As I see it, the reduced strafing speed is CCP's sollution to the bad hit detection issue. Even though I would prefer playing with the last builds' strafing speed, its fairly obvious that scout suit, especially when used in an adventageous manner (the super fast side to side straifing some people have used while just spraying wildly with an smg or even shotgun), needed a huge nerf in this regard. I've even tried this for a few games myself when I equipped a scout suit and used a normal AR instead of a tactical AR/assault combo that I normally use. Its quite riddicilous when I can stand right infront of a heavy and wildly emty two clips in his general direction, without even loosing half my shields. Something had to be done.

I theorize that the (bad) core mechanics combined with general internet latency couldn't cope with such high speeds and consequently reducing the speed is the only way they've been able to adress the hit detection issue that have troubled this beta since launch. I belive it is so due to the fact that CCP haven't really adressed this issue publicly, and they should have, its been several months and this is a much more important issue than adding another gun or whatnot.

Even though I'm one of those wannabe elite run and gun kind of players who have on several occations cried out over this on these forums, I'm beginning to realize that this is probably what we'll end up with. So what to do? Is there a sollutions that will make both the wannabe gang and the eve noobs satisfied?

How about a reduction or even a complete removal of the character slow down when hit? I'm not 100% on this one but i think it will do the trick. Its not so much the lowered speed that is annoying, making it very easy to initially hit targets, but the slow down of movement makes it even easier to keep hitting a target which doesn't really have any alternative but to either die or more or less stay close to cover all the time, making the game a boring camp fest for many players.

This will make hitting a moving target harder, without raising the strafe speed to a point were bad hit detection becomes an issue again. It will help the players that are good at moving about, since they won't be slowed down to a crawl by the first bullets and mowed down directly after. This will also be "fair" to less skilled players, the movement rate is slow, as it is now, but they won't get additional help like it is now, were hitting a target makes them almost stop, making finishing the job super easy.

Its not the reduced strafe speed thats really the problem, its the combination of low strafe speed and lowered charcacter movement when hit that makes it very unpopular with experienced FPS players.