Patch Notes: Monday, February 13th, 2017

[Lazie]

Originally Posted by Erati [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In Classic Live, you could totally strafe to stay alive when running from an orc pawn at lvl 1 to make it to the guards

learn to noob Lazie

No you could not. Welcome to the noob list Erati. Setting strafe keys wasnt even a thing in classic clients. The only way to strafe was to hold 3 buttons down at once.

[Erati]

Originally Posted by Lazie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No you could not. Welcome to the noob list Erati. Setting strafe keys wasnt even a thing in classic clients. The only way to strafe was to hold 3 buttons down at once.

I 100% used to run away from mobs with no run speed buffs and not die in Butcherblock or Faydark thanks to having A and D as my 'strafe' buttons. I would hold down W for forward and rotate between Strafe Right and Left to keep just ahead of mobs but barely as they would whack you if you didnt keep the buttons held down.

Its your word versus mine here and I know I survived near death many times as a lvl 5 noob killing orcs.

[Lazie]

Originally Posted by Erati [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I 100% used to run away from mobs with no run speed buffs and not die in Butcherblock or Faydark thanks to having A and D as my 'strafe' buttons.

Its your word versus mine here and I know I survived near death many times as a lvl 5 noob killing orcs.

Well there is a PoP client out there that disproves you pretty easily.

[Erati]

Originally Posted by Lazie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well there is a PoP client out there that disproves you pretty easily.

Not sure why that matters, I quit before Luclin so you can keep pointing to random shit that has nothing to do with the actual classic experience that happened in reality

but thats besides the point, was just making the point that yes you could strafe to stay ahead of mobs without jumping as evidenced by many orc centurion escapes from orc hill.

[khanable]

Originally Posted by Erati [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I 100% used to run away from mobs with no run speed buffs and not die in Butcherblock or Faydark thanks to having A and D as my 'strafe' buttons. I would hold down W for forward and rotate between Strafe Right and Left to keep just ahead of mobs but barely as they would whack you if you didnt keep the buttons held down.

Its your word versus mine here and I know I survived near death many times as a lvl 5 noob killing orcs.

Dedicated strafe keys were not available until way after classic[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Skew]

Originally Posted by khanable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Dedicated strafe keys were not available until way after classic[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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[Crom]

Originally Posted by khanable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Dedicated strafe keys were not available until way after classic[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20001116.html

In addition, the following changes were left out of yesterday's patch message:

Fixed a bug that would cause some to not be able to cast after being feared.
Data for group members and targets will be updated more frequently. This change should reduce complaints of warping and slow hitpoint and other updates.
Bards received increases in the skill cap for their instrument skills.
Changed the default combo for casting spells from CTRL-1:8 to ALT-1:8, as CTRL was interfering with players ability to strafe.


and if I remember correctly there was even an official post about how strafe running made it very hard for mobs to hit ya, pre kunark..

[Retry]

Originally Posted by Lazie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No you could not. Welcome to the noob list Erati. Setting strafe keys wasnt even a thing in classic clients. The only way to strafe was to hold 3 buttons down at once.

Lazie... sorry but that is still strafing, number of key's does not matter.

[kaev]

Originally Posted by Lazie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No you could not. Welcome to the noob list Erati. Setting strafe keys wasnt even a thing in classic clients. The only way to strafe was to hold 3 buttons down at once.

Yes, you could outrun mobs using strafe-running.

Two keys (forward plus either left or right) plus mouselook to control your facing and keep you from running in a circle. I was taught that trick during Kunark by some random FPS fan I duo'd with a few times.

[khanable]

Lots of evidence suggest it did exist in kunark and velious. You probably didn't see this in action without being in a large open outdoor zone with sow.