ImperialHal, iiTzTimmy, more disappointed over Apex Legends tap strafe changes Twitch: iiTzTimmy \/ Respawn EntertainmentTap strafing has finally been changed in Apex Legends, but pro players and streamers aren\u2019t happy. Big names like Phillip \u2018ImperialHal\u2019 Dosen and Timmy \u2018iiTzTimmy\u2019 An have voiced concerns about the nerf, saying the movement is \u201creally bad.\u201d While Apex Legends Season 12 has brought along a number of changes, the alteration of tap strafing is one that\u2019s taking the community by surprise. Respawn did promise changes were being worked on following their call to remove the mechanic back in Season 10. It\u2019s only been a matter of time since, and now with the fix shipped players are disappointed. The exact change hasn\u2019t been confirmed by Respawn yet, but players are no longer able to complete a full 180 with a tap strafe while maintaining their momentum. It appears to be only a 90-degree turn now. Streamers like iiTzTimmy got a first taste of the changes while playtesting the new season live on stream. After being alerted to the changes by a viewer, the avid movement tech user found himself unable to pull off the same 180 degree turns he could on live servers. \u201cOh my god, what happened to me? I might as well Alt+F4 right now. They actually took out tap strafing. That\u2019s crazy, who would have thought,\u201d he said. He digested the changes a few minutes later, taking some time to speak on stream about how it\u2019ll change the movement meta. \u201cGoing from being able to tap strafe and flying like a god damn gazelle, and now you have to unbind tap strafing,\u201d Timmy stated. \u201cEven if you do tap strafe, it doesn\u2019t change anything. \u201cYou\u2019re going to have to go back to the whole meta of redirecting, which is fine, but it\u2019s unfamiliar because why redirect if you could tap strafe? You\u2019ll see a lot of people make a lot of movement mistakes because they\u2019re not used to it.\u201d Criticism over the changes were echoed by Apex Legends pros. TSM leader ImperialHal hasn\u2019t tested the change personally, but after watching playtests said \u201cit looks really bad.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019ll be good for the game. I think it\u2019ll be really weird. You can do it at a 90-degree angle, but it\u2019s basically non-existent now. From 180 to 90, it\u2019s like a baby tap strafe,\u201d he said on stream. Others, like NRG\u2019s Nathan \u2018nafen\u2019 Nguyen took more drastic measures, uninstalling the game live on stream. While that was just a joke \u2014 he reinstalled and played games later in the day \u2014 for others it\u2019ll be less so. Respawn are yet to speak out about the tap strafe changes in Apex Legends Season 12. We will update you with specifics when the update launches on February 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ImperialHal, iiTzTimmy, more disappointed over Apex Legends tap strafe changes Twitch: iiTzTimmy \/ Respawn EntertainmentTap strafing has finally been changed in Apex Legends, but pro players and streamers aren\u2019t happy. Big names like Phillip \u2018ImperialHal\u2019 Dosen and Timmy \u2018iiTzTimmy\u2019 An have voiced concerns about the nerf, saying the movement is \u201creally bad.\u201d While Apex Legends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}