{"video_id":"GWV2tDrZyZ0","title":"Wait…  Is THIS the best controller? - GameSir Cyclone 2","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:58:16Z","duration_s":629,"segments":[{"start_s":0.12,"end_s":6.96,"text":"we heard you loud and clear never in the history of controller roundups has there","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.6,"end_s":12.32,"text":"ever been a greater Omission than the Gamester Cyclone 2 we covid-19","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.76,"end_s":15.04,"text":"controllers and the Cyclone 2 was not one of them not because we didn't want","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.519,"end_s":19.039,"text":"to cover it it was on our original coverage list it just didn't arrive in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.88,"end_s":23.519,"text":"time and so lucky for you ShortCircuit exists and we are going to take a look","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.32,"end_s":27.32,"text":"at what is potentially 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and we are going to take a look at what is potentially one of the best controllers on the entire freaking Market we have our controller we have our included charging stand this thing's cool it looks like a little monitor monitor stand we have our 2.4 GHz dongle we have our instruction manuals stickers quick start guide and we have a 1 M type A to type c USB cable that's fine it's shorter than a lot of the cables that I see in controller boxes but I'm going to use this thing Wireless because why the heck wouldn't I we also have the white version which uh nicely enough comes with a white cable and a white dongle that's actually a nice little touch I genuinely wasn't expecting we have our face buttons our asymmetrical sticks we have our menu View and share buttons we have our Xbox style turn on button it's got a little nice little light around it on the bottom we have our M button which presumably means mode you can assign different functions to it and then at the top we have our nice clicky bumpers our triggers our type-c Port as well as now that I know a phone mounting slots you put a little phone mount on there that's pretty cool on the back we have two paddles and our little pins for charging for the dock that comes with it you don't have to get the dock it costs a little bit more and on the bottom we have our headphone jack very nice very solid uh amount of buttons nothing too extra and uh I'm okay with that in terms of hand feel this is very similar to an Xbox control it feels a little bit smaller and this back Edge feels a little bit sharper it lands right in the crevice of my fourth and finger so it's not uncomfortable um but I think some people won't love it that does mean that the paddles land right under my middle finger so it's a very natural hand shape and it feels very comfortable it feels quite premium uh very solid no like twist or anything the triggers are fairly light but they feel premium very even across the whole travel on the trigger itself you'll see there's a little switch that switches it between hall effect and micro trigger mode that's an interesting mechanism usually there's like a little button here that adds a plastic stop I don't hate that uh in the clicky mode it feels totally great I don't think my finger is going to touch that toggle naturally I kind of have to go reaching for it if I want to feel it so I think that's a actually a pretty ingenious spot to put it it is a little more finicky uh so I don't think mid game you're going to be reaching and switching that although that's not a particularly common thing to do oh that's pretty cool you can actually see what's happening inside the trigger when I switch the toggle there's a little lever that comes down it looks like a little mouse switch uh and you're hitting that directly it's not just like a little plastic stop uh and then when you turn it off it goes back to being the full hall effect motion that's really cool that you can actually see that I think that makes the transparent even cooler these bumpers are definitely membran but they're well within good Zone across the whole thing it feels like a pretty even press although I think you can hear the difference of pressing closer to the inside than the outside definitely totally fine cuz my finger is resting on the whole thing it's pretty neat the white one has the transparent triggers at least more transparent than the black transparent one which is transparent but as you can see it's hard to see inside so I think this is a more striking look I like that aesthetic I'm not a big gold guy and I fear that the plastic would wear on this and not look so great I think aesthetically speaking it is a fairly striking controller uh quite attractive face buttons are a fairly short travel with a little click at the bottom so it's a micro switch style those feel pretty good actually I like that these buttons aren't as important and they all feel fine the d-pad not bad uh clicky but it's still a little mushy overall I don't think I would hit accidental diagonals too often but doing you know forward quarter Circle forward is not going to be a super consistent experience these sticks have a good weight to them they feel pretty premium and part of that is actually the selling feature of this controller these are gamer mag res TMR sticks it's worth noting that these are 12-bit resolution analog sticks which means that you have a little more definition and precision on the sticks in my experience that doesn't translate a ton in game that being said I don't play a ton of competitive games with a controller so I think it's one of those it's not going to hurt you and it's good to have that Precision overall although it's probably not worth going out of your way just to get that in terms of other features we're going to get into it's got RGB it has Esports