Re: Strafe??

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From: Mike in Mystic
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:09

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strafe refers to lateral movement while you remain facing the same
direction - think "sideways".  Imagine standing in front of a wall with your
nose almost touching it and then stepping sideways without rotating your
body or head keeping your nose against the wall.  That's it.

In shooters like Doom3, using strafe movements allows you to quickly jump
out from behind an object and shoot someone and then quickly jump back under
cover - or at least that's the idea.  Since the advent of mouse/keyboard
controls, I find myself rarely using strafe.  I can use the mouse look in
combination with my movement keys to accomplish the same type of results in
a much more fluid-feeling way, at least IMO.


<rstjohn@*removethis*cablespeed.com> wrote in message
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> Could someone tell me what "strafe" is / does?  Thank you
>
>

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