WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.040 I have never seen a mouse with this many features. 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:08.840 It all comes packaged in this tiny little box. The SwiftPoint Z2 does everything. 00:00:08.840 --> 00:00:14.480 And when I say everything, I don't really mean it. It's got haptics, it's got joystick functionality. 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:18.800 It's got more buttons than most mice could ever dream of. 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:21.840 And it's weird looking. That's the most important feature of all. You know what I'm saying? 00:00:21.840 --> 00:00:23.520 It's just like me. Ha ha! 00:00:25.360 --> 00:00:29.040 Oh wait, no, I needed that one. Ha ha ha ha ha! 00:00:29.040 --> 00:00:32.920 Why is there a butt plug? Oh, oh, it just landed on the thing, that's why. 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:37.480 Okay, these are the things that matter. The mouse with a bunch of accessories already on it 00:00:37.480 --> 00:00:40.960 that we'll get to in this little accessory box 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:45.040 with more buttons and the replaceable bottoms, 00:00:45.040 --> 00:00:50.040 which we will also get to. There is genuinely so much to get to in the ShortCircuit. 00:00:50.040 --> 00:00:53.280 Woo! First thing, usually I would start at the top, 00:00:53.400 --> 00:00:58.400 there's this very interesting magnetic joystick mode thing. 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.800 Is there a name for such a device? Is this a joystick? 00:01:03.800 --> 00:01:08.800 This is the detachable joystick extender for the gyroscope that's inside this mouse. 00:01:08.800 --> 00:01:13.520 Yeah, you heard me right. This mouse, generally a two dimensional moving object, 00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:18.440 has a gyroscope, which measures movement in 3D space, 00:01:18.440 --> 00:01:21.440 because you can kind of see, you can rock it back and forth. 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:25.280 Not something I can say I've ever wanted in a mouse, 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:28.440 but I can say I'm very intrigued by this. 00:01:28.440 --> 00:01:31.960 Let's take it off for now, regular mouse mode, 00:01:31.960 --> 00:01:36.600 not so regular, there's nothing about this that's regular. I didn't really notice these comfort pads, 00:01:36.600 --> 00:01:39.840 there's one, two, three, four, 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:43.480 sort of rubberized pads for grip and or comfort. 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:46.560 The one on the thumb side makes sense to me, that's where my thumb naturally rests. 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:50.640 This one kind of makes sense, my fourth finger sort of goes there, 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:55.600 because it wants to rest on that pinky scoop. I don't really get that one, 00:01:55.600 --> 00:01:59.280 but I'm also just not a rubber on my mouse, kind of fella. 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:02.520 It's gonna get gross and gunky and nasty just from use, 00:02:02.520 --> 00:02:08.040 and even if you don't use it, it'll turn to oil, baby. At the top we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, 00:02:08.040 --> 00:02:15.000 eight, nine-ish buttons, although the click on the mouse wheel is pretty wackadoodle. 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:18.080 It's a very loose scroll wheel. The clicks are fairly satisfying, 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:21.600 they use ARM-ROM switches, rated for 20 million clicks, 00:02:21.600 --> 00:02:24.800 which is not the most, not the worst I've ever seen. 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:28.360 It's hard to stay focused with this thing, because I just wanna go on a tangent 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:33.100 in every friggin' moment. This thing is crazy, have you seen a mouse quite like this? 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:40.680 The clickiness on the different buttons is fairly different. 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:45.160 I like all of them, I don't love these lever ones that much, 00:02:45.160 --> 00:02:50.840 but the nice thing is, you can change them with the buttons that came in. 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:54.000 These are sort of the high-profile, very obvious buttons, 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.520 but there's also these lower-profile ones. 00:02:57.480 --> 00:03:02.040 When was the last time your mouse made that sound? Sounds like friggin' a Donkey Kong country sound. 