Took out the controller and it felt unnecessarily hard to stay on target while mirroring. Feels like aim assist feels the strongest when anti mirroring which seems to match with your discoveries about speed boosts. Strafing is a seriously undervalued topic and I still question myself why so little Apex pro's care about it. More @Wikipedia
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