Frag

A frag or fragger indicates the elimination of an adversary in the video games of subjective shooting ( first-person shooter or FPS) or in some MMORPG. One preferably counts the frags in a part with several players, in order to carry out a classification.

In FPS, the mode Deathmatch (match with dead) establishes during a part the classification of the players according to the number of frags. The player having entered the most frags is then appointed victorious of the part.

Origin

This slang term would have appeared during the Guerre of Vietnam, when the grenades with fragmentation were used. It was taken again the first time in the video games by Doom , one of the first play of subjective shooting, in the multi-players parts.

Alternatives

A frag which can include about all the ways possible to kill an adversary, alternatives made their appearance for precise cases.

  • Headshot : Indicate " frags" realized while drawing with the head from the adversary, often with a rifle of sniper or another very precise weapon, in only one ball.

  • Telefrag : Running in Quake 3, where the téléporteurs are not announced, or in Unreal Tournament, where the players are equipped portable téléporteurs, it consists with téléporter at a place or is already somebody for téléporter through him and to make it burst.
  • Double/Multifrag etc… : Continuation of frags in a very short time, in particular in the series Unreal Tournament

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