level Rumble uh which means absolutely nothing as well as an 860 milliamp battery which is uh adequate size for this and 1,000 Herz pulling rate over its 2.4 GHz mode which is very good so far everything is pretty darn good on this thing and I'm really excited to test it out in game but first let us tell you about our sponsor War Thunder if you're taking a break from work or you just want to cause a little bit of Chaos in War Thunder you can hop behind one of over 2500 war machines and let your destructive fantasies take over whether it's on PC console or they're all new mobile apps you'll be treated to authentic sound effects and vehicles that are modeled after their real life counterparts and whether you're looking for the most realistic experience on offer or you just want to casually blow some stuff up there is a game mode for everyone so join the over 70 million players who enjoy War Thunder for free at the link in the video description I'm a big fan of the USB port on the stand which means you can plug the USB cable into the stand the dongle into this and that's all you ever have to do is just plug this thing in stand it there it's going to charge is going to connect and it's supposed to autoconnect as soon as you take it off that's actually a pretty slick system for a PC thing I'm I'm a big fan and once connected we get our RGB controls that's pretty nice we have our polling rate they're calling it the report rate uh you can turn it down uh I guess if you want it to conserve the battery we're going to keep it at 1,000 over here we have our gyro controls we can change our xais output mode so that you can control what uh directions it's actually going to Output in uh how you turn it on with a button and then the method of either holding on or just pressing to switch our output modes we have our stick our Mouse uh and then our Professor X mode uh if you know what that is let us know in the comments down here we have trigger controls including Dead Zone which by default has a little bit of Dead Zone on both sides we have our adaptive mode although these are not adaptive triggers there's fixed mode oh there's actually more hidden controls uh same thing Dead Zone anti- Dead Zone there's a curve adjustment which is pretty nifty we're going to leave it at default as well as the hair trigger mode I'm not going to use that because I'm just going to use the triggers locks themselves when I want to use that we have stick control same thing Dead Zone anti- Dead Zone curve adjustment and then stick trajectory we have button reassignment we're just going to leave everything at default but that's a fairly comprehensive amount of control in this app uh and it worked pretty good uh pretty impressed with this controller it's time to game first impression these sticks are very precise they feel very good the triggers feel awesome uh input latency on this feels uh spot on and with our Labs testing this fell right in the middle of the pack with input latency around 9 milliseconds although we've seen Reports online of big input latencies over the 2.4 GHz dongle our testing over Bluetooth was not particularly good wired seems to be the most consistent but uh personally I would suffer through the spikes uh to have the wireless Mo CU I'm usually sitting away from my screen I think these might be the best feeling triggers with micro switches I've ever felt generally it's just that plastic toggle but this still has that tactility of a little micro switch uh these feel exceptionally good and then the regular hall effect trigger travel also feels really premium this feels this feels Exquisite I didn't even test this stick circularity yet oh that's looking pretty dang good oh average ER of 1% these are precise These are nice sticks which puts it within margin of error of our Labs testing which was 0% Labs explicitly said these are among the best analog sticks they've tested yet oh gam sir you know how to game sir I like recycling jokes from ltts this is a really good controller for handfield too if you're a sweaty gamer it has this textured plastic feel so it's not going to have that gross rubbery Decay and it feels very nice in the hand now that we know that the sticks and triggers are phenomenal why don't we play a game that's going to test other aspects of this controller even in a game that demands Precision like Super Meat Boy this is a a Flawless experience I am having a hard time finding any negatives on this thing I actually really like the amount of click the face buttons have it's clicky so there's a definition of when you know you're pressing it but it's still an acceptable travel amount so it feels not that far out of the ordinary coming from like an Xbox controller the Cyclone 2 might be the new king of controllers especially considering that this controller is only $50 or 56 if you want the stand which I think is actually worth it it's it's made out of metal it holds the controller while and it has the little dongle slot uh seems worth the $6 and this controller works on switch it works on PC Android iOS uh it's an excellent package this is hard to argue with $50 for such an excellent controller wow there really is no reason to buy first-party controllers unless you're playing on a console I am left wondering should I get this or the Vader or the Apex man there's so many there's so many good controllers that I just wasn't aware of of I don't see any major downsides to the Cyclone 2 it's an really well-rounded controller that's built for a lot of purposes at an absolutely fair price I would definitely add this to the list of controllers you should consider just like you should consider subscribing a ShortCircuit and watching more videos I recently unboxed the Apex 4 which arguably is a better controller but it's uh a different price tier so it's you know it's an interesting one to have in your conversation but uh you should watch it"}