They're removing tap-strafing. What does this change?

[Doom_Saloon]

https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/1432745884043857928?s=20

I've never done it myself, and only found out about it being a thing today. Clearly people are upset about the change. It seems like a pretty hard skill for most people to pull off. So I don't understand why they'd remove it, or what this means for the game.

Can someone explain what exactly tap-strafing is and what removing it will do, besides make people quit the game?


P.S. I have no hours in the game on Steam because I've been playing since it came out on Origin and am too lazy to switch

[Get Out]

Tap-Strafing is a really hard and advanced tactic, that allows you to rapidly change directions in mid-air making your opponents to miss all of their shots. You can make very sharp turns and unpredictable movement and you can even do a complete 180 degree turn even on an Octane jumppad mid-air.

As for why they removed it? God knows. Respawn usually removes everything that makes any skill or requires the slightest brain activation.

As for what it means. Well, for most players it's means nothing really. Most players don't even know about tap-strafing or simply don't know how to do it. It's only really affect pro players.

[Doom_Saloon]

引用自 ☣ N\A ☣：

Tap-Strafing is a really hard and advanced tactic, that allows you to rapidly change directions in mid-air making your opponents to miss all of their shots. You can make very sharp turns and unpredictable movement and you can even do a complete 180 degree turn even on an Octane jumppad mid-air.

As for why they removed it? God knows. Respawn usually removes everything that makes any skill or requires the slightest brain activation.

As for what it means. Well, for most players it's means nothing really. Most players don't even know about tap-strafing or simply don't know how to do it. It's only really affect pro players.

Thanks for the explanation, helped a ton.

[ShadowPain]

It fell like EA are trying to make APEX only playable on controller

[Get Out]

引用自 Azurekite619：

引用自 ☣ N\A ☣：

Tap-Strafing is a really hard and advanced tactic, that allows you to rapidly change directions in mid-air making your opponents to miss all of their shots. You can make very sharp turns and unpredictable movement and you can even do a complete 180 degree turn even on an Octane jumppad mid-air.

As for why they removed it? God knows. Respawn usually removes everything that makes any skill or requires the slightest brain activation.

As for what it means. Well, for most players it's means nothing really. Most players don't even know about tap-strafing or simply don't know how to do it. It's only really affect pro players.

Thanks for the explanation, helped a ton.

Any time.

[Dwane Dibbley]

Its to decrease gap between good and bad players. Bad players had unpleasant experience while being outplayed and thats unacceptable.

[hammercranc]

Remove tap strafing? Cool!

[GensenPrime]

引用自 ☣ N\A ☣：

Tap-Strafing is a really hard and advanced tactic, that allows you to rapidly change directions in mid-air making your opponents to miss all of their shots. You can make very sharp turns and unpredictable movement and you can even do a complete 180 degree turn even on an Octane jumppad mid-air.

As for why they removed it? God knows. Respawn usually removes everything that makes any skill or requires the slightest brain activation.

As for what it means. Well, for most players it's means nothing really. Most players don't even know about tap-strafing or simply don't know how to do it. It's only really affect pro players.

An advanced technique, but not hard at all. I'm disappointed about them removing it too, but don't act like it took much skill to pull it off, especially on PC. Literally just bind your scroll wheel to move forward, jump, then scroll as you strafe after jumping. It's allowed MnK players to consistently tap-strafe and perform unpredictable sharp strafe-turns. It was a fun mechanic while it lasted and it allowed for some really cool plays, but it was bound to get removed at some point.

[stibibby]

Cross Play between console and PC is even limited. This sends a signal that they cater more on the needs of Consoles Players. to lower the skill gap. I'd love to see Full cross play on PC players to go inside Console lobbies.

[sprtn]

引用自 ☣ N\A ☣：

Tap-Strafing is a really hard and advanced tactic, that allows you to rapidly change directions in mid-air making your opponents to miss all of their shots. You can make very sharp turns and unpredictable movement and you can even do a complete 180 degree turn even on an Octane jumppad mid-air.

As for why they removed it? God knows. Respawn usually removes everything that makes any skill or requires the slightest brain activation.

As for what it means. Well, for most players it's means nothing really. Most players don't even know about tap-strafing or simply don't know how to do it. It's only really affect pro players.

for me its become part of my play style, been doing it for a few months now. If this actually follows through, it'll feel sooo weird playing again.

[stibibby]

引用自 sprtn：

引用自 ☣ N\A ☣：

Tap-Strafing is a really hard and advanced tactic, that allows you to rapidly change directions in mid-air making your opponents to miss all of their shots. You can make very sharp turns and unpredictable movement and you can even do a complete 180 degree turn even on an Octane jumppad mid-air.

As for why they removed it? God knows. Respawn usually removes everything that makes any skill or requires the slightest brain activation.

As for what it means. Well, for most players it's means nothing really. Most players don't even know about tap-strafing or simply don't know how to do it. It's only really affect pro players.

for me its become part of my play style, been doing it for a few months now. If this actually follows through, it'll feel sooo weird playing again.

it's quite useful on ARENA due to fast and small cramp spaces on maps. it become my habit also doing it randomly.

[Get Out]

引用自 Kronik：

引用自 ☣ N\A ☣：

Tap-Strafing is a really hard and advanced tactic, that allows you to rapidly change directions in mid-air making your opponents to miss all of their shots. You can make very sharp turns and unpredictable movement and you can even do a complete 180 degree turn even on an Octane jumppad mid-air.

As for why they removed it? God knows. Respawn usually removes everything that makes any skill or requires the slightest brain activation.

As for what it means. Well, for most players it's means nothing really. Most players don't even know about tap-strafing or simply don't know how to do it. It's only really affect pro players.

An advanced technique, but not hard at all. I'm disappointed about them removing it too, but don't act like it took much skill to pull it off, especially on PC. Literally just bind your scroll wheel to move forward, jump, then scroll as you strafe after jumping. It's allowed MnK players to consistently tap-strafe and perform unpredictable sharp strafe-turns. It was a fun mechanic while it lasted and it allowed for some really cool plays, but it was bound to get removed at some point.

I kinda disagree with that. Yeah most people can do it, but it's really hard to master and use it reliably. Also, pro players are using it on insane levels.

[[V]ordo]

Tap strafing should never have been a thing anyway and I'm actually glad if you get upset about it being removed.

[Devilish Dave]

Tap Strafing was never meant to be part of the game. It was an overlooked ability and now they are patching it to prevent it from being abused.

[ShadowPain]

Same goes AIM suttering but they dont do anything about it

[iamtakingcontrolofthedrummachine]

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