it's been a while since the controller has caught my eye like the thrustmaster
e-swap x pro controller and maybe i'm just getting you know caught
up in the xbox series x series s hype but this thing looks pretty freaking sweet
compared to their last generation model it's got upgraded analog sticks which
supposedly have better like resistance sort of
whatever that means that
better physical resistance improved re-centering positioning
and double the lifespan so
uh we'll get to that in a second first things first you got your quick start
guide a little thing for their thrust mapper
so this is their software that allows you to set up profiles you can
remap the buttons to the ones on the back on the fly
so you're not required to use the software but hey it's an option if you
want it and then of course one of the big features of this guy
is the modular uh there we go
modular analog sticks and d-pad
sort of pieces here so what this allows you to do
is set up more like a
we go dual shock style two analog sticks
here d-pad over here or i mean i guess
if you were like you know totally demented
you could put uh a d-pad over here
and then two analog sticks over here and given that you can actually buy
additional modules i don't think anything would prevent you from done oh yeah
of course if we're gonna cover a modular controller we gotta
we gotta get a get a module here you could even go
three analog sticks if you really wanted to so this
is the sx nxg so nxg i think is
next gen mini stick module and it comes
with a whole lot of nothing while
theoretically you could get modules with different characteristics
there's nothing on here that indicates that
that's the case um but for whatever
reason this one has a different part number than the ones that were included
i mean i have seen that before where there's different part numbers for like
the replacement one versus the one that comes with it i don't know i don't understand why that's necessary but it
seems like that might be the case here there you go the
the three analog stick it's like having
a third nipple it's like there's nothing wrong with it it's just not the usual
uh configuration that's all initial impressions
actually d-pad feels pretty darn good
like if i was playing a retro platformer or something like that
i could get very comfortable with this i like the ergonomics of
the i don't know i don't know what these are called but the
you know judy boys at the bottom here
actually kind of reminds me of the dual sense to be perfectly honest with you
uh on that subject no you cannot use it with a playstation 5. it is
xbox and pc only but it's of course
xbox series and then also xbox one
the xbox one series as well
um but what i will say is that compared to
for example i've got a first generation elite controller here
and compared to this it is very obviously designed for someone with
longer fingers bigger hands like even with this in the background here you can
see this is a larger controller and one of the key features is these
remappable buttons on the back here but to be honest with you like look at
this if i'm holding this in a comfortable position where i can actually reach the menu buttons on the
top i can barely reach these ones with my
ring fingers and my middle fingers are not really able to do much of
anything here like i have to go and put my hands at this unnatural angle in
order to reach these so unless you've got longer hands i
don't think you're going to be finding those that useful as for the feel of the rest of the
buttons abxy really nice you can actually you can
really hear that sound really like the feel of those switches
easy to press nice and tactile
i'd say the presses on the analog sticks
are normal nothing really stands out to me about them
wow
those have to be among the loudest shoulder buttons i have ever heard
all right so the triggers on the back
they've actually got two different modes so you can either
there you go flip this switch right here and put it in like kind of a hair
trigger mode or you can flip it back to the regular
position and unlock the full travel the idea here
being that if you're playing a shooter or something like that you want a shorter travel so that it can
respond more quickly and bounce back more quickly and if
you're playing a racing game then you want to unlock the full travel for finer control of the throttle in
practice i'm not sure if i feel like it makes much of a difference immediately
but we'll see we're going to fire up some games here before we do that though i
should probably have a look at the rest of the accessories that are included in the package
we've got these little convex
joystick toppers quality of them feels really nice
so you just thread the old ones off there's actually what looks like a
rubber o-ring to keep it from accidentally slipping off while you're playing it would sort
of act as kind of a thread locker i don't think that i'm that into the
convex top it's got the same really nice
feeling rubberized grip something i thought was interesting is they don't provide you another one of
these convex tops when you buy a new uh
a new module so it only comes with the concave one that's the default so what
that means is if these are actually your preference you're probably going to have to buy them separately
cable suitably adequate
carrying bag there's a phillips head screwdriver with a
pokey thing oh interesting i think i figured this out
so you put that in there and pop out the module
and then if you wanted to swap out
say for example uh oops
you got a lefty loose seat there you go if you wanted to
swap out a trigger then you could do
that as well those are swappable too neat this is why
it's always fun to unbox things when you haven't actually like
done any research on the product i get to discover the features with you
okay well that's cool personally i would like something more grippy here so
maybe that's an accessory that they sell my
lord this thing is expensive hot diggity
definitely feels premium like it's this is a first gen elite controller by the
way but it definitely feels more rigid in spite of being larger
but wow it ain't cheap
and it's not even wireless that's a funny one to me like what
what year is it nice long cable i guess
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slightly less wireless let's go ahead and connect the controller here
it's schtick it's gonna be that you can change the color stuff then i guess
we might as well do it you know this would also be a good opportunity to put
to the test just how easy it is does one of my kids
want to come help me for a minute i need you guys to help me pick which
color buttons we want to put on the controller
okay apparently we're going with blue
there you go okay that was it
we swapped the whole thing out to a blue themed one now
thank you darlings see you later
bye-bye loaded up a couple games here to at least try out and see how it goes
start with some do maternal so we're going to try out the
shooter trigger mode here i can definitely feel a little of the
designed for larger mitzness i wasn't
really expecting it but oh you know what
i wonder if part of the problem is just that i'm more accustomed to the
traditional xbox oh okay
that definitely helps i mean it's cool that you can just swap that quickly
like if i'm playing a you know old-school
platform game or something like that i'm like yeah i really want like a nice d-pad right here instead of having to
reach over here for it pretty sweet oh wow i didn't even notice
this before volume control mic button and okay you got a couple of
profile buttons down here so that's pretty sweet as well as the map button so this allows
you to remap these without even actually using the thrustmaster software one thing i would
definitely use the software to adjust is the dead zone
so right now it's a little bit large for me you can see i can move this a fair
bit without anything actually happening
uh i prefer dead zones to be as small as humanly possible
weird when i'm in reverse the rumble
feels great but then feels really
cheap on the forward i have no idea if
that's just my unit but it really doesn't feel that
great now when i break and go in reverse it feels great like really deep
and then it's just kind of on the gas
oops yeah i just suck at racing games
feels great other than that rumble issue if i were you i would check out
some other reviews and see if they've had the same problem
before pulling the trigger so to speak
oops oops oops see you later
pretty good customizable definitely feels quality
the wire's a bit of a bummer and so is the price so whether or not it's worth
it to you is sort of your call but it looks cool
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