Inverted mouse...reteaching yourself to play

[stooeh]

Inverted here for life.
I also use Mouse2 for moving forward!!
Inverted because I played games before FPS's were invented. I played a lot of Elite (joystick), Rick Dangerous(joystick), Scramble (joystick) blah blah so when Doom/Quake came along I used the joystick.
When peering over a ledge to shoot a bad guy on a lower floor, it felt more natural to tilt the joystick forward like I would tilt a joystick forward to pursue a pirate spaceship trying to escape me by diving.
At my first lan party I got royally owned by absolutely everyone, not because of the up/down thing but because it was way too slow to turn around. I was a submarine periscope and it was easy to circle-strafe and stay behind me. It still irks me now when I see people on Twitch using controllers and moving about like neckless robots. Anyway so I switched to a mouse and it clearly felt better inverted.
I think it might also be because I hadn't used windows very much. I used DOS and my PC was just for games so I never had that conflict where in order to navigate with the curser, you push a mouse forward for the curser to travel up the screen.
I can't see there being any benefit to switching.

A friend of mine back in the 90s introduced me to mouse controls and in particular +mlook on quake 1 and I was instantly sold on the circle-strafe. Incidentally he also used to mouse2 for +forward

 

[nitram100]

I thought I was weird for using arrow keys for FPS games!

 

[Marshstyles]

I have always used inverted. Came from flight Sims I guess.

It is a little bit of a inconvenience when jumping on someone else pc but its only a couple of clicks in the menu or executing a config on CS.

 

[arc@css]

Stick to what you're happy with.

 

[mortals]

I play all my games with the mouse inverted, up is down and vice versa.

I do this without exception and really struggle to play with up as up and down as down.

I've had a few peeps telling me my FPS game would improve significantly if I was to re-teach myself to play the correct way.

I think you should play however you want to play

Seems a bit like someone saying 'omg u use your left hand , use your right hand, u will become better'
Also what makes it the 'correct' way?

Sounds a bit like they are trolling you for doing something a different way to them