Inverted Y-Axis

Do you play games with a inverted y-axis or standard?

For me it was always more natural to have it inverted, I guess because the first game I played controlled like that and also its how a plane flys. Down makes you look up and up makes you go down.

I wonder if more than half of the gamers out there play this way, and if so then why is it always off by default?

I have played one or two games that do not even have the inverted axis option and it makes it totally impossible for me to play.

Cast your vote and lets see how many of us use an inverted control scheme.

 

I'm an inverted user.

 

I'm an introverted user. wokka wokka wokka

For the most part I stick with non-inverted schemes. If I can play the game where the only scheme is inverted, I can catch on after a few minutes.

Don't know where my vote should go.

 

Your vote should go to inverted x-axis.

 

If the option was there. Egad, I am outfoxed.

 

I can use a non inverted y-axis if I stick with it for a while but I do not want too, its annoying and troublesome.

If it was a competitive game like an online fps, forget it lol.

 

Is inverted the one where if you move the mouse forward, it looks down?

 

Yes, that is inverted.

 

I just wish Windows natively had the option to invert the y-axis. I can die and go to heaven if that wish were to come true.

 

Wait, do you mean you use inverted Y-Axis in shooters?

Heh. I could try that. Aim at their crotch and shoot them in the head.

In Soviet Russia [insert stale joke about inverted axes]

 

He means in casual gaming, he can play with normal axis. But when it's time for serious business, he absolutely needs inverted.

 

Really? I can do it for you lol.

When I was playing perfect world because it had no inverted mouse option I wrote a glovepie script to inverted my mouse inputs. It didnt work like I wanted though because everything is inverted not just in-game camera.

So trying to move the mouse cursor to an attack icon or on the windows desktop I kept moving the wrong way.

The cure was worse than the poison for me in that case.

 

Yep that is exactly what I meant. Its too engraved in my muscle memory. If its say WoW where you can take it easy I can override my sense and use normal if I had no other option, but toss me in a fps game where I have people trying to kill me and you need split second reflexes and I would always move the wrong way with the mouse if I couldnt invert the axis.

 

To date you're the only person I've heard of who plays with an inverted axis.

 

We are a very rare breed of gamers.

 

Hmm well nothing wrong with being special.

I like to keep things central.

Its like I said, if you fly a plane thats how the flight controles work. So its good to be used to it (not that I fly planes often lol)

I did the same thing for my mountain bike. I ride motorcycles and go mountain biking, on a motorcycle the front brake is the right hand trigger, on normal bicycle the front brake is the left hand trigger. So to keep it the same my mountain bike has the brakes reversed so that the front is the right hand.

This way in a panic where I do not have time to think I will use the correct brake regardless of what bike I am on. (you get lots of split second life or death moments when mountain biking )

 

I play flight games inverted, it just makes more sense to me. Shooters I play standard.

I'm ambi-axised

 

Inverted here, it makes way more sense to me. Pushing the mouse forward is like tilting your head forward... maybe I think of it strangely.

 

I put both since I invert the axis on consoles but I don't on PC's. I know a lot of people who play like this haha.

 

i play with it not inverted on console games, and inverted on pc games.

 

On PC & Xbox I play inverted but on Gamecube I still play in normal control mode. I think it is because in Halo I got used to inverted on a friend's profile and then it spread to PC games as well, and now it is stuck that way and I feel strange in "normal" mode.

 

Bah.....stereotypical normal Y-Axis person here.....I can't even begin to picture how I'd would manage if my games suddenly became inverted....

 

Now that's just weird

 

I use to be inverted Y but when I kept coming across games, mainly ones on the consoles, that didn't allow for it I trained myself to use Normal Y.

 

i cant do inverted, i got left 4 dead split screen to work but the controls became inverted and i spazzed out until i could fix it, i could hardly get one kill

 

On third-person games I prefer using inverted controls, although on FPS games I use normal y-axis controls.

 

I used to play with inverted axis when I was younger, but when I got more competitive with my gameplay I realized I could reaction exponentially faster using normal controls than inverted.

 

Generally I opt for the Inverted Y function. But I find some games are better suited for it than others.

 

I use inverted y-axis, but I only use it on the controller. The mouse had to stay normal for me.

 

In a game where you have a target-rich environment and most of your weapons kill in one shot. Daaamn.

Then again, if I wanted a headshot, I'd end up shooting between their legs. D'oh.

 

i know right? im THAT bad with an inverted axis. normal i pwn though

 

Same here. But I play far more shooters than flight games, so "normal" is the normal for me. However, when I did try a flight game that defaulted to "normal" for planes (Battlestations Pacific Demo) it threw me off at first and I crashed a few planes into the ground before getting the hang of a non-inverted flight game.

 

I use inverted controls on the 360 gamepad for all types of games,however on the pc it is normal.But with the exception of flying a heli in bf2 or jet it has to be inverted

 

All games are non-inverted for me
Probably due to all the 3rd person games I played on the PS2 that were normal

Don't play too many flight sims though
I used to play Ace Combat on the PS2, still have to pick up HAWX and see if it compares

Plus with a mouse, looking up by moving the mouse up just seems natural to me

 

I hate trying to play with it inverted, the last time i used an inverted y-axis was when playing Hawx, but it was fine.

 

Normal. I can't even imagine myself playing with an inverted axis.

 

Normal Y-Axis for me. The only time I use inverted controls (and the only time it makes sense to me) is for flight control. But, I rarely play games where I'm flying something, so I almost never use inverted controls.