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Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Frazala1@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Usually it refers to joystick directions being reversed (common for flight simulators) or the "Southpaw" control methods on console controllers (designed for lefty users).

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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I’ve never seen a flight sim with reversed controls. They all work like a real plane joystick from what I’ve seen.

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[–] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, that's inverted controls. Push the joystick up to go down, and down to go up.

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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

No… push forward to go down, pull back to go up.

That’s standard joystick operation, nothing inverted about it.

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[–] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 11 months ago (1 child)

For airplanes yes, for literally any other application no, that's inverted.

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[–] kuribo@aussie.zone -2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

Yeah but the same principle applies to the camera in a third person game. It’s pivoting around the character - it’s a pitch rotation, same as a plane.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago

The above principle works for third person, too - if you're conceptualizing moving a "handle" behind the camera rather than being in the camera itself, it's inverted.

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[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

Not a true sim, but Ace Combat 7 novice controls are non-inverted. I feel like Far Cry 5/6 and definitely Fortnite put the non-inverted pitch control on the planes, which were not the focus of the game. I assumed other plane-including games did the same.

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[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago*

Il-2 Sturmovich for the Xbox 360 didn't have the correct controls, I messaged the devs and they said they would work on it. Still waiting...

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