Essential Vocabulary for Android Netrunner

New to Netrunner? In this video, I cover some of the basic vocabulary used by experienced players to describe game phenomena.

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[richardfuqua]

I really miss your videos, man. They were my favorite for ANR by far. Great approach and personality, and I like your voice.

[inovomystif]

I followed this up until the 5 minute mark.  Good job!

[Inaki]

thank you! Very useful specially for non-English speakers like me who visit English-written websites about this fantastic game

[crossbrainedfool]

Hmm, the local definitions of FA differ, at least in my local area. Fast advance is specifically cards that let you score an agenda from hand, like Biotic Labor. 'Rush' instead means doing something quickly behind ETR ice. I. E. score something on turn 3 behind an ice wall. 

[NovaCyn]

Face checking is very much a term borrowed from other games, especially prominent in MOBA games, where you walk into areas (high ground, arround corners, into brush) that potentially hides enemy players (heroes/champions etc) instead of using something safer to scout with (wards, skills, staying away etc)

I also must say i preffer cross's (below me) distinguishing between FA and rush. NA (Never advance) is placing agendas down looking like assets/upgrades then scoring with 3x adv. FA is installing and scoring same turn and SA (slow adv) is letting the agenda sit with counters on for some time. the terms NA and SA are very rarely used, though never advance was actually a deck archetype back when i started playing i remember.

Rushing is about winning fast, and not limited to corporation. You can rush without fast advancing, and you can fast advance with a slow deck. Back in CnC I used to play some super slow HB deck that won purely off SSCG and biotic. It was a slow deck, but definitely an FA deck

I guess the moral is words have the meaning we give them, and unofficial terms are often subject to interpretation. This video is a fine source of basic terminology, and will definitely put people in the right direction with a lot of terms, and i do feel we needed something like this. Nicely done

[Marinealver]

Nice tutorial. I haven't heard much about tutor as slang for search, I know alot of Netrunner are former or current MTG players so I understand terms like mill which originated from MTG but is now used any any game resembling a CCG even Hearthstone players uses the term mill.

As for fast advanced I think instead of rush it refers more to scoring an agenda out of HQ (hand). Placing agendas down in remotes leaves them briefly exposed while in HQ there is a chance the Runner won't randomly reach it. Fast advance can be a mid game as much as an agro fast game.

[NawDawgTheRazor]

As always, very informative, clear, and professional. You are my go to source for Netrunner news :)

[KrystianMajewski]

Oh! 2 good ones missing here are "Click Compression" and "Scoring Window".

[pahaha]

Thanks for this man. I didn't watch it before watching the 2015 Worlds, but I wish I had.

[Icagel]

I particularly dislike players bringing the term "tutor" to other games, mainly when there's already the term "searcher" in that game that's a lot more intuitive to new players and makes more sense.

[flopus]

Discovering your channel post netrunner death is both great and sad.

[Zhab]

The way I understand "facecheck" and the way I've seen it used is not so much about running against servers with unrezzed ICE. That is just playing the game... It is running against such servers with no breakers. Which is why dangerous ICE are actually dangerous against facecheck instead of simply costing the runner few credits.

I compare this to a soldier who want to look around the corner. He can use a mirror to do so without risk of getting head shot on the spot or.... he can use his actual face to check. Thus "facechecking" that corner.

A runner who is constantly doing this might be described as "running naked".