Request Reverse Nudging on Mobile Platforms

[superballs]

This is something I've been stewing about quietly for a while.

Honestly, in general i can stomach moving my tablet in the direction that I want the ball to go, that's easy to process for me.
What really gets me is if i want to smack the ball off of a wall or something...nudging toward the wall is very very counter-intuitive.

Please reverse the nudging direction (shake specifically) or give us an option to reverse it.

Also...please let the game save our nudge preferences...every time i start the app again i have to set it back to shake in the options.

 

[jaredmorgs]

This is something I've been stewing about quietly for a while.

Honestly, in general i can stomach moving my tablet in the direction that I want the ball to go, that's easy to process for me.
What really gets me is if i want to smack the ball off of a wall or something...nudging toward the wall is very very counter-intuitive.

Please reverse the nudging direction (shake specifically) or give us an option to reverse it.

Also...please let the game save our nudge preferences...every time i start the app again i have to set it back to shake in the options.

tl: dr I +1 your suggestion superballs.

Settings save state has been broken since day one on Android. And it needs to be overhauled before it is correctly implemented. Per-table view settings are required, because View 2 is different from one table to the next, and different depending on what orientation you prefer to play in.

But back to your original observation...

I have reversed the touch-screen mapping in screen mappings for USB/BT Joystick Center for this very reason. Particularly if you need to flip left/touch left like you say when doing a slap save.

This configurability would be a great addition to the current request in Android Beta 1.13.0 thread to enable upward nudge as well on mobile platforms.

 

[anonymatt]

I used to not get the reversed touch nudging on Android, but I guess it's so you can save SDTMs w/ the opposite thumb that you will use to flip.

Amen for upward nudging.

 

[superballs]

That's a decent point, but shake nudging should not be like that at all...

 

[Baron Rubik]

That's a decent point, but shake nudging should not be like that at all...

Shake nudging works normally for me on a Nexus7.
Like nudging a real table - move device to the right, ball goes left on the playfield.