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we heard you loud and clear never in the history of controller roundups has there

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ever been a greater Omission than the Gamester Cyclone 2 we covid-19

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controllers and the Cyclone 2 was not one of them not because we didn't want

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to cover it it was on our original coverage list it just didn't arrive in

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time and so lucky for you ShortCircuit exists and we are going to take a look

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at what is potentially one of the best controllers on the entire freaking

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Market we have our controller we have our included charging stand this thing's

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cool it looks like a little monitor monitor stand we have our 2.4 GHz dongle

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we have our instruction manuals stickers quick start guide and we have a 1 M type

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A to type c USB cable that's fine it's

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shorter than a lot of the cables that I see in controller boxes but I'm going to

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use this thing Wireless because why the heck wouldn't I we also have the white

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version which uh nicely enough comes with a white cable and a white dongle

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that's actually a nice little touch I genuinely wasn't expecting we have our

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face buttons our asymmetrical sticks we have our menu View and share buttons we

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have our Xbox style turn on button it's got a little nice little light around it

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on the bottom we have our M button which presumably means mode you can assign

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different functions to it and then at the top we have our nice clicky bumpers

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our triggers our type-c Port as well as now that I know a phone mounting slots

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you put a little phone mount on there that's pretty cool on the back we have two paddles and our little pins for

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charging for the dock that comes with it you don't have to get the dock it costs

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a little bit more and on the bottom we

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have our headphone jack very nice very

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solid uh amount of buttons nothing too extra and uh I'm okay with that in terms

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of hand feel this is very similar to an

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Xbox control it feels a little bit smaller and this back Edge feels a

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little bit sharper it lands right in the crevice of my fourth and finger so it's

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not uncomfortable um but I think some people won't love it

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that does mean that the paddles land right under my middle finger so it's a

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very natural hand shape and it feels very comfortable it feels quite premium

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uh very solid no like twist or anything the triggers are fairly light but they

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feel premium very even across the whole travel on the trigger itself you'll see

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there's a little switch that switches it between hall effect and micro trigger

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mode that's an interesting mechanism usually there's like a little button

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here that adds a plastic stop I don't hate that uh in the clicky mode it feels

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totally great I don't think my finger is going to touch that toggle naturally I

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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

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it it is a little more finicky uh so I don't think mid game you're going to be

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reaching and switching that although that's not a particularly common thing to do oh that's pretty cool you can

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actually see what's happening inside the trigger when I switch the toggle there's

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a little lever that comes down it looks like a little mouse switch uh and you're

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hitting that directly it's not just like a little plastic stop uh and then when

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you turn it off it goes back to being the full hall

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effect motion that's really cool that you can actually see that I think that makes the transparent even cooler these

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bumpers are definitely membran but they're well within good Zone across the

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whole thing it feels like a pretty even press although I think you can hear the

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difference of pressing closer to the inside than the outside definitely

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totally fine cuz my finger is resting on the whole thing it's pretty neat the white one has the transparent triggers

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at least more transparent than the black transparent one which is transparent but

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as you can see it's hard to see inside so I think this is a more striking look

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I like that aesthetic I'm not a big gold guy and I fear that the plastic would

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wear on this and not look so great I

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think aesthetically speaking it is a fairly striking controller uh quite

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attractive face buttons are a fairly short travel with a little click at the

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bottom so it's a micro switch style those feel pretty good actually I like

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that these buttons aren't as important and they all feel fine the d-pad not bad

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uh clicky but it's still a little mushy overall I don't think I would hit

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accidental diagonals too often but doing

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you know forward quarter Circle forward is not going to be a super consistent

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experience these sticks have a good weight to them they feel pretty premium

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and part of that is actually the selling feature of this controller these are gamer mag res TMR sticks it's worth

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noting that these are 12-bit resolution analog sticks which means that you have

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a little more definition and precision on the sticks in my experience that

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doesn't translate a ton in game that being said I don't play a ton of

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competitive games with a controller so I think it's one of those it's not going

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to hurt you and it's good to have that Precision overall although it's probably

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not worth going out of your way just to get that in terms of other features

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we're going to get into it's got RGB it has Esports level Rumble uh which means

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absolutely nothing as well as an 860 milliamp battery which is uh adequate

