Is circlestrafing/zigzagging ever going to be fixed?

[Valadain 270]

I would like to have both.

 

Give me ACE features like MOA adjustments, weapon resting, bipod deploying, realistic sway and recoil, wind, stamina, blood trails and more and in addition to that I would also like a re hauled movement and animation system that makes the game feel more fluid and lifelike and that affects player behavior by making them subconsciously move and act in a more natural manner.

 

Sprinting for 100s of miles a day at the speed of an olympic sprinter regardless of weight carried, being able to have the twitch muscles of a robot all seem really out of place to me. Wish something like Euphoria was set up that hands down feels and looks like the most realistic character movement in games.

 

I have no doubt the unlimited sprinting will go away around when vehicles appear. I won't mind if they revisit strafe movement, so long as they get the other stuff in first. The last thing we need is our simplified sniping along with "realistic" movement, and more people being killed and yelling about KoS.

 

I'd still be curious to see how they can achieve positive realistic movement in first person, while simultaneously putting in restrictions for realism. The alt-head-movement is nice to have, but awkward as hell.

[gibonez 3633]

I have no doubt the unlimited sprinting will go away around when vehicles appear. I won't mind if they revisit strafe movement, so long as they get the other stuff in first. The last thing we need is our simplified sniping along with "realistic" movement, and more people being killed and yelling about KoS.

 

I'd still be curious to see how they can achieve positive realistic movement in first person, while simultaneously putting in restrictions for realism. The alt-head-movement is nice to have, but awkward as hell.

 

I have gotten insanely proficient with using alt to move my head.

 

When it releases I will be using a occulus rift so head movement will be even easier.

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

Then I can keep running, and have no adverse effects from the chunks of bullet still in my gut. or the internal bleeding it could cause.

or the fact a fireaxe to the shoulder doesn't even put a stop in a persons stride they just keep going~

such realism in this game

alpha. Features are missing.

[Monkfish (DayZ) 339]

When it releases I will be using a occulus rift so head movement will be even easier.

Not sure if Occulus Rift will be supported or not. TrackIR (or a cheap equivalent of) will be a good option also.

 

Anyway, whilst playing last night as I was running across a field (I was a bambi, zero fucks were given), I looked down whilst using the strafe keys to see what happens. Curiously, when pressing D, the character's body makes an instantaneous 45 degree turn to the right and runs in that direction with the head still pointing forwards. Pressing A results in a slightly jerky (at least on my machine) transition of 90 degrees to running at 45 degrees to the left. It's not quite what I expected (legs crossing as sidestep took place) but still isn't particularly accurate in terms of the speed at which the direction changes occur.

 

I now think that one of two things should happen;

 

1) The A and D keys are disabled when sprinting as previously noted.

2) The 45 degree movement remains the same but the direction changes are dampened and slowed down to replicate momentum and the difficulty in changing direction quickly at speed. This quite accurately simulates being able to run in different directions whilst maintaining your focus on a spot ahead of you. The damping level and rate of direction change should be inversely proportional to the speed the player is running at, so using A and D whilst jogging results in fairly quick direction changes, whilst using them whilst running at a full-bore sprint results in fairly slow direction changes.

 

(OP's point is still valid BTW  ;))

Edited February 26, 2014 by Monkfish

[Zeppa 562]

Everyone bitching and agreeing with the OP should be thrown into a pit filled with alligators.  You all lack athletic ability to the point that you would be out performed by the people in the special olympics.

Do you even lift?

Maybe you should cut those steroids, those make you dump trollh broh.

[oregonized 673]

Do you even lift?

Maybe you should cut those steroids, those make you dump trollh broh.

Do YOU even lift?

 

I highly doubt it.  Come back when you can bench more than just the bar, bro.

[Daemonkid 493]

Do YOU even lift?

 

I highly doubt it.  Come back when you can bench more than just the bar, bro.

Internet tuff gui.

I BENCH 650 POUNDS! I CAN DEADLIFT YOUR ENTIRE EXTENDED FAMILY.. WITH 2 FINGERS! I ALSO BANGED YOUR MOM!

Here's a meme  that sounds just like you!

 

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

[oregonized 673]

Internet tuff gui.

I BENCH 650 POUNDS! I CAN DEADLIFT YOUR ENTIRE EXTENDED FAMILY.. WITH 2 FINGERS! I ALSO BANGED YOUR MOM!

Here's a meme  that sounds just like you!

 

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

You are the one trying to be an internet tough guy and failing miserably at trolling.  GG!

[Daemonkid 493]

I ain't trying to be anything. I just posted what you sound like.

An internet tough guy.

 

But I guess sarcasm goes over your head.