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Do you invert the Y axis? (2022 Survey)
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No.
With the exception of flying games anyway as I'm used to inverted there from Star Fox being the first I played.
With the exception of flying games anyway as I'm used to inverted there from Star Fox being the first I played.
Ok, so I just started up Rocket League and noticed that I have set it to inverted (up is down). In Tomb Raider however it's set to normal (up is up).
So I guess I'm a bit indifferent to it. Possibly in the "yes for flight control, no for others" camp. I don't think it would be hard for me to switch either way (and it wouldn't surprise me if other folk could do the same given half an hour or a few hours at max. to get accustomed to it).
This just feels normal to me to do inverted for flying stuff. But for anything else no way.
It breaks my brain just thinking about it like this.
Edit: I see several folks posting that they invert for flying controls but not for anything else. How does that even work? Don't you get confused switching from flying games to other games...?
42 and I'm the same.
I saw Kill It With Fire appear on Game Pass last year and it sounded funny, so I downloaded it and gave it a shot...until I saw that you couldn't invert the Y axis. Struggled for 30 seconds and then uninstalled it. It is impossible for me to play.
Xbox 360 did this best.
You could go to the system options and set whether you wanted inverted controls or not.
Then, games would see your preference in the system settings and respect it. You'd never need to bother.
I wish they'd continued doing this on modern Xbox.
I absolutely do. What's the difference?
I don't really see what's funny or unbelievable about it. Once you get used to something as fundamental as this, it's really hard to play any other way, and we all started under different circumstances and with different games.
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Ever since I played Tie FIghter I play inverted, the other way just feels weird.
I wanted to try the Anthem beta, never saw an option to invert and promptly uninstalled it
I wanted to try the Anthem beta, never saw an option to invert and promptly uninstalled it
I was once trading off controllers with a friend playing a game. I needed inverted controls and he used normal controls. It was annoying to keep toggling it in the options. So after that, I decided (mostly for fun and as an experiment) to retrain my brain by playing through a game (Dying Light) with normal controls instead. I've never looked back.
I'd also encountered games in the past where there was no option to invert, and they were essentially unplayable for me. So I assume I won't run into that issue anymore now that I've unlearned my inverted ways.
I'd also encountered games in the past where there was no option to invert, and they were essentially unplayable for me. So I assume I won't run into that issue anymore now that I've unlearned my inverted ways.
Yeah I'm mostly kidding, my brain can't play cope with normal for both, I need normal X and inverted Y
The real true answer is all games should offer both options
Not offering the player a choice now is unforgivable. It's not even something that requires a lot of dev work to implement
Definitely. It's basically the same thing as playing with a controller for me in that regard.
I'm 40 and and this is the only answer.
Edit: If you use inverted motion controls there's a special place in hell for you lol.
The poll for this question almost always ends up being 50/50, it's amazing how divisive it is
Not in a million years. Flight controls are a whole different thing, as the thumbstick is the flight stick in that case.
Games should always have the option though for those people.
Games should always have the option though for those people.
I dunno.
But for me moving the mouse cursor and moving the crosshair in FPS is the same thing so no inverting, and since my first direct camera controlled games were on PC I guess that carried over to console.
No. There are people that do but the reasoning that I've heard from people who do that is that they played flight sims with the mouse a lot.
+1 for someone who gets how 3D works
The stick isn't jammed in the back of the head, the stick is the neck. You pull your head left, right, and back, you push it forwards.
My only gripe with Sayonara Wild Hearts is that you can't invert the flight controls. Other than that the game is a masterpiece.
Only got flight games with rolling on the x axis. The forward backwards thing doesn't make sense for camera controls where you aren't also inverting the axis.
Inverted for flight/space stuff, otherwise non-inverted.
Shockingly huge numbers for team inverted, I assumed it was more in the range of 10-30%. Maybe people are self-selecting because it's a controversial topic but it's still way more than I expected.
Also I know people are mostly just kidding around, but I always laugh when folks try to "objectively" argue for something that's clearly just personal preference/intuition. Do you also berate people who are left handed or have a goofy stance for skateboarding?
Shockingly huge numbers for team inverted, I assumed it was more in the range of 10-30%. Maybe people are self-selecting because it's a controversial topic but it's still way more than I expected.
Also I know people are mostly just kidding around, but I always laugh when folks try to "objectively" argue for something that's clearly just personal preference/intuition. Do you also berate people who are left handed or have a goofy stance for skateboarding?
I would like to send out a heartfelt curse to the developers who still release games without an option to invert. It's stupid and you should feel bad, and you will have to go back and fix it anyway, so just get it right! It's an accessibility issue at this point.
Flying games are super rare so it's not like it's a frequent change. That's how you control a plane, so it makes sense to use it for that. In any other scenario it is nonsensical though.
