Problems with Vex Pro mecanum wheels

[JesseK]

While moving forward/back, your torque is the same as a normal wheel.

While strafing, your sideways torque is 1/SQRT(2) (~70%) of your normal torque since the wheels are driving at each other BEFORE the extra losses of friction in the rollers.

While on a diagonal, your acceleration is somewhere between 35-50% of your normal forwards acceleration since you're only spinning half of the motors and also half of your your robot is (essentially) on caster wheels.

Translating torque into acceleration has a lot to do with roller friction and robot weight. Additionally, unless there are specific dead zones for sideways & forward, the code is robbing the robot of torque needed to strafe at reasonable speeds (since no joystick is ever perfectly sideways for long).