Quote Originally Posted by therpgfanatic View Post
Yeah I'm going to recommend you turn this off, because that's your problem. Auto-face when attacking should be disabled anyway, since it makes dodging glare moves while attacking harder.

You'll find it easier to position yourself if you have fine control over the direction your character is facing.
Easy solution to this - Use Legacy Control scheme. Legacy controls change it so that pressing S on your keyboard makes you run towards the camera, as opposed to walking backwards.