Terms of the . . . game
These are terms that most new competitive players will need to know. Also new terms will be added as meta's and strats change. What won't be added is Pro's names for locatons or all strats as some call out are well...."nut to butt" and that just can't be what new players learn.
Storm Surge
RHP
Refresh
Low-Ground
Mid Ground(mid)
High Ground
Chill
Focus Zone
Deadside
LOS
Mid Side Rotate
Cap
Holding
Pre-Edits
Boxed
200'd
in-game mechanism that kicks in when too many players are left alive in the following zones. If you/your team doesn't have enough damage dealt you will start taking damage known as "surge damage"
Zone 3: 70 players alive
Zone 5: 50 players alive
Zone 7: 30 players alive
Right Hand Peak can be obtained by standing on the left side of any object. Using a wall edit , selecting the three corner tiles helps create right hand peaks as you're box fighting.
Loot, heals, or mats gained from either eliminating a player. Typically the longer the game the more refreshes you'll need. Some times your drop can be bad due to RNG or early game fights will cause you to need refreshes sooner.
lower layers, or ground level of builds
mid layers, usually 2-5 layers up
top layers, or height, rest of the teams are lower
Lets teammates know you're not ready to fight and they need to slow their fight down or come back to you
Focus on where zone is going, stop looking for picks and focus on getting to zone and having placement points
Portion of the current zone where the least amount of players are.
Line of sight , typically breaking LOS will prevent an enemy from shooting/spotting you while you rotate.
It's close to dead side, but closer to middle of the zone, depending on the lobby this may be an easier rotate
Used to indicate how much ammo/mats you have. Cap means full or max.
Usually said by a teammate who is holding a build while one teammate takes an enemy build piece. Good practice when doing this is to use a different material so your teammate knows when its your build.
Usually said by a teammate who has a pre-edited wall or cone ready. Used in plays to catch teams off guard and have easy shots on players.
Usually said by a teammate who has an opponent fully or partially boxed
Usually said when someone would do 200+ damage with a legendary shotgun, but has now been used when you do max damage headshot that results in a knock or an elim.