Why would you introduce a mechanic that encourages using the already strongest form of tanking, while punishing the weak form of tanking, and rewarding players who use low skill weapons like flaylocks?

If you want high speed high action, then the game has to be balanced around that. We've been balancing around a more gritty, hardcore style of play, and now we suddenly went back to this crap, and the game isn't balanced around it.

I kill noobs either way, with you few top % players still stomping me no matter what I do.

I'm more concerned with the direction we're suddenly going in again. Have you ever just sat and watched two people strafe fight? How can you look at that and think anything other than "lol"?

So instead of two idiots dancing back and forth shooting at each other, we can have whole squads doing it?

Seems legit.

People who enjoy strafing secretly want to use shields and splash weapons

So you accuse me of saying I only think about 1v1 gunfights, then you give me an example of squad vs 1, while ignoring squad vs squad?

That's what I'm saying. Two squad sized groups of players all just jumping left and right, shooting back and forth at each other, because strafing is how to tank damage instead of properly fitting your suit and being mindful of your cover. Nevermind that you can fit your suit to further enhance this advantage by using shield modules.

You all can argue, CCP just does their own thing anyways. I'll be killing most of you anyways, the rest of you will enjoy hopping back and forth and hitting my fatty. They should give me rollerskates.

Correction - Scouts hated that nerf. No reason strafe speeds should be this high considering the amount of HP we have, it just further increases the disparity of Shields/Armor tanking and worse yet makes the roles harder to balance

Fast pace games should stick to PC. Seeing how kb/m is supported by CCP, faster movement speed will make this game horrible and only cater to the kb/m. I like to use my controller for console gaming so I can relax.

The movement speeds were fine but I dont expect an IMP to listen to reason, let alone anyone that doesnt pad their ego. The issue between shields and armor is in the Dropsuit bonuses. Completely unrelated to this strafe speed BS that has absolutely broken Knives/Shotguns. Theyre useless now because even the hit detection doesntknow where the **** anyone really is and no amount of game development is going to fix hit box lag in an MMOFPS

Youre strawmanning the argument, sign of a bad debater.

CCP applied restrictions to strafe speed because people like you complained about not being able to hit scouts, which was their main line of defense and unique totheir role. Its what made the CQC scout viable. It was NOT intended to make players who are already powerful (shield tankers) nigh impossible to hit.

Even then you completely avoided my statement in that hit detection will always rely on latency/ping, so it cant be a legitimate argument infavor of or against strafe speeds. This game wasnt meant for highstrafe speeds, if it were HP values would be low ala Call of Duty. Higher strafe speeds doesnt givenew players anymore of a chance because vets can still hidebehind gear and SP, your main argument, in that shield tanking canbe used to recover from damage quickly while you outmaneuver your opponent - something that can be extremely abused with something like the Caldari Logi with less than 4 second recharge delay.

You fall into the same problem that most people do.

You assume that if someone raises an argument or a point that it is strictly for their benefit. You assume everyone makes suggestions or provides feedback simply for their own benefit.

I have stated time and time again that I feel this just looks foolish, that it doesn't do anything to help out newer players, and I also mention reasons why strafe currently works against what is in game, and instead of addressing those issues you decide to say I'm using them to "avoid the real issue". It's PART of the real issue, my apologies for discussing in General Discussion.

This IS a lower skill game. Strafe won't change that. And, again, I've specifically stated that it's the rapid left right left right teleport shuffle (especially in CQC) that is the main issue.