With super sensitivity, all forms of shapes and buttons, RGB lighting and more, you may think that the possibility of innovation in a game mouse has probably peaked. To that, Logitech made a big old ” Hold my beer ‘.
At its big annual G Play event, Logitech’s gaming arm took the tires from the new Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike Mouse. When you mock a Star Wars Stormtrooper-Esque black and white life, you could confuse it as a sharp-looking gaming mouse and move on.
But the Pro X2 Superstrike Rocker is an alleged “industry-first innovation”, having analog mouse clicks, minus the moving parts.
While many gaming mice use mechanical switches, the click is either engaged or not. An analog click mechanism driven by magnetic hall effect sensors, such as those found in Higher-End Gamepads and Gaming keyboards, allows for adjustable activation points; The point where a movement that a pressure clicks, pushes or drags triggers an action.
This can allow for greater control and adjustment of a mouse click, but then, without any actual physical click mechanism, there is no feedback to tell a user that a click has been triggered.
The smart Ting Logitech G has done with the Pro X2 Superstrike is to use a “haptic inductive triggering system”. So rather than having a moving click mechanism, the mouse uses Haptics to convey the physical sense of a click; It’s a similar way that Apple uses Haptics in its Force Touch -Trackpad.
When used in combination with Logitech’s G Hub Software, you have 10 levels of activation to choose from and five quick trigger -snacking levels that should be customized when clicks are triggered to fit your game style.
After trying this card for myself, I was quite impressed. You may have the click rigger from the lightest presses to hard thumps of a index finger; Something I’m sure that professional eSports players and first-person shooter fans will appreciate.
There is also a quick trigger mechanism, which is something you get on keyboards and controllers with hall power mechanisms, thereby having a trigger on a trigger or pressing a key reset the moment you reduce the pressure on them, without the need for the mechanism to return to its earlier position. With haptik replacing the click mechanism, you can have that speed in the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike.
I’m not a competitive player, so in my very short time by clicking away in the new mouse and using the G -Huben to finish it, it’s hard to get a sense of the quick trigger here.
But I think it’s a nice addition to a gaming mouse and a feature that I’m sure dedicated FPS players, eSports profpses or streamers will appreciate, especially as Logitech claims Superstrike Tech can reduce click -latency by 30 milliseconds.
There are also a number of other Gaming Mouse Tech in the Pro X2 Superstrike, as a sensor with a maximum of 44,000 dpi and an 8khz polling speed to keep the mouse’s movement accurate and snapped.
I appreciated it from a technical perspective, and as both a fan of the Force Touch -Trackpad – the best trackpad out of all challengers for our best laptops list – and Logitech’s mouse, there is definitely a sneaky appeal to the Pro X2 Superstrike, though I lack gaming chops to get the most out of it.
As for the rest of the mouse, it is reminiscent of other Logitech game mice. There is nothing crazy in the design department here, but it feels clearly comfortable to grab in the same way I feel that many Logitech mice are doing. If you like that design, you will feel at home with the Pro X2 Superstrike; If you are more of a Razer Mouse fan, you may need to subtly adapt to this mouse.
For $ 179.99 / € 179.99 you need to be prepared to pay a prize for the Logitech G X2 Pro Superstrike, but then you get new technology for that outlay.
Furthermore, I would be curious to see how other brands, Razer included, respond to this, and if such haptics could launch a new horizon for game mice.
Easily amazing
For those of you who turn your noses up on the Pro X2 Superstrike, the Logitech G has another mouse to tickle your face: Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2C.
This mouthful of a name is a very easy recording of Logitech’s Pro X Superlight 2 and is less to start. The Superlight 2C is designed in collaboration with professional players and is made for people who like to adopt a so -called ‘wise rope’ for their game mice.
I gave the new mouse a quick spring, and while I prefer mice with a little more heft and those that can be cradled in my hand, it’s still a smooth bit of gaming hardware; Just not my cup of tea.
If it sounds like yours, it will be released on October 21 at a price of $ 159.99 / £ 159.99 / AU $ 299.95.
What is perhaps more appealing to me, and surprisingly, the updated Logitech G515 is Rapid TKL. This is the company’s first keyboard with low -profile analog keys.
This design allows for quick key activation and the use of the fast trigger system to create super -fixed key cocks and presses, many of which can be fine -tuned and adapted to the G HUB software.
Although I do not mind a lack of travels in portable keyboards, I like that my desktop desktop has deep, satisfying mechanical clicks. So low -profile keys don’t always appeal to me. But the G515 Rapid TKL may be the keyboard to convince me as tapping away on it felt quickly, snapped and satisfactory.
Not to be able to take it to a long spin and not be good enough for hardcore games to really embrace the fast trigger mechanism, it felt good to write at speed; I could have imagined it, but I thought I made fewer typos while my fingers knocked against the keys.
Logitech can make me rethink my current mechanical keyboard with Deep-Profile keys, and asks me to chew over an upgrade. You can get one today for $ 169.99 / £ 139.99 / AU $ 329.95.
There was more to look at the Logitech G Play, but on the Desktop PC game page it was the highlights. Personally, I would very much like to give the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike a bigger walk when it arrives next year and I am curious about the G515 Rapid TKL. What’s your attention? Tell me that in the comments below.
