Do you prefer when your minimaps rotate with the camera or stay fixed at north?

Do you prefer when your minimaps rotate with the camera or stay fixed at north?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    rotate

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fixed. I want to be able to tell at a glance my orientation to the world, I can already tell the world's orientation to me.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ur orientation is gay

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >t. the world has to rotate around me
        You wouldn't survive alone in a forest even with a compass.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    fixed

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Rotate. I get confused otherwise 🙁

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i get confused when it does rotate!

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    fixed

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fixed. I like being able to read where I should go rather than just following the pointy arrow

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm pretty sure I use rotation in GTA, I guess because it's high speed and I like to know at a glance which direction I need to turn.
    But I had it fixed in Friday the 13th, because knowing my direction and orientation was more important.
    So I guess it depends on the game speed.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Rockstar games don’t let you do Fixed. It’s annoyed me more about them lately.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Put it on super simple mode for RDR2. Having a giant spinning circle on screen was so immersion breaking.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    For shooters, rotate
    For everything else, fixed
    This is the only correct answer

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why would you ever want your mini-map to rotate? It just makes it confusing when looking for where to go on the main map and then trying to navigate there on the mini-map.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it's for people with poor spacial perception

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Static is a map.
    Rotating is radar.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Minimaps are cancer on video games. I prefer them gone completely. If you do not turn off the minimap, you're a child. You're actively destroying video games by wanting a minimap.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >no context
    As with everything, it depends.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Let's separate the boys from the men.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Mouse but,
      depends on how self-centered you are in your perspective. Do you imagine that the stick controls the screen on your virtual head?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I see the logic of how this makes sense to people but do you apply this to left and right as well?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        pull to the left, pull to the right. The picture is pushing down and pulling up

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        shouldn't the horizontal then lean left/right by that logic?

        stick up, look up. simple as.
        Explanation for the second one doesn't work since left and right are never reversed in this context.

        I do invert both

        >Up
        Up

        >Down
        Down

        Don't need some dumb visual diagram to understand basic directions.

        I don't need a diagram. The diagram is for the morons with 0 spatial intelligence.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Applying spatial intelligence to something as simple as which way a stick goes in relation to a virtual camera shows you're a midwit desperate to be seen as intelligent. Normal, well functioning people assign up to up and down to down.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      shouldn't the horizontal then lean left/right by that logic?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      so that's how inverted morons cope

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      if you're in an airplane sure

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      My older brother would always argue for inverted controls and would always say “Imagine a giant thumb…” the gesture moving his head back and forward like a giant thumb was pushing his head forward and back

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >it's only use is an accessibility option for the moronic

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      every competent person uses rotation or regular aiming. it's like gays who play with high mouse sensitivity or aim only with their wrists. i just fricking know you're bad.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's been scientifically proven that people who invert Y axis have a higher IQ and are more likely to have a better understanding of complex spatial orientation logic than those who do not invert.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >It's been scientifically proven that people who invert Y axis have a higher IQ
        Source?

        No. It's inverted because of the historical use of mechanical linkages and the physiological fact that man is stronger at pulling toward them than pushing away.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Source?
          New England Medical Journal of Scientific Review

          You can also simply poll the entirety of Ganker and create your own data of a cross section between users who invert or dont, and users who are smart enough to play advanced flight and space simulations. The results would speak for themselves.

          For further data you can also get gender and ethnic backgrounds and you'd also see it's mostly white males who invert, again, signifying the higher IQ.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Actually source anon

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >smart enough to play advanced flight and space simulations
            It's not about being smart enough. It's about enjoying things enough anon. I find advanced flight and space simulations to be rather boring, yet strategy games and other extremely complex genres (more complex than flight and space simulations) far more interesting.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >they're boring
              Clearly cope. You've neither found yourself in real simulator before, nor would you be smart enough to figure it out if you ever in one.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >real simulation has never been tried
                lol

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Correct. You've never even been in a simulator of any kind before, and your brain is incapable of understanding why the vertical planes are inversed in vehicles that move on 3 dimensions.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah it looks utterly boring being in that image you posted. I'm sorry anon, but this is a videogame board. Wanting complex controls and physics simulation in a videogame is one thing, but thinking that intelligent people prefer to be in the situation that you posted above for pleasure is just hilarious.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >this is a videogame board.
                Again, cope. It's ok to admit your brain simply falls in line with the 80%+ of the population on the planet who are incapable of thinking in 3 dimensions. Most people just aren't. You also outted your as not playing simulators (once again) by saying they don't exist in a video game format.

