I have never seen a mouse with this many features. It all comes packaged in this
tiny little box. The Swift Point Z2 does
everything. And when I say everything, I really mean it. It's got haptics. It's
got joystick functionality. It's got more buttons than most mice could ever
dream of. And it's weird looking. That's the most important feature of all. You
know what I'm saying? >> Just like me.
>> Oh, wait. No, I needed that one. [laughter]
Why is there a butt plug? Oh. Oh, it just landed on the thing. That's why.
Okay, these are the things that matter. The mouse with a bunch of accessories
already on it. What that we'll get to and this little accessory box with more
buttons and the replaceable bottoms, which we will also get to. There is
genuinely so much to get to in the ShortCircuit.
First thing, uh, usually I would start at the top, but there's this very
interesting magnetic joystick
mode thing. Is there a name for such a device? Is this a joystick? This is the
detachable joystick extender for the gyroscope that's inside this mouse.
Yeah, you heard me right. This mouse generally a two-dimensional moving
object has a gyroscope which is you know measures uh movement in 3D space because
if you can kind of see you can rock it back and forth. Not something I can say
I've ever wanted in a mouse. But I can say I'm very intrigued by this. Let's
take it off for now. Regular mouse mode.
Not so regular. There's nothing about this that's regular. I didn't really
notice these comfort pads. There's 1, two, three, four uh sort of rubberized
pads for grip and or comfort. The one on the thumb side makes sense to me. That's
where my thumb naturally rests. This one kind of makes sense. My fourth finger
sort of goes there. Uh cuz it wants to rest on that that pinky scoop. I don't
really get that one, but I'm also just not a rubber on my mouse kind of kind of
kind of fella. It's going to get gross and gunky and nasty just from use. Uh
and even if you don't use it, it'll turn to oil, baby. At the top, we have 1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9ish buttons. Although the
click on the mouse wheel is pretty wackadoodle. It's a very loose scroll
wheel. The clicks are fairly satisfying. They use Omram switches. Uh rated for 20
million clicks, which is not the most, not the worst I've ever seen. It's hard
to stay focused with this thing cuz I just want to go on a tangent at every
freaking moment. This thing is crazy. Have you seen a mouse quite like this?
The clickiness on the different buttons is
uh fairly different. I like all of them.
I don't love these lever ones that much. But the nice thing is you can change
them with the buttons that came in. These are sort of the highprofile uh
very obvious buttons, but there's also these lower profile ones. When's the
last time your mouse made that sound? Sounds like freaking [music] a Donkey
Kong Country sound when you like throw the barrels and something dies.
>> I know exactly what [laughter] >> I think all the buttons feel pretty good
and they sound just so incredible. On the side we have two buttons. They're in
a top bottom configuration, not a front back configuration, which I think in the
heat of the moment I would probably misclick a fair bit. We also have our
OLED display. So all you home theater watchers out there, just get rid of your
TVs. It's the era of the mouse display, baby. On the bottom, we have our tilt
[music] enabled feet. So there's two different sets of
feet. One is sort of the standard flat
surface, and the other one is a tilt one so that you can get a little bit of the
gyro action without the joystick extender. Um, so in games like Rainbow
Six, where there's leaning, you could presumably assign that to a tilt
function. But not only can you swap them, you can swap the angle at which
they go in with those [music] teeth at the top. That is genuinely something I
have not seen on a mouse before. They even have the legend on here to show you
that if you have the teeth on the outside, it's going to tilt more versus
on the inside, it'll tilt less. If I was configuring this for myself at home, I
probably would jump right to the lock feet, but I don't think I'm doing this
mouse a favor uh [music] by not at least
trying this when we play the games. Other than that, we have our P AW 3395
sensor, uh, which is good up to 26,000 DPI, 650 IPS, and 50 gs of acceleration.
That's not a topend sensor. I see a lot of companies that use it in their mice
advertise it as power efficient next to something like a PW 3950, which is the
better sensor. Uh, but considering this is a wired mouse with a 6 ft cable, uh,
power efficiency is not my primary concern. It would be nice if wired mice
allowed you to replace the cable easily. Uh but that is not common. Uh and then
on the bottom we also have these pins. Oh, these pins seem to be a debug
interface. So you can problem solve the mouse, get easier access to the internals, add accessories when they
come if they come. I was surprised to find out that this mouse is fairly
successful. It was kickstarted in 2023 and it's had multiple rounds of
production. People like this mouse. Now that I've locked in the tilt, it feels
weird. Like my brain registers this as, wow, this mouse is really bad and
wobbly, but clearly this is by design. I'm very curious how that's going to
feel in game. I'm also curious about these lower profile top buttons. My
hands are I'd say medium. I've got
medium small sausage fingers and a fairly big palm. And so I [music] think
I have a hard time holding this the way
I want and not sort of resting on all
the buttons at once. uh my fingers aren't big enough to get around
everything and precisely press, but your experience with the shape is really
going to differ uh based on how big and what shape your hands are. I've swapped
for the lower profile buttons and I immediately like that better. I can
still easily press them sort of with the middle part of my fingers. Um but I'm
not reaching around to get to this. I kind of think I would configure this
mouse to be my primary left and right here with secondary functions on these
top buttons. And then these actually would not be my primary clicks because
the way I want to hold it, which I've been told is more fingertip than claw.
