all right so this is the wow cataclysm Mouse and I've actually got one of my
co-workers who moved to our Ontario office helping me with this little
filming session the first thing I noticed about this guy is it's huge so
there it is next to my incredibly beat up and rugged looking G9 so you can uh
there's there's some distinct differences between the uh the the
crafted sort of worn out finish on the
cataclysm Mouse and the disgusting War
out finish on my old G9 so the first thing I want to show you guys and the
reason I have him here holding the camera so that I can actually operate the mouse while uh while he points the
camera at things the first thing I noticed is it's really really large so
it's actually not I'd say it's not quite comfortable for me to reach all of the
buttons like I can't really reach that one I can just barely reach that one and
if you have slightly larger hands than me that's probably a good thing and
you'll find this mouse quite comfortable I think the overall shape is kind of
like the aari laser and one of the other things that I did notice is that not
everyone cares about this but I have a hard time picking up the mouse to to
move it if I reach the edge of my mouse pad without mashing the buttons on the
side so that's something you're going to want to watch out for if you do have larger hands it might not be such a
problem I downloading the driver package right now it's 26 Megs so I hope there's
some pretty good functionality in there and I will show you guys that uh in a
few minutes but this is just the initial Impressions after putting it it on my uh
SX mouse pad which by the way it Glides on like nothing I have ever seen before
it probably Glides better on this mouse pad than my aari laser my G9 or any
other mouse that I have thrown at it tracking is already dramatically better
than the original wow Mouse which honestly I really didn't like it's hard
to quantify but I didn't really like the feel of the laser when it tracked
whereas this one is quite smooth quite responsive it they've definitely
upgraded it a lot in that regard okay so the first thing that the driver
installation did is it updated my firmware and then it installed itself so
I've got lots of functionality here so first thing I want to show you guys is
some of the basic features so over here
uh the default CPI value was at about 800 I turned it up a little bit and then
I turned the sensitivity down in order to get the movement just right for me
like I said I love the way this mouse tracks though it's very smooth and it
Glides great on the SX mouse pad all
right so we've got the pointer speed sensitivity okay so that's all of your
basic controls you don't have quite the level of granularity that you do with a
more um twitch FPS gaming oriented Mouse
from steel series like the Z or the aari laser but you do have that basic stuff
and it's still better than what you're going to get with a generic Mouse by a
long shot now where this mouse really gets complicated is all of this stuff so
let's start with the colors I wish I could show you guys this in the dark but
I don't actually have a way to turn off the lights in my office so here's one
thing I'm going to do I'm just going to turn that down so that we can actually focus on this there we go so you can see
the color intensity and pulsation so color changes the well the color so you
can see I have it set to red right now intensity changes the brightness and
pulsation so I'm going to show you guys like a low pulsation compared to what I
had before so you can see it actually
turns off and then comes on quite slowly so that's kind of depends what kind of a
look you're going for colors you have pretty much every option under the Sun
so I'm going to change it to Blue there it is blue I'll show you guys
a couple of the different colors uh why don't we do green let's see what like a
like a bright green looks like there's a
green looks pretty cool I could kind of do this all day
this is the kind of feature that I could like play with forever on a mouse
there's yellow pretty cool okay so here I'm
going to turn that back to normal all right and then there's a whole bunch of stuff here as well so here are all of
the different things that we can assign to buttons so first of all you've got
all of your built-in wow stuff because World of Warcraft has some pretty
specific rules for how you are allowed to bind actions to keys and what is
considered cheating and what is not so this allows you to just simply bind
World of Warcraft actions to the mouse buttons without actually binding like
keyboard keys to your mouse buttons it is built right into wow you can actually
configure this Within game as well should you so desire so you can bind
game commands to a button you can bind change CPI commands to a button this is
cool check this out CPI up CPI down so you can assign that to whatever you want
most gaming mice have actually here G9 is a perfect
example have dedicated buttons for that
and a lot of them don't actually allow you to change them to different buttons
or bind those to something else if you don't really care about changing your
sensitivity so that's a pretty neat feature that they've built right into the driver there's also change profile
so you can set a button to change your profile up profile down or even assign
them to specific profiles so your profiles allow you to have up to 10
different sets of bound actions to your
buttons on the mouse so if I decided okay well I'm going to use like uh let's
say these two for like profile one and two that way yeah I sacrific those two
profiles but but I allow myself to bind
two entirely different sets of commands to these ones which are really more
convenient to reach anyway for my hands and you know two things here two things
here so it really gives you a lot more flexibility depending on how the mouse
is most comfortably used for you so that's a pretty cool thing too and then
finally oops I clicked the wrong thing finally custom macros so you can create
new ones yeah yeah yeah blah blah blah wow you're not allowed to use macros in
wow thank you don't show me that again so why don't I just create a macu macro
that's uh copy paste
or rather copy okay so here we
go so okay so
enter okay okay I don't have I don't quite have it figured out how the macro
recording works so give me two seconds here guys all right I figured it out so
there's a couple different ways you can create custom macros and really I don't
play wow so this is the function that would pretty much sell this mouse to me
okay so I've gone no delay I've created some custom macros all you do is type A
name just click on the box press the keys you want and then click okay so
I've created copy paste and cut you use the convenient little chart here to say
okay which buttons go where and then you can just map them like this so if I
click here and then click copy and I can change it to whatever I want so I want
that to be a custom macro copy then I can have that functionality with that
button so all that's really left now is to just show you guys the functionality
that this enables for the average office worker yeah you might look weird for
having one of these on your desk in the office but I mean come on okay I've
already got you know g15 keyboard I have four monitors at my desk so I couldn't
look much weirder so I'm not going to worry too much about it so I type something uh
testing this all right so I've built in
uh copy cut and paste to my mouse uh
should be no addition so okay I hit I hit copy right now there we are copy and
and then you know enter enter you know you could build in like you've got so
many buttons here you could put enter you could put space bar you could put
anything that you use frequently just bind it to the mouse so I'm going to
click this button here and then I'm going to paste he that's so cool so yeah
here you know what here I'm going to show you guys real time the uh the
creation process so new uh okay so we're
going to make it enter I don't want any
delays okay and and then all I want is enter and then okay so now I'm going to
find a button that I want so I think button number four should be pretty good for enter then I go over to this
interface here I click custom macros I go to enter uh apply okay so I have
applied that to the mouse so now what I can do is I can press enter enter enter
paste enter enter paste enter enter paste and then if I want to I can go up
here I can I can actually cut instead of
uh copy if I'm hitting the right one it'll take a little bit of practice
getting used to where all the buttons are but then I could uh press enter
enter paste so hold on let me try that again cut oh I don't know if the I don't
know if oh I might have bound cut wrong but anyway pretty cool hey guys so that
is my overall impressions of the steel series MMO gaming mouse the new
cataclysm Edition basically I think it's
just so much of an improvement over the old one which I looked at back at launch
in terms of the software as well as the hardware and I actually really like this
I may just find myself replacing my uh trusty well-used G9 for this at work
because the uh the productivity of this just looks phenomenal oh yeah not to
mention there's memory on board so you can save your profiles and carry them
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