                But, I would agree their discussion doesn't belong on Ganker, because as you said, this board is for simple and basic easy to play video games, like the rts games you play.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                you're a poser trying to embellish the PC games some dads played for 30 minutes before retiring for the night. most of these games lack an actual competitive scene (where IQ dominates btw. RTS, FPS, Puzzle, etc.) and, of course, you cite the simulators meant for the video game market as opposed to actual commercial ones. what a fricking clown.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >lack an actual competitive scene
                Where are the goalposts going??

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Keep reading and maybe you'll figure it out. They aren't moving anywhere, you're just meandering around and are unable to realise that the goalposts have been stationary this whole time.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I'm a different anon, and as I see it, this was originally about how stupid people don't understand inverted controls. Then you suddenly started talking about "competitive scene", which has nothing to do with this discussion.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >I'm a different anon
                It's really best to treat all anons as different anons. The guy who mentioned the competitive scene only posted once in the conversation. As far as I'm aware.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >games only matters if they have the competitive scene
                The brain rot is real

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >rts games
                >simple and basic
                lol
                This is how you spot the low IQ moron. They think RTS games are simple and basic.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >stick
      how horrible

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      stick up, look up. simple as.
      Explanation for the second one doesn't work since left and right are never reversed in this context.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >stick
      We know you're not one of the men at least

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Up
      Up

      >Down
      Down

      Don't need some dumb visual diagram to understand basic directions.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I hate 6th gen zelda games because you can't invert the camera controls.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    fixed as i usually only mini maps to figure out my position in world space, spotting enemies i prefer to do from the main vision

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    rotate because i'm not a japanese

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >check out map
    >hmm looks like I need to head southwest
    >close map
    >have to look for the tiny N on the minimap and manually calculate which way southwest is

    rotategays are mentally ill

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Rotate for third person
    Fixed for first person

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Okay, that helps me understand having one inverted and the other standard.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Meant to reply to

        pull to the left, pull to the right. The picture is pushing down and pulling up

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    rotate for one very specific reason: when you shuffle left and right in planetside 2 the rotating map helps you line up for a commissioner shot when you can't see shit in the main view because you're whipping the mouse back and forth to do your michael jackson breakdance bullshit
    it works better than I thought it ever would

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Rotate, because I care about where things are on the radar relative to my camera
    If cardinal directions are important then I'd rather have a Fallout-esque compass

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    rotate, unless I'm exploring
    I think NFSU2/MW did that

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    depends on the game really. if the minimap is very zoomed in and has a lot of information about enemies i like rotation, otherwise i generally prefer static.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone who uses rotate is a fricking psycho

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I know vanilla is technically correct but compasses always confuse me. Obviously I'm not the only one since I found this pic online.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If it’s just braindead go to the marker, then rotate because you’re just following a way point anyways. But if you’re actually having to navigate then fixed north.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Rotate if unknown map
    Fixed if known map, so I can memorize layout
    shrimple

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Here, made an infograph

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      One shows the direction of north
      the other shows the direction of you.
      The former is used when stationary. Turn toward north and the cardinal directions line up with the environment. "It's west-south-west of here".
      The latter is for reading your heading. "Southbound at 20 knots"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This is fricking stupid because the yellow arrow already serves the purpose of what you want the "fixed" compass to do

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah well the yellow arrow is only visible on the sea-chart which you have to pause the game to see

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Oh so people are just stupid, gotcha. The needle points north. To use a compass, you match up the needle with N and THEN go from there. That is how you use a compass, it's not a tool relative to YOU, it's a tool you align properly and go from there.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The last game with anything reaching compass and general Cartography skills was Miasmata.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Unfortunately a game like that won't be very popular nowadays when the wiki just tells you how to get to all the places and you don't have to discover shit for yourself

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            How much do you think players would listen with a splash screen advising against it? Something like:
            >Please don't wiki anything if this is your first playthrough. It will genuinely ruin it for you.
            Would that deter at least 50% of the playerbase from doing so?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Would probably deter some players, but the homosexuals that ruin it for themselves with the wiki are already predetermined to do so, loading screen tip or not.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                As long as they aren't the game reviewers then...
                They'd be the reviewers, wouldn't they?

