Technique suggestion: dodge (fan submitted) Thread - FaceOff Paintball mod for Half-Life 2

By quickly shifting your head to the left or right, your character will make a quick dash to the left or right, allowing you to dodge attacks.

Is this a cool idea?

The general feedback I've had is that people don't like jerky movements, so I think this technique would receive a pretty mixed reception. There's also the issue of how best to implement it. Do you hold your head to hold the dodge or is the in-game dodge held for a set amount of time? Also, it is threshold based (i.e. once over some arbitrary offset amount, you perform a full dodge) or do you allow for partial dodges? If it was the latter, you're then pretty much just describing the FaceOff leaning technique, just without altering the roll (which could in turn be achieved by turning off the handy-cam effect)

I am thinking more of a threshold-based technique that causes your character to make a short leap to the side to dodge an attack. Just a small idea. I guess you could maybe move your head to one side without rotating it and do so at a moderate speed (adjustable).