Weird gaming quirks you have?

[PriestTroit]

I play video games upside down! Meaning I always have an inverted Y-axis. It happened because I used to go to some kids house to play GoldenEye which didn't let you change it, so it just ended up playing that way to this very day.

For a brief time I also played with an inverted X-axis after player one of the Sims games for a long time, but I recovered from that.

[Imnotanybody]

I always need something in the background when I game. Whether a tv, music, or youtube podcast, I just need something else back there for some reason.

[PriestTroit]

Same for when I'm sleeping... but gaming? Weird! lol

[Calen]

Games that are very grindy I like to listen to podcast. Monster Hunter World is a good example of this, by the end I was running out of podcast, lol

[ethansito]

Sometimes when I'm walking in a game, I get the urge to mash specific keys on my keyboard, so my character ends up walking weird in games.

[Doomie]

When I'm playing a game, and I don't want to press a certain button (Right Click for Robot in Nuclear Throne, etc.) I usually feel an urge to press that button specifically.

[ryvrdrgn14]

For FPS games I have to configure the movement and other keys to the numpad side because I am left-handed, but I play other games with the normal WASD setup.

[MadMummy76]

My only current quirk if you can call it that, is that I never use macros (regardless of both my gaming mouse and keyboard supporting them.
And the fact that I don't use more than the classic left / right mouse buttons. Even the middle click is a last resort when I have no way to assign the action somewhere else.

I used to play inverted Y axis for a long time too. I also used the cursor keys instead of WSAD.

I don't know how and why I kicked the habit of inverting the Y axis, I don't even know when that happened exactly. Probably it was because of a few games that didn't allow me to invert it.

I was forced to abandon the cursor keys when games started to come out that needed more than my usual CTRL = CROUCH , ENTER = USE, SHIFT = RUN keys to play. I definitely remember playing HL1 with the cursor keys still. And Jedi Knight, where I just assigned everything to the keys near ENTER like comma or backslash. Used that setup until I eventually migrated to WSAD.

[SeanCampbell]

I don't know if you'd call it a quirk, but I use my mouse with my left hand. It makes PC gaming a little bit of a challenge. I'm actually curious if I'm the only one who does this because everyone I've ever met acts like it's the strangest thing in the world.

[aileron]

I thought most left handed people use their mouse with their left hand. <<caveat: I'm not left handed so I could be taking out of my @ss here>> I thought that's why most mice are simetrical.

[SeanCampbell]

I figured as much too but Judging by the reactions of people around me, apparently not. I don't know for sure though. But you bring up an interesting point. There needs to be more ergonomic mice for lefties.I always kind of figured when you see left-handed controller options and such that no one ever bothered to test them out. Like they were just there to be throwaway alt layouts.

[isturbo1984]

I like to play PC shooters competitively using twin stick controls with a controller. Nothing makes a self-proclaimed PC elitists go "Reeeee~" more than informing them they got their ass handed to them by a controller user.

MadMummy76 how about that? was that "becoming"?

[isturbo1984]

@MadMummy76
You were flipping me shit ion another thread for essentially telling the truth. Apparently you think to avoid "bragging" people would simply not participate in conversation. You said it was quite "unbecoming." Mystery solved.

@fenrif
Mostly CoD titles

@aileron
I've course, I've tried using them. I've always used mouse+keyboard until somewhat recently. It wasn't always PC games supported controllers. But with shooters, I'm worse with them.

[PriestTroit]

It's even funnier when the other team recognizes that you were actually using a controller in the final kill-cam. They're like, "What?! You're using a controller! :O"

[isturbo1984]

@PriestTroit
"look! he rotated that quick on a perfect horizontal axis! cheating bitch using shotgun and controller! its the only way he can win! cheating bitch!"
lol i love it

[SnarkyJay]

I will often play a game I really like right up until the final boss, then take a break and wait a while before beating it. I'm always hesitant to finish a game I really like, because once I beat it, it's over. Sure I could do a second playthrough, but it's never the same for me. I always do end up beating the games I play, but I'm always a little heartbroken when it's over.

[SckizoBoy]

Not really a 'quirk' per se, since I guess this is common to a lot of other TW players, but I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooo OC about having standardised and (as) historic (as possible) armies when playing, so it makes me kinda struggle on higher difficulty levels as I'll still be recruiting juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust the right combination of units before... oh, I'm under siege. Well, bugger...

That and in the battle mode, I'll spam the pause button 'cos my formations need to be super regular, every unit in the formation needs to have equal depth, which is a pain because the interface goes exclusively for equal frontage. But eh...

