Tap strafing controller Apex Legends.

As a person who just bought the Buster Sword Heirloom, right before they nerfed controller, i can safely say your comment is inaccurate. I have quit the game until they bring simple directional strafing back. Imagine nerfing movement for 1 input on a movement game...

I remember when the devs tested nerfing tap strafing a couple of years ago. The clips from streamers on Youtube went viral, The MNK community went bonkers and they never really touched it again. The devs could easily disable it for mnk as well, But it's just not what they want to do. Having drictional strafing is too much of a staple for Respawn, Going back to Titanfall and the birth of the movement, it was mouse and keys and roller together and that's how it was in apex since day one. What shouldn't be possible is neo strafing and recoil correction. It's amazing that that's gone now. big up to the devs on that one! I've been playing the game since it came out and learned about controller strafing a couple of years ago when I got myself a PC, And honestly, If you've played this game on controller without strafing you just don't know how fun it is to be able to controll your direction in game, And how bad you're getting nerfed by not having it. Would love to see it somehow get balanced. possibly nerfing aim assist and integrating controller strafe into the game? That could be radd and I would be back.

Yep same here. I will be uninstalling sadly. It is insanely unfair on PC when mnk can still fly around like super man but controller can't.

Also like who makes such dramatic changes in gameplay? Like what happened to s15 or something they said we will make small incremental changes to dial in ranked gameplay. Sike just change the entire game mechanics in one update? EA ruined this game. Respawns a bunch a sellouts.

So, with the new update, they gave us direction strafing off a jump pad, which honestly feels like a slap in the face.. They have proven how easy it would be to just give us directional strafing, but no, they let us have a special jump pad to change direction on lol.. 

Now, that ability is a choice between having 1 jump pad and being able to change direction, or +1 ult charge for 2 pads which MK players can directional strafe off both, but controller players cant....LMFAO.. YOU CALL THIS BALANCED, RESPAWN??

Yeah controller has an extreme disadvantage now. Respawn just caters to the pro community only. But their game is dying, and it will continue to because of the horrible changes they make, and lack of listening to their own community.

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@xXGOATRAMPAGEXx wrote:

Apex Legends I think you guys have ruined the game, taking strafing away from controller players and leaving MNK playing with this option is insane.

I have spent ridiculous amounts of money on this game, spent hours practicing tap strafing just for it to be removed. I understand removing the ability to use cronus zen because they are basically cheating but making it so I cant strafe using steam controller bindings blows me away. you will be losing many many apex players because of this. I hope you people decide to give us some movement back but until then I will not be playing this game including many others. 

I have played this game legitimatly the entire time, maybe nerfing aim assist makes sense but removing our only ability to keep up with MNK players is digusting. FIX THIS.

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Most of the "advanced" movement mechanics in this game are unintended. People discover new ways to move and do things, then inevitably others start making macros and figuring out how to abuse it. Neo-strafing, tap strafing, wall bouncing, and super glides were never intended to be part of the game. I personally think that movement mechanics should be fully intended and built into the game if you're going to have them.

Wall bouncing I think is fine, but it should be easier and more consistent of a thing to do. It should be designed into the game rather than it being a side effect of climbing. Tap strafing shouldn't be in the game. We're on what, 20 tick servers? Every abrupt movement messes with hit boxes so severely. Even when a Pathfinder swings, they become near impossible to find their hit boxes.

The reason why Mouse players get so upset about tap strafing, is because when you reduce movement, and the game has a lot of aim assist, you are then catering to Controller players. Aim assist should be further reduced, and the movement mechanics should be cleaned up. Cleaning up your game with optimization, intended movement abilities, and weird lurching should be a never ending process to try and refine and limit things that can be abused.

I don't think it is cool to limit movement techs to certain input. I think every input regardless of console or PC should be able to walljump, tap strafe and super glide. They can just add new keybinds for it.

If inputs are not balanced they can use input based matchmaking or make balance changes. This game has a good movement and controller players also have a right to enjoy it.

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@el7uarvszheo wrote:

I don't think it is cool to limit movement techs to certain input. I think every input regardless of console or PC should be able to walljump, tap strafe and super glide. They can just add new keybinds for it.

If inputs are not balanced they can use input based matchmaking or make balance changes. This game has a good movement and controller players also have a right to enjoy it.

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It's not limiting them, it just wasn't intended. It's exploiting game mechanics is the issue. Super glides shouldn't be in the game at all. Any one doing it in game is most likely using a config or macro in order to do so. I know some people can be pretty consistent with it, but let's be honest, no one besides Pro's are trying to prove that to themselves... they're using configs to make it easier.