So I took a good long break from Dust as MGSV came out, so about 3 months now, and I came back to get in on the Rep Tool BPO.

I've played for about 3 days now, and for the most part have been pleasantly surprised. I got several decent and close games in FW and was generally enjoying myself until my last one where I came across some funky enemy behavior from two players. I'm not gonna name and shame 'em, but they were both from a well known older corp.

See, not long before I left this patch happened which toned down strafing speed, and thus far, I had no issues.

But here came two guys in Min Assaults who not only had just as much armor as my Gal Assault, which means they were well armor tanked, but were able to strafe fast enough that I was given flashbacks of pre-AA beta twitch invulna-scouts. And it wasn't circle strafing, it was just straight left-right strafing fast enough that they were able to pass through my plasma stream without me even being able to break their shields half the time.

And I'm pretty sure it was specifically just those two and not general game lag as I had no issues tracking anyone else in that game or any of the previous including other Min Assaults. We still lost by clones though, 70-something to 0, and those two players did very well for themselves among their peers.

So anyways, have people figured out a way around the strafe nerf, or was I just having hella-specific lag spikes?

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I experience this on a semi-regular basis.

The most common response is that this is latency lag and the game just can't calculate it correctly leading to the player with the worse connection gaining benefits of damage not registering and faster movement speed

Basically the player is not in the same place that you are seeing them. Allowing them to kill you much easier as you chase their ghost

I have had no issues with hit detection recently with the Assault Rifle. Also, what fw do you play?

Those Central and South American I tell ya.

Were you the person I squaded with that had the voice?

My first thought is that those players were playing at 480p.

I've really only seen the strafe be a problem against players that play in 480p. Ari n such. They do this weird time warp time movement thing while seem to barely be spinning. Kind of like the system is trying to catch up to their movement.