you should try being a tactical twitch players.

I have my pie and eat the cake too.

I certainly do, I just was unaware that teleporting was an FPS skill. My bad.

The mark of a skilled player should be how well he assesses his surroundings, sticks to cover, and approaches with the support of his squad, not how well he can do the square dance across the street

Watch someone strafe back and forth quickly.

It makes no sense, physically, and gives off the impression that they're teleporting left and and right. There is no shove off to gain momentum to strafe. You simply instantly accelerate to either side without any need to slow down and push off again. Your aim isn't effected in the least, as it would be by quickly shunting side to side.

It looks obnoxious.

Nevermind how foolish this makes CQC combat again.

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

Seems legit.

It's not a matter of being good. There was no reason to increase it in the first place.

Still trying to update, on my 4th try now (2 times it just failed, 3rd time I accidentally turned of my PS3). So I haven't had a chance to witness how the strafing affects the game.

Off hand I would say it is a good thing, although it will amplify the KB/M advantages by leaps and bounds. Even in Chromosome the strafe speed made KB/M scout players nearly untouchable, I can't imagine how unbalanced it will be now being faster than that.


Also people may not realize this, but this is in one way a calogi nerf, as we have reduced movement speed and could already get out strafed by an assault. Now that difference will be amplified even more, thus giving the assaults a much bigger advantage over logis running as hybrid assault players.


But I think it's going to be nice now that I can actually use strafe to dodge my opponents, which really couldn't be done very effectively in Uprising 1.1. Mostly it was just a HP sink party, whoever had more HP to endure, won. Now that strafing is useful again, HP will be less important than being able to strafe intelligently. So running lower tier suits may be more viable against proto suits.

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.

By strafe I'm specifically talking about the rapid left to right teleport dance that completely defies any sense of physics and highly encourages shield tanking and splash weaponry, as well as borking CQC by turning into a guessing game of whack a mole.

Troll on, oh trolls of New Eden

How so?

Shield tankers benefit because of fast shield recharge and tiny recharge delay. Armor tankers would have more of an advantage if their speed weren't reduced, which makes them easier to hit if they try to outstrafe a shield player who is also strafing.

Splash weapons were buffed in the fact that you don't have to put in the extra effort to get a kill, since all you have to do is hit the ground anyways.