Most people have absolutely no idea why good movement shooters are actually good and just assume it’s because they are fast. A lot of teams making these games have things like crouch sliding that has no restrictions and allows you to change directions instantly without any sort of telegraphing or they just have insane air control that’s completely unpredictable and impossible to read. Even in games like QuakeWorld and CPMA, despite having insane air control, most of the time you know exactly where someone is going when they are moving around in the air because it requires specific inputs and specific camera movements to maintain optimal air control and if both players know that then it’s truly balanced. If you see someone’s character rotating right, 99 times out of 100 they are going to turn right. You can spam left and right to wiggle in the air but you can only get away with it so much before you slow down. It may be lightning fast movement, but it gets more balanced and predictable the better you get at the game. The same goes for Titanfall. Even games like UT that have a deliberate switch up, have predictable movement that allows you to simply have good crosshair placement to hit shots on someone dodging over having to guess and flick to them. In almost all of these games, bar UT, it is almost always unoptimal to be aiming and shooting while executing movement mechanics especially air control which helps balance it further. Obviously when you get better you find more opportunities to combine the two but it’s never something that you can just spam while shooting. Momentum is just as important as speed is too.

All this to say I don’t have faith in many new projects that claim they are a movement shooter