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by Xiol32 800 days ago
Inverted Y players unite!

Descent also contributed to my ruined brain, along with Flight Simulator 95. Cannot play without inverted Y.

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I got made fun of for being a Y-inverted person, but I had my revenge when none of my non inverted friends could reliably control the bucket on a front-loader I had rented. Neener neener.
Me too!

The first game I played with mouse support in the 90s, I believe, was Flight Simulator 3.0, and I think by default (?) it was set up for inverted mouse (or was MS-DOS Star Wars: TIE Fighter, can't remember).

Since then, when I started playing other FPS games with mouse support (like Quake and similar), this mode prevailed.

However, the biggest challenge came years later with FPS games for smartphones - retraining my mind to play with non-inverted orientation. Quite an adventure!

"Inverted Y" is what Wright brothers had on the Flyer.
The left hand writers serve the wicked one. The inverted ones are the devils! Burn them at the joystickstake!
Inverted Y for joystick/thumb stick makes sense to me and is what I use...but inverted Y for mouse!? That's just crazy :)
It was SO annoying when it turned out Crysis 3 does not respect this setting in the VTOL-flying sections.