Thank you, internet. Uh although my palm does touch. I thought finger clip was
just like straight up fingertips. I don't have a big enough hand for that.
Anyways, the way I want to hold this, that works better for me to aim for
these. I don't know what I would do with these buttons at the front. These don't
seem that accessible to my hands.
Productivity, that's not a problem. Like, you could assign something to that, but in gaming, that is such a
stretch. Unless you're like giant hands, McGee. But for me, I think I might
actually configure it for these to be my primary buttons. But I'm curious because
I know some of the buttons are pressure sensitive and have different features.
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link in the video description. >> Mouse is plugged in. We're in the
software and we are in simple mode.
Although, this is overwhelming. First things first, we can reassign all of our
buttons. And as you can see on this screen, that is a lot of them. 13.
[music] But not only can you assign what the button does, you can add modifiers so
that your left deep click uh with this
force modifier that you can assign will do something or you can add a scroll or
movement or tilt or pivot as part of it. That is already so much more
customization than I want. I have a feeling that if you're someone that
likes to tinker with electronics and you just want to like try things and play
with things, you can get lost in this
absolutely bonkers menu. Up top we have our profiles. Right now it's set to
auto, which means that it's going to swap between our different profiles
automatically when it detects that we've changed games. So that's something to
note is that in each game it'll show you
what each thing is assigned to. That's actually super helpful cuz it's going to
be hard to keep track of things. So, it's nice you have a sort of a cheat
sheet here. Wow. You can even customize exactly what you're going to see in this
game. Holy crap. Movement. Crouch.
Toggle. Strafe left. I could assign taking screenshots to every time I tilt
the mouse. I think that's going to get me in trouble. Oh, that's fun. You can even assign actual scrolling to the
tilt. So, if you were using this in productivity settings, you could tilt to scroll. That's actually kind of neat.
It's so specific. Use Fenix kit. use shield battery. I did not think you'd be
able to assign this specific of a control outside of the game. This is
bonkers. Okay, so that's our Apex Legend
profile tweaked to my liking. We could add other
ones if we wanted to. We can also look at our mouse memory usage cuz you can
save up to 20 profiles on the mouse itself, which is pretty cool. One thing
that I've sort of glossed over is this animated cube. That's not a button.
What? Animated cube's not a button. Uh, that's what you want on your OLED
screen. You can assign either to be blank or a custom message or show your
current DPI or profile. Also, your deep click forces. That's kind of fun to show
you how hard you're pressing on stuff. Your tilt angle or your firmware
version. I don't think I need my firmware version uh permanently a fixed
to the side of my mouse. Instead, I'm going blank. No, I don't need to. It's
You know what? It's wired. I don't need to worry about battery life. Hell yeah.
Yeah, just like I don't need to worry about this RGB eating my battery life.
Yo, thanks RGB. It's so cool that you're
exactly in a spot covered by my palm. Wow. What?
Mouse manufacturers, why not put RGB somewhere that will be visible in both
photos when people are showing photos of their setups, but also
when they are using it. It seems very short-sighted. It seems very stupid. Uh,
last thing we can change in here is our DPI. This is something that I've
actually heard a complaint is that because everything is assigned on a per
game or software basis. If you change
your DPI in one of them, it doesn't actually change them across all of them.
I think that there should be some settings you're able to control outside
of these individual profiles and just have your set DPI so you don't have to
manually set it. If I wanted to, I could add more DPI levels, but I don't in fact
want more DPI levels. I wish they would go away. I only want the 800. So now I'm
all set with my 800 DPI on my fairly
heavy gaming mouse. This they say it's 117 g. Let's see what that that actually
is. 124 g. I'm wondering if it's 117 if
you take the skates off closer. That's
fairly heavy for a gaming mouse, especially a wired one. But if you are
buying this mouse, I don't think you're buying it for light, simple, fast Twitch
gaming. I think this mouse is sort of better suited for an MMO play style
where you need access to a lot of buttons. And I was thinking about that as I was prepping for this. This
actually is such a better configuration of buttons for MMO mice than MMO mice
are themselves because MMO mice is generally like 12 buttons or so on the
side in rows. So, it's easy access, but
I feel like there's got to be so many misclicks. If you use an MMO mouse, let
us know in the comments below. I don't miss wired mice, let me tell you. Having
to freaking babysit a wire, buddy. I
can't take care of you. I can barely take care of myself. And here we are.
