noun Gaming Slang

chaining

· noun · gaming

Stringing kills or pickups together to keep a score multiplier alive.

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The heart of high-score play in a lot of shmups. You link enemies or items together without breaking the sequence, and the chain multiplies your score. Drop the chain and the multiplier resets to nothing. Some are simple kill-fast systems, others are deep puzzles in their own right.

“Break the chain on the popcorn enemies and your stage 2 score is dead.”
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Games like Ikaruga and ESPgaluda built their whole scoring identity around chaining. Master it and your score goes through the roof.

“His Ikaruga chaining route is frame-perfect, the man does not drop a single link.”
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chaining In A Sentence

Break the chain on the popcorn enemies and your stage 2 score is dead.
His Ikaruga chaining route is frame-perfect, the man does not drop a single link.

Origin & Usage

Variants chainto chain

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