Inversion

[Belated]

What's wrong with inversion? (Talking about FPS game controls here.) I LOVE aim inversion. As a kid I once thought to myself, "I wonder what it would be like to play an FPS like I used to play a flight sim..." and switched out the controls. I've been using inversion ever since. It's natural to me now. I perform better with it on.

And admittedly, I always get a kick out of my friends failing when they play off of one of my profiles and forget to switch it back.

But it's so uncommon. I'm the only person I know who does this. So what about you guys? Any of you Escapists here like to invert your aim when you shoot?

 

[PlasmaFrog]

It feels unnatural to me. I prefer my cross-hair functioning in the same way that my hand does, in perfect coordination.

But sometimes, just sometimes, I'll invert my aim when I'm feeling like an edgy devil.

 

[PlasmaFrog]

The problem with Inversion is that stuff ends up upside down, of course.

Try flying with it. I decided to try out Battlefield Play4free(Yes, it sucked) and it had my aim for vehicles inverted automatically. So, I nose dived into the ocean.

Fun stuff.

 

[NathLines]

I don't tend to imagine my gun being an airplane xD

And I will be seriously surprised if anyone else plays with inversion on. Inversion just feels completely unnatural for most people

 

[PlasmaFrog]

The problem with Inversion is that stuff ends up upside down, of course.

Try flying with it. I decided to try out Battlefield Play4free(Yes, it sucked) and it had my aim for vehicles inverted automatically. So, I nose dived into the ocean.

Fun stuff.

ok.

Hey, thanks!

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

I only ever used vertical inversion on TimeSplitters 2. I really don't know why. It feels unnatural when I do it on any other FPS.

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

I can't play uninverted. It just feels wrong to me.

 

[Laurie Barnes]

I play with Look inversion because the first shooter I ever played was also a flight simulator. I never broke the habit, and it annoys the hell out of my friends whenever they try to play on my XBOX.

 

[default]

I always use inversion, because, as my mates say 'I'm a freak'.

I kind of have to, if I'm playing a console. My brain is hard wired that way. It's pretty annoying too when I have to pause everyone at the start of a Halo Deathmatch and set the controls to inverted...

 

[Scabadus]

Back when I played games on consols I had inversion on; I literally couldn't play uninverted. I was the only person I knew who did it, needless to say my friends would all get annoyed when I insisted of messing about in the options of their consols to turn my guest profile inverted when at their house. Eventually I just created my own profile at all of my friends' houses.

Now that I'm mostly a PC gamer I can't play with inversion ON; after getting used to my uninverted mouse the console controls feel very strange when I invert them. Flying, however, I go uninverted on the PC and inverted on the Consoles, just to be weird.

On a similar topic, have you tried going Southpaw (switching thumbstick controls)? I had an old game for the PS2 that was Southpaw by default with no way to switch; I was quite good at it when it came out, but going back to it after a few years of Halo and other modern FPSs I would spend more time walking into walls than shooting enemys.

 

[ultrachicken]

They're both equal, it's just that non-inverted is now the default, so more people are used to it. I personally don't use inverted controls for the aforementioned reason.