Speed Up Walking Backwards

or perhaps tie it to armor. example: melee power armor gives more protection and lets you move faster but leaves no room for ammo / magic; whereas ranged armor is designed to empower your weapons, leaving you slower but much more powerful at range.

 

I feel like they'd have to nerf ranged weapon damage to make up for the bonus ranged armor would give to fix balancing issues.
Lot of people complaining about the slowdown for going backwards I feel are really just wanting it where they can do a cake walk, more or less. If you're having it where you can outrun someone backwards and still do your damage, it makes it easier.

 

It's not made to be realistic, it's because ranged weapon already slows and it's impossuble to catch a ranged enemy

 

So a melee pvp encounter would be at an even greater disadvantage? They'd never be able to close the gap.