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  2. Spawning (video games) - Wikipedia

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    In video games, spawning is the live creation of a character, item or NPC. Respawning is the recreation of an entity after its death or destruction, perhaps after losing one of its lives . Despawning is the deletion of an entity from the game world.

  3. Destiny: Rise of Iron - Wikipedia

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    It has been updated for Rise of Iron to feature more and stronger vehicles, proper despawn of damaged vehicles, and tweaks to scoring. [8] The ability to host private and custom multiplayer matches was also added; users can choose the game mode (including Inferno and Mayhem variants), map and time of day, score and time limits, availability of ...

  4. Fortnite: Save the World - Wikipedia

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    The "tower defense" aspect of the game revolves around the player character defending the storm shield against zombie like creatures.Fortnite: Save the World is described as a unique blend of sandbox survival co-op lite RPG tower defense game, and is an amalgamation of player progression, exploration, scavenging items, sharing scarce resources, crafting weapons, building fortified structures ...

  5. Timekeeping in games - Wikipedia

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    In real-time games, time progresses continuously.This may occur at the same or different rates from the passage of time in the real world. For example, in Terraria, one day-night cycle of 24 hours in the game is equal to 24 minutes in the real world.

  6. World War II Online - Wikipedia

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    WWII Online is set in 1940–1944 World War II in Western Europe. It is a virtual battlefield and a combined arms war simulation. A player can command or crew a variety of accurately modeled aircraft; armored fighting vehicles, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft artillery, four naval vessels, fight as a foot-soldier with a variety of infantry weapons, or play as a paratrooper and drop from either a ...

  7. High Precision Event Timer - Wikipedia

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    The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) is a hardware timer available in modern x86-compatible personal computers. Compared to older types of timers available in the x86 architecture, HPET allows more efficient processing of highly timing-sensitive applications, such as multimedia playback and OS task switching .

  8. Pencil detonator - Wikipedia

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    The timer was started by crushing the copper section of the tube to break the vial of cupric chloride, which then began to slowly erode the wire holding back the striker. When the wire eventually parted, the striker was propelled down the hollow centre of the detonator, hitting the percussion cap at the other end of the detonator.

  9. Toss bombing - Wikipedia

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    “Over-the-shoulder” delivery. Toss bombing (sometimes known as loft bombing, and by the U.S. Air Force as the Low Altitude Bombing System, or LABS) is a method of bombing where the attacking aircraft pulls upward when releasing its bomb load, giving the bomb additional time of flight by starting its ballistic path with an upward vector.