We are checking now what's the problem with strafe, should be easy to fix.
About the walking speed, the current one is much more realistic and natural, if you see wrong movement means your update didn't complete properly, and you are using the old art with the new server, which will surely produce very weird result.
I completely and utterly disagree. It looks bad. Also, it completely undoes all the progress you made in making Hydlaa less laggy. It now takes me longer to walk from place to place, even though I'm no longer experiencing lag. The speed is arbitrary, not natural. The whole decision to do this seems arbitrary. Now you will see an influx of people running from place to place, which IS unnatural. I've already seen an increase of people mounting rivnaks just to go from the furnace to the tavern. THAT is unnatural.
I did a fresh install from the torrent, so all my art and animations should be up to date. The problem is, the animation is set for the old walking speed, so now it looks like my fenkis are seriously struggling to move forward. The distance the foot moves with each step should equal the displacement of the body, but the discrepancy there is just glaring.
It doesn't look good and it no longer feels natural. I can understand I guess your reasoning to do it, but the result is a failure.