Left Handed support ?

[Rowdy Raccoon]

Will there be an option to switch the player to having his tools and stuff in his left hand cause I find it really annoying it on the right being that im left handed

[Dante]

I'm left handed and I never even thought about this. Never had a problem with games where the character handles stuff with his right hand.
I don't think there's going to be an option for that but who knows.

[Tom212]

Mediocre Moth님이 먼저 게시:

Will there be an option to switch the player to having his tools and stuff in his left hand cause I find it really annoying it on the right being that im left handed

First world problems

[MassivelyIndie]

Hi represent the minority group FAP. For Ambidextrous Players and have begun to feel that there is not enough representation of strong ambidextrous characters in games today. However I will not derail this thread for my own extremely relavent and noble cause.

Out of curiosity why do you feel Left handed support is more important that right handed support? As an Ambi, I feel drawn to both equally but I do tend to sense that the rest of the world ins't as understand and intelligent regarding the plights of minorities as I am. So I'd like to challenge any mainstream opinion that right handedness is more important. and why does society cater to Righties? Shouldn't the world be more tolerant of Lefties and the struggles the are presented with on a day to day basis? They didn't choose to be Lefties any more the a person choose to be a Rightie. What the hell world!!! Wake up. We all use out hands. DAMMIT.

I can't do it....both Lefties and Righties need to SHUT UP. You aren't nearly as conflicted as I am on a day do day basis. I've had to hide the fact that I am both a lefty and Righty. From my parents, my family and friends. Even my bowling team....DO YOU KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE to have to go to a bowling alley every day and want to chose the left hand balls, but know that can't because some people wont understand!!!! Damn you all to hell...Its time us Ambies rise up and fight for our own equality. We are just as important as you Lefties and Righties.

I want a bowling alley I can throw both balls at once. I want classroom pencil sharpeners to have 2 handles. I want scissor to cut neither way....get rid of scissor all to gether. That will show the world that we matter. Doors should open straight up or straight down. Steering wheels need to be moved to the center of the car. When setting the table place all silverwear in a pile in the center of the plate. And most importantly every game character needs to use both hands for every action or none at all. You no longer draw a bow in a game instead you heave it with both hands and toss it at the target...yes, thats a start.

I appriecate the support.

[Starbug]

Cal Varrus님이 먼저 게시:

Out of curiosity why do you feel Left handed support is more important that right handed support?

He's calling for equality, not one to be considered more important than the other; which is the current default.

[Cory the guy]

I'm left-handed though I prefer right-handed in games because its so common that it makes me feel uncomfortable when theres a left-handed option. Take Skyrim for example. Or even Minecaft.

[haroldito]

Mediocre Moth님이 먼저 게시:

Will there be an option to switch the player to having his tools and stuff in his left hand cause I find it really annoying it on the right being that im left handed

I would LOVE to have this option too. I can't play with right viewmodel, even less getting immersed.

In real life, I have to pay a bit more to get left-handed musical instruments. I would gladly pay a little extra to be left-handed in No Man's Sky if it requires some work and it is not a trivial thing to do. Please, please, please?

[Rowdy Raccoon]

haroldito님이 먼저 게시:

Mediocre Moth님이 먼저 게시:

Will there be an option to switch the player to having his tools and stuff in his left hand cause I find it really annoying it on the right being that im left handed

I would LOVE to have this option too. I can't play with right viewmodel, even less getting immersed.

In real life, I have to pay a bit more to get left-handed musical instruments. I would gladly pay a little extra to be left-handed in No Man's Sky if it requires some work and it is not a trivial thing to do. Please, please, please?

ya I agree

[JoJo]

Havent seen that since the olden days!

[Hoshi82]

4 years and still no option in VR to switch multitool hand for lefties... great job.

[Bubbles]

Hoshi82님이 먼저 게시:

4 years and still no option in VR to switch multitool hand for lefties... great job.

I would play the crap out of this game if it had left handed support in VR.

[EasyHazard]

The first time I ever booted up NMS was in VR and I was immediately thrown off by the fact that I couldn't hold my mining beam in my left had. I was disappointed, since most VR games let you choose. But I soon realized that the game wasn't originally done in VR and then I understood why you couldn't swap hands. Virtually all video games that aren't VR have you holding weapons in the right hand, which I'm used to and don't even notice. Once I "rewired" my brain, I was able to move on with the game in VR (though I like more without VR - the ship flying in VR is pretty rough.)

[a_fermor]

its weird they still havnt addressed this, as a lefty i cannot (or do not want to as its feels so wrong) hold the mining tool in my right hand, its all they have to change, leave everything else as is... won't buy the game without it, pity... its a great game otherwise... which makes this oversite all the more frustrating..... all those saying "get over it, or learn to use RH" miss the whole point... you should never have to fight the controls, they should be an extension of you... this def is not !

[knighttemplar1960]

a_fermor님이 먼저 게시:

its weird they still havnt addressed this, as a lefty i cannot (or do not want to as its feels so wrong) hold the mining tool in my right hand, its all they have to change, leave everything else as is... won't buy the game without it, pity... its a great game otherwise... which makes this oversite all the more frustrating..... all those saying "get over it, or learn to use RH" miss the whole point... you should never have to fight the controls, they should be an extension of you... this def is not !

The devs have added support for hearing impairment and visual impairment. There are 3 different pallettes for the 3 most common types of human colorblindness but being left handed is not a disability and only 10% of humans are left handed. Programming mirror images of sprites (or code) for 10% of the player base isn't a good use of their programming time especially when their business model is adding new content for free to genreate new sales of the program. That means they have to concentrate on new content which means QOL and bug fixes go on the back burner.

As long as you can use the controls with your left hand does it really make a difference if your avatar is right handed? If it does you can still play in first person mode and not see the avatar's hands.

[Hoshi82]

So let's break this down very loosely:

Word population is around 8.054.521.115
10% of that are left handed. So: 805.452.111
Now let us assume 0,5% of that are using VR: 4.027.260
Let us be a little bit generous here and 10% of that would play NMS in VR: 402.726
Now we take US price of that game which is 59,99$

That would be: 24.159.532$

Yeah...that wouldn't be worth the effort getting 24 million Dollars for just adding the option to swap hand models. I clearly see that.

Even if the numbers of left handed VR players are lower it still would be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of money.
I think some people don't realize that 10% of world popularity is way more as you might think.

[knighttemplar1960]

Its not even that high NMS has sold ~10 million copies according to Gamestop. 10% of humans are left handed and 10% of humans are right brained instead of left brained. The right brained, left handed folks are the ones that have a hard time adjusting and they make up only 1% of the population. So for NMS you only have about 100,000 of them worldwide.