List of Terms

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This is a list of terms and definitions that can be found in game.

Concepts

• Experience
• Difficulty Scaling
• Hazard Bonus
• Area Damage
• Ricochet
• Health
• Multiplayer
• Movement
• Swarm
• Fear
• Heads-up display
• Status Effects
• Temperature
• Accuracy
• Damage
• Terrain
• Fall Damage
• Stun

Terms

• Glyphid - The most common family of bugs on Hoxxes.
• Mactera - A flying family of bugs living on Hoxxes.
• Swarm - A Swarm is an event that can occur on some mission types which briefly increases enemy spawn rates. Swarms are announced by Mission Control.
• Core Infuser - A square block of whiteish colors. Receives the Tritilyte Key to start a Machine Event event, and allows to infuse a Blank Matrix Core if succeeded.
• Mission Control - Mission Control is the only character voiced but not seen. Explains things, gives orders, and warnings.
• Perk - A gameplay modifier that can be unlocked via the KPI terminal.
• Scrip - The name given to season specific currency. Comes from a historically accurate corporate currency used by mining companies in the past.
• Deep Dive - A series of three missions in a row, both comprised of two primary objectives. Exist in normal and Elite versions.
• Matrix Core - An object granted by completing a weekly Assignment or Deep Dives, that can come as a Blank, Infused or Mineral version.
• Overclock Infused Matrix Core - An Infused Matrix Core that can be used to unlock an Overclock at the Forge.
• Cosmetic Infused Matrix Core - An Infused Matrix Core that can be used to unlock a Cosmetic at the Forge.
• Overclock - Drastical modifiers for weapons (or not), unlocked by forging Infused Matrix Cores in the Forge.
• Clean Overclock - A type of Overclock that only has benefits, but no downsides.
• Balanced Overclock - A type of Overclock that brings in notable changes to a weapon, both good and bad.
• Unstable Overclock - A type of overclock that brings in a game-changing effect to a weapon, but cripples its other functions in exchange.
• Anomaly - A Mutator that can be beneficial or neutral, without the goal to increase challenge.
• Warning - A Mutator that increases the difficulty. A mission can have up to two, but some are mutually exclusive.
• Management - The obscure entity that decides everything, yet is only ever mentioned by Mission Control.
• Rock and Stone - An expression used by the Dwarves as a rally cry.
• Karl - The name of a legendary figure, often evoqued as one might call upon the name of a deity or a hero.
• R&D - An abbreviation of Research and Development, the teams that develop new weapons and equipment for the Dwarves to use.