I actually didn't notice significant changed in strafing speed. Why everyone complain so much about this?
All in all, gun fight feels better now and I the game itself in general has more fun for me.

Posting a vid from the Precursor build will violate the NDA even if the NDA has been lifted. I'm pretty damned sure of it.

@ Snake
You aren't bitter at all that KingBabar was better than you at MAG. When you weren't driving vehicles through walls an into people spawns aye snake. You'd NEVER fo any kida glitching or abuse game mechanics. Stop being a little ***** an get over it.

They've actually catered to skill free nOObs who don't have any situational awareness or ability to burst fire. The game play now boils down to killing people the second they pop their head out of cover. Like, before tey can fire back, because their strafe speed is now terrible.

Sorry, but anyone who couldn't hit the scout last build was just terrible with a gun.
I noticed you whining about scout a lot snake.
Go figure.

Dust is now Battlefield514 Bad games company.

@ Snake
You aren't bitter at all that KingBabar was better than you at MAG. When you weren't driving vehicles through walls an into people spawns aye snake. You'd NEVER fo any kida glitching or abuse game mechanics. Stop being a little ***** an get over it.

They've actually catered to skill free nOObs who don't have any situational awareness or ability to burst fire. The game play now boils down to killing people the second they pop their head out of cover. Like, before tey can fire back, because their strafe speed is now terrible.

Sorry, but anyone who couldn't hit the scout last build was just terrible with a gun.
I noticed you whining about scout a lot snake.
Go figure.

Dust is now Battlefield514 Bad games company.

lol fail tony

Bitter about my driving skills

I could hit the scout, but my shots never registered

Like BF3 lolno, at least grouping works well and it can hold more players aswell

QQ more plz

That came out wrong...

Edit:

So true, I am a headless chicken. Seriously, no pun intended. As a friend watching me playing said: "You have no skill KB, none at all, except for chaos control which you're extremely good at."

Its just that with the combination of enemy bullets hitting me, making me move slower, and the reduced speed I really can't get behind cover fast enough to prevent me dying lots of the times.

And I do have the opinion that laying down more or less accurate fire on an opponent while strafeing and avoiding being shot in return is an essential skill of any good FPS player. When the auto-aim is fast enough to follow my strafe speed this element of gameplay is removed.

And is it so that roaming in a blob of friendlies, going in and out of cover is the only way this game is supposed to be played? Its not like my lone wolfing isn't helping out the team, you should know this from my MAG playstyle. In Dust, many many times have my 3 squadmates attacked an objective while I run around. I face 6 enemies busy with shooting my advancing friends, thus as a team, with our mini"hammer and anvi" approach we have taken many objectives this way.

Its a sad development and putting me down won't help your case.

He said bad company, which was an amazing game.

Yes, because it makes perfect sense that people can strafe and run backwards just as fast as sprinting forward.

I think it's more a balancing of realism than strafe combat in close quarters.

By the way, if you're depending on bouncing around a guy in tight quarters to kill him you should probably go back to CoD. No offense.

Yes my 2meg connection is hard wired to CCP lol.
Have you not noticed they removed AR recoil? Dumb fire swarms? BUFFED THE MASS DRIVER?!?! Scoped recoil on snipers. The list goes on... the game is now just a camping fest... It's like the tankers who won't use militia tanks. They're just not very good players in that role.

Why use a milita tank when for an extra 62k you can have a gunlogi?

If the controls weren't so horribly awful (aiming), they could increase strafe speed and it wouldn't affect anything. But since the controls suck beyond suck, the only way to make it so more people could actually hit a target, was to reduce the strafe speed.

Not exactly a solution though, as they didn't actually fix the problem, they just masked it with slower strafe speed which simply means easier targeting for bad controls.

Why use a milita tank when for an extra 62k you can have a gunlogi?

Because my Sica killed your gunloggi alot last build. And so did my Soma. Like I say, some people don't perform well in certain roles.

Marauders take HAV5 from what I've heard.

Yes my 2meg connection is hard wired to CCP lol.
Have you not noticed they removed AR recoil? Dumb fire swarms? BUFFED THE MASS DRIVER?!?! Scoped recoil on snipers. The list goes on... the game is now just a camping fest... It's like the tankers who won't use militia tanks. They're just not very good players in that role.

There is no difference in strafing speeds. They're complaining because hit detection works better, thus their strafing doesn't work anymore. Strafing was only a problem before because of the lag, which is where the hit detection complaints arose. When you strafe, basically you're moving before your body does for other people, including yourself. Depending on your ping, you'll see it at a different location than someone else.
Strafing is always an exploit, in every game. Until connections all get a ping of 0, no matter what, you'll have to deal with compensating for lag if fast movement is involved. There put in a lag compensation system to work it out themselves, and as such, people are now complaining that they can't dodge bullets. When, in reality, they never were dodging bullets, just walking faster than their character.

(A ping of X ms means you are seeing everything X milliseconds behind what has already happened, and you need to compensate by that amount of time..)

Agreed, hit detection is MUCH better. HOWEVER, the strafe speed IS a little slower. I know the reason they did this was to fix the issue of scouts being invincible with left/right/left/right strafe, but from what I've played, it's overkill. Hit detection is better, strafe speed could have been left alone. If it were STILL a problem, then re-evaluate. Right now the scout lost it's only counterbalance to its low EHP. Strafe needs to be bumped back to last build... or at least somewhere between now and last build.

Just think about it: (last build)
Scout Suit: Lower CPU/PG, lower EHP, high speed.
Heavy Suit: Moderate CPU/PG, highest EHP, slowest speed
Assault: Moderate everything
Logi: High CPU/PG, moderate-to- moderately low everything else

There was a sense of balance. Right now, while the scout does run fast, the strafe is reduced. And that was PART of his only real advantage.

PS. This is coming from someone who doesn't really use scout suits.

This game has been being dumbed down since april. The game has been getting more camper friendly since the E3 build released in june. This game isn't going to prosper unless CCP removes the camper friendly gameplay found in every other shooter released this holiday season.

This game has been being dumbed down since april. The game has been getting more camper friendly since the E3 build released in june. This game isn't going to prosper unless CCP removes the camper friendly gameplay found in every other shooter released this holiday season.