an enemy before they have a chance to launch their attack.
In Hawken terms:
An alpha strike is delivering all of your damage at once, typically firing your primary, your secondary, ...
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The person was referring to crab walking (or doing the Spycrab), which is a set of movements you may perform that are amusing in the 3rd person perspective (but not as much in 1st person).
To perform the Spycrab, equip your Disguise Kit, crouch, and look upward. Walking around will make you look like a crab.
More recently, as an acknowledgement of this ...
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Lowballing is offering less on an item
Greed + Selfishness are the characteristics of someone like this.
Sharking is taking advantage of someone and offering less on an item
Greed + Selfishness + Phycopathic are the characteristics of someone like this.
Pro tip : Phycopathic means you don't care about other peoples well being not being crazy.
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Normally, when you land during an aerial attack, you go through an extended landing animation that aware opponents can punish you on. Lag-cancelling is a technique where you press a shield button 6 frames before you land. Doing this will reduce the landing lag time to 4 frames in SSB64, while it cuts the landing lag time in half in Melee (this will end up ...
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L-Canceling via Smash Bros Wiki. L-canceling does not work in Brawl, although auto-cancel does.
To L-cancel, press L, R, or Z (only Z and R work in SSB) within 6
frames of landing on the ground while the character is still
performing an aerial attack. If performed correctly, the character's
recovery animation will be played at twice its normal ...
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It is a means of recovering faster from hitting the ground while performing an air-based attack. You hit either Left, Right or the Z button within ~1/10th of a second (6 frames) after hitting the ground and your recovery will be twice as fast in Melee, allowing you to move onto your next move will less opportunity for your opponents to gain advantage.
This ...
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DHC itself isn't a glitch; it just involves canceling one character's Hyper move animation into a second character's Hyper by inputting the commands for the second character's hyper (for example, Quartercircle Forward + 2 Attack buttons). The first character's Hyper will abruptly be canceled into the second character's Hyper. There's a time window when you ...
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Like most things that originated with piracy groups, the term originated as a way to describe hacks in games that didn't sound quite so illegal. (There are many similarities between the history of "trainers" and the history of "demos", for example).
The original trainer patch programs were generally done by the same groups that pirated games and released ...
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