sterile flare
(TL;DR at the bottom)
New movement options: a short, but speedy slide to a crouched position; and a short leap to a prone position. This is to replace the current movement meta that incentivizes a way of playing that diminishes other features in the game.
There's something about the shift+w and mouse wiggle meta that doesn't feel satisfying to me. There are situations in this game where the meta was able to let me pull out a couple more kills, but in a way that didn't seem honest. It didn't feel like it was a part of the commando/soldier fantasy vibe that the game is selling. I still want us to have more than capable abilities to flank, but in a way that doesn't allow me to spin my way down a hill dodging all of the snipers in a three mile radius. A crouch slide, if tuned well, could be a way to get us from sandbag to sandbag. A dolphin dive through a staircase window to escape a grenade could save our lives.
The people who are extremely good at the current meta have been very, VERY vocal about how they feel about changes to the movement, but they are exactly that--extremely good at the game's currentstate of movement expression. Naturally, they would want to defend how the game currently is because they've dedicated so much love and time to learning it. This dedication isn't overlooked by me. We shouldn't be fighting each other, especially since we are both doing it because we love this game, and the community. What I'm asking is that we take some time to reevaluate how we can make the movement in this game more in-tune with the team-oriented military shooter it wants to be.
(TL;)DR
I want the movement expression of this game to feel like I'm a super commando instead of a weird, jumping goblin that can pass by a well-guarded hill because I spin good.
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