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notfred

Lifer
Feb 12, 2001
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I used to, because I moved into FPS games from flight simulators. Then I didn't play anything for a while, and now both regular and inverted mice feel wrong. I dunno, either way feels like I should be doing the opposite.
 

Joemonkey

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Mar 3, 2001
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yes! i look at it as flying for some reason, you push forward and you should look down, pull back look up
 
Feb 10, 2000
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Nope, but I do prefer it inverted on the rare occasions that I am flying a plane (e.g., the planes in BF1942 and DC).
 

Robor

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Oct 9, 1999
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Always have, always will. Just seems natural to me. Never understood why games weren't default that way but I guess this poll is the answer ( 2 : 1 ratio ).
 

sandorski

No Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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Nope. Strange thing though, for Flight Sims I must Invert, it just mucks me up playing the same way between FPS and Flight Sims for some reason.
 

Maetryx

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Jan 18, 2001
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Originally posted by: sandorski
Nope. Strange thing though, for Flight Sims I must Invert, it just mucks me up playing the same way between FPS and Flight Sims for some reason.


This is what I was going to say. I am used to using the mouse as a flight stick in a flight simulator, so pushing it forward is supposed to make me dive. But in an FPS, no freaking way. I haven't played a flight sim in so long that I'm not sure if I would invert it now.

I remember that one game came out from Microsoft called Terminal Velocity. I had trouble with the axis on that game, but I no longer remember which way seemed natural to me. It was a space ship flying fps, basically. Oh, and what about Descent? Again, I remember being frustrated with the axis, but I can't remember what I ended up choosing.

Anymore I play way, way more FPS than anything else. I love AVP2, for example.
 

blueshoe

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Mar 6, 2005
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NEVER! Inverting the mouse in an FPS would be like inverting the mouse for normal mouse usage for me. For flight sims I can understand how it would help, but i don't really play flight sims. I almost always invert the joystick controls in console games though.