                Miasmata isn't unpopular due to requiring skill. It's unpopular because of its low quality and lack of marketing

                I remember my computer having a really hard time with it.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Miasmata isn't unpopular due to requiring skill. It's unpopular because of its low quality and lack of marketing

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I'm detecting sarcasm but I do not understand your point. The purpose of a compass is to point North. So why wouldn't it be relative to that? What other relativity is there?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Self rotating compasses, eg the rotating minimap doesn't point north. They point at the direction you're facing.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >So why wouldn't it be relative to that
          It is? If you use it properly, every direction is where it should be. If you switch W and E like some homosexual proposed, the result would be WRONG if you use the compass CORRECTLY just to please people who use it INCORRECTLY.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            But when I face E the needle points W. You're indicating that I'm not supposed to just refer to the letters but some other perspective I'm not aware of.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >But when I face E
              Literally failing at Step 1
              To even START using a compass, you align N with the needle. That is how you use a compass, it's that easy. You use compasses either simply to tell you where north is, or in conjunction with a map to navigate.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >But when I face E the needle points W
                That's because you are using it wrong. Turn toward north, then read the compass. Not the in the other order.

                So the table also turns with the needle? That makes more sense. Still it's impossible to tell in WindWaker because it has no letters.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Why would a compass even need letters? The needle always points north, you can figure out the other cardinal directions from that unless you're one of those braindead morons who don't know what a cardinal direction is

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I think it's one of those "compass" things that just points wherever player/camera points and the underlying grid itself rotates.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                For the same reason that clocks have numbers.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                My watch doesn't have any numbers on it apart from the date.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                My condolences.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >But when I face E the needle points W
              That's because you are using it wrong. Turn toward north, then read the compass. Not the in the other order.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >11 minute video to tell zoomers that the arrow points north

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ive never seen such a dumber picture. Holy shit. Zoomies gonna zoom

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Not every compass has N rotate with the needle. Don't blame me.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    fixed. anyone who wants their minimap to rotate is psychotically deranged.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fixed. I can't even use google maps irl without it being fixed.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Everything is relative to you so rotate

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you prefer fixed you are npc. No discussion.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      npcs prefer rotate because they can't visualize the rotation in their minds

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The minimap is for quick reference and usually aligned to a compass anyway, so let it rotate. I'll open the world/area map if I need a fixed mental image of the area.
    Although I once played a game that didn't include an area map for some fricking reason, and I had to set the minimap to fixed just to get lost less. So it depends.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Depends on the game and the function of the map, if it's used as a short range radar or for granular navigation I find it more intuitive to have it rotating, if cardinal directions and clockface coordinates are important a fixed map is easier to read.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    100% just depends. If it's a game with a lot of enemies, hidden loot and other landmarks AND they show up on the minimap, rotating. At that point it's just a radar.
    If it's a game with a big map, complex navigation and landmarks, fixed. It helps with navigation when the map and minimap match up.

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fixed. Because I'm a man. Only females need to rotate maps. Genuinely. This has been studied and typically men don't need to have the map orientated the same as them in order to navigate while women do.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      you're a homosexual pressing buttons behind a gaming machine. there's nothing remotely masculine about you.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Aw, does little baby boy princess struggle to navigate without rotating the map? Sorry, diddums, but that's objectively a sign of being effeminate and no amount of pathetic attempts at insults from you will ever change that fact.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >but that's objectively a sign of being effeminate
          so is living in a first world country. head to africa and see how long you last Black person.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Insults from men who read maps like girls are water off a duck's back to me.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              literally get lost you insecure homosexual

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              hahaha duck

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Aw, does little baby boy princess struggle to navigate without rotating the map? Sorry, diddums, but that's objectively a sign of being effeminate and no amount of pathetic attempts at insults from you will ever change that fact.

            Insults from men who read maps like girls are water off a duck's back to me.

            >And here, we see a pair of terminally-onlines engage in pointless bravado. I'm David Attenborough and this has been "the blowhards of Ganker". Join us next time when we take a closer look at furry posters: coom or beast

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >engage in pointless bravado
              That other guy is doing that. I'm just poking fun at him. Not my fault some freak that can't read a map got triggered but I am going to take advantage of it.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    99% of the time, Fixed if it is a minimap with actual environmental detail. North always up top and an arrow to indicate your facing is infinitely faster to read than looking for the N spinning around the minimap.
    1% of the time, Rotation if it is primarily a radar and/or compass with no map-like detail. For example, EDF. Useful to line up your heading on enemy blips.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Rotating is fricking lame, it's not a compass. True North at ALL times.