00:03:02.040 --> 00:03:05.600 When you throw the barrels and something dies, it's like... I know exactly what's going on. 00:03:05.600 --> 00:03:09.640 I think all the buttons feel pretty good, 00:03:09.640 --> 00:03:14.600 and they sound just so incredible. On the side, we have two buttons. 00:03:14.600 --> 00:03:18.400 They're in a top-bottom configuration, not a front-back configuration, 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:23.640 which I think in the heat of the moment, I would probably misclick a fair bit. 00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:28.400 We also have our OLED display, so all you home theater watchers out there, 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:32.040 just get rid of your TVs. It's the era of the mouse display, baby. 00:03:32.040 --> 00:03:35.360 On the bottom, we have our tilt-enabled feet. 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:39.200 So there's two different sets of feet. 00:03:39.200 --> 00:03:42.560 One is sort of the standard flat surface, 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:46.520 and the other one is a tilt one, so that you can get a little bit of the gyro action 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:49.720 without the joystick extender. So in games like Rainbow Six, 00:03:49.720 --> 00:03:53.640 where there's leaning, you could presumably assign that to a tilt function, 00:03:53.640 --> 00:03:57.960 but not only can you swap them, you can swap the angle at which they go in 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:03.920 with those teeth at the top. That is genuinely something I have not seen on a mouse before. 00:04:03.920 --> 00:04:07.440 They even have the legend on here to show you that if you have the teeth on the outside, 00:04:07.440 --> 00:04:12.680 it's gonna tilt more versus on the inside, it'll tilt less. If I was configuring this for myself at home, 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:18.000 I probably would jump right to the lock feet, but I don't think I'm doing this mouse a favor 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.280 by not at least trying this when we play the games. 00:04:21.280 --> 00:04:26.280 Other than that, we have our PAW3395 sensor, 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:32.000 which is good up to 26,000 DPI, 650 IPS and 50 Gs of acceleration. 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:36.760 That's not a top-end sensor. I see a lot of companies that use it in their mice, 00:04:36.760 --> 00:04:43.080 advertise it as power-efficient next to something like a PAW3950, which is the better sensor, 00:04:43.080 --> 00:04:48.440 but considering this is a wired mouse with a six-foot cable, 00:04:48.440 --> 00:04:52.400 power efficiency is not my primary concern. It would be nice if wired mice allowed you 00:04:52.400 --> 00:04:56.800 to replace the cable easily, but that is not common. 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:59.880 And then on the bottom, we also have these pins. 00:04:59.880 --> 00:05:03.440 Oh, these pins seem to be a debug interface, so you can problem-solve the mouse, 00:05:03.440 --> 00:05:07.700 get easier access to the internals, add accessories when they come, if they come. 00:05:07.740 --> 00:05:12.420 I was surprised to find out that this mouse is fairly successful. It was kick-started in 2023 00:05:12.420 --> 00:05:15.820 and it's had multiple rounds of production. People like this mouse. 00:05:15.820 --> 00:05:20.060 Now that I've locked in the tilt, it feels weird. 00:05:20.060 --> 00:05:24.580 Like my brain registers this as, wow, this mouse is really bad and wobbly, 00:05:24.580 --> 00:05:29.660 but clearly this is by design. I'm very curious how that's gonna feel in game. 00:05:29.660 --> 00:05:32.820 I'm also curious about these lower-profile top buttons. 00:05:32.820 --> 00:05:38.220 My hands are, I'd say, medium. I've got medium, small sausage fingers 00:05:38.220 --> 00:05:43.620 and a fairly big palm. And so I think I have a hard time holding this 00:05:43.620 --> 00:05:46.940 the way I want and not sort of resting 00:05:46.940 --> 00:05:50.860 on all the buttons at once. My fingers aren't big enough to get around everything 00:05:50.860 --> 00:05:54.300 and precisely press, but your experience with the shape 00:05:54.300 --> 00:05:58.580 is really gonna differ based on how big and what shape your hands are. 00:05:58.580 --> 00:06:02.420 I've swapped for the lower-profile buttons and I immediately like that better. 00:06:02.420 --> 00:06:07.620 I can still easily press them sort of with the middle part of my fingers, 00:06:07.620 --> 00:06:12.780 but I'm not reaching around to get to this. I kind of think I would configure this mouse 00:06:12.780 --> 00:06:17.860 to be my primary left and right here with secondary functions on these top buttons. 00:06:17.860 --> 00:06:22.700 And then these actually would not be my primary clicks because the way I wanna hold it, 00:06:22.700 --> 00:06:26.860 which I've been told is more fingertip than claw. Thank you, internet. 