if you were to go through the history of products and rank them from the top you
know the invention of the internet the personal computer all the way to the
bottom you know like nft art uh somewhere just below the middle would be
the ragnok gun Mouse this is stupid but
it's the kind of stupid I'm into the premise here is what if we turned your
mouse into a gun handle and they did it
and you know what this isn't even V1 this is V2 of this product they've had
time to give off all kinds of improvements and uh I can't believe we
are looking at this I am beyond excited to have a good laugh you know laughter
is the best medicine and uh I think we're all a little sick you know inside
the I uh we're already done we we
finished unboxing that's that's all that's in the Box this box is actually
pretty nice born for FPS that's
beautiful I did come out of my mother holding a gun as
well we can look at this outer box
and then not look at it cuz it's stupid
oh don't worry it's just specs on the box and I will read those out as we go
through it there is four elements inside this box we got our little dongle that's
nice it looks kind of just like a little generic
bluetoothyes to be quite an long type-c
cable not a particularly high quality one but you
know if uh my wingspan is anything to go by did you know that wingspan in fantasy
books means size the more you know and
that leaves us with our gun my first
impression picking this thing up is that it's very cheap it's only 100 G which is
good for a gaming mouse when I imagine wielding a firearm I want to say you
know have some heft you know some some weight you
know uh and this does not quite deliver that at the top we have our DPI button
uh we have kind of soft plastic where our palm and fingers will go on the
sides we have our grip you know meant to simulate holding a a pistol in your
hands it's feels really cheap I feel
like if I did that a bunch uh there
would be more of my skin left on this thing than texture you like that huh
Andrew on this side we have our metal scroll wheel and our little tactile bump
the scroll wheel feels fine it's like a little loose kind of side to side um the
texture on the thumb feels fine there's
a click I would describe it as you know
adequate this isn't going to win any Wards for stability or you know
predictability as to what's happening but yeah there's enough tactility in the
roll that you can have some precision and and how much you're trying to scroll
through my first impression is that this is not nearly tactile enough to be fair
there's not really anything else you could accidentally press here so it's it
feels less like a thumb press and more of just like a handle squeeze it has a
solid you know click sound not a click feeling not a great click on the front
we have our left and right click you know trigger and then our other trigger
our aim down the sights button you know every gun has one of
those I think that's totally a fair placement you know this mouse if you
place it on its side it would be a right click on the right left click on the left so that's a pretty natural feeling
thing the feeling of these buttons is really bad they have MX key switches
which which is nice theoretically but there's kind of a different expectation
when you're pressing buttons to when you're pressing a keyboard I wish there was a tactile bump that I was like I've
pressed it the trigger maybe not uh and because it's for PC gaming I don't
expect like an analog trigger um but the
overall impression of these two buttons that it's uh really cheap feeling also
on the front is our type-c Port uh very nice every peripheral should just be
typesy now I don't care about any of your excuses Logitech on the bottom we
have the good stuff you know our pixart sens as well as our power on and our
vibration on andof switch on the bottom we have these very small Glide pads that
are supplemented by the palr Glide pads
that are kind of surprisingly small uh I'd expect you know the whole thing to
have a Glide Pad but maybe they uh did some testing and that didn't feel good
um I'm doing some testing right now and it doesn't feel good as is so look I
don't want to be too hard on this product because it's clearly you know
trying for something new and I actually I like to praise manufacturers that are
trying to just crazy stuff off-the-wall stuff and this isn't the craziest thing
I've seen and I think there could be a good implementation of this when you
hold the whole Mouse in your hand I
don't have particularly big hands and I haven't held a ton of real guns but the
bottom bump here makes this feel like it doesn't fit super comfortably in my hand
like it's it's fine the front buttons are pretty easy to pressed the DPI
button which doesn't need to be pressed that's fine but I'm finding my thumbs
probably wouldn't enjoy the scroll position too much I
feel like without even trying to press the button just like squeezing if I'm
not concentrating on not including my thumb I'm just going to press that
button and this scroll wheel doesn't feel super in the right spot like I wish
it was a little further back and higher up but it's hard ergonomics are hard on
a product like this cuz it's just there's one version of this and uh a a
billion hands having moved this around a tiny bit I can't tell if I would want
the Palm rest like the extra you know
smoothness is a little bit nice I also don't think that I want my palm rubbing
against the the table the entire time i' play a game but because this isn't
secured I can feel when I kind of do quick movements the mouse handle sort of
come out I'd like to see a better securing mechanism I'm not sure the best
way to do that without adding a bunch of weight uh as it is this kind of feels
like an afterthought uh although that that's the big update in V2 is is this
thing oh yeah that's see this isn't a good experience either I can feel I can
feel the bottom of my hand pinch against this gun handle as I move it oh that's
not nice oh no oh I need this but this
doesn't feel good either oh no I think
in V3 after V2 is a inevitable huge
success they should install a better mounting mechanism and or make this just
part of permanently I don't think it needs to be quite as big but have a
bigger Glide paast surface balance it out so that it the design includes this
uh in all of its considerations and
then it could be better I'm not a big
fan of mice that have thumb Scoops I like having my my hand down to feel the
tactility but unfortunately with this the way that I'm gripping it unless I'm
purposefully like holding it up off the table Yeah my hands just getting pinched
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plug it in and it works for some reason uh this product makes so little sense in
my head it would honestly make more sense that it just doesn't work but here
we are it's a mouse I can already tell you that if Competitive Gaming is your
thing this is not the mouse for you just by its nature this is not going to be a
precise Mouse because of the way you have to interface with it like when you
think about it you know a normal Mouse you're on the table you can do big
shoulder movements smaller forearm movements and then just really precise
