What Does Invert Y Axis On Xbox Mean

Opinion poll: what sort of video games do you invert the sticks?

It depends on the user.You would have to ask yourself what is the most natural way to look at things when you play a game.For example, If you are playing a first person shooter, how would you look at the right thumb stick?Does pushing the right thumb stick up move your head forward? Thus moving the camera view downwards.Or does pushing the right thumb stick up move your eyes upwards? Thus moving the camera view upwards.Another example would be if you are playing any kind of flying gameDoes pushing the right thumb stick up move your plane forward? Thus dipping the plane forward and moving the camera view downwards.Or does pushing the right thumb stick up move your view in a plane upwards? Thus moving the camera view upwards.ConclusionInverted or not, there is no right way to configure it but more of which configurations feels more natural to the user. As long as you are comfortable with how you control what you see in the game, you are good to go.All the games supporting controllers have options for inverting the view so don’t worry about getting too comfortable to one configuration.

Why do some people use inverted controls in 3D video games? What are the percentages of people who play inverted vs. non-inverted?

I don't have access to numbers of standard versus inverted player ratios, but I can explain the reasoning why.It all depends on how your mind perceives and translates the control movement to your mental behavior. The two methods break down like this:Standard: You want to look up? You move your stick/mouse up. The cursor goes up, the viewing angle goes up. This is giving agency to the reticule or point of focus. Instead of calling this 'standard', we could just call it the 'front' method, since all of the control is happening in front of the viewer.Inverse: You want to look up? You yank the stick down. So how does that make sense? Quite simple. Imagine the joystick as your head on a neck. You want to look down, so your tilt your head forward (up). Here's a nifty picture:So we'll call 'inverse' the 'rear' control method. Instead of controlling the reticle, you're controlling the viewing mechanism, e.g. the camera. In fact, look at a camera rig, and you'll see a very distinct joystick-looking handle on the back. If you want to have the camera look down, you need to lift up on the stick:It's also been mentioned that for flight controls, if you want to bring a plane's nose up, you have to pull back on the flightstick. The idea here is that you're balancing on a fulcrum (tripod, neck), and you're controlling the angle from behind or above.For me, it generally depends on what game I'm playing. I like my flight simulators to be inverted, anything where I'm controlling a mechanism. But for most shooters, I tend to think 'forward', and know I'm matching the mouse to my reticle, so I keep a standard setup for those. My wife, however, plays entirely inverted. It's only a problem when she asks me to take over her controls for a second, and I start staring at the pretty floor tiles.

Do you use inverted controls when playing a first person shooter?

Yeah, pretty much exclusively.I blame my dad and my uncle. They were both pilots, and so I was indoctrinated early into the idea of pulling back on a stick to go up, and pushing up on a stick to go down.Interestingly, this only manifested once control sticks became common on controllers. Before then, I was perfectly comfortable using regular directional/look controls on a d-pad or a mouse, and would only use inverted controls on a joystick for flight simulators.And without actually checking, I don’t remember which way I use a mouse these days. I think I invert it? It’s especially weird that I can’t remember, since I was playing a game on my desktop yesterday morning!