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size for this and 1,000 Herz pulling rate over its 2.4 GHz mode which is very

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good so far everything is pretty darn good on this thing and I'm really

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a big fan of the USB port on the stand which means you can plug the USB cable

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into the stand the dongle into this and that's all you ever have to do is just

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plug this thing in stand it there it's going to charge is going to connect and

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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

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big fan and once connected we get our RGB controls that's pretty nice we have

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our polling rate they're calling it the report rate uh you can turn it down uh I

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guess if you want it to conserve the battery we're going to keep it at 1,000

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over here we have our gyro controls we can change our xais output mode so that

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you can control what uh directions it's

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actually going to Output in uh how you turn it on with a button and then the

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method of either holding on or just pressing to switch our output modes we

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have our stick our Mouse uh and then our

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Professor X mode uh if you know what that is let us know in the comments down

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here we have trigger controls including Dead Zone which by default has a little

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bit of Dead Zone on both sides we have our adaptive mode although these are not

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adaptive triggers there's fixed mode oh

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there's actually more hidden controls uh same thing Dead Zone anti- Dead Zone

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there's a curve adjustment which is pretty nifty we're going to leave it at default as well as the hair trigger mode

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I'm not going to use that because I'm just going to use the triggers locks

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themselves when I want to use that we have stick control same thing Dead Zone

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anti- Dead Zone curve adjustment and then stick trajectory we have button

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reassignment we're just going to leave everything at default but that's a fairly comprehensive amount of control

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in this app uh and it worked pretty good

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uh pretty impressed with this controller it's time to game first impression these

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sticks are very precise they feel very good the triggers feel awesome uh input

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latency on this feels uh spot on and with our Labs testing this fell right in

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the middle of the pack with input latency around 9 milliseconds although

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we've seen Reports online of big input latencies over the 2.4 GHz dongle our

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testing over Bluetooth was not particularly good wired seems to be the

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most consistent but uh personally I would suffer through the spikes uh to

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have the wireless Mo CU I'm usually sitting away from my

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screen I think these might be the best

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feeling triggers with micro switches I've ever felt generally it's just that

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plastic toggle but this still has that tactility of a little micro switch uh

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these feel exceptionally good and then the regular hall effect trigger travel

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also feels really premium this feels this feels Exquisite I didn't even test

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this stick circularity yet oh that's looking pretty dang good oh average ER

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of 1% these are precise These are nice

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sticks which puts it within margin of error of our Labs testing which was 0%

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Labs explicitly said these are among the best analog sticks they've tested yet oh

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gam sir you know how to game sir I like

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recycling jokes from ltts this is a really good controller for handfield too

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if you're a sweaty gamer it has this textured plastic feel so it's not going

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to have that gross rubbery Decay and it feels very nice in the hand now that we

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know that the sticks and triggers are phenomenal why don't we play a game that's going to test other aspects of

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this controller even in a game that demands Precision like Super Meat Boy

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this is a a Flawless experience I am

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having a hard time finding any negatives on this thing I actually really like the

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amount of click the face buttons have it's clicky so there's a definition of

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when you know you're pressing it but it's still an acceptable travel amount

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so it feels not that far out of the ordinary coming from like an Xbox

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controller the Cyclone 2 might be the new king of controllers especially

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considering that this controller is only $50 or 56 if you want the stand which I

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think is actually worth it it's it's made out of metal it holds the controller while and it has the little

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dongle slot uh seems worth the $6 and

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this controller works on switch it works on PC Android iOS uh it's an excellent

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package this is hard to argue with $50

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for such an excellent controller wow there really is no reason to buy

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first-party controllers unless you're playing on a console I am left wondering

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should I get this or the Vader or the

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Apex man there's so many there's so many good controllers that I just wasn't

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aware of of I don't see any major downsides to the Cyclone 2 it's an

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really well-rounded controller that's built for a lot of purposes at an

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absolutely fair price I would definitely add this to the list of controllers you

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should consider just like you should consider subscribing a ShortCircuit and

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watching more videos I recently unboxed the Apex 4 which arguably is a better

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controller but it's uh a different price tier so it's you know it's an interesting one to have in your

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conversation but uh you should watch it