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Asha Starwind
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Posted - 2014.01.26 19:30:00 -
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Ulysses Knapse wrote:OverIord Ulath wrote:Should be at least a 20-30% speed penalty for backpedaling. There's only a 10% speed penalty for walking sideways, but you want up to a 30% penalty for walking backwards? How is that reasonable? The backwards walking penalty should not be higher than the sideways walking penalty. Human physiology doesn't work like that, nor is walking backwards as pressing an issue as strafing.
That is 100% grade A festering bull**** that you pulled out of your ass. Go watch a ballet show and realize how wrong you are.
edit: If ballet is too girly for you watch the defensive players in a football/basketball game. Before someone chimes in "but they're athletes", soldiers are athletes too. |
Asha Starwind
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Posted - 2014.01.27 23:29:00 -
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Ulysses Knapse wrote:Asha Starwind wrote:Ulysses Knapse wrote:OverIord Ulath wrote:Should be at least a 20-30% speed penalty for backpedaling. There's only a 10% speed penalty for walking sideways, but you want up to a 30% penalty for walking backwards? How is that reasonable? The backwards walking penalty should not be higher than the sideways walking penalty. Human physiology doesn't work like that, nor is walking backwards as pressing an issue as strafing. That is 100% grade A festering bull**** that you pulled out of your ass. Go watch a ballet show and realize how wrong you are. edit: If ballet is too girly for you watch the defensive players in a football/basketball game. Before someone chimes in "but they're athletes", soldiers are athletes too. Except, the reason people don't walk backwards is because it disorients them, not because it's physiologically difficult.
Lateral is movement is nowhere near as disorienting as backwards movement, so why should the lateral movement penalty be higher or equal to backwards movement? |
Asha Starwind
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Posted - 2014.01.28 01:11:00 -
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Ulysses Knapse wrote:You can walk backwards almost as quickly as you can walk backwards. The human body was made primarily to move forward, and walking backwards uses the same muscles in a similar way. Walking sideways does not. Not to mention walking backwards already has a penalty: it's disorienting as is.
Please explain to me why walking sideways should be 28.5% faster than walking backwards, when walking forwards is only 11% faster than walking backwards. Go ahead, I'm listening.
Because the limiting factors are different for each direction.
You do not use the same exact muscles, nor in the same order to move in any direction. There are common muscles/groups common to each form of locomotion but they are not doing the same amount of work nor appear in the same sequence to say 'uses the same muscles in similar way' is just wrong.
Structure: Your legs and feet are designed to direct as much of the force generated by your muscles completely downwards synchronously when moving forward. When walking backwards your heel has a tendency to move downward and planting itself drastically reducing the downwards force. Also, because of the way you feet are design can't balance yourself as well.
On that alone you will never be able to move as fast as you backwards as you do forwards, even if you were able to rotate your head 180 degrees.
Those factors don't have much bearing on moving sideways, which again uses different muscles, but that only limits how much force is available to be applied. The only limiting factor here is stride. |
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