Alright, so just yesterday i was watching TheLeviathan's stream (shoutouts!) and asked him what he thinks about 90° quickturns. He told me that it is not actually faster, but more a thing of personal preference: some runners like it, some don't. But i still think that quickturns are a consistent timesafe (if done right), although i don't have any video comparisons to back this up. It's just a feeling, for example: think of going up the stairs in the RPD towards the spade key OR the stairs in the Lab also seem a lot faster when doing quickturns. The character is using a more direct route, so it seems just logical to me that staying close to corners at all times should safe time in the long run.

So here goes my question: Are quickturns actually faster than normal ones or not? Does it depend on the situation/location/hitbox of the corner? What do you think? I know that they are very useful to dodge incoming attacks. But still, i've spent lots of time practicing my quickturns, so was that even worth the time or not?

Another example: The licker's down in the kennel also behave in another way if i go there by using quickturns. Today the first licker in the kennel room instantly jumped towards the ceiling and hit me afterwards, which he never did before. My guess is that this might be because i entered the room just a tiny bit earlier than usual. If anyone has any actual footage of a normal turn/quickturn route comparison than please put up the link. Maybe it has to do with 60/120FPS or Leon/Claire (I was doing a Claire A 60FPS run by the way and i was on caution which is common for the category.)

Licker example for reference:

Greetings and good luck on your runs! :P

-trashcat

(Please delete if this topic was already discussed, i couldn't find any other threads about this topic after checking the forums tho.)

Edit: Some ppl seem to get me wrong, i didn't mean to critize TheLeviathan's opinion in any way. I just wanted to actually make this a discussable topic ;). Also it was that moment which sparked my interest - and it made an interesting opener.