[1st Revision]
Like crouching, prone, and jumping, dodging would be a very useful ability for actors (and later on, land vehicles) to have. It would provide them with a way to avoid being mindlessly gibbed or horribly crippled every time they want to cross paths with another actor... Or when a dropship's engine explodes and throws a gib their way.
Internally, Dodging alters the way the actor collides with other AHuman actors (later vehicles) and various particles. Mostly, as stated before, it stops the actors from gibbing each other when they cross paths and attempt to use their climbing path to move over one another.
Gameplay-wise, Dodging would have to be a precisely timed action for it to work properly in a combat situation, and even then, it wont protect you from bullets. It would, however, stop you from being knocked around by a thrown grenade (not the explosion the grenade creates!) or allowing a RPG to connect with your actor's face. Since Dodging would be a timed action, you would have to use some level of skill to execute a properly timed dodge. Too soon, and you'll collide with whatever you tried to evade. Too late, and you'll probably not transition all the way in time; you could still lose a limb.
Of course, it will still be completely impossible to dodge large and heavy objects, like dropships, rockets, and when implemented, vehicles; Modded-in ACME 1000 metric ton weights, included.
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The attached image below entitled "Dodge Suggestion R1" (Revision 1) shows a ball which can represent a grenade, gib, or another actor. The actor on the right has pressed the dodge button, and will avoid being hit by the ball. The actor on the left however, will suffer for his poorly-timed attempt to dodge the falling object.
[Polling has been disabled due to a major malfunction -- poll options weren't getting deleted]
[Tack-on idea from original version: Have special "safe" areas where the player can dodge into, and stay in a special "safe" mode where he can't be hurt by bullets, but could still be hurt by explosions. Thus, as Vash states on page 2, you could have a "Firing from around a corner" event.]
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