It's working. This mouse is very heavy. I think my
hand would get tired. Am I really that weak now? Moving 120 g of mouse is a
challenge. So, I tilt it left 1.5°. I'm going to inspect my weapon.
It's like I'm doing it in the game. [laughter] Whoa. Oh, okay. that it would actually
be very useful in Rainbow 6, uh, where you actually lean, so more tactical
shooters. I actually could see the use in that. However, I don't know, when I
was very competitive in it, you're pretty used to the keyboard shortcuts.
So, I think this is a neat option, and I think there's a lot of situations where
this is cool, but I don't think the tilt is going to push this thing over the
edge for me. I will try the joystick thing after, though. I'm also kind of
over the tilt already. Let's get rid of it. I don't don't like it. This is a
pretty solid mouse. It doesn't feel as snappy as I think I want it to be. It
might just be that the weight is making it feel like it's getting more
acceleration than I necessarily want. The shape is comfortable. The buttons
feel excellent. And one thing of note is that our testing showed that the latency
is fairly high compared to other mice.
We were getting a mean of about 5 milliseconds uh of input latency, which
is really high. Like if I'm looking for gold standard, it's below 1 millisecond.
I can definitively say this is not the mouse for really competitive gamers.
This is not the right choice for you if you are looking for every edge you can
get. It's only a 1000Hz polling rate. Uh
this is not a top-end sensor. However, if you are interested in just having a
mouse that you've never had before, something completely different and you like messing around, this thing's
freaking sweet, man. I'm having fun. I like assigning my clicks to this.
Digging that. The form factor was the thing that looked the stupidest to me,
but having all these buttons of easy access is actually kind of the killer
feature for me. It's a mouse that's really focused on features over
functionality. That's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm a big fan of products
that are different and that try something. And I feel like with Swift
Points Z2, it's less about all of these
features being the future of mice and maybe shotgun approaching it, seeing
what people like and going with that. They might refine on the Z3. They might
make a new wireless lineup, which would be faking sweet. And so, I think this is
a really neat idea. This is not a mouse
that I can strongly recommend for gaming in particular, but I know there's a ton
of people that just like fooling around in software and trying things. And
honestly, this might be a freaking sweet MMO mouse or even a productivity mouse
because these buttons are configured in a way that makes them easily accessible.
It's been a long time since I felt like I can easily press um 13 things this
easily and fairly comfortably. [sighs] The biggest hesitation I have is the
price. This mouse is $230 regular. It's
on sale for $170. And this is one of
those products that I understand why it is that price because there's just so
much going on. However, that's not a
price I would be willing to pay and I don't think there's a giant audience for
it. However, it's pretty cool. It's a
pretty neat mouse and I hope that you get the chance to play with it because
it really is quite unique without being just a gimmick. I can see a lot of uses
for this. In fact, I want to try something where I use the tilt
functionality fully. [ __ ] it. We're doing Burnout Paradise. Something that's
interesting, I'm configuring my tilt so that I'm able to control a car in a
game. You can see it working here.
Boop boop. However, if you put the joystick attachment on, it stops reading
the tilt. It's uh becomes a different thing. It's just full gyro mode. That's
neat. Okay, we're using the gyro functionality to control our car. Wow,
this is not good. [laughter] I would way rather be using a joy, an
actual joystick or a controller. It's cool that it's there and I think in
flight sims it would be a little bit better. But I don't think that if you're
someone who's taking the either racing or flight sim seriously, this is the
best option. And so I stand by my soft recommend for people that like to tinker
and mess around with things. If that's you, it's pretty freaking sweet. If
you're someone that wants just these buttons, there's a bunch of other gaming
mice with a bunch of buttons. Either you can get an MMO mouse or the Rocket
Tieon, which I haven't used. seems okay
and a sort of similar amount of buttons. But if you just want a good gaming mouse, there's immeasurable amount of
options that you could get. There's the Keyron lineup or we've recently unboxed
the Logitech Super Light 2C, which you
could watch me do that uh as you continue your ShortCircuit journey.
Don't ever stop. Don't ever click away. You are no longer allowed to watch
anything else other than ShortCircuit. Okay? I don't know what you're getting
in return, but I like this deal.