Telefrag

A telefrag, also known as a Teleportation Frag, in many first-person shooter games featuring teleporters, occurs when one entity teleports into space already occupied by another; the latter is instantly fragged (often gibbed) and the former is said to have telefragged it. One of the first FPS games to feature telefrags was Doom, which was also one of the first to feature teleporters. This kind of frag does not require any weapons at all.

Related Topics:
First-person shooter - Teleporter - Teleport - Frag - Gibbed - Doom

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A similar phenomenon sometimes occurs when an entity spawns into space occupied by another; the effects are usually the same, though some programmers have taken steps to avoid this in some games, such as placing spawn points several feet in the air.

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Though telefragging may occur deliberately from players entering a teleport immediately after the other, it most frequently occurs during spawning, particularly at the start of a match if there are less spawn points than players. In this case at least two players will spawn at the same spawn point, resulting in an immediate telefragging.

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In some cases (like the one below), the player that teleports into the other player survives, whilst the target is fragged. In other occasions, the teleporter dies and the player at the other end of the teleporter is unharmed. Sometimes, both perish.

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In Unreal Tournament, players are provided with a 'translocator' - a personal teleportation device. It is possible, with careful aim, to use this to deliberately telefrag opponents.

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In the end map of Quake, the final boss (Shub-Niggurath of the Cthulhu mythos) can only be killed with a telefrag.

Related Topics:
Quake - Shub-Niggurath - Cthulhu mythos

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In the end map of Unreal, the final boss often kills the player character with a telefrag.

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