Fashionable Warfare 3 devs are teasing the return of controversial slide canceling mechanic

Activision is seemingly brewing up plans to shock Name of Responsibility enjoyers with a well-liked, returning mechanic in Warzone and, finally, the highly-anticipated Fashionable Warfare 3, based on an thrilling principle. If true, quickly, you’ll be capable of reap the advantages of slide canceling like the great previous days with out having to depend on sweaty workarounds. 

Activision despatched some attention-grabbing goodies to widespread Warzone streamer and FaZe content material creator, Swagg, who, on Aug. 6, unveiled the “prime secret package deal” throughout his stream. The package deal, which contained a set of slides, a can, and a cellular phone, indicated the return of slide canceling from the three obvious merchandise names—‘Slide,’ ‘Can,’ and ‘Cell.’ 

To prime it off, the package deal additionally included a aspect be aware saying, “You’ll be anticipated to maneuver extra shortly in Al Mazrah.” Nicely, if it’s slide canceling, it’s positively going to make you swifter.

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For these unaware, slide canceling is a motion mechanic which lets you cancel the slide animation and reset your tactical dash, basically nullifying the drop in momentum you expertise once you slide. This trick will make it troublesome to trace you and throw enemies off their intention, letting you are taking the pictures on them as they battle confusion.

The return of slide cancel is a large growth contemplating how the absence of the slide canceling mechanic in Fashionable Warfare 2 and Warzone 2 had upset gamers final yr. The trick was widespread amongst try-hard Warzone gamers who cherished showcasing their maneuvering expertise within the iconic battle royale title. 

Expectedly, a number of leakers took the chance to plant hypothesis inside the group—Activision and Infinity Ward are nonetheless but to substantiate the speculation. Whereas many gamers are excited for the characteristic to return, a substantial variety of them aren’t positive how this may have an effect on the sport: good or bad. 

“I hope slide canceling isn’t the quickest solution to transfer… spamming that’s annoying. It needs to be an out-moving mechanic and match max pace.” one Twitter person shared. 

Some gamers clearly disapproved of the edgy motion mechanic when it existed, they usually didn’t take the information properly. “And that’s half the participant base not returning, don’t want bs like that within the sport, this COD is already lifeless, they usually’re planning on including that shit again XDefiant right here we come.” a participant stated. I’m positively smelling some upcoming controversy on this one.

Plenty of gamers additionally wished reload canceling—a player-created mechanic—to return to Name of Responsibility, however that’s a narrative for an additional day.

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Sharmila Ganguly

Freelance Author for Dot Esports. An enthusiastic gamer who ran into the intricacies of online game journalism in 2021 and has been hustling ever since. Obsessive about first-person shooter titles, particularly Valorant.

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