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If the map doesn't rotate, the game feels unpolished as frick.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >If the map doesn't rotate, there were no women in the QA team.
      ftfy

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Rotate since I navigate by minimap if I'm going a long distance

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    rotate the map so it aligns with the world
    anyone who says otherwise has never used a map

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If you need to physically rotate the map instead of being able to do it mentally it just means you lack skill in mental spatial rotation and that's it. Typically only females lack that skill. This is just the facts of the matter.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No, you do it because it's faster. I mean good on you for getting some mental exercise because the programmer couldn't be arsed with a rotation algorithm but what else?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >No, you do it because it's faster.
          It's not faster to physically rotate something than it is to mentally rotate it. You only think it's faster because it's mentally confusing for you. For most males it's not mentally confusing. It's like how if you're not a moron it's faster to mentally do arithmetic than it is to fish out a calculator and plug it all in manually but for idiots obviously the calculator is the faster method.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >>It's not faster
            >Actually moronic
            It rotates instantly on its own. A better comparison than your shitty calculator take would be if the calculator already showed the result before you entered anything.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Again, you're not getting it. This is not some complex mental task for normal males that takes conscious effort. It's second nature. We do it as easily as breathing.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You aren’t a normal male you are a fricking moron

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Why do you think mental rotation is some herculean task? Target acquisition is still faster if that approaching red dot that appeared on the right hand side of the radar is to your actual right rather than behind you because you were adamant on having your indicator rotate rather than the information.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Why do you think mental rotation is some herculean task?
                I'm pretty sure I said it's the opposite of that. It's other people who are claiming it is that and that that's why physical rotation is better. I'm saying for the average male mental rotation is so fricking trivial to perform we don't even think about it and therefore we don't bother to rotate maps physically.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >I'm saying for the average male mental rotation is so fricking trivial to perform we don't even think about it and therefore we don't bother to rotate maps physically.
                For the safety of everyone, please don't ever drive a vehicle heavier than a bike.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You do know you're just projecting you're own mental inadequacies upon me, right?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Reaction time is negatively impacted regardless of your feelings.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Reaction time is negatively impacted
                post proof

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                "Having to do something" vs "not having to do something"
                You've said it yourself multiple times that you *moist* perform mental rotation with a static map.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >You've said it yourself multiple times that you *moist* perform mental rotation with a static map.
                I also said it was second nature. We don't even think about it. It just instantly happens in our head. We don't mentally construct an image of the map and then slowly rotate it in our mind. It's already rotated in our minds. It's not a two step vs one step process. It's just one step.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >We don't even think about it. It just instantly happens in our head.
                You've got no concept of stress yet, do you?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                No one was saying it's hard, but you are the guy saying that bicycles don't make any sense because you can already walk.
                It's not even just a matter of time and speed, but also a matter of focus and effectiveness: you can do other stuff with the brain you save using there.

                It's fun to 180 instakill enemies that get revealed by the radar in CS because I can tell where I need to aim before I actually see them.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >but you are the guy saying that bicycles don't make any sense because you can already walk
                No. This is a terrible comparison. Bicycles are insanely more efficient than walking. A more apt comparison is you claiming skipping is better than jogging based purely on the fact you personally find skipping easier than jogging.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                If it was more effective people would do it. Go look at how many professionals set their map to stationary in their configs and you'll see what's more effective.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >If it was more effective people would do it.
                I already said not everyone is equally mentally equipped to do this. It's why I made the calculator comparison. Some people can just do that shit in their head. For others it's a real struggle and so they use calculators. For the subject we're talking about typically males are very good at it but females struggle a lot. If you're a male that can't easily do mental rotation then I'm sorry to say you're probably trans.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >it was a gaslighting troon all along
                Every FRICKING time.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Some people can just do that shit in their head.
                Why does that matter when it's faster for everyone to not do it? UIs should be as fast to use as possible.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Why does that matter when it's faster for everyone to not do it?
                Once again, faster for you != faster for everyone

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Quick! Which direction is the missile coming from!?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I can't say and neither could you without knowing which is a fixed representation and which is rotated which is not indicated in the image.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >grats, you're dead

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                lmao you're actually moronic

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                There's basis on which to GUESS but there's no way to know for sure from a still image of a game I'm not familiar with and acknowledging that objective fact doesn't make me moronic but you not even realizing that does make you moronic.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                South East it looks like.
                Radar warning receivers aren't used for navigation. Your orientation to the Earth is completely irrelevant to their function. It's not a relevant comparison

