Hi guys,

A quick heads up for some upcoming changes in 1.4 to armour and movement.

Currently a bug has caused some of the movement speed modifiers on strafe to be ignored. This is good and bad. ItGÇÖs good because faster strafe speeds are cool. ItGÇÖs bad because right now strafe speed is at least 1:1 with run speed and this was not our intention. In keeping with normal physical limitations strafe was intended to be slower than run. We had planned to raise the strafe speed from the 1.1 build to around 80% of run speed (it was lurking around 60-70% or so depending on frame). After seeing how popular (and fun) the higher strafe speeds have been we changed our minds. We still wanted to maintain a difference between forward and sideways movement but we didnGÇÖt want to make a significant reduction to the speeds. So weGÇÖve settled on strafe speed as 90% of run speed across all suits.

Before anyone freaks out, this does not mean it is set in stone forevermore. It just means that we want to play the game with the settings we actually intended so we can properly judge them. There are a lot of updates to the game in 1.4 so weGÇÖll be watching very closely to see what we need to respond to :-)

A nice thing that also came out of this is that I found some errant numbers and a bug that were causing the heavy frames to move too slowly backwards as well as reducing their strafe speed. Both of those problems are now fixed as well.
CCP Wolfman

it's 90% of basic walk/movement.. not sprint speed


reading is fun


Went back and seen where the confusion was.. wolfman did say run like a pro troll and fooled some people I guess. The base movement speed is pretty much a run, and then there is Sprint

Try again

run != sprint. "Run" is what they call "normal" movement speed in FPS. A "walk" is when you only bend the movement stick halfway (and old PC shooters used to have a special key for that as well, but soon people realised that nobody ever wants to walk when they can run).

Strafing is a part of this game whether you like it or not.

For Tips on how to strafe on Dust 514 check out this vid


Strafing Tutorials

I just hope they actually do away with the turn restrictions on heavies. Making the game cater to dancers while limiting how fast you can track them is a wicked bummer.

Yea great then we can see who can do the most peroets in 1 second like in counter strike. Foolish. Doing away with some sort of turn restrictions for HEAVIES is foolish. Unless your a heavy with a mouse

Well it's happening, so better wear your big girl panties

I thought it was still being tested and not set in stone?

He didn't claim strafing should not exist. He was just confused by the way wolfman worded his thread. I would rage too if I found out ccp made a change to where you could strafe near full sprint with no penalty to stamina lol, who wouldn't...well.. kb/m scouts maybe.


Tip on effective strafing = buy a kb/m or just don't bother, because you will be out strafed by one using the kb/m. fact

Been using kb/m since quake 1997 or so, so I'm good with that. Just wish custom keymapping would come out. Wasd sucks ;)

Well it's happening, so better wear your big girl panties

Coming doesn't mean it's any less stupid

I feel precisely the same way about you MKB noobs getting a buff, so the feeling is mutual

I feel precisely the same way about you MKB noobs getting a buff, so the feeling is mutual

rofl ppl are "noobs" for using KB/M in an FPS game ah i need to print and frame that.

blah blah its a *whine* console game its just not fair you get to use a mouse omg like really *chucks a tanty and tries to shove the controller in his arse*

anyone else wanna beat the horse even though its bolted?

rofl ppl are "noobs" for using KB/M in an FPS game ah i need to print and frame that.

blah blah its a *whine* console game its just not fair you get to use a mouse omg like really *chucks a tanty and tries to shove the controller in his arse*

anyone else wanna beat the horse even though its bolted?