Razer Wildcat Xbox One Controller - PAX Prime 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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our coverage of PAX Prime 2015 is powered by hyperx check out their Cloud
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2 headset in the link in the description down below also thank you to ASUS and
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Corsair we're checking out at Razer today is the Razer Wildcat this is
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razer's first Fay into Xbox One styled controllers and this controller is
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compatible with Xbox One and PCs running Windows 7 and above the last controller
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they released was the Razer Sabertooth that was an Xbox 360 sty controller and
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this one kind of grows on that uh it's just improved in a few different ways
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that I actually really like the main change that I like is that on the back
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of the controller where on the Sabertooth we saw a rocker switch two
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rocker switches we now see two actual triggers these triggers are a lot more
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solid what I didn't like about the sabertooths were that they kind of would
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slide back and forth and over time they kind of got a little bit weaker these
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triggers feel a lot more solid and they're also easier to remove just like
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the last one it's a hex screw that removes them but unlike the last one
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instead of having rubber plugs to stop her off the area you just drop the
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little plug-in cartridge thing down into the controller and it looks very natural
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and they're also much smaller which is actually kind of cool you won't have
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your fingers get caught on them more easily and even if you're not using them
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they feel much more natural just like the saber-tooth you have your stock
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normal shoulder buttons and your additional hyper response but buttons
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from Razer what I like this time around though is on the Sabertooth you could
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feel them actuate but this time you can feel and hear them actuate so much like
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the mechanical ABX y buttons you can actually hear them moving on from there
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you have a 3M or 10t long braided USB
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cable which they got rid of the screw connector for the screw connector was
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kind of cool but caused some issues so now they've gone for more just general
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compliance with a micro USB plug it has
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rails on the side of it so you're not going to plug it in incorrectly and like
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I said it's long and braided so that's actually pretty cool just like the
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saber-tooth you have the same analog stick grip caps that we had before but
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now there's also Palm grips optional Palm grips we unfortunately don't have
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them here today so you might just see a still image of them or something but it
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actually looks pretty cool the triggers have received an upgrade now on the
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bottom of the controller there's two sliding switches one for each one of the
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triggers and it's a trigger stop so basically if you don't have the trigger
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stop engaged you can pull all the way down and it's a smooth longdistance pull
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so you can be more careful about your shooting or with the trigger stop
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engaged it's a short pull and you can get more rapid fire shooting depending
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on what mood you're kind of in what kind of game you're playing that may or may
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not be good for you and with a fast toggle like that doesn't really matter
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then there's the four button control panel on the bottom button one is a
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remapping button so you can press and hold this and then press the button that
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you want to remap so like one of the hyper response buttons for the shoulder
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buttons or one of the Triggers on the back and you can bind that to another
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button on the controller the one beside that is a profile switch there's three
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different profiles the first one is the default profile that has none of the
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custom razor buttons bound to anything so if you it's like the first time
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you're trying a game and you don't want to accidentally press a button that you don't know what it's going to do you can
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go back to the default profile and then figure things out later on the second
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two profiles are set as whatever you really want them to be so you can have
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the trigger on the back as a or whatever you want to bind things to those go on
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the second two profiles the third button is a mic mute and the fourth button is a
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game chat balance and volume switch so one press increases the maximum volume
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by about 20% a press and hold and then pressing the left and right buttons on
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the d-pad moves the chat balance in your headphones or speakers and then a press
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and hold and then up and down on the d-pad increases or lowers respectively
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the master volume also in that controller box there's a input headphone
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jack for your headset and one interesting thing about this compared to
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the elite controller that I was told is that the elite controller is actually
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kind of heavy the stock Xbox One controller weighs 262 G the elite
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controller weighs 384 G and the Wildcat
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weighs less than both of them at 260 g
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I'm not necessarily sure if this is something you personally as the viewer
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is going to care about but if you do get uh weary and tired of heavy controllers
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something to take note of it's actually very light and has additional features
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over the stock controller now to be fair I haven't had
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a ton of time with it but one thing that I do have to say is I have experienced
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with the Anza and the saber-tooth fairly extensively this feels a lot more like
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the Sabertooth which is good I tried the Anza back in the day and it was a cool
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controller but I did have some gripes with it and honestly overall I really
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liked the saber-tooth there was a few things that I wasn't 100% keen on but
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that's probably true about every single product that I've ever used and this one
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improved the things that I wasn't super keen on and moved on from there so
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pretty cool actually all right guys thanks for watching and thanks for
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hyperx for sending us here this year check out their YouTube channel in the
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want to see all the products brought to ax prime5 this year by these companies
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check out the link in the video description down below and I'll see you guys next time