When swapping weapons while sprinting forward as a Skitarri, the weapon swap animation cancels the sprint for the duration of the animation, causing the player to stutter. Rapidly switching weapons causes the player’s sprint to slow to a crawl. This occurs on all weapons.
See streamable links for examples of this behavior:
And for contrast, an example of correct sprint weapon swap behavior on any non Skitarri class:
UPDATE: had something very strange happen. Played 2 to 3 missions in a row where this bug was present. Then played a mission on Mercantile where the bug was not present. I only noticed it a little ways into the mission, but reviewing the footage, the bug was not present at any point in the match. My teammate continued to suffer from the bug even as I did not. After completing the map and entering into another mission, the bug had reintroduced itself for me. See the following footage (note that unlike the previous footage, this footage was taken while playing with mods, including a mod that eliminates FOV changes due to sprinting):
I don’t know why the Transonic Blades cancel sprint on weapon special, nor do I know if it’s intentional or not. I made a post complaining about that in the Gameplay Feedback forum, since I didn’t know if it counted as a bug:
I hope that they change that too. There are a number of things which are interfering with the base fluidity of this class.
I just confirmed this on my end. Thank you for thinking to test this!
It also maybe explains why more people didn’t seem to notice it; it was an issue that really only affected people who rebound weapon switch to scroll wheel.
Still very much hoping Fatshark fixes this sooner rather than later, but at least there’s a way to mitigate the worst of the bug for now (it still affects things like knife sprinting).
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