How to avoid killing your player characters as GM

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

So there are two places where the rules make "_any_facing" clear and explicit. In cases were they do not do so I read "facing change" to be one hexside by default.

Honestly, I agree it's unclearly written, I just believe it's the original intent. I'm fairly sure it allowed turning to any facing in 3e, which likely influenced my opinion, but I can't currently find my GURPS 3e.