Meanings
- slanguncountablevideo gamesMoving in three directions, about three axes.
I know nothing about elite players but I belive^([sic]) trichording works at its best in dogfights.
1997, micnet, “SpaceOrb Debate (was: auto-levelling)”, in alt.games.descent (Usenet)1 more example
In order to know when someone's cheating, one has to know everything about the weapons in Descent 3. One must know reload rates, relative shield damage, and physics (to a small degree). One should also know about ship physics for each ship, and of course know about trichording and know what it looks like when a certain ship is trichording.
2002, Samus, “Releasing the 1.5 patch unofficially...”, in alt.games.descent (Usenet)
Origin
From tri- + coordinate + -ing, referring to simultaneous movement along three orthogonal axes.
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