Its been years since my main line mouse was optical, but prior to getting my G700s all I had were those pack in IBM optical mice. Aside from my kensington proball of course. But I was used to Optical behaviour from years of play with them and the switch to laser was one to get used to. My opinion is that if you need the snap accuracy and don’t like mouse acceleration in your games, buy a laser mouse. Personally I didn’t think I was going to snap back into old vibes with my 602 here, but I got it, set it to 1000 dpi at 250 poll rate (just like my original mice were programed to), and set my acceleration settings in TF2 and CS, and bam off I went bhoping and rocket jumping.
I was extremely surprised at how my hand slapped back into the movements. Acceleration on a laser feels VERY different opposed to a laser. Laser mice CAN do acceleration, but they are better for linear tracking. Optical settings CAN do linear, but are better for Acceleration. Thats pretty much the differences.
With that, those differences have been enough to throw me off. So to roll back onto optical and have my aim go even more accurate than I have trained it is…. Well…. Weird.
Over the next few weeks I’m going to see how much my old reflexes kick back in, compare it to my G600 and Elecom Trackball, and try out different tests.
Over all opinion of the feel of the mouse? Its not as nice of a body as the G600. Its multiple parts making up the body that creak, rather than being one bigc molded object like the G700s its obviously designed to follow up, and the bright silvel plastic feels…. Cheap. But for 40 bucks it has an awesome sensor, though limited in programming, no RGB, which I think is a plus, and the buttons are more distinguishable that the G600 or G700s. Though I will say, its not as robust. And that does worry me some. But, I assume that if streamers buy these to play with for a years worth of 10 hour streams then… Hell it can’t be that bad?
I don’t need much of a mouse…