Why does it feel like none of you know how to slide-dodge?

[Randy Marsh]

It dodges bullets bro, figure it out, it's not that hard.

[Slymoon]

doesn't always work with a non-zealot
everyone else will take a hit while sliding... especially sucks when it makes you stutter a half second before you swing mid slide... missing the foo

[Randy Marsh]

Originally posted by Slymoon:

doesn't always work with a non-zealot
everyone else will take a hit while sliding... especially sucks when it makes you stutter a half second before you swing mid slide... missing the foo

think you might be doing it wrong

[spinkickhate]

Personally, I never use it now (even though I have a macro mapped) because I came to the conclusion that sliding on your ass in the grim darkness of the far future sounds and looks pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid

[Randy Marsh]

Originally posted by spinkickhate:

Personally, I never use it now (even though I have a macro mapped) because I came to the conclusion that sliding on your ass in the grim darkness of the far future sounds and looks pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid

I would say taking damage from being shot, when you can dodge it instead, is pretty stupid.

[spinkickhate]

Originally posted by Randy Marsh:

Originally posted by spinkickhate:

Personally, I never use it now (even though I have a macro mapped) because I came to the conclusion that sliding on your ass in the grim darkness of the far future sounds and looks pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid

I would say taking damage from being shot, when you can dodge it instead, is pretty stupid.

I can dodge it by sprinting

Other than that, I can shoot them in the head and be immune to ranged for a whole second

Or I can charge the shooter with ult from 50 meters away

Plenty of alternatives to the maneuver of a dog wiping its ass on grass popularized by COD.

[Slymoon]

Originally posted by Randy Marsh:

Originally posted by Slymoon:

doesn't always work with a non-zealot
everyone else will take a hit while sliding... especially sucks when it makes you stutter a half second before you swing mid slide... missing the foo

think you might be doing it wrong

Possibly... but I don't have an issue on zealot...
psyker/ vet and especially ogryn always get fing hit mid slide

[AncientRaig]

Slide dodging isn't that easy to do without a macro unless you're sliding forwards. It's great for dodging snipers and occasional gunfire, but that's about it.

The biggest reason I personally don't use it that often is that if you get hit at all while doing it you instantly lose all momentum unless you're an Ogryn or you're running the level 20 Zealot perk that makes you immune to stuns and staggers. And thanks to input lag, enemy melee hitreg jank and phantom range (taking hits even though you're out of range because the enemy started to swing before you dodged out of range), etc., you can get staggered out of the slide fairly often even with perfect timing on your end. If you were relying on the slide to get you away from a Gunner or Reaper firing line, you're probably dead because of that loss of momentum, or at least way more injured than if you'd just dodged into cover normally.

[Mephistopheles]

Low iq take. Slide thread, and not in the way that you meant slide.

[varicose 'vascular' vinny]

Originally posted by AncientRaig:

Slide dodging isn't that easy to do without a macro unless you're sliding forwards. It's great for dodging snipers and occasional gunfire, but that's about it.

The biggest reason I personally don't use it that often is that if you get hit at all while doing it you instantly lose all momentum unless you're an Ogryn or you're running the level 20 Zealot perk that makes you immune to stuns and staggers. And thanks to input lag, enemy melee hitreg jank and phantom range (taking hits even though you're out of range because the enemy started to swing before you dodged out of range), etc., you can get staggered out of the slide fairly often even with perfect timing on your end. If you were relying on the slide to get you away from a Gunner or Reaper firing line, you're probably dead because of that loss of momentum, or at least way more injured than if you'd just dodged into cover normally.

I don't think there's a need for slide dodging, but not sliding seems like a great way to eat tons of damage. Slide dodge was very unreal when you could move an Ogryn dash distance with it, but that was nerfed before the game even launched. Who had developed their move tech that much that early on?

[Randy Marsh]

Originally posted by Slymoon:

Originally posted by Randy Marsh:

think you might be doing it wrong

Possibly... but I don't have an issue on zealot...
psyker/ vet and especially ogryn always get fing hit mid slide

you have to hit the dodge button right when you see the muzzle-flash, maybe you just don't have the timing right?

[RykerZzZ]

cause they dont lmao

[Step Sis Proof Appliances]

This is a somewhat dumb question, but is there a good way to get in the habit of doing it? Coming from VT, im still getting used to the idea that I can actually sprint.

[Пеyнiк]

https://youtu.be/DdpCg51-5ro

[Bomoo]

Originally posted by spinkickhate:

Plenty of alternatives to the maneuver of a dog wiping its ass on grass popularized by COD.

B-but I was told this wasn't cod of duty re: immeasurably complex weapon customization...

[Arani]

Originally posted by Slymoon:

doesn't always work with a non-zealot
everyone else will take a hit while sliding... especially sucks when it makes you stutter a half second before you swing mid slide... missing the foo

It works the same for every class, always has. The only problem with it is the same as why your ults sometimes get canceled: the server sync causes issues when from your PoV you do something before you get shot, but from the server's PoV they shot you before you did something. So what happens is the game simply cancels whatever you did, rubberbands you back to where you were, and you get shot. Essentially, some NPC mobs in a game are prioritized over the actions of a real human player. And yes, everybody hates that. :c

Originally posted by AncientRaig:

Slide dodging isn't that easy to do without a macro unless you're sliding forwards. It's great for dodging snipers and occasional gunfire, but that's about it.

Ohh right yeah there was something wonky about the default controls. Back when the game was released, a lot of people bound space to sprint / dodge, and shift to crouch. That pretty much solves all the issues. Just gotta get used to using some other button for jumping, those rare few times you ever need to jump. I don't even remember the defaults but they really didn't do the game any services.