STO: Question Analysis 3

On the 16th of this month Craig Zinkievich took the time time out to answer some questions about in-game movement. Today I'm going to take a closer look at one of the questions and his answer.

Question: Will a ship always move in the direction that the nose is pointed?

Craig had already answered this question previously to which a few people were very disappointed and caused quite a stir on the forums and is the reason why we got the dev chat in the first place. His answer didn't change this time around but he did go into a bit more detail. There is no strafing while on your ship or basically there is no kiting enemies along.

We have already mentioned in the first question analysis that there is significant pitch controlling involved in the game. I don't believe being able to strafe would make a serious impact if it was added. I definitely know that some people disagree with me on this point.

If we look at other Star Trek games I can't think of any where you can strafe. You always have to be making either a forward or backward motion to change pitch.

"If they aren't broken don't fix em."