gaming is obviously meant to be fun but even if you're a seasoned vet the
alphabet soup of gaming acronyms can be a little mystifying from technical terms
to shorthand you see in discord to jargon throne and angry game reviews so
let's demystify some of these acronyms right now starting with the dreaded qte
which stands for quick time event this has nothing to do with that old video
player from apple but it does have to do with cut scenes instead of giving us a
cut scene to advance the plot and then just getting back to the game
some developers had the genius idea of making gamers press a button during a
cutscene to make something happen on the screen the whole press f to pay respects
fiasco from a few years ago has become the quintessential example of an
extremely stupid quick time event the acne qte isn't disparaging in and of
itself but the vast majority of times you see it
no one's going to have anything positive to say here's another popular one moba
moba or multiplayer online battle arena
these are games based around fighting through three lanes as a team to destroy
the opposing team's base the game dota or defense of the asians is widely
credited with popularizing the genre and
fun fact dota was actually a mod for warcraft 3 but it became so popular that
a standalone sequel called dota 2 was developed today dota 2 league of legends
and arena of valor are three extremely popular moba games that are common in
esports competitions though many other titles do exist let's move on to
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dlss and fsr which stand for deep learning super sampling and fidelity
effects super resolution respectively are the next acronyms on our list these
are two technologies designed to deliver better image quality without putting a
huge load on your graphics card the lss is developed by NVIDIA and is only
available on 2000 series and newer cards and as the name suggests it uses machine
learning to train an ai on what a game should look like meaning the card can
use ai cores to upscale the game instead of forcing the GPU to do tons of raw
computation meaning higher frame rates and higher quality than traditional
rendering fsr on the other hand is from AMD and unlike dlss it does not use
machine learning but it does have special AMD specific algorithms baked in
that allow it for better up sampling without putting too much extra work on
the GPU for your game to support the lss
or fsr the game itself has to support it
so it's mostly found on newer titles some games only support one or the other
while other titles support both another graphical acronym that's
sneakily important is fov or field of view this is a setting that determines
how much of your surroundings you can see the common wisdom is to set it
higher if you're sitting close to the screen and lower if you're farther away
setting it too low when you're close to the display as is often the case when
you're gaming on a pc is actually a common cause of motion sickness so try
turning it up if you're feeling queasy of course turning it up too much can
make the game look like you're viewing it through a fisheye lens so watch out
for that as well do you have any gaming acronyms that confuse the heck out of
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