In PVP, it is often impossible to escape an enemy that is attacking you. This is because when a player attacks you, you get knocked into the air, and it is impossible to start sprinting while in the air. Even if you are already sprinting, the player can knock you into a wall and stop your sprinting, which causes the same problem. The third problem is that you stop sprinting when you attack someone, block with your sword, or eat food. The best fix that I can think of to fix the first problem is to allow players to start sprinting mid air. For the second problem, players shouldn't stop sprinting right when they hit a wall, but maybe a second or two after they've been running against a wall. The third problem can be fixed by not stopping sprinting when the sprinting player attacks, and to temporarily stop sprinting while the player is blocking/eating, and automatically start sprinting again when the player is done blocking/eating.
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I understand that these are intended mechanics, but I see them as glitchy/flawed.
For your first point, if a player attacks unexpectedly and knocks you near a wall, he can continue to hit you back to the wall and make it impossible to escape. There would usually be no point in fighting back because he had the first few hits so he's going to win the fight if you fight back
Third point: you do stop sprinting when you attack a mob/player. It's easy enough to try yourself, but here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibDt2gyhVTs
Fourth point: Sometimes players may be running away and they can't sprint any more because their hunger bar is running low, so they need to eat. The player may also need to consume an instant health potion to regain health.
Except they are not glitches, they are intended. That's why to change them you need to post a suggestion on the Forums or Reddit.
Also, after testing, I can confirm that sprinting stops when you attack a mob, but not when you attack thin air. I think this is a bug, but I don't know for sure. But that would be it's own bug.
These are all intended features, and so belong on the forums. But off the top of my head:
Knockback from other players can be avoided by strafing to either side or hitting the opponent (you too give knockback)
Fighting next to walls can either be detrimental or beneficial, it just depends on how you use them.
You do not stop sprinting when you attack (press the break block key)
Eating is intended this way, you're not supposed to eat things in the middle of battle.