Still nothing, huh ...
Has anyone poked IWS about this?

Eric put up something similar, here.
He thinks its a bug. I think its intentional.

If it's intentional, I think it should be reconsidered ...

Shooting in someone's general direction does not halve his shields or armor.
Why should it halve his sprint, movement and rotation speed?

The sloth effect is a feature introduced by CCP - it's in the old patch notes, but i forget what patch. As you point out, the mechanics for that CCP-designed(lol) feature are illogical and immersion breaking.

Snaring effects, sprint bugs and terrain glitches, I hate them all. Please make them go away.

Fun fact! The sprint bug is easily reproducible through these steps:

Hold down shift.
Hold down W.
Press the right mouse button.
Release the right mouse button.

Congratulations, you are now moving as fast as a heavy walks while your stamina is being drained! Oh this can happen when you fire a weapon or equipment as well. Fun stuff, fun stuff, no?

Before the "fix" to sprint-canceling the post-fire animation of weapons and equipment (active scanners especially) you would just go back to sprinting.

Sloth Effect = "Bullet Impact"
... was it 1.6 Patch Notes?

Betcha $20 they turn up Sloth Effect each and every time they turn down Aim Assist.

We were led to believe that physical impulses were just for ragdoll effects post death.

I seem to remember people complaining of the snaring effect before that patch came in but I could be wrong.

I call this game the Dark Souls/Demon Souls of First Person Shooters, but that mechanic negates speed tanking. I could understand if it's a high alpha damage from up close or a full on PROTO weapon but I get stun locked from EVERY weapon at almost ANY distance. CCP, I'm not trying to be disrespectful at all (just being honest) you have not fixed hit detection. Because if you had, then it should work when you speed tank right? But even if you won't reply I will send evidence of it, since (I have a feeling) you don't believe me.

I've said it before and I'll say it again:
speed tanking should only be viable when we're talking about fighting vehicles.

There's a reason people don't dance around whilst shooting IRL

I have to ask you a few questions in regards these subjects, if you don't mind me asking.

1.) What did you do to nerf Speed?

2.) How has hit detection improved from slower-speeds?

3.) If the game CANNOT process people running that fast, why not nerf speed on all suits by 10-15%?

4.) If hit detection has "improved" why not go back to what it was before on Speed Tankers?

5.) Why not have this game mechanic (Stun-Locking) based off of weapon performance? i.e.

* If it's a basic weapon it doesn't do anything to stun lock you.
*If it's advance it goes up by low%.
*If it's proto have it to where it's at now.

It just makes sense. And I am the ONLY person I know that is a COMPLETE speed tanker running at either 10.33 or 10. 75 on my Amarr no other Scout runs this solely as their fit other then me and I'm sick of ONE bullet that completely halts my movements thus rendering me to run at a snail pace speed. CCP I'm getting a cap card soon and when I get it I will show you what this is doing, because apparently you still haven't seen the effects of this.

... if CCP were to ever implements this ...

the stun lock needs to go. all it does is reduce speed advantage and makes it harder to move from cover to cover.

If two weapons had equal DPS, one with high RoF-low damage, and one with lower RoF-higher damage., then in DUST 514 the higher RoF weapon becomes more effective because it slows down the target more than the breach style play. The high RoF plus "physical force" mechanic is what makes CR, HMG, and SMG so effective. More so than they should be.
So it does do something, it helps widen the gap in balance between weapons based of RoF.

If two weapons had equal DPS, one with high RoF-low damage, and one with lower RoF-higher damage., then in DUST 514 the higher RoF weapon becomes more effective because it slows down the target more than the breach style play. The high RoF plus "physical force" mechanic is what makes CR, HMG, and SMG so effective. More so than they should be.
So it does do something, it helps widen the gap in balance between weapons based of RoF.

that you could potentially squeeze 500 DPS out of the SMG that made them so effective.

(sorry for the rant, it is just those weapons are a bit more powerful than the others are.)

Physical Impulse only affects dead people.

I mean where else in the patch notes where they improved death?

Also being able to talk with CCP that what it should be effecting this is not that one silly patch back in close beta where I got nailed in the shoulder by a large railgun shot and it spun me around 270 while still alive.

I only crawl when I spawn the wrong way.

I get zapped all the time and notice no movement or aim throw off, what you're experincing is likely a bug, please report it.

This is blatantly false

You go slower when you get shot? Seriously? That's some darksouls zweihander tier stupidity right there.

SOURCE

I was wrong about it being called 'Physical Impulse', according to IWS it only effects dead people.

He goes on to say: SOURCE

Is being rooted just the one of the Sprint Bugs / Terrain Glitches acting up? If it is it has been getting a lot worse. Not sure what to make of it, I am quite sure that I have been rooted while I was sprintingGǪ

you get small slowdows from weapons that hit you when you have no shields.

This is the only game where basic movement is a big fight before the fight.

you get small slowdows from weapons that hit you when you have no shields.