Most online shooters have similar issues, where players move left to right non-stop to avoid getting shot, whether they're being attacked or not. I also do it, because there is nothing which penalizes me from doing it. I've played both casual and realistic shooters and something that I've realized is that gameplay is far better when strafing penalizes you. My suggestion is that when moving around, your cross-hair starts to wave around until you stop moving. The player which stands still and is aiming, should always have the advantage.Think of it as a recoil for moving around. You should be able to still do it, but you will be slightly penalized for doing it. Perhaps weapons which are larger, could have a more severe recoil for moving while shooting. That way, more agile players will want smaller guns, which may not be powerful, but allow you to dodge while in a gunfight.

Strafing is a skill, but it's a very bland, easy to do, and a lame skill. I agree, we don't need to have realistic gameplay, but it's just stupid moving back and forth to get an advantage. It looks stupid, it isn't very fun, and it does nothing to improve the game in any way. The player who should get the advantage is not the one who's moving back and forth, but the person who is sitting still and ready to shoot. I had my fair share of Unreal Tournament, I know how to strafe and aim pretty well. However as shooters changed, the ones that drew my attention more were those who punished exploitable gameplay. Repeatedly jumping up and down, going side to side, crouching, proning, and leaning your head, is not the future of shooters. It's just features available that people used to get an advantage because nothing was implemented in the game to punished them from doing it multiple times in a row.

@jinoruz wrote:Punishing exploitable gameplay as they updated the game is what made Overwatch boring.Not punishing players for exploiting features, creates a meta, where everyone has to do the same thing to get a competitive advantage. This reminds me of a game called GunZ, where people would reload, slash, and shoot to get around cooldowns. The developer never did anything about it, maybe cause they couldn't or because they could care less. Anyway, it became the meta, which I took part in. It's not fun exploiting features for a competitive advantage, but it is fun winning. I would trade-off exploits for better gameplay. Also I don't get how this will make the game boring. You're playing a shooter, not a strafer.

Nice try, obvious troll is obvious :')You almost had me 😛

The ADADAD spam in bf titles was always extremely annoying when your soldier can run sideways, stop instantly, and start walking/straffing the other direction instantly like there's no momentum to the character movement, and he does so with maximum acceleration. BF1 somewhat fixed it by punishing players that would spam ADAD and it wasn't as much of an issue in bf5. But here, in Apex, people are on steroid. It,s even worse when bloodhound uses his ultimate and bangalore's passive triggers. The ADAD spam on PC does need to be fixed.

Or they could implement an animation when jumping or turning where you lower the gun or something so you have to re aim at the target

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SlaughterSalmon
6 years ago
The problem is the trash servers. Sometimes strafing is nothing to me. Other times people walk side to side and they become bullet proof. Like sniper shots that hit before suddenly don't. Shotguns hit for 7 not 70. Net code is so janky other games I play don't have this problem.
KrilMun
5 years ago
@holybeatqt wrote:
bro you are describing the mechanics of counter strike... the best fps of all time for me, i would love some similar mechanics for this game but maybe the game is more fun this way, just fast paced run and shooting.
Bruh
The whole tactical playing of CS is boring as f...
Fast paced games are way more fun 🙂
Peri_Longbow_pl
5 years ago
Hate it or not, but the OP has a point.
When I came into Apex Legends, the first thread I opened was about how the aiming and gun play in this game is vastly different from other shooters I have played. My accuracy of previously 40% - 50% has dropped to roughly 10% by just switching a single game. Why? Because all the gained knowledge from other games had zero relevance in Apex Legends. Instead of sitting still and having the positional advantage being your biggest ally, it now was whoever moves the most frantically with the best accuracy wins. Besides smurfs of course, my biggest problem was how the game handles gun play. Zero momentum, zero accuracy loss, zero movement penalty. On top of hitbox sizes. And no-reg. And many more.
Nowadays I can handle it somewhat, but in turn I have issues in other shooters now.
LaughingSharko
5 years ago
@KrilMun Bruh, that guy is married by now. His wife doesn't let him play Apex anymore. Try making your own thread instead of necroing.
Peri_Longbow_pl
5 years ago
Guess what kind of legend killed me. You'll never guess it. 🤔
Spoiler
Well, it was an octane who was strafing faster with his R-99 than I can run forward with my weapon holstered.
On a positive note, the apex pack I got after this match gave me a legendary, so it's kind of a win I guess.
A legendary for Bangalore, but a legendary nonethless, lol.
CCbathwater
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@Peri_Longbow_plzPlaying Zombie Army 4 I am bouncing all over the place and strafe shooting, to a degree one of my friends complained about it. 😂 Bro, I play Apex, I can't help it. But my accuracy on ZA4 is around 50% anyway, so at least Apex hasn't ruined accuracy for that game.

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