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The Arc Midi R2 by Fractal Design features massive air flow and highly

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flexible liquid cooling support. Click now to learn more. Welcome to my

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unboxing of something that's actually really, really exciting. This is the

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Atrox from Razer. They have spent a

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metric butt ton of time developing this product in collaboration with gamers who

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really understand what you need in a

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fight stick because it is a very specialized piece of hardware for the

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kinds of people who I think that their blurb on the side of the box really will

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speak to those guys that are going to care about the tactile feedback of the

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buttons on a fight stick the way that geeks like me care about the tactile

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feedback on something like a keyboard. So they have this whole long thing and

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that basically ends with forged from the fires of an arcade gaming legacy. The

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Razer Atrox is in the most primeval sense bred to fight. So, they are

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looking to replicate or at least get as close as possible to the feel of an

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actual arcade with well, I mean, by the time you buy one of these and then stop

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going to arcades and feeding endless amounts of money into the machines

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there, actually, it starts to look like a pretty good pretty good value.

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Although, it isn't inexpensive and there's a very good reason for it. So,

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the Atrox comes in a nice colorful outer box and then a more simple sort of what

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we've come to expect from their system components. Brown

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box and the usual excellent Razer

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packaging with a letter from their chief gamer as well as some instructional

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guides and all those kinds of things which you may actually need for this

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product because there are some cool features that you're going to want to

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use for sure. You also get a couple of razor stickers which you can go ahead

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and stick on this product or on something else. First things first, that

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foam. Check it out. Love it. Nice closed

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cell foam. The fight stick might be ruggedly built, but they're not taking

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any chances. And that thing will arrive in one piece. I can pretty much give

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that my personal guarantee. It also comes packed in an electrostatic bag,

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which I almost dropped it. Yep. We were going to do a ruggedability, durability

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test right there. Just like that. And finally, some plastic covers that keep

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it from popping open during shipping because the inside of the fight stick

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does come apart. So, let's start with an exterior tour. So, the first thing we're

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going to see is this is an Xbox optimized controller. So, you're going

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to have an Xbox button as well as default key mappingss to all of the Xbox

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controller functionality that you would expect, except for this guy right here.

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Obviously, there's only one analog stick. However, you can rebind that to

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left stick, right stick, or D-pad as you

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see fit with the dip switch up here. You can also unlock and lock this stuff so

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that if you accidentally mash something and slip, it's not going to go ahead and

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go to the menu of your Xbox or anything like that in the middle of a gaming

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session. They're using genuine Sanwa components. However, you might decide

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that you want something completely different, and that is where the

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customizability comes in. So, that is for both the joystick as well as the

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eight buttons over here. Check this out. Let's open this up using the button

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right here. Actually, okay. No, no, no, no. I didn't finish the outside yet. Okay. Sorry. So, start and back are over

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on the right over here. And then over here, we find nothing but the interface

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connector. So, that's for the 4 meter included cord. So, you're going to be

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able to sit adequately far away from your TV. Then, here we've got nothing.

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Here we've got that button that I teased you about before, but you know, don't

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worry, we'll actually show it to you later. And then on the bottom, we find a

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nice rubber pad that's going to allow it to sit on your lap or on a desk or

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wherever else you prefer to put it without it slipping. So now we can open

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up and have a look at the inside. This is where things get really cool. So

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there's a nice little hydraulic thing right here that opens up and allows it

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to not, you know, close on its own accidentally. You've got a convenient

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little colorlabeled action button guide up here. And all of the buttons are

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completely swappable simply by There we

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go. And there's a way to do this. I'm quite certain of

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it. Yes, there we go. Simply by popping

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off the leads and then popping them

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through the front of the device. Just like that. So you can change out for a

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completely different tactile feel should you so desire. And they they wanted to

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make it as modern friendly as possible. So same thing here. So you can swap out

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the joystick. In fact, it includes a different joystick knob if you joystick

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knob if you prefer that. So there's a ball one on there now. And this

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is it's sealed in the bag. There it is. There we go. So there there's the

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alternate knob that's also included. And then they've got what they're what I

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guess I would call like modding friendly mounting points down here. So, you can

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actually mount additional componentry or whatever else you want to do in order to

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customize the fight stick. And these are all meant to have uh screws driven into

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them so you can put, you know, PCBs or whatever else you would desire to do. It

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also includes a flathead and Phillips combo screwdriver, although I'm sure if

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you're really that into these things, you're going to have your own screwdriver at this point in time, as

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well as the 4 meter wire that I mentioned before. So we can find out how

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long this is in minus ARM lengths, but it might actually take a while. Okay, so

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basically it's really really long. It terminates

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in a standard breakaway connector, so you Xbox folks are probably going to be

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familiar with this one, but of course it also runs of off USB. So it does work on

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the PC just fine, which is excellent for

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folks like me who are going to be using it there. So, since we showed you guys

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the button swapping procedure, which was very straightforward, you can actually

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open up this box right here as well if you want to really get into the nitty-gritty of things. So, all you got

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to do is go ahead and hold that screw in place, and then you can swap out the

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stock joystick. There we go. Which actually has a different texture to it

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as well. So, the bat one has a bit of a

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um of a rough texture, and then the uh the spherical one has a glossy texture.

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So, you just go ahead and screw that back on. I'm just holding this in place

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with my finger for now. And then I can go ahead and use the included tool.

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There we go. Lock that into place. Now,

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I missed something on the outside before, and that was the Xbox headset

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connector down here. So, you're not going to have to worry about not having voice communication. And I also wanted

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to go into a little bit more depth about these guys right here. So, these are

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turbo buttons. You can program them completely without any software, which

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is great because you're not going to be expected to install a driver on your

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Xbox. Duh. So, all you got to do is there's a button combination. I forget

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what it is, but it's something to do with holding like one and eight and something else. Anyway, so you can

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program them for either a four four actions per second repeat or an eight

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actions per second repeat rate. And then you bind them to any particular button

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that you want. So, it glows solid when

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it's set to four and it glows or it blinks rather when it's set to eight and

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then it's not illuminated when the turbo functionality is off. So, that's

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definitely something that you're going to want to set up pretty much immediately when your Atrox arrives.

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Thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview that also missed yet

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another thing. You can swap out the graphics on the top should you so

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desire. It's part of the whole modular design concept thing. You just undo

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these screws. You can put in whatever artwork you want. And now I'm actually

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done. Click like on the video if you liked it. Click dislike if you disliked

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if you think anyone might find this little guy kind of cool.