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's almost like everyone's talking about two different use cases for autorotation

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's almost like everyone's talking about two different use cases for autorotation

                Additionally making the receiver function that way would require putting more sensors in the plane and syncronizing them with the radar which adds cost and complexity to the machine

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's clearly a misnamed image, but I don't get the joke.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >discussion about minimaps
                >file named minimap
                >not a minimap
                Congrats, you're moronic

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                you're so dense I'm surprised you can breath

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >no argument
                I accept your concession

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's not for you? You're actually saying that you have faster time thinking as long as the map and the world don't align?
                lmao

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Are you saying you hesitated because it's not instantly clear? That sounds like it could be a problem.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Not any more than driving manual, but sometimes people still die just because of the half second difference it makes.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                After reading through the reply chain I think he was talking about using a literal paper map IRL.
                I used to rotate those when I was a kid but I got gud.
                As for games I just stick to whatever the default is. There's always enough information that I can navigate without thinking about it.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Expecting a coping midwit to concede to anything

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Humans, and not just humans but animals, can sense shifts in momentum but vehicles still have indicators for them. This is the gayest argument I’ve ever seen in my life. Reeks of some middle school shit

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >It's not faster to physically rotate something than it is to mentally rotate it.
            If you actually have a physical map:
            You keep it oriented even when you don't look at it. It takes some spatial sense but the compass will do the rest.
            If you spend your spatial sense there instead of whenever you stop to read the map you'll save time overall and have easier time judging distances at any moment.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Typically only females lack that skill
        And blacks, pretty much all minorities actually

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fixed

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fixed north because I know how to use a compass.

    Inverted controls on a controller, but normal on a mouse.

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fixed.
    Only contrarians and morons use rotate

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I understand rotate (and there may be a good argument in some cases) but ultimately, fixed is the best method.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fixed, and it's more efficient at remembering your cardinal directions to learn the map better, but rotating looks more aesthetic.

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    fixed map where camera direction is also fixed makes sense
    rotating according to camera also makes sense, that's how you're taught orienteering
    THE moron CHECKLIST:
    -map is fixed but the camera isn't
    -camera rotates with player character regardless of camera
    -player isn't centered on a map that doesn't show the whole area anyway

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    if it's constantly active, rotate. If it's push to view, fixed

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i prefer when there is no minimap

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    fixed

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >topdown game
    fixed
    >first person game
    rotate

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    minimaps are for homosexuals and ruin immersion and competitive shooters.

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >rotate with the camera

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    In first-person games, rotate. In third-person, fixed.

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    they made fixed minimap impossible in GTA5 (you can't even mod it in) because it makes it harder to learn the map and therefore makes the map seem bigger and more complex than it actually is

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ro... rotato...
    R O TATT
    RO TATA
    MM INI
    M A PPE
    ROOTATE MINIMPP

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fixed at North.
    rotategays are zoomers.

  55. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    only femoids use fixed

  56. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >open world games are omnipresent
    >literally none of them involve even basic orienteering skills
    literally why even make it open world if you don't have to navigate it?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      big gaming numbers makes sales go whoosh

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I tried DarkBASIC once, one of the first things I learned was how to generate a square floor with randomized heights to imitate ground shape
      open world map design is mostly just placing something into that for the player to have something interesting to look at

  57. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I prefer no mini-map.

  58. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fixed BUT actually I don't need a minimap at all.

  59. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I thought you were gamers.
    Trick question. Missiles don't show up on it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I thought you were gamers.
      I am. Doesn't mean I know about games only my grandfather played.

  60. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fixed. Rotating makes it hard to tell where you are on the map at one glance.

  61. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Mouse forward - pan camera up
    Inverted is for joysticks.

  62. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    usually fixed but I find in games like planetside 2 where the maps are huge and it's hard to tell where the frick you are and where you're looking just by looking at the map it's better to have it rotate so you can know if someone is behind you

  63. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Camera controls are for inferior control schemes. I simply aim the gun up.

  64. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fixed, it's easier for me to remember where everything is in relation to where I am

  65. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    stationary of course, the map itself doesn't fricking rotate, the player character does

  66. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fixed. Rotating is for the spatially moronic

  67. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    fixed

  68. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I legitimately cannot understand how people can play games with rotating minimaps.

  69. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It depends on the game. I usually rotate, but games with more dense geometry make rotation hard to deal with, like Yakuza.

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