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Hero+

5 years ago

Strafing

How is it some players can just strafe soo much faster then others? Are they using turbo on controllers? Someone just zoomed left and right on me a wraith to be exact super fast. I would assume not a...

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Aegis_Kleais

Rising Hotshot

5 years ago

Moving laterally while crouch sliding is not a strafe. Strafing is A/D keys. If no ADS, then you are hipfiring, at which point you have the same speed all other legends have (sans when players speed boost themselves) or if you are ADS-ing, then your strafe is limited to the weapon.

I'm not sure how you think you can "out-strafe" someone, as those limitations are hard-coded.

Being Gibby just means you have a bigger hitbox, which does play in getting hit, but does not alter your actual strafing speed. Having a smaller hitbox does the opposite; it does make you harder to hit, but again, you do not move at a faster speed than others. You are not "out strafing them" Your strafe speeds are commensurate with every other legend.

Got to the range. Pick a weapon. ADS + strafe move. Change out to a different legend and do the same strafe movement again. Same speed. No "out-strafing".

RevenanT-G7

5 years ago

@Aegis_Kleais

Strafing is moving side to side while firing

It doesn't matter if your ADSing or Not

it's still called a strafe.

Hipfiring is when you don't ADS and not moving side to side while you are shooting.

Aegis_Kleais
Rising Hotshot
5 years ago
@RevenanT-G7 No strafing is moving side to side, PERIOD. Firing does not need to be involved. Wikipedia states: "In video games, strafing is the technique of moving the player's character from side to side, rather than forward and backward. In the context of first-person shooters, it refers to the movement alone"

Hip-firing has nothing to do with movement, and everything to do with ADS. Any shot when NOT ADS-ing, moving or not, is a hip fire. You're firing "from the hip" rather than using the gun's ironsights (built in) or optics (attachments)