User blog comment:The.Outsider/AC3 freerunning/@comment-5266147-20120722135538

having to press a button during freerunning dosent really make anything less fluid(unless your terrible at coordinating your button pushing fingers and have to stop everytning your doing to look down and push one button), i can only see it as an improvement as it would allow you to chose to continue forward or up without having to change the main direction of travel.