Can you slow players without changing their walkspeed?

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#1

Are there workarounds for slowing player speed, like maybe adjusting the players weight?

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#2

I don’t think you can slow the player down but maybe making them unable to move…

What do you want to achieve? Could you be more clear?

#3

I have scripts that adjust speed for sprinting, but I’m also making a script for combat where if a player gets punched they’re slowed to kind of stun them for a combo.

I just don’t want to have to make a whole system for overriding each set speed. I’m tryna see if there’s more simplistic ways to do this.

#4

Yeah i don’t think you can do that without having to editt one of the scripts

#5

To my understanding there is no other way to slow down the player without changing their walkspeed.

#6

The only thing I can think of is changing gravity, but that would affect everything (unless there’s a way to make it only affect one person?) but I think the easiest solution is just to change walkspeed, as tedious as that may be.

#7

You can by overriding the default movement controls like what @ThanksRoBama method to simulate smoother character movement.

How it works is that the Humanoid:Move() has a hidden function to control the walking speed like a joystick if you play on mobile based on the magnitude of the movement direction vector from 0-1.