Weird gaming quirks you have?

[aileron]

Totally makes sense as long as there's no penalty to reloading "ahead" of time. What if you need that one extra bullet in the next fight, right?

[aileron]

Curious: Have you seriously tried using mouse and keyboard and if so were you better or worse?

[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.

[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]

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 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...

[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.

[fenrif]

Which shooters?

[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.

[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.

[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...

[MadMummy76]

What are you on about? Becoming what?

[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.

[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"?

[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.