[Wolf]

I play video games upside down! Meaning I always have an inverted Y-axis. It happened because I used to go to some kids house to play GoldenEye which didn't let you change it, so it just ended up playing that way to this very day.

For a brief time I also played with an inverted X-axis after player one of the Sims games for a long time, but I recovered from that.

That's not weird, that is perfectly normal! If you are a flightsimmer, that is......as that is how it works on an aircraft.....stick forward nose down, stick backwards nose up.

I also have that good old weird "Simmer" (Combat Flight Sims) eccentriticity of keeping my monitor really clean, no specks of dirt on that one.
Why?
Well most enemies start out the size of a speck of dirt.

And I mostly use selfmade profiles or ones I have modified for my HOTAS or Wheel because they need to fit what I want.

In racing sims, I have most of the important keys re-assigned to the right side of the Keyboard............because I have the Keyboard to the left of the Wheel when it's mounted.
Inbetween the Wheel and the Keyboard is the HOTAS Warthog Throttle, which I use as an improvised Button Box for Racing sims, aside from it's use in Flightsims.
I also have used the Stick of my Warthog as an improvised Handbrake in Dirt Rally, something for which some of my fellow Warthog users probably would like to lynch me! :P )

I also love going for a simply low-level flight with no mission goal, or a few rounds round a track like the Nordschleife or Spa for relaxation.
(Also helps when you have to listen to something really stupid on the net, because then only half your brain or less is engaged, depending on the car/track or aircraft/terrain combo.
Just be prepared to mess up braking points at something particularly jarringly stupid.)
Aside from that what I find really relaxing at some late evenings is some long range shooting in Arma (in the 1,000+ Metre range.).
It has something calming, almost zen like, when you have to really concentrate and focus.
And yeah, I do appreciate that that might seem a bit of a weird thing to be saying about virtual shooting.


SnarkyJay I know what you mean, you don't want the journey to end just yet.

[Sabre]

In FPS games I always have to have a full clip if I'm not shooting. Even if I'm one round from a full clip I reload. I also rarely use the special high-power weapons that you get later on in the games even if I'm having trouble because "you never know". I might need it for whatever's around the next corner.

[EternalFaith]

This is something I do compulsively in FPS games, I don't even think about it anymore, which sometimes leads to me getting caught reloading. That one round can make a difference sometimes even in a 60 round clip

Not too long ago, I got my girlfriend into FPS games and that's not a habit that she has at any level, so she'll turn a corner to shoot someone and have only a few rounds in the clip. I remember watching her play Ashe in Overwatch when that she was new and seeing her get stuck firing one round at a time since she wasn't reloading the clip when she wasn't firing.

[PriestTroit]

You've gotta be careful about that! I play Rainbow Six Siege a lot, and in that game a split second can be the difference between life and death. Even if you're in a 1v1 situation, it's usually best to not change magazines because the other guy can hear you doing it and push around the corner, landing a bullet right in between your eyes. while you've got your hands in your pocket. It's especially deadly to people who are used to the insta-speed reloads in games like Call of Duty and instinctively put in a fresh mag immediately after a kill.

[JackofTears]

I can't stand not having a full clip when I'm running around between fights - lack of simple preparation can get you killed!

[fenrif]

I take a lot of screenshots. Especially if the game has no HUD or an option to turn the HUD off. I'm playing Dishonoured 2 at the moment and I have hundreds of screenshots. I usually dump them all in my wallpaper folder to get put into the rotation.

[PriestTroit]

I do it on rare occasions, but it's kind of a hassle on PS4. I just keep forgetting what button it is to take a quick snapshot. It's either a single tap, double tap, or long press on the share button. Meh...

[Astraea]

In any game that's online I need options to make it unique from the rest of the players no matter how insignificant and unnoticeable the differences are. If I can't, it might as well be anyone's game but it isn't mine. This had led me to never go with the meta and make some pretty weird builds/aesthetic choices. I'm the kind of guy who will walk into a group dungeon wearing full fashion and sucky stats, yup that's me.

[PriestTroit]

I used to play MTG with a guy who did something similar. He'd use the weirdest home brew decks you'd ever seen, but they would actually be pretty good depending on what everyone else was playing on a given night. Good times.

[Astraea]

Yeah the thing is with most PvP meta's that they are build around countering other meta's and completely ignoring whatever non meta players might be playing. I saw this a lot in Hearthstone too, people getting their decks ruined because all they did was counter meta decks. However, there's little possibility to counter every single deck, that's where strategies come into play.