Tap strafing is still a thing?

I just found a guy spinning mid air, do you ever plan on stopping that crap or do i need to use this too??

discussion

rogo2020
4 years ago
pont 1: Ok, so good news, i dont need to actually try mastering this trash because the Devs do plan on removing it.
point 2: Love how the egotic kids come giving more excuses to keep using it however dont make a single mention about putting it into the tutorials.
So ideal case: next time i get a head shot on a target in an open area, he will not start spinning around and instead, he will start making a pattern where i can guess or not if he will dodge left, right or stay.
¿isnt that how the devs thinkered the sniping to work in this game?
¿inst that the reason for the triple take to make three shots?
¿isnt the target supossed to have a 3 options deck and the sniper 1 chance in three, after he lands an initial headshot?
As a lifetime sniper player, those previous points where crystal clear to me when i starter playing snipers in Apex, the game was not designed about this totally randomized tap strafing spin to escape 🙂

33 Replies

rogo2020
4 years ago
👎 i have already remapped my mouse for different reasons, everyone else will be able to do the same in 5 minutes
Zkepz
4 years ago
@CocoaHyena they did not remove the option to key bind mousewheel yet, to be honest I doubt they will. They never had the option to keybind tap strafe, if you're not in steam ( to some effect) or use macros. Still if they remove mousewheel youll just see people move away from origin launcher to steam so they can do it anyway. This is most likely one of the things they found amongst the fact that doing it in a fashion where you would actually deny tap strafing on all platforms had big side effects on the core movement mechanics in the game so they didnt remove it and I doubt they will.
Some of the best players out there dont use tap strafe even if they are mnk, so I dont really get what all the fuzz is about this movement. Ye MnK can tapstrafe, consoles can aim assist not everything is everywhere. If you have issues with tapstrafing as a controller player, learn how to CQC and utilize aimassist to the fullest. Same if youre a MnK and cant be arsed learning the tap strafe, dont. In the end it wont help you that much, the supirior aim will always trumph every movement tech, but knowing how its done and what is possible is just a general aid to counter it with that supirior aim again.
What I find tap strafe can help with is escaping or chasing where you can keep speed higher more consistently, but for the general fight not so much. I'll say it again, a very well executed strafe is much harder to hit then tap strafe.
XBlazeinPhoenix
4 years ago
u be surprised the said they were removing this a season and a half ago still proceeds to be in the game an entire year later it an getting too out because twice batches running the game and ruining it ever hop-up is for try hards to get an op advantage or a nerf becuase something is killing the too often teen it every season i played sinces season 2 and i tell u to now waite you till and go play another game