3rd person controller- remove smooth rotation

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I am attempting to turn the third person controller in the standard assets into a sidescroller controller. So far, I was able to restrict it to where you can only move left and right. My problem here is my character still has the smooth rotation when turning around, and I would like to remove this because, well, it doesn’t fit in with the game.
I have tried removing this line from the third person controller script:

moveDirection = Vector3.RotateTowards(moveDirection, targetDirection, rotateSpeed * Mathf.Deg2Rad * Time.deltaTime, 1000);

While this does remove the smooth rotation like I wanted, facing the opposite direction is delayed a little while moving when it would normally be smoothly rotating.
How can I edit this line or change the third person controller script to remove the smooth rotation but still have my character turn around like usual?

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Vector3.RotateTowards is just rotating the moveDirection vector towards the targetDirection, but limit the maximum rotation allowed for this frame with the third parameter (rotateSpeed * Mathf.Deg2Rad * Time.deltaTime) of the function.

If you don’t want any smoothing effect, simply apply directly the targetDirection to moveDirection

moveDirection = targetDirection;