Armageddon gaming mouse
The Foxbat-III, a mini review
I don’t game real time strategy / FPS, but I do sometimes play turn based ones. Since I was a younger man, I have always appreciated the accuracy of the pointer and the subtle art of ergonomics-aesthetic.
So I had to have the Logitech paw, the trackball marble, the Glaser (it works on glass surfaces), and Apple’s unusual Mighty Mouse.
Came to be that my desktop clutter necessitated wireless peripherals. Previous post, I talked about my new Alcatroz keyboard which looks like something out of Wii land. And I realized I never had a wireless gaming mouse -I had been missing out on some serious fun. So let’s see if the $19 was well spent.
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Razer’s Deathadder is 50% more expensive than the Foxbat and outwardly more tasteful, plus it has Bluetooth. But sub $20 was where I wanted to be and it even came with a gaming mousepad.
The pad is satiny and provides drag like cutting through cool butter -at least with the Foxbat. I found this effect quite nice at certain medium CPI settings. You can cycle through all of them with a click of a button behind the scroll wheel. The cursor goes where you stop it at with no jitter.
Tactility is good. No issues with the clicks or feel of the switches. The mouse has a waist or hourglass figure which makes gripping it natural. The down-sloping button flaps help position clicks accurately -providing more finger leverage -hugs the side of the user’s index finger.
For someone unexposed to higher end gaming grade hardware, I was 100% blown out of the water at how good a mouse can be made, and all the consumer / office garbage that so many of us use (or used to use).
If you’re in the market for a mouse, do consider a wireless gaming mouse and if you’re broke like me, get the Foxbat-III.
One final thing: there’s no way to stop or turn off the RGB cycling so your Foxbat will always be glowing a slowly changing tasteful palette of designer colors. Because they blend and sweep across the shell so gracefully and slowly, it’s a non issue, especially on the matching mousepad. It does look good.
