Do you invert the Y axis? (2022 Survey)
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I invert and played my first FPS on PC (Doom, Quake, Unreal, Half-life). My answer to your question would be "no", but "yes" to invert.
It's a self-selecting poll so inverters will be flocking to it to be part of a tribe and everyone else will be mostly hit-or-miss. I say this as an inverter.
I think if we get someone from an Actual Games Dev come in with some user stats it's usually around 10-15%. There's a reason it's called 'normal'
Used to play inverted all my life up until a couple of years ago when I got tired of remapping the controls back and forth when I had friends over. Relearned to play with normal controls during two weeks back when Borderlands 3 was released and haven't looked back since.
It depends.
I always do in Star Fox games and other rail shooters. It feels natural that way because I grew up with SF 64. I don't with anything else, to my knowledge.
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This. This is the answer.
I always do in Star Fox games and other rail shooters. It feels natural that way because I grew up with SF 64. I don't with anything else, to my knowledge.
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This. This is the answer.
I do invert the y-axis. When and how it became how I control the camera in games is lost in the mists of time but I assume it was playing Chuck Yeager on a Joystick on a Commodore 64 or the like, that had something to do with it. I could be wrong though. But yes, if I cannot invert the Y I cannot play your game. I'm like someone who has never played a game before and has the camera facing the ground at all times. Fun fact which is not fun, my niece played inverted when she was visiting me, as of course all my games are inverted. When she got a console of her own, no inversion. I admire the plasticity of young brains. I am old now and have been inverted for so long that it and putting on subtitles and turning the music down to 75% are all pavlovian at this point when I fire up a new game.
In the before times, when I used to go into the office, I would sometimes have to go to different people's desks and use their console/controller. Most of the time they were not inverted, so to make my life easier I just got used to using non-inverted controllers and that's how I roll these days.
The power of the default.
The power of the default.
We've played games at parties, or when friends come over, family holdays, etc... and the controls are almost always just given as default. I know new players struggle with dual analog like most do the first time they try it, but I do wonder how many were further put off even trying more games because they didn't realise they were natural inverted players and the default felt even more difficult to learn.
I've always been an inverted player but when the new Star Wars Lego game came out I played with my niece and had to play "normal". That plus there have been a number of times I've wanted to play something in Dreams and the person had no option for inverted so I couldn't play it so I tried to change my settings for all games going forward. It was super hard at first but after a few weeks I'm much better although in high stress situations I find my brain really wants to be inverted. Given how old I am and how long I've been an inverted user I figure I still have a ways to go but this video certainly helped put things in perspective.
This is exactly correct. As opposed to people who see it from the characters eyes looking up and down rather than the head going forwards and backwards.
It's a standard option in games for a reason.
I do wish it was brought forward as a default preset like how it was on a profile level on the Xbox 360 though - it not being as such kind of destroys a lot of cold-open immersive starts to games, when the very first thing you have to do is go into the options menu and adjust it.
Yep. Here's your character leaping into gameplay and we have this sweet choreographed music to go along with it and now you have to pause and fix our wrong non-inverted camera or worse yet we don't let you pause and you have to trip and stumble your way through our intro without being able to change any settings.
PS5 has a system-level checkbox for it but I think I've only seen first party games actually acknowledge and use that setting.
I am also shocked by this. Seems like more games should ask if you invert first time you play!
Yes for flight controls, no for aiming. I used to always invert but eventually I got tired of changing it every time I played at a friend's house, so I trained myself to get used to non inverted.
Yup since Goldeneye.
I always explain it like this:
Pretend the top of your head is the right analog stick. Now place your thumb (the one you use on the controller) on your head and push forward. Your head will start moving towards the ground, making your eyes look in that direction. Pull your thumb back and see that your head comes up and starts looking in that direction.
Makes the most sense to invert in my brain.
I always explain it like this:
Pretend the top of your head is the right analog stick. Now place your thumb (the one you use on the controller) on your head and push forward. Your head will start moving towards the ground, making your eyes look in that direction. Pull your thumb back and see that your head comes up and starts looking in that direction.
Makes the most sense to invert in my brain.
I can't even understand how the option other than inverted is even useable to to people.
Especially games that default to the fake option... Just why?
Especially games that default to the fake option... Just why?
I said "yes," but after reading the thread... This *isn't* exclusively about flying?
People invert in other situations? How does that happen? I didn't even know it was an option...
People invert in other situations? How does that happen? I didn't even know it was an option...
