Tap-strafing, a player-created, high-skill level movement strategy in Apex Legends, will be removed from Respawn's battle royale. On Twitter, Respawn revealed that tap-strafing will be removed in Patch 10.1.

Tap-strafing is a move that allows players to turn on a dime, and can only be done on mouse and keyboard. The move involves a few steps, and includes binding forward movement to up or down mouse scroll.

  1. After doing a slide jump, players must hold down a strafe key for whichever direction they want to go.
  2. Players then must scroll the mouse wheel up or down while holding the strafe key but without moving the mouse, which will cause the player to be pulled diagonally in the direction the player is strafing.
  3. Finally, players need to move the mouse in the direction they are strafing while scrolling the mouse wheel and holding the strafe button to be propelled forward.

The mechanic is not an intended feature, but is a skill players learned to do on their own from playing the game. Numerous competitive games, whether it's Rocket League or Call of Duty, often times see players using mechanics that the developers may not have planned for or even knew existed, but become adopted by the community and integral gameplay components at certain skill-levels. Tap-strafing has all kinds of advantages for players who have learned how to do it consistently, and since it's only doable on keyboard and mouse, has been a source of complaints for those playing on consoles with cross-play enabled.

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