OMG I've forgotten how to use a mouse!

sWiZzLe · 17 May 2007 at 01:28

Since the days of Doom ive had my mouse set reversed. I've just tried to play 2 of my favourite games Half-Life DM and CS-Source. I can't remember how to use my mouse, i feel like my brain has been rewired.

I've tried both normal and reversed and neither makes much sense

Im gutted, i used to be so good at these games!

Can anyone help me or am i going to have to retire from the fps gaming world :confused:

Zefan · 17 May 2007 at 01:30

How long have you gone without gaming :\

benjo · 17 May 2007 at 01:34

sWiZzLe said:
Can anyone help me or am i going to have to retire from the fps gaming world

How can we help you use your mouse? Just user it more frequently lol

sWiZzLe · 17 May 2007 at 01:34

2 years-ish

Ive been playing Warhammer 40k :/

It's a scary thought that, im just going to have to learn to use a mouse again!

Oh god, i bet its playing too much Freelancer!

Kipper67 · 17 May 2007 at 02:37

Buy a console then you can use the excuse " oh fps are meant to be played with a keyboard and mouse not a joypad" as an excuse for the fact you can't hit anything

mrbios · 17 May 2007 at 09:42

Kipper67 said:
Buy a console then you can use the excuse " oh fps are meant to be played with a keyboard and mouse not a joypad" as an excuse for the fact you can't hit anything

but its true :confused:

GM@N · 17 May 2007 at 11:44

Invert mouse if you want to be PRO

Can of worms now open

Byron5184 · 17 May 2007 at 11:53

GM@N said:
Invert mouse if you want to be PRO

Can of worms now open

*Stamps on the can of worms and throws you your coat*

Get Out

ruffneck · 17 May 2007 at 11:54

GM@N said:
Invert mouse if you want to be PRO

Can of worms now open

agree

semi-pro waster · 17 May 2007 at 12:10

GM@N said:
Invert mouse if you want to be PRO

Any particular reason other than you like the fact it is conter-intuitive? I know some people do use inverted mouse but I don't really understand why.

Nate--IRL-- · 17 May 2007 at 13:33

semi-pro waster said:
Any particular reason other than you like the fact it is conter-intuitive? I know some people do use inverted mouse but I don't really understand why.

Think of a flight sim, controlled by a mouse... make sense now?

Nate

semi-pro waster · 17 May 2007 at 13:45

Nate--IRL-- said:
Think of a flight sim, controlled by a mouse... make sense now?

Nate

Yeah I know people do for that but it doesn't seem any more logical to do it for an FPS or that it will improve control. That is what I don't get.

manoz · 17 May 2007 at 13:47

semi-pro waster said:
Yeah I know people do for that but it doesn't seem any more logical to do it for an FPS or that it will improve control. That is what I don't get.

I used to have it inverted all the time cos I played flight sims and FPSs in equal measure, really was no biggy. Now I got it normal cos I don't play flight sims anymore, either way, they are both as easy as each other once you get used to them.

Noxis · 17 May 2007 at 14:27

semi-pro waster said:
Any particular reason other than you like the fact it is conter-intuitive? I know some people do use inverted mouse but I don't really understand why.

Actually you are wrong. Its not counter-intuitive at all.

Right now at your computer. Grab your mouse in a normal fashion, now pivoting at your waste keep everything else rigid (like your neck). Tilt so you are looking up, where does you mouse move... DOWN!

In an FPS you are not moving a mouse pointer that looks like a cross hair, you are tilting your virtual body.

SeriousPigeon · 17 May 2007 at 14:31

When you look up which way does your head move? - Back.
When you look down which way does your head move? - Forward.

Now transfer the same plane of movement onto your mouse and look up equals pulling back the mouse and looking down equals pushing the mouse forward.

Makes perfect sense to me.

OzZie · 17 May 2007 at 14:37

When you move a mouse forward in Windows, the mouse cursor moves up along with it on screen.

When you pull the mouse down (towards you) then the cursor moves down the screen.

Then imagine the crosshair of your FPS game is the cursor and apply the exact same rules. Thats how i look at it anyway.

Of course, the only exception to this are flight simulators.

richyfingers · 17 May 2007 at 14:37

I play inverted, just seems natural to me.

Mud · 17 May 2007 at 14:45

Perplexed said:
When you look up which way does your head move? - Back.
When you look down which way does your head move? - Forward.

Now transfer the same plane of movement onto your mouse and look up equals pulling back the mouse and looking down equals pushing the mouse forward.

Makes perfect sense to me.

If you're holding the back of someone's head, then yes, this argument holds for the vertical...however, if you now move the back of the head to the left, the head moves...right :confused:

semi-pro waster · 17 May 2007 at 16:34

Noxis said:
Actually you are wrong. Its not counter-intuitive at all.

Thanks for telling me I'm wrong but when I am talking about something personal to me I cannot be wrong.

It is counter-intuitive for me to use the mouse in any other way than the way I do.

I appreciate your point and I can see the logic but as Mud says it doesn't hold for movement of a characters head on the horizontal axis.

Dazzy_G · 17 May 2007 at 16:55

i spend more time looking left and right than i do up and down in fps games.

fair enough in BF2 the choppers are reversed but thats fine with me, i dont have any problem switching between the two modes when its obvious im in something different.