I've been using inverted ever since I started using a mouse playing FPS games, been so long I don't ever remember which game I started with.
I saw only one answer pertaining to this and I will add on to his point. FPSs allow you to control the players head, and tilting your head forward causes you to look down.
In my opinion inverted is actually the most accurate way to control an FPS but it comes down to how somebody's brain works, something similar to right/left hand people.
I saw only one answer pertaining to this and I will add on to his point. FPSs allow you to control the players head, and tilting your head forward causes you to look down.
In my opinion inverted is actually the most accurate way to control an FPS but it comes down to how somebody's brain works, something similar to right/left hand people.
ConstipatedVigilante
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Same. Can't shoot for shit in an FPS with inverted, but I do a nose dive with my plane when non-inverted.
But to complcate matters even further, when I use my little mouse pointer analog stick thingy on my wireless keyboard, I don't invert.
mouse = cursorOriginally posted by: warcrow
Non-inverted seems odd to me. It's kinda like flying a plane.
mousing surface = screen
move the mouse up and left on the surface, the cursor mimics and goes up and to the left
In a FPS, your reticle becomes the cursor, only the cursor stays fixed in the middle of the screen.
I do the same thing. A mouse is not a joystick...
Yes, but you can also think of this as pulling your head down or pushing your head up...
Might as well invert the X axis as well, because you can also think of it as pulling to the left in order to look right (or vice versa) if the pull is occurring at the back of the head :roll:
There is no right or wrong on this. Whatever works for you is fine.
For me the mouse acts as an interface between me and the computer. When I want my reticle on the screen to go up and to the left, my mouse (which acts as the physical form of the virtual reticle) needs to go up and to the left.
If I'm tracing a target and the target is moving in an 'S' pattern, then I simply trace out an S with my mouse.
BTW, this argument is just about as silly as trying to determine which hand is the correct hand to write with...whichever works best for you is what you should use.
Non-inverted for everything... and I mean everything. Inverted controls piss the hell out of me.
I used to on my FPS games on PC... but for some reason I stopped doing it.
Now I play PC non-inverted, but on 360 it must be inverted.
Now I play PC non-inverted, but on 360 it must be inverted.
Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
mouse = cursorOriginally posted by: warcrow
Non-inverted seems odd to me. It's kinda like flying a plane.
mousing surface = screen
move the mouse up and left on the surface, the cursor mimics and goes up and to the left
In a FPS, your reticle becomes the cursor, only the cursor stays fixed in the middle of the screen.
I do the same thing. A mouse is not a joystick...
Yes, but you can also think of this as pulling your head down or pushing your head up...
Might as well invert the X axis as well, because you can also think of it as pulling to the left in order to look right (or vice versa) if the pull is occurring at the back of the head :roll:
There is no right or wrong on this. Whatever works for you is fine.
For me the mouse acts as an interface between me and the computer. When I want my reticle on the screen to go up and to the left, my mouse (which acts as the physical form of the virtual reticle) needs to go up and to the left.
If I'm tracing a target and the target is moving in an 'S' pattern, then I simply trace out an S with my mouse.
BTW, this argument is just about as silly as trying to determine which hand is the correct hand to write with...whichever works best for you is what you should use.
I'm not sure who's arguing.
Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
mouse = cursorOriginally posted by: warcrow
Non-inverted seems odd to me. It's kinda like flying a plane.
mousing surface = screen
move the mouse up and left on the surface, the cursor mimics and goes up and to the left
In a FPS, your reticle becomes the cursor, only the cursor stays fixed in the middle of the screen.
I do the same thing. A mouse is not a joystick...
Yes, but you can also think of this as pulling your head down or pushing your head up...
Might as well invert the X axis as well, because you can also think of it as pulling to the left in order to look right (or vice versa) if the pull is occurring at the back of the head :roll:
There is no right or wrong on this. Whatever works for you is fine.
For me the mouse acts as an interface between me and the computer. When I want my reticle on the screen to go up and to the left, my mouse (which acts as the physical form of the virtual reticle) needs to go up and to the left.
If I'm tracing a target and the target is moving in an 'S' pattern, then I simply trace out an S with my mouse.
BTW, this argument is just about as silly as trying to determine which hand is the correct hand to write with...whichever works best for you is what you should use.
I'm not sure who's arguing.
Exactly, my argument is that there is no right or wrong way here, that there is no justification that is 100% sound in supporting use either way that makes you some sort of idiot or chump for not using a certain method.
Thus this thread is and should be just a census thread where we learn about the preferences of the population. I don't want to be told that my favorite color is wrong just like how I don't want to be told using a non-inverted mouse is wrong.
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Me too:
Right mouse run, left fire, thumb button reload, etc
Strafe with , & . left shift run, / is backwards, space jump, CTRL crouch and ; is use.
Inverted, ever since I started PC gaming back in '94 or something. It probably has to do with playing loads of Tie Fighter and Descent back in the day, where I mostly used a joystick. Going from joystick to mouse, it obviously felt strange to move the mouse forward to look up and vice-versa. People have tried to explain to me that I should view the reticle as a cursor, but I've never really seen it that way so it feels kind of strange...
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Non-inverted. Inverted makes no sense to me.
I don't know how WoW works, but I've played third person games where I've wanted to invert the X axis. In some games, when you press right it turns your body to the right. In other games when you press right, it moves the CAMERA to the right (counter-clockwise if you were looking straight down at the character and camera) - so your body turns to the left. I forget which one I prefer, but there have been games that were unplayable for me because of this.
I don't know how WoW works, but I've played third person games where I've wanted to invert the X axis. In some games, when you press right it turns your body to the right. In other games when you press right, it moves the CAMERA to the right (counter-clockwise if you were looking straight down at the character and camera) - so your body turns to the left. I forget which one I prefer, but there have been games that were unplayable for me because of this.
Inverted....
It seems that long ago I started playing a game where that was the default and it has stuck with me ever since. I've tried to switch back... I can't do it.
It seems that long ago I started playing a game where that was the default and it has stuck with me ever since. I've tried to switch back... I can't do it.
More old school gamers invert than new school gamers do I have noticed. Inverted is the only way to play, imo. Not inverted is like using arrow keys.
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