Hi chaps,

There have been a lot of discussion about the changes we made to the strafe speed recently so I decided to lope out of my cave and talk a bit about it.

Firstly, why did we change it? We changed it because we thought that the GÇ£dancingGÇ¥ we were seeing was having a negative impact on the combat experience and, quite frankly, looked a little silly. Whilst we do want movement to be a part of combat, and we do not want static firefights, what we were seeing and experiencing (primarily with the Scout) felt too extreme. Because of this we decided to test slowing some dropsuit strafe speeds to see what the impact it would have.

What did we actually change? Well, the Logistics and Heavy are exactly the same as they were before. There have also been no changes at all to the actual speed of any of the dropsuits when it comes to forwards/backwards movement. Only the Assault and the Scout dropsuits have had tweaks to their strafe speed. The changes to the Assault are quite minor. The Scout however did take a bigger hit.

After testing these changes GÇ£in the wildGÇ¥ with the new improvements to hit detection we feel that hit was too big and are currently testing an update internally with changes to the strafe speed. Once weGÇÖre done testing weGÇÖll roll it out so you can let us know what you think.


CCP Wolfman

unnerf the breach assault rifle

thanks for the update wolfman and please by careful with the strafe buff I like many others don't want scouts to be able to strafe faster then the other suits can turn

Be carefull CCP... We don't want extreme straf... Be a good judge

Let me get this straight. You took a major hit to gameplay (in my opinion), because "it looked silly'? Really? Halo gets away with it. Tribes, Quake, etc. I know I'm being harsh, and I realize that it will change, but come on.

thanks for the update wolfman and please by careful with the strafe buff I like many others don't want scouts to be able to strafe faster then the other suits can turn

Even though I'm a dedicated scout this build, don't put it back, the dancing was painfully silly and unrealistic. Maybe about halfway between now and where it was or a tad less, we do not need shotgun fairies back nor do many people want them (unless that was YOU.....).

I play logi, now I know why I thought all those threads were lies. lol

so my strafe speed is unchanged? I'm not crazy? it was just scout suit players bitching? lol. If you had told us the trust maybe we would of supported it. I mean if anything increase the differences in strafing speed. Don't make the extremes too different, I think scouts should have a bit more speed than me. Just not as much more as before.

I still think it's funny only scouts were nerfed and people though it was the whole game haha

Even though I'm a dedicated scout this build, don't put it back, the dancing was painfully silly and unrealistic. Maybe about halfway between now and where it was or a tad less, we do not need shotgun fairies back nor do many people want them (unless that was YOU.....).

Even though I'm a dedicated scout this build, don't put it back, the dancing was painfully silly and unrealistic. Maybe about halfway between now and where it was or a tad less, we do not need shotgun fairies back nor do many people want them (unless that was YOU.....).

LOL I can imagine how wrong the logi/heavy players must feel.

I play logi, now I know why I thought all those threads were lies. lol

so my strafe speed is unchanged? I'm not crazy? it was just scout suit players bitching? lol. If you had told us the trust maybe we would of supported it. I mean if anything increase the differences in strafing speed. Don't make the extremes too different, I think scouts should have a bit more speed than me. Just not as much more as before.

I still think it's funny only scouts were nerfed and people though it was the whole game haha

Hi chaps,

and we do not want static firefights


CCP Wolfman