Ubisoft patches inverted aim (back) into Splinter Cell HD Trilogy on PSN, retail patch coming soon

by Richard Mitchell on Nov 23rd 2011 2:00PM

Ubisoft has finally managed to patch an inverted aim option into Splinter Cell HD Trilogy, reports Eurogamer. Ubisoft informed Joystiq that the patch is currently only available for the PSN version of the game in North America and the EMEA region. A patch to the retail version is "coming soon."

The previous omission of the option was bizarre to say the least, especially in light of the fact that the original releases in the collection all allowed for inverted aim. And of course, there's the nagging concern that inverted aim is available in almost every shooting game ever.

On the bright side, at least it only took two months.

Source: Eurogamer

Tags: playstation, ps3, tom-clancys-splinter-cell, ubisoft

Reader Comments (46)

lol ubisoft

Two months! That's long enough to reprogram yourself to be normal!

@Rollins
Hmph. What kind of freak uses normal aim?

@SuperWoody64 Inverted IS normal...

I would personally like to thank merrick97 for his tremendous advocacy of this egregious issue. Without him, this might not have happened.

@donalbane

Agreed. I've seen a lot of his posting over at GameFAQs, contacting Ubisoft and getting others to do the same.

And good on Ubisoft to do this. Ya it took a while, but at least they did it. Would love to see the same thing in BG&E HD.

@donalbane How do I reach him? We need the same attention paid to Beyond good and Evil HD. I cant even play it!

So the retail one does not have it yet? I'll wait a bit then, there's a couple of other games I need to play.

People who play inverted have broken brains.

Much like left handed people.

@Huey2k2

Put your thumb on top of your head and pretend it's an analog stick. Which direction do you have to push your head to look at the floor? If you said 'down', you're the one with the broken brain.

@donalbane

Actually yes, I am pushing my thumb down, down towards the floor.

Your move.

@Huey2k2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il-7z85lABo&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL760839EED2D4F243

@Huey2k2

You proved my point... i your head were an analog stick resting upon a controller, and you pushed it towards the floor, you would be pushing up on the analog stick that is your head.

@Huey2k2
Now you're just being silly

@Huey2k2

I think you've just insulted every single pilot in the world.

Hope your next flight doesn't have someone who can't handle inverted controls or it will be very short.

@donalbane Your argument seriously makes no sense.

@Ayepecks

His argument makes perfect sense. pushing forward would point your head down, and pulling back would look up.

@Ayepecks
It doesn't make sense to you because you aren't able to visualize your head as an analog stick. Let's reverse it... pretend you are looking at a controller, and instead of a right analog stick, there's a tiny little version of your own head. Now let's say your thumb is on top of your head, as it would be if you were playing Splinter Cell HD. You want to look down. Which way do you move your thumb to make your tiny head look at the floor? (HINT: The answer is 'up'.) If you can't visualize this, I don't know what to tell you.

@donalbane

This is the picture I use when trying to explain inverted to others.

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/2697548/Why+Some+People+Play+Inverted+Controls/

@tylerh1701

Yeah, that's a great example pic. However, in my example, the analog stick is coming out of the top, crown part of the head, which I think makes it a little easier for people to grasp.

I wish people who bitched and moaned about how people who need inverted Y should shut up and adapt would just visualize the analogy first and realize that they are the ones doing it unnaturally. (Not that I would chastize anyone for this.)

@donalbane

The problem with that second analogy is that the tiny head stick could be looking "down" on the controller, which would mean that you pushing down would make it actually look down.

I get what you were trying to say, but yea, I was totally confused by those analogies as well...

@liquidsoap89

The easiest way to picture it is this:

Look up. Does your head move backwards or forwards?

It's the natural movement for every being in the world.

@Huey2k2
Imagine there are eyeballs on the front of your joystick. There ya go tiger.

@arkweld

Here here! Arkweld's last comment is the easiest example and makes the most sense. I was going cross-eyed trying to understand everyones' reasoning. I'm an inverted controls guy, and if someone calls me stupid and asks me why, I'll use arkweld's example. Muchos gracias.

@donalbane

that's a seriously flawed analogy. if you follow that logic, you would invert horizontal aiming as well.

@arkweld

I understand the concept of inverted aim, I was just saying his analogy was confusing...

@arkweld

"The easiest way to picture it is this:

Look up. Does your head move backwards or forwards?"

neither. it rotates.

either way, if you're going to use the "head as a joystick" argument, you must invert horizontal aiming as well; otherwise the argument is invalid.

@maveric101

Some people play that way too.

Some brains are only wired to invert verticle, some are wired to invert both. Yes, I have seen people use inverted Y axis. Its crazy but its true.

@ReadingRambo

i don't buy that a given person's brain is "wired" so that they can only use a certain control style. i have one friend who played inverted y-axis for years, but forced himself to learn non-inverted so that people wouldn't have to change the option when swapping controllers. i also knew another guy who learned inverted legacy southpaw (inverted y-axis, legacy = left stick does forward/back and turning, right stick up/down look and strafing, southpaw = swap those sticks) in Halo just so that people wouldn't want to swap controllers with him.

anyway, it's not a big deal. there may not be any logical argument for only inverting y-axis, but if someone learned that way and doesn't want to make the effort to switch, i understand.

@That One Guy

No one else has chimed in, so let me....
breathe!!!

We all know how the dumb forget to do this! j/k ;P

Finally! I'll consider buying the retail one now...well, when the retail is patched, but ya know.

I wish they'd patch proper inverting into Beyond Good and Evil HD.

@mkernan yeah, like wtf? I cant even play the game the way it is. Ubi claimed they were going to fix it 6 months ago but the media paid it no attention. Please joystiq, show some outrage, help some games out

@mkernan

omg, no kidding!

but wait - they figure it's inverted at the final battle......

How about patching store shelves by releasing a 360 version?

@ItsameMatt03

Aren't the Xbox versions compatible with the 360?

@Jason B
No achievements. Also they're tougher to find.

@Jason B And Widescreen would be nice.. I have all 3 SD games..

It's also worth thanking this site for going with merrick97's original complaint about the y axis debacle. If joystiq hadn't made it a news story, we'd still be twiddling our inverted thumbs silently, uselessly cursing Ubisoft.

@donalbane I've been trying to get joystiq to do the same about beyond good and evil HD

I don't understand what you don't understand.

People who DON'T use inverted aiming are the broken head people. Its not a mouse. Its a stick.

/to each his own, even if your head is broken :)

@ReadingRambo

that's what I've always thought. when I use a mouse or the sliding nub on a psp I never use inverted controls. but when using a stick, it makes more sense to pull back to look up

Goddamn so much whiners here. Up is up down is down. Inverted should only be for flight sims.

@Resident Evil 6 Puppy Madness You're whining right now.

@Extinction
touche

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Ubisoft patches inverted aim (back) into Splinter Cell HD Trilogy on PSN, retail patch coming soon

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