I've been playing First Person Shooter games since Wolfenstein 3D came out. I've been playing the Halo series since day one on the original xbox. When given the option, I always, ALWAYS used and inverted up/down thumbstick.
There's never been a question, (without tooting my own horn too much) I own in Halo multiplayer using the inverted layout.
I got my rift a few days ago and immediately started playing my game save in Half Life 2 Ep 2 on the rift. First off, WOW it was amazing. I did not expect it to be THAT good. Secondly, now that I was "inside" the game, inverted thumbsticks felt totally wrong. I had to switch to non-inverted , or regular.
I logged a few hours in Half life 2 this way and it was awesome, but my buddy called me and wanted a session of Halo 4 matchmaking, cool, I was in. This is where it got weird.
I opened halo and started a match using my inverted thumbstick layout. Uh-oh. Everything was backwards.... I could no longer use inverted thumbsticks... even in non-rift FPSs. Switching to non-inverted helped a bit but I felt like a newbie again. I am finding it VERY hard to play an FPS that is not in the rift.
To understand how profound this is, you have to know how many hours I've logged in games like Halo over the past decade and a half... thousands and thousands of hours and ALWAYS inverted.
A few hours in the rift have completely changed my life forever... it is totally insane and I can't go back.
I've always been an inverted stick man ( look up & down) but I haven't had same issue I've still kept the invert way (the proper way lol) so I'll see how I go as I can still play cod etc with inverted 😄
The same thing happened to me too! I'm also a Halo player and am known to dominate at SWAT. After getting lost in the rift for a few hours, I couldn't get a headshot to save my life for 2 days! But it came back after awhile. I think it's something you have to get used to. Almost like a "switch" in your brain from VR to console controller gaming
I don't have my Rift yet and I also play with inverted Y-axis. I have actually been wondering if it would have an effect when using VR w/ head tracking.
"nated066" wrote: I've been playing First Person Shooter games since Wolfenstein 3D came out. I've been playing the Halo series since day one on the original xbox. When given the option, I always, ALWAYS used and inverted up/down thumbstick.
There's never been a question, (without tooting my own horn too much) I own in Halo multiplayer using the inverted layout.
I got my rift a few days ago and immediately started playing my game save in Half Life 2 Ep 2 on the rift. First off, WOW it was amazing. I did not expect it to be THAT good. Secondly, now that I was "inside" the game, inverted thumbsticks felt totally wrong. I had to switch to non-inverted , or regular.
I logged a few hours in Half life 2 this way and it was awesome, but my buddy called me and wanted a session of Halo 4 matchmaking, cool, I was in. This is where it got weird.
I opened halo and started a match using my inverted thumbstick layout. Uh-oh. Everything was backwards.... I could no longer use inverted thumbsticks... even in non-rift FPSs. Switching to non-inverted helped a bit but I felt like a newbie again. I am finding it VERY hard to play an FPS that is not in the rift.
To understand how profound this is, you have to know how many hours I've logged in games like Halo over the past decade and a half... thousands and thousands of hours and ALWAYS inverted.
A few hours in the rift have completely changed my life forever... it is totally insane and I can't go back.
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This happened to me aswell but many years ago without VR. Always used to play with inverted settings but one day I woke up and it felt totally wrong. It's a wierd feeling 🙂
Maybe you just got used to playing in quality 3d while Rifting and when you went back to a flat monitor it takes some adjustment after you lose that enhanced depth perception of VR.
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"Bleppe" wrote: This happened to me aswell but many years ago without VR. Always used to play with inverted settings but one day I woke up and it felt totally wrong. It's a wierd feeling 🙂
That happened to me too! I had used inverted controls for around 15 years, and then suddenly one day I just lost the ability to play that way. I had to switch to non-inverted controls, and have been playing that way ever since.
"Rowlaz" wrote: LMAO, dude that's so awesome and crappy at the same time. Dude I think the Oculus broke you!! :shock: Hope it doesn't affect your skills for long. 😉
Same thing happened to me also, thanks to the Rift! I had learned inverted a long time ago because the first mouselook mode I'd tried on a first person shooter defaulted to inverted (think it was the original Duke Nukem 3D), and I also tried to think of it in terms of flight sims. I had just stuck to it ever since, with many hours of multiplayer etc., but had wondered every once in awhile whether inverted or non inverted was truly the most "natural" method. The Rift finally answered the question for me, as despite my many years of inverted fps y axis controls, the moment I tried it in the Rift it was very unnatural and my brain immediately wanted non inverted. Now I'm just trying to reprogram myself for non inverted on all first person games outside the Rift.
