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I love this mouse and it works great, i can use it daily for hours of gaming, and even after being over a year old i only have to charge it maybe once every 3 days. It reacts well and fits my hand well. It does have programable buttons, but the software that comes with it has one caviot. If you have a unassigned button and you bump it, the dang thing pulls up the window for the mouse, and thus blocks your game. Which is annoying, so i do not mess with programing any mouse buttons with it, i just use it as a standard mouse, as i have no need for any additional buttons on my mouse thanks to my gaming speed pad. I had to give this a 9 do to the caviot of the program it has for programing and also for its weight it seems kinda heavy and there are some gaming mouses now that allow you to adjust the weight to your personal feel. Those i will cover later.
The Mouse pad, more important then you know.
X-Trac Mouse Pad rating 8/10
It costs slightly more then a normal pad, but trust me it is worth the extra pennies to purchase. Its smooth and sleek feeling under your mouse and actually helps your mouse to move faster then it would on a normal pad. It is also about 2 times larger then a normal pad, and in fast paced PVP it can come in handy not hitting the edge of your mouse pad by accident with a laser mouse and seeing your site jump across the screen. This rating is because its thin, and does wear down i have had mine for 2 years now and its begining to show wear, also not many choices on cooler colors yet.
The best toy ever...
Nostromo N52 Speed pad. Rated 9/10
This is the coolest toy ever, it has a marco function which i have played with, but i hate cheaters so bad i wont use it in a game. However the best feature is you can program every button on it to be any button you have on your keyboard, so the layout is exactly as you want. This specific model has 4 shift phases. No lights, and then red, green, and blue. Each shift phase is a clear set of buttons, so if you have a FPS game that requires diffrent key setups for diffrent chars instead of having to reload each keyset, you can set them to individual colors to make the switch seemless and fast. I gave it a 9 only because the palm pad is not adjustable on this model, which can come in handy for those with larger hands then me.
With the combination of things above, i was playing a flying game for a while. And in PVP i was flying the hardest one of them all, as it was a tank and had to be on the ground to do its main damage. Well i got so good thanks to the speed pad, i was able to get on the ground and blow planes outa the sky so fast, that i was hated.
I could fly into a map that had 40 vs 40 on the screen and after 1 or 2 kills i would become the number one target of all the best pilots. I would have no less then 6 people targeting me, and up to 15 would aim for me everytime i recovered from a death.
I have to say i am a ok gamer, but the speedpad was my jewel for becoming so hated in battle. That thing is the best inverstment i have ever purchased and if your a gamer, i recomened it as it works great with games like daoc, and other hack and slash games i have played. It takes time to get use to it but once you do, your friends ingame will wonder why your fighting so well, and typing in chat so little lol. Make them get on voice chat and they wont wonder ever again.
Hope you enjoyed this hands on review, and i only rate things i get my hands on, so if i review something and it has no rating then i have not touched it personally and am basing my review off others input from other locations or