Invert Y-Axis on shooters / flight sims?

[Videodrome]

I randomly wonder about this sometimes and thought it was interesting some people might study why this is a thing.

For myself, there are 2 kinds of navigation I'm very picky about. I do set the Y Axis to be inverted which may have started from flight games as a habit, but I carry it over to all FPS.

I also use GPS Navigation for my job, but I have it setup to run on my tablet as an overhead 2D map, not the usual 3rd person 3D map view that is the default on so many consumer GPS devices. In game navigation, I'm not totally against the 3D map you might see when pressing start, but I think a small 2D corner map used during a multiplayer shooter for example probably simplifies the environment you want information about.

This sort of makes me think of weather information we see on the news. The 3D lanscape map kind of introduces the situation, but they usually pull the view up and overhead when they start giving a breakdown of things like temperatures or where a storm is going.

I kind of wonder if any of this still applies in VR. Maybe not for walking and looking as the headset controls that, but it might for simulated vehicles which I haven't tried yet. I could maybe see a difference if I was piloting a submersible as selecting UP to go UP or DOWN to go DOWN might be seen as just a toggle for the ballast tanks more. On the other hand a fast moving sub using fins to dive down or up might feel differently.







"'There's a gaping hole in our knowledge': the scientists studying why gamers invert their controls | Games | The Guardian" https://amp.theguardian.com/games/2020/dec/02/scientists-studying-why-gamers-invert-their-controls

 

[Plainview]

I hate push up go down controls. I immediately change them. Won’t play a game if it doesn’t allow it. Hopefully MS’s flight sim allows it.

 

[Spiritech]

I'm guessing its the way a person is mapping it to head movement. Turing your head right or left and you look in that direction but we tilt back to look up and forward to look down. So I think some map the controls this way others don't.

We inverters are the master race though.

 

[Swede]

Yes, I'm inverted.

 

[Videodrome]

I'm guessing its the way a person is mapping it to head movement. Turing your head right or left and you look in that direction but we tilt back to look up and forward to look down. So I think some map the controls this way others don't.

We inverters are the master race though.

Well, I think in planes you pull the steering wheel toward you to go up which I'd equate to pressing down on the D-Pad or pulling a Joystick toward you. I'm not sure if playing flight sims at a young age might form this as a habit.

To do the opposite especially in a flight sim would seem really weird to me.

But yeah tilting head back and tiling the Joystick back both for looking up kind of makes sense to. The only way I see pressing up is to command a toggle switch in game or if my character was in an elevator about to go up.

 

[Spiritech]

Well, I think in planes you pull the steering wheel toward you to go up which I'd equate to pressing down on the D-Pad or pulling a Joystick toward you. I'm not sure if playing flight sims at a young age might form this as a habit.

To do the opposite especially in a flight sim would seem really weird to me.

But yeah tilting head back and tiling the Joystick back both for looking up kind of makes sense to. The only way I see pressing up is to command a toggle switch in game or if my character was in an elevator about to go up.

Early 3d games i did not invert. Then like one day something switched and i couldnt play normal i had to invert the controls.

 

[Plainview]

We inverters are the master race though.