00:06:26.860 --> 00:06:30.860 Although my palm does touch. I thought fingertip was just like straight-up fingertips 00:06:30.860 --> 00:06:35.660 and I don't have a big enough hand for that. Anyways, the way I wanna hold this, 00:06:35.660 --> 00:06:39.660 that works better for me to aim for these. 00:06:39.660 --> 00:06:42.980 I don't know what I would do with these buttons at the front. 00:06:42.980 --> 00:06:47.980 These don't seem that accessible to my hands. 00:06:48.420 --> 00:06:53.140 Productivity, that's not a problem. You could assign something to that, but in gaming, that is such a stretch 00:06:53.140 --> 00:06:56.220 unless you're like giant hands, McGee. 00:06:56.220 --> 00:07:00.060 But for me, I think I might actually configure it for these to be my primary buttons, 00:07:00.060 --> 00:07:04.940 but I'm curious because I know some of the buttons are pressure-sensitive and have different features, 00:07:04.940 --> 00:07:09.320 but we're gonna have to find that out when we plug it into a computer after we tell you about our sponsor. 00:07:09.320 --> 00:07:14.780 Mouse is plugged in, we're in the software, and we are in simple mode, 00:07:14.780 --> 00:07:20.580 although this is overwhelming. First things first, we can reassign all of our buttons 00:07:20.580 --> 00:07:24.340 and as you can see on the screen, that is a lot of them, 13, 00:07:24.340 --> 00:07:32.280 but not only can you assign what the button does, you can add modifiers so that your left deep click 00:07:32.280 --> 00:07:35.360 with this force modifier that you can assign 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:40.320 will do something or you can add a scroll or movement 00:07:40.320 --> 00:07:46.580 or tilt or pivot as part of it. That is already so much more customization than I want. 00:07:46.580 --> 00:07:50.960 I have a feeling that if you're someone that likes to tinker with electronics 00:07:50.960 --> 00:07:54.040 and you just wanna try things and play with things, 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:58.680 you can get lost in this absolutely bonkers menu. 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:02.920 Up top, we have our profiles. Right now it's set to auto, which means that it's gonna swap 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:07.440 between our different profiles automatically when it detects that we've changed games. 00:08:07.440 --> 00:08:11.120 So that's something to note is that in each game, 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:14.520 it'll show you what each thing is assigned to. That's actually super helpful 00:08:14.520 --> 00:08:19.600 because it's gonna be hard to keep track of things, so it's nice to have sort of a cheat sheet here. 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:23.440 Wow, you can even customize exactly what you're gonna see in this game. 00:08:23.440 --> 00:08:27.520 Holy crap, movement, crouch, toggle, strafe left. 00:08:27.520 --> 00:08:31.200 I could assign taking screenshots to every time I tilt the mouse. 00:08:31.200 --> 00:08:36.260 I think that's gonna get me in trouble. Oh, that's fun. You can even assign actual scrolling to the tilt. 00:08:36.260 --> 00:08:39.280 So if you were using this in productivity settings, you could tilt to scroll. 00:08:39.280 --> 00:08:43.160 That's actually kinda neat. It's so specific. Use Phoenix kit, use shield battery. 00:08:43.160 --> 00:08:47.380 I did not think you'd be able to assign this specific of a control outside of the game. 00:08:47.380 --> 00:08:52.540 This is bonkers. Okay, so that's our Apex Legend profile 00:08:53.620 --> 00:08:57.240 tweaked to my liking. We could add other ones if we wanted to. 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:03.400 We can also look at our mouse memory usage as you can save up to 20 profiles on the mouse itself, 00:09:03.400 --> 00:09:07.520 which is pretty cool. One thing that I've sort of glossed over is this animated cube. 00:09:07.520 --> 00:09:10.840 That's not a button, what animated cube's not a button. 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:15.800 That's what you want on your OLED screen. You can assign either to be blank or a custom message 00:09:15.800 --> 00:09:20.160 or show your current DPI or profile. Also your deep click forces. 00:09:20.160 --> 00:09:23.240 That's kinda fun to show you how hard you're pressing on stuff. 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:28.720 Your tilt angle or your firmware version. I don't think I need my firmware version 00:09:28.760 --> 00:09:33.400 permanently affixed to the side of my mouse. Instead, I'm going blank. 00:09:33.400 --> 00:09:37.040 Well, I don't need to, it's, you know what? It's wired. 00:09:37.040 --> 00:09:41.960 I don't need to worry about battery life. Hell yeah, just like I don't need to worry about this RGB eating my battery life. 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:46.620 Yo, thanks RGB. It's so cool that you're exactly in a spot 00:09:46.620 --> 00:09:49.820 covered by my palm. Wow. What? 00:09:50.660 --> 00:09:55.600 Most manufacturers want to put RGB somewhere that will be visible in both photos 00:09:55.600 --> 00:10:00.520 when people are showing photos of their setups, but also when they are using it. 00:10:00.520 --> 00:10:04.920 It seems very short-sighted. It seems very stupid. 00:10:04.920 --> 00:10:10.480 Last thing we can change in here is our DPI. This is something that I've actually heard a complaint 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:13.560 is that because everything is assigned 00:10:13.560 --> 00:10:16.840 on a per game or software basis, 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:19.880 if you change your DPI in one of them, 00:10:19.880 --> 00:10:23.760 it doesn't actually change them across all of them. I think that there should be some settings 00:10:23.760 --> 00:10:26.760 you're able to control outside of these individual profiles 00:10:26.800 --> 00:10:30.040 and just have your set DPI. So you don't have to manually set it. 00:10:30.040 --> 00:10:34.840 If I wanted to, I could add more DPI levels, but I don't, in fact, want more DPI levels. 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:41.160 I wish they would go away. I only want the 800. So now I'm all set with my 800 DPI 00:10:41.160 --> 00:10:45.520 on my fairly heavy gaming mouse. They say it's 117 grams. 00:10:45.520 --> 00:10:49.600 Let's see what that actually is. 124 grams. 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:53.760 I'm wondering if it's 117 if you take the skates off closer. 00:10:53.760 --> 00:10:58.520 That's fairly heavy for a gaming mouse, especially a wired one. 00:10:58.520 --> 00:11:01.920 But if you are buying this mouse, I don't think you're buying it 00:11:01.920 --> 00:11:05.400 for light, simple, fast Twitch gaming. 00:11:05.400 --> 00:11:09.540 I think this mouse is sort of better suited for an MMO play style 00:11:09.540 --> 00:11:13.440 where you need access to a lot of buttons. And I was thinking about that as I was prepping for this. 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:19.080 This actually is such a better configuration of buttons for MMO mice than MMO mice are themselves, 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:24.280 because MMO mice is generally like 12 buttons or so on the side in rows. 00:11:24.280 --> 00:11:27.620 So it's easy access, but I feel like there's got to be so many misclicks. 00:11:27.620 --> 00:11:30.700 If you use an MMO mouse, let us know in the comments below. 00:11:30.700 --> 00:11:36.700 I don't miss wired mice, let me tell you. Having to freaking babysit a wire, 00:11:36.700 --> 00:11:39.700 but I can't take care of you. I can barely take care of myself. 00:11:39.700 --> 00:11:41.380 And here we are. It's working. 00:11:43.180 --> 00:11:47.380 This mouse is very heavy. I think my hand would get tired. I'm really that weak now. 00:11:47.380 --> 00:11:51.180 Moving 120 grams of mouse is a challenge. 00:11:51.180 --> 00:11:54.200 So I tilt it left 1.5 degrees. I'm gonna inspect my weapon. 00:11:55.980 --> 00:12:00.020 It's like I'm doing it in the game. Whoa. 00:12:00.020 --> 00:12:03.940 Oh, it would actually be very useful in Rainbow Six 00:12:03.940 --> 00:12:07.980 where you actually lean some more tactical shooters. I actually could see the use in that. 00:12:07.980 --> 00:12:11.500 However, I know when I was very competitive in it, 00:12:11.500 --> 00:12:14.740 you're pretty used to the keyboard shortcuts. So I think this is a neat option. 00:12:14.740 --> 00:12:20.020 And I think there's a lot of situations where this is cool, but I don't think the tilt is gonna push this thing 00:12:20.020 --> 00:12:24.340 over the edge for me. I will try the joystick thing after though. I'm also kind of over the tilt already. 00:12:24.380 --> 00:12:28.420 Let's get rid of it. I don't like it. This is a pretty solid mouse. 00:12:28.420 --> 00:12:32.020 It doesn't feel as snappy as I think I want it to be. 00:12:32.020 --> 00:12:35.860 It might just be that the weight is making it feel like it's getting more acceleration 00:12:35.860 --> 00:12:40.220 than I necessarily want. The shape is comfortable. The buttons feel excellent. 00:12:40.220 --> 00:12:43.420 And one thing of note is that our testing showed 00:12:43.420 --> 00:12:47.300 that the latency is fairly high compared to other mice. 00:12:47.300 --> 00:12:50.780 We were getting a mean of about five milliseconds 00:12:50.780 --> 00:12:54.860 of input latency, which is really high. If I'm looking for gold standard, 00:12:54.860 --> 00:13:00.020 it's below one millisecond. I can definitively say this is not the mouse 00:13:00.020 --> 00:13:04.980 for really competitive gamers. This is not the right choice for you 00:13:04.980 --> 00:13:10.180 if you are looking for every edge you can get. It's only a thousand Hertz polling rate. 00:13:10.180 --> 00:13:15.060 This is not a top end sensor. However, if you are interested in just having a mouse 00:13:15.060 --> 00:13:19.100 that you've never had before, something completely different, and you like messing around, 00:13:19.100 --> 00:13:25.180 this thing's freaking sweet, man. I'm having fun. I like assigning my clicks to this, digging that. 00:13:25.180 --> 00:13:30.300 The form factor was the thing that looked the stupidest to me, but having all these buttons at easy access 00:13:30.300 --> 00:13:35.060 is actually kind of the killer feature for me. It's a mouse that's really focused on features 00:13:35.060 --> 00:13:41.220 over functionality. That's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm a big fan of products that are different 00:13:41.220 --> 00:13:46.780 and that try something. And I feel like with SwiftPoint's Z2, 00:13:46.780 --> 00:13:49.860 it's less about all of these features being the future of mice 00:13:49.860 --> 00:13:54.660 and maybe shotgun approaching it, seeing what people like and going with that. 00:13:54.660 --> 00:13:58.940 They might refine on the Z3. They might make a new wireless lineup, 00:13:58.940 --> 00:14:03.640 which would be frigging sweet. And so I think this is a really neat idea. 00:14:03.640 --> 00:14:06.860 This is not a mouse that I can strongly recommend 00:14:06.860 --> 00:14:10.720 for gaming in particular, but I know there's a ton of people 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:16.360 that just like fooling around in software and trying things. And honestly, this might be a frigging sweet MMO mouse 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.380 or even a productivity mouse because these buttons are configured in a way 00:14:20.380 --> 00:14:23.620 that makes them easily accessible. It's been a long time since I felt like 00:14:23.620 --> 00:14:27.840 I can easily press 13 things this easily 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:33.420 and fairly comfortably. The biggest hesitation I have is the price. 00:14:33.420 --> 00:14:38.420 This mouse is $230 regular. It's on sale for 170. 00:14:38.420 --> 00:14:42.300 And this is one of those products that I understand why it is that price 00:14:42.300 --> 00:14:48.100 because there's just so much going on. However, that's not a price I would be willing to pay. 00:14:48.140 --> 00:14:53.140 And I don't think there's a giant audience for it. However, it's pretty cool. 00:14:53.140 --> 00:14:58.860 It's a pretty neat mouse. And I hope that you get the chance to play with it because it really is quite unique 00:14:58.860 --> 00:15:03.140 without being just a gimmick. I can see a lot of uses for this. 00:15:03.140 --> 00:15:08.140 In fact, I want to try something where I use the tilt functionality fully. 00:15:08.140 --> 00:15:12.140 Fuck it, we're going to burn out paradise. Something that's interesting, I'm configuring my tilt 00:15:12.140 --> 00:15:16.980 so that I'm able to control a car in a game. You can see it working here. 00:15:17.940 --> 00:15:21.900 However, if you put the joystick attachment on, it stops reading the tilt. 00:15:21.900 --> 00:15:25.780 It's a becomes a different thing. It's just full gyro mode. That's neat. 00:15:25.780 --> 00:15:30.140 Okay, we're using the gyro functionality to control our car. 00:15:30.140 --> 00:15:34.780 Wow, this is not good. I would way rather be using a choice, 00:15:34.780 --> 00:15:38.420 an actual joystick or a controller. It's cool that it's there. 00:15:38.420 --> 00:15:43.220 And I think in flight sims, it'd be a little bit better. But I don't think that if you're someone who's taking 00:15:43.220 --> 00:15:47.540 though either a racing or flight sim seriously, this is the best option. 00:15:47.540 --> 00:15:50.700 And so I stand by my soft recommend for people 00:15:50.700 --> 00:15:55.860 that like to tinker and mess around with things. If that's you, it's pretty frigging sweet. 00:15:55.860 --> 00:16:01.140 If you're someone that wants just these buttons, there's a bunch of other game mice with a bunch of buttons. 00:16:01.140 --> 00:16:04.340 Either you can get an MMO mouse or the Rocket tie-on, 00:16:04.340 --> 00:16:08.420 which I haven't used. It seems okay. And it's sort of similar amount of buttons. 00:16:08.420 --> 00:16:14.660 But if you just want a good gaming mouse, there's a measurable amount of options that you could get. 00:16:14.700 --> 00:16:20.420 There's the Keychron lineup, or we've recently unboxed the Logitech Superlight 2C, 00:16:20.420 --> 00:16:24.780 which you could watch me do that. As you continue your ShortCircuit journey, 00:16:24.780 --> 00:16:29.580 don't ever stop, don't ever click away. You are no longer allowed to watch anything else 00:16:29.580 --> 00:16:32.900 other than ShortCircuit, okay? I don't know what you're getting in return, 00:16:32.900 --> 00:16:34.220 but I like this deal.