Strafing?

Normally you have 2 options, 1) being you turn with your "A" and "D" keys or 2) you can run side to side which is what most call strafing on games now a days.

I can see in TERA how actual "strafing" could be very beneficial seeing how as melee you hit where you are facing and you have collision detection. So if there were actual strafing in here where you side step then it would be very useful imo.

Originally Posted by Abasi

Normally you have 2 options, 1) being you turn with your "A" and "D" keys or 2) you can run side to side which is what most call strafing on games now a days.

I can see in TERA how actual "strafing" could be very beneficial seeing how as melee you hit where you are facing and you have collision detection. So if there were actual strafing in here where you side step then it would be very useful imo.

I do think it feels cleaner when your character always faces fowards except for running away. I would also add, when blocking and moving backwards, your character should remain facing fowards since you are properly retreating.

Originally Posted by PerfectLife

I do think it feels cleaner when your character always faces fowards except for running away. I would also add, when blocking and moving backwards, your character should remain facing fowards since you are properly retreating.

Exactly my thoughts!

For some reason I thought I remembered the Archer charged shot being able to charge while running, but I can't find anything on it so I'm pretty sure that's just my imagination. Would be cool though

its not ur imagination the archer did have a charged shot that they moved with, tho the speed of the archer was greatly reduced

Originally Posted by Emposter

While there certainly is strafing (sorta...the camera strafes, but you don't), use in combat really requires the ability to attack while moving, which the cast times on most spells and attacks make impossible.

Hopefully this will change.

if they add this in, I think only certain skills should be able to be used while moving. allowing movement during all skills would be crazy.

Originally Posted by Abasi

I can see in TERA how actual "strafing" could be very beneficial seeing how as melee you hit where you are facing and you have collision detection. So if there were actual strafing in here where you side step then it would be very useful imo.

while TERA currently isn't literal strafing, it is pretty much strafing movement wise, and if you want the effects of strafing for attacking toward your camera facing too, you could just tap forward right before you attack bringing you to a stop and facing forward for the attack. not exactly a hard micro to do to compensate.

Full movement while using all skills has been done before. Don't think I much care for it It totally removes all tactical aspects from the game and turns it into a circle strafe cluster ****