In DayZ, a lot of people would agree with me that the movement is incredibly clunky. Not so much the hardcore players I bet, but that is probably because they're more used to the moment system. I'm not saying you should strive for less realism but I've got some issues with the current approach. It seems that the process of moving the player starts with the player input obviously, but rather than tie that directly to the movement, the animation is run and the movement is dependent on that animation. This means that when your goal is to take just a small step to the side and then come to a full stop, you instead take a large step and slowly come to a halt. This makes navigating in enclosed spaces incredibly counter-intuitive and I've stepped off more ledges than I can count back in the mod because of it. Instead, I'd tie the movement directly to the players input and then have the animations fit that movement. When it comes to realism, you'll never have as much control of your character as you have over your own body, and I don't see any need to try to emulate actual movement. At least that's my opinion, what do you think? Tl;dr: Player movement seems based on animations triggered by user input, it should be based directly on the input and then the animations should be applied to fit.