Last night I was playing Apex with some friends and I was tap strafing fine. I have been utilizing tap strafes for almost a year now so I am pretty good at it. But once I got off to eat dinner and got back on tap strafe no longer worked. I then got back on the next day which is today and it still doesn't work. I tried to reset binds and rebind everything and that didn't work. I then uninstall and reinstalled the game which didn't work. Then I tried to tap strafe with 3 other mouses and that still didn't work. I am not out of ideas. Please help this game is weird without movement.

Oh god im not a windows wiz, I only install windows for gaming and when I get something wrong I just reinstall it (I have no benefit knowing the platform as I cant use it in my work). Hence when I was checking for errors on my input stuff I ended up using a full day of trying to fix it before I magically manage to get it right after getting help.If you have input issues in linux I can help, but I suspect that is not the case hehe. Just try reinstall your mouse software and flash the firmware, my problem was firmware related in conjuntion with win11, for some reason the mouse was in power save mode even if driver/pc software said something else so reinsalling the pc drivers/software and flashing the mouse and updating the settings fixed my issue.

Hello Se6d, I was having the exact same issue less than 2 hours ago. I had changed some in game settings as well as some steam settings. I tried my game on max graphics, max res, and capped my fps to 120 in steam, i normally play 240 fps with all low settings on 1280x800. I tried doing my usual 180 tap strafe wall jump and it wasnt working. This bugged tf out of me. Turns out, for some reason if you turn your settings up it for some reason can add input delay to the game that normally wouldnt be noticed. However, in the case of tap strafing where every milisecond matters, it becomes impossible to tap strafe properly. My advice to you is to make sure all your video settings are as low as possible and make sure fps isnt capped in steam. This should solve your problem.

@pandareno1999 no all my friends can do it perfectly fine and streamers can as well. it seems to just be me

I did 180 tap strafes 1 hour ago.

@Se6d Ooo I wonder if they finally took it away like was rumored to start the season.

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hayhor
Hero
4 years ago
@Se6d Ooo I wonder if they finally took it away like was rumored to start the season.
pandareno1999
Hero+
4 years ago
If it's completely non-functional, they must have changed it differently than they did before the play tests. I wonder why. Either what they did first broke something that we didn't hear about, or perhaps they weren't happy with leaving it working up to 90 degrees as it was in the play tests.
Se6d
4 years ago
no its still fuctional but it only goes like 60 degrees
Se6d
4 years ago
@pandareno1999 no all my friends can do it perfectly fine and streamers can as well. it seems to just be me
pandareno1999
Hero+
4 years ago
@Se6d OK lol. Sorry about that!
Zkepz
4 years ago
I did 180 tap strafes 1 hour ago.
Zkepz
4 years ago
@Se6d wrote:
no its still fuctional but it only goes like 60 degrees
Check your mouse, is it in battery conservation mode or something that makes the poll frequency drop. 60 deg sounds like 2w worth of tap strafe, while the nerf they talked about coming was around 3w while now you can do 5w, sounds like your mousewheel dont register as many w's as before. Did you get a driver update, or something like that to the mouse?
I would check out the general settings for polling rate on the mouse, same with optimized battery mode can do the same. That is my suspicion atleast, it has to do with how many "clicks" you can do with the wheel that limits your tap strafe to 60deg
Se6d
4 years ago
@Zkepz I have checked all of those and they havent helped its almost like there is a delay to the tap strafe. It feels like there is a delay in the registry when i scroll down and once again its not my mouse cuz the same problem applies to all of them.
Zkepz
4 years ago
Sounds like Microsoft handles the mouse so you get unintended latency. Check if you can use mouse's software to replace ms stuff
I had a bit of the same problem when I lowered my sensitivity, needed to retrain all timing and movement to get everything back and running again
Se6d
4 years ago
@Zkepz wait what are u saying. I already am using the razer software for my mouse