the sprint will only be a duration right? Otherwise it would totally ruin the game imo.
Or make rifle not fireable while sprinting but then again the normal WW1 run is fine imo.
I honestly cannot see what the big deal about sprinting is, you seem to absolutely hate it, you want everyone to walk very slowly for 5 minutes till they reach the other trench? In some areas of the front the trenches were only 50 yards apart. As Rigadoon said, sprinting is vital to this game.
And yes make the rifle non fireable during sprinting, if I was running over no mans land I don't reckon I'd be hip firing my rifle and doing the bolt action whilst making sure I'm not tripping over shrapnel, bodies and wood. But sprinting is needed.
Sprinting is not needed.
as I mentioned earlier(there I have explained why I don't want sprinting)
the trench warfare is more than just over the top sprint like a cod look a like and then do the melee in the enemy trench and be done in 30 seconds.
The whole POINT of the ww1 warfare was that the charge was the most terrifying they didn't sprint much either because of the barbed wire and they had to look at the ground where they walked.
Honestly sprinting would only ruin the game.
One word. No.
Mate, let me put this into perspective like I have done already because you don't seem to understand...You climb out of the trench, correct? You still with me here or have you drifted off into imagination land? Good. Right once your over the top, what do you do? Slowly decide to start walking towards the trenches for 5 minutes losing 57,470 men in the process? Then slowly take out your bayonet as the enemy slowly rises their guns but don't fire at you? And the bullets slowly fly out of the barrels completely missing you because your in the Matrix? No. This is reality, Not fairytale. You have to take all the factors in, there will be machine guns, accurate rifles and in these events there won't be 1000 people servers. It'll be like Line battle and siege events, you keep trying till you get there eventually, if you keep jogging and being ripped to shreds by machine gun fire, I'm sure you'll get a few ragequitters after a while, sounds like you would.
Soldiers sprinted, I'm not sure what 'sprint' means to you. I don't mean go 30-40mph in the space of 3 seconds. I mean 2x the normal run speed as an option, go do a test on Napoloenic Wars. Now, jog towards the fortress on a 84e Siege server, I'll come along and watch, see if you survive very long. If bullets land near you or hit you, think what it would be like if those muskets were 3x more accurate, 3x as fast and 3x as deadly as they are? You'd die. Die some more. Die again, then a little bit of death ontop of that, plus some more death with a sprinkle of pain and misery plus, not forgetting the most important ingredient, Death! I don't really understand where you get the 'COD' idea from, so stop relating the two games, they're nothing like each other. If you implement the basic run that is already in NW, keeping it the same, I don't see how having the 'option' to sprint, would 'ruin the game' and make you want to ragequit and run home crying? You think 'Storm' troopers walked briskly? You think they just had a relaxing jog waving at the French 'Alright lads! Good day isn't it?
' No. They ran, ran and assaulted. Ever heard of 'Blitzkrieg' the Germans didn't name it 'lightning' warfare for nothing. Personally to me, having 'options' doesn't ruin anything. Nothing can ruin this game except moaning players and laser cannons.