I don’t think it’s specific to mobility. I believe it’s more that for every system, mechanic, or change that is seen as a positive there has to be a net negative to “balance” it.

GGG seems to base their decisions on this philosophy a lot. You can’t just have sprint, you have to have sprint with some awkward clunkiness or else you don’t have what Chris Wilson used to refer to as “friction”.

Some friction makes sense, as too little and a game becomes too easy and won’t challenge the player, but it really isn’t necessary on every little thing.

But why would you do that if your vision for the game involves slower pace and not being able to escape danger easily? You can argue for whether you personally think that’s good or not, but I think GGG should mostly stick to designing the game they want to make.

They want the world to be dangerous. Running like the flash means you’re rarely in danger. It’s honestly pretty obvious and they’ve said it repeatedly. The sprint will likely be iterated on but it’s not too hard to understand where they’re coming from.

Always been there but cast speed reduces it.

And there’s no point in forcing you to dodge roll before.. like if they’re going for realism by having this clunky stop animation, why are we supposed to pretend people start running after rolling on the ground?

I mean it’s literally how they described it in the breakdown video. You’re theoretically supposed to use a skill to enter/start combat and then go from there. It’s supposed to be a little clunky. You can certainly disagree but it’s not like it’s not been thought about.

You guys will make it so every boss is trivial. If there was no slowdown mechanic, boss mechanics would be need to all be redone.

No dodge roll to start = instant start up No end animation = Instant stopping Increase turn radius and you could dodge every thing in the game easily.

Its made this way for a specific reason.

The stopping on the small pebbles I can understand some adjustments.

Imo that still defeats the purpose

I’ve mostly just been casting out of it where possible (which skips the end animation), but i’d prefer it was just gone so that when i hit a small boulder my witch doesn’t stumble for a moment like she just got ankle swiped by an iron bar.

How is this an endless power exactly? Its clunky in gameplay wise why would i also care about realistic?

Does it ? To be honest it doesn’t feel that realistic. In real life even if you’re slowing down you retain quite a bit of movement control, and you can still turn your upper torso to some extent and use your hands.

I feel that it ends up feeling unrealistic because of this. It breaks immersion rather than helping it. This goes double when you get stuck on terrain and the whole animation plays out, locking you into place while the stop animation plays unrealistically into the terrain. If they just went back to normal speed with a small delay, it would end up feeling more realistic/immersive imo. At least it wouldn’t draw your attention to it. That’s the more immersive option imo.

Mhmmm yes in the game where i can shoot fireballs from my hands and punch gods in the face its realism that im after…

Indeed. You can do a full 180 just by hitting dodge and running the other way. Feels pretty smooth, too.

How do you press the dodge key while holding down the dodge key? What am I missing here?

That’s not good design. The mechanic should feel consistent and make sense.

Now that I am used it is really smooth for me, but what I think is missing for new/unfamiliar players is a way to go back to normal walking without pressing skill button.

I believe that when you press sprint key again it should trigger a stop. I also can’t argue with the end sprint animation since when you use a skill you don’t have it so it is indeed strange to have it in less demanding situations.

Why do they need to punish us for stopping a sprint without using an ability thought? What does that add?

Just attack or roll again. Like they said in the trailer….

In typical Path of Exile, we’ll just have to invest in it! New wheels on tree with sprint lag reduction, mods on boots (speed tagged), a bunch of uniques that do nothing else, and it almost feels reasonable!