With tremendous sensitivity, all method of shapes and buttons, RGB lighting, and extra, you would possibly suppose the scope for innovation in a gaming mouse has most likely peaked. To that, Logitech did an enormous outdated’ ‘maintain my beer’.
At its large annual G Play occasion, Logitech’s gaming arm took the covers off the brand new Logitech G Professional X2 Superstrike mouse. Recognizing a Star Wars Stormtrooper-esque black-and-white livery, you can mistake it as a sharp-looking gaming mouse and transfer on.
However the Professional X2 Superstrike is rocking a claimed “industry-first innovation” in that it has analogue mouse clicks, minus the shifting components.
Whereas many gaming mice use mechanical switches, the clicking is both engaged or not. An analogue clicking mechanism powered by magnetic hall-effect sensors, like these present in higher-end gamepads and gaming keyboards, permits for adjustable actuation factors; the purpose at which a motion, like a faucet, click on, push, or pull, triggers an motion.
This could permit for larger management and customization of a mouse click on, however then, with no precise bodily clicking mechanism, there isn’t any suggestions to inform a consumer {that a} click on has been triggered.
The good factor Logitech G has carried out with the Professional X2 Superstrike is to make use of a “haptic inductive triggering system”. So moderately than having a shifting click on mechanism, the mouse makes use of haptics to convey the bodily sensation of a click on; it’s an identical vogue to how Apple makes use of haptics in its Drive Contact trackpad.
When utilized in mixture with Logitech’s G Hub software program, you will have 10 ranges of actuation to select from and 5 speedy set off reset ranges, which ought to allow you to customise when clicks are triggered to fit your gaming type.
After attempting this out briefly for myself, I used to be fairly impressed. You may have the clicking set off from the lightest of presses to arduous thumps of an index finger; one thing I’m certain skilled esports gamers and first-person shooter followers will respect.
There’s additionally a speedy set off mechanism, which is one thing you get on keyboards and controllers with hall-effect mechanisms, whereby you’ll be able to have a pull of a set off or faucet of a key reset the second you cut back stress on them, with out the necessity for the mechanism to return to its earlier place totally. With haptics changing the press mechanism, you’ll be able to have that velocity within the Logitech G Professional X2 Superstrike.
I’m not a aggressive gamer, so in my very transient time clicking away within the new mouse and utilizing the G Hub to tweak it, it’s arduous to get a really feel for the speedy set off right here.
However I do suppose it’s a neat addition to a gaming mouse and a characteristic that I’m certain devoted FPS gamers, esports execs, or streamers will respect, particularly as Logitech claims the Superstrike tech can cut back click on latency by 30 milliseconds.
There’s additionally a number of different gaming mouse tech within the Professional X2 Superstrike, like a sensor with a most of 44,000 DPI and an 8kHz polling charge to maintain the mouse motion exact and snappy.
I appreciated it from a tech perspective, and as each a fan of the Drive Contact trackpad – the very best trackpad out of all of the contenders for our greatest laptops record – and Logitech’s mice, there’s positively a creeping attraction to the Professional X2 Superstrike, even when I lack the gaming chops to get probably the most out of it.
As for the remainder of the mouse, it’s harking back to different Logitech gaming mice. There’s nothing loopy within the design division right here, nevertheless it feels distinctly snug to grip in the identical means I really feel a lot of Logitech mice do. When you like that design, you then’ll really feel at dwelling with the Professional X2 Superstrike; when you’re extra of a Razer mouse fan, then you might have to subtly modify to this mouse.
At $179.99 / €179.99, it’s good to be ready to pay a premium for the Logitech G X2 Professional Superstrike, however then you might be getting new tech for that outlay.
Moreover, I’d be curious to see how different manufacturers, Razer included, react to this and if such haptics may usher in a brand new horizon for gaming mice.
Light-weight incredible
For these of you turning your noses up on the Professional X2 Superstrike, then Logitech G has one other mouse to tickle your face: the Logitech G Professional X Superlight 2c.
That mouthful of a reputation is a really light-weight tackle Logitech’s Professional X Superlight 2, and is smaller as well. Designed in collaboration with skilled avid gamers, the Superlight 2c has been made for individuals who prefer to undertake a so-called ‘claw grip’ to their gaming mouse.
I gave the brand new mouse a fast spring, and whereas I choose mice with a bit extra heft and ones that may be cradled in my hand, it’s nonetheless a slick little bit of gaming {hardware}; simply not my cup of tea.
If it appears like yours, it’s being launched on October 21 for a value of $159.99 / £159.99 / AU$299.95.
What is perhaps extra interesting to me, and surprisingly so, is the up to date Logitech G515 Speedy TKL. That is the corporate’s first keyboard with low-profile analogue keys.
This design permits for quick key actuation and the usage of the speedy set off system to make for superfast key faucets and presses, a lot of which could be tweaked and customised within the G Hub software program.
Whereas I don’t thoughts an absence of journey in laptop computer keyboards, I like my desktop ones to have deep, satisfying mechanical clicks. So low-profile keys don’t at all times attraction to me. However the G515 Speedy TKL could be the keyboard to persuade me, as tapping away on it felt quick, snappy, and satisfying.
Not with the ability to take it for a protracted spin, and never being ok at hardcore gaming to actually embrace the speedy set off mechanism, it felt good to kind on at velocity; I may have been imagining it, however I believed I made fewer typos whereas my fingers banged in opposition to the keys.
Logitech may need me rethinking my present mechanical keyboard with deep-profile keys, and prompts me to chew over an improve. You will get one as we speak for $169.99 / £139.99 / AU$329.95.
