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Thought about it more. Nevermind, delete this please. :|

I'm working on a game with an eight directional movement system and I'm wondering if there should be a delay in movement to make it easier to idle in a diagonal position. Without a delay, I noticed the timing to idle in a diagonal position is stricter.

Here's an example:
When the player presses up and right they'll move diagonally in that direction. While in motion, if the player holds up and lets go of right they'll start moving up and if they let go of up they'd idle in the up facing direction; however, if they wanted to stop moving and idle in a diagonal facing direction they would have to let go of up and right at the same time, however due to player input error this doesn't always happen. I've found this happens a lot more on a gamepad versus keyboard.

By adding in a delay, before the player can move in a non diagonal direction, it makes it easier to idle in the diagonal position but this could affect the player in a situation where they wanted to move instantaneously. It's basically a trade-off of more precise aiming vs. tighter movement controls.