Rubber Duckie - Steel-Beak, an enemy which is surprisingly dangerous despite looking like a rubber duck.Combat Amphibians, Fight Frogs, or any synonym for 'battle' and 'toads' stuck together - Battletoads.In Clan matches it's already assumed everyone has their try hard pants on already and thus the term is only meant in the context of pub servers. When groups of high quality players end up in a single public server, it can lead to the entire server putting on their try hard pants. 'Putting on your try hard pants' means switching from 'for fun' weapons and playing outside your best roles, to using your best weapons and roles, playing as seriously as you can can to win the match.

It's generally an insult, especially when the person doing it actually sucks even when try harding.

In Battlefield it means someone playing overly serious and not PTFO'ing because they are trying to get a leet KDR.

The term 'Try Harder' crossed over from the Call of Duty fandom into the Battlefield community via youtube commentators who are involved with both games.

PTFO and PTFO'ing: This means 'Playing The Fucking Objective', used to describe playing with teamwork, squad tactics and actually trying to win the game and not just about your KDR.

Guns that shoot with little or no recoil are commonly referred to as lasers.

The Wesker Helicopter for the Viper, because of how nigh-unstoppable it is with the right attachments.

The Doctor Doom Tank for the Tunguska, because it possesses Hidden Missiles.

Sometimes known as 'The Stick of a Thousand Suns'.

Also referred to occasionally as the ' Solar Flare Flashlight' because the blinding effect has been compared to the intensity of the Sun.

Players often refer to the tactical flashlight as the 'Nuclear Powered Flashlight' because of it's ability to blind other players even in daylight.

Fans of Astarion from Baldur's Gate III have taken to shortening his name to 'Star' or 'Starry'.

Chateau/Château Irenicus - Irenicus' labratory-lair the game starts in.

The Russian fandom refers to Irenicus as 'Varennik'.

Technically not a 'fan' nickname, as internal scripting uses 'CHARNAME' as a token to display the player's chosen name.

As each subsequent game has added more and more stuff to do outside the main story quest, this nickname is more and more applicable. Faffing About Creed: After Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation review of the first game wherein he points out the comparative lack of assassinating compared to the running about gathering flags and rescuing oppressed citizens.Antichamber: The yellow gun is called 'The Butter Gun' by some as dragged lines of yellow blocks look like sticks of butter.The Game Grumps playthrough took his sole spoken line (roughly 'mycaruba') and anglicized it to 'Mike Aruba.'.Another World has an alien companion that is never named (thanks to Aliens Speaking English being averted), so most fans ended up calling him 'Buddy.'.Some have started calling Celeste space chicken because she comes around during meteor showers in 'New Horizons'.

Nickname for a dwarfish piano prodigy