Directional Slashing

[ZAB1019]

Does anyone use it? Why? Why not?

[special2kira]

I do, as a large caste it can be hard to hit thing if they're on the north of you.

[ShepTI]

Situationally. It's a mechanical tradeoff that sacrifices accuracy, wherein you can click any tile behind cardinally north/south/east/west and ANY tile in between those directions when slashing diagonally to achieve a slash others would normally do by sprite clicking.

The price for the accuracy is timing, which is less spam-click-able than traditional clicking, so it puts some people off. Especially when a new player turns it on thinking it's an aim assist that functions similar to shooters more so than an alternative clicking style, which is what it really is.

I don't use it often because my latency is low enough to respond to non-directional slashing with consistency, but I do have it on in vines.

[PaladinThicc]

If it's regular rounds, Directional, if it's XvX regular shit(sprites are way larger than marines, easier to hit.)

Directional is better most of the time depending mainly on sprites imo, I usually end up fighting with several xenos and occasionally one guy is focused. It's a pain when your caste/strain is dependent on having abilities enhanced by slashing the target prior to using them, and when a runner jumps on someone I'm trying to kill and my body thinks "Imma nibble this guy instead of slashing the tall under him", gets annoying.

[DefinitelyAlone0309]

It's situational. Normally, no. If I'm trying to do some janky stuff, yes

[shogun-liquid]

I keep it on.

No choice really, trying to click on Marines accurately while dealing with a desynch wave incoming is death. And mind you, according to my speed test, I have 20-30 mbps.

[reuben owen]

off 90% of the time

im hardwired for spamspriteclicking after so long

[Revial]

I think it's helpful enough to warrant consistent use. If you're bad at combat, like me, it saves you a lot of pain.

[Anclandor]

Pouncing and then moving mouse onto target is too slow. With Dirslash I can just step back one tile and get to town.

[MymindisBlank]

rounys on directional can easily kill a bald pred