little hand movements to adjust with this you can kind of do that but that's
not an axis that you're normally controlling a mouse on and so I don't
feel like I would be as precise there you can still have the big sweeping movements but it's a different axis of
motion uh than you're used to and have a feeling
that you're going to struggle because even as I'm demonstrating this this
comes undone although I think that reorienting your ARM in your brain uh in
how you aim in a game could be trouble there might be a little bit of
compensation when you consider that you're holding something akin to a gun
handle and so it might be easier for your brain to connect to your in-game
actions on this axis of motion you know side to side but as soon as you're
trying to aim up it's going to be really counterintuitive you're going to have to
like pull the mouse back instead of just you know tilting like if you're aiming a
gun you're just like you know bang bang
bang I just got canceled on YouTube that's to say that even if this was the
highest quality product that they could possibly put together it's working
against the years and years of muscle memory that you would have had uh using
a regular Mouse they claim that this shape is actually a more ergonomic shape
which actually holds some weight um your
ARM is meant to have it bones aligned this way when you roll your hand over
it's crossing over and so that's a non-ergonomic shape so you'll see you
know the MX mass or the ergonomic mice they'll have your hand sort of almost
vertical at kind of an angle and that's the most comfortable position for
repeated use on an ARM gaming mice haven't really switched to the Ergo
shape just because they're bigger they're going to weigh heavier uh and
also the amount of precision then goes down because you're just losing that
axis of Motion One More Time Spider-Man with a gun in my
hand Spider-Man loves guns everybody knows
that oh yeah now we're getting to the most exciting part I'm going to turn the
vibration on it's doing nothing okay
very cool oh it did
something when I click on the menu options it vibrates uh it feels like
very primitive vibration uh you know
it's none of that haptic baloney that the fancy people want you to have uh
it's just that that motor that's going
it is pretty novel to have something shaped like this in my hand vibrate uh
and I have to say that I'm curious to know exactly how long the battery life
will last when the vibration on it's actually quite a large battery for you
know a mouse 800 milliamp hours they claim that it gets you 56 hours of
regular use or 2 months on standby I would guess that that's not including
the vibration motor uh and that'll
those hours significantly although that kind of a
simple that's not a good oh there's no reload okay okay I
kind of like it like I kind of like it I
mean it looks fun to be fair like that's a good point where it it looks fun
because it's something kind of Novel and different it's like using a joystick for
anything other than like a flight Sim uh it's just like a weird way to input
stuff or or I think specifically when I use an arcade stick at home I'm way
better at fighting games when I'm using a controller I have just like way more
immediate input I have a lot more muscle memory but it's really fun you know to
pop in like metal slug 3 and play it on an arcade stick there's like a a novel
feeling to doing something that's a little bit out of the ordinary for you
okay okay okay do I like this
thing all right okay Ragnar let's
go as fun as I am having when I get down
to the nitty-gritty of the experience of the details of this mouse using a key
switch as the button I don't think was the best choice I think there was a lot
of alternative buttons they could have used it's not the worst thing I've ever
had but it just feels a little loose like it feels light and it pushes back
in a way that's not an authentically like Trigger or like a gun feeling I can
already feel the bill to a physiotherapist
building uh just accumulating rising in dollars every second I use this thing
it's kind of a weird experience and I always feel like when I first switch to
a new input device it's takes a little bit of learning to uh make it work but I
can feel my shoulder very very tense this is kind of
sick oh no in the end as as uh you know
knowledgeable about mice and gaming pures as uh I like to think I am I am
just a monkey and monkey
like this is fun uh I specifically chose
Doom maternal because I don't expect
people using this are actually going to use this for Competitive Gaming it's
just makes no sense but I think it's kind of a thrilling device to use so I
wanted a game that was high speed and still demands some Precision uh but it's
really more about you know the experience of uh fighting off the hordes
of hell and a pretty good experience it a pretty good experience I'm not
so I am trying to set using this side button as my new button press
but it's registering as a left click I
don't know if that's by Design or what it is but this seems to be a left click
button and that is stupid like why uh it
would be much better to have this be another button I could assign NVIDIA
games I often use my side buttons as a grenade and a me
and having two things on the side would have been nice uh now I have you know
kind of one uh a mouse click which is
not ideal cuz often you know in the heal the moment you'll roll and press at the
same time uh which is not the best oh
because I can't use the side button as my melee button my thumb will have to
rest on the scroll wheel which is not a
super comfortable position you can kind of see my hands just like got a little
tension just holding my thumb here and it just doesn't feel particularly
comfortable having my hand in strain just to have it rest where I want it to
okay but if I just turn off that part of my brain that's trying to be efficient
with button presses and I just grab like a gun let's go yeah [ __ ] you demon too
yeah oh I love it okay because it's such
a novelty thing do you think it would if it felt more premium you you'd like it
more that's a great question I think if this felt more premium I would like it
more I think if you know had a metal heft uh and the buttons were really like
ergonomically placed and the handle actually felt like you were holding a
gun I think the thrill would be even higher but I think the problem is is
that it would be a lot more expensive and this comes in at a fairly respectable $60 on Amazon $70 MSRP on
their own website if you can get multiple uh three or FES when they're on
sale and that's obviously a better Mouse
but if you know you're someone who plays a lot of single player FPS and you just
kind of want to Thrill and $60 isn't the
end of the world this is pretty fun it's stupid it's not particularly wellb built
but I actually find myself kind of
having a good time just like moving it around aiming stuff and maybe that
novelty would wear off at some point um
but you can color me impressed just like I'll be impressed by you watching the
next ShortCircuit video which is me unboxing the Razer Viper mini signature
uh razer's best gaming mouse it's
awesome it's the one razor product that I would definitely want uh but uh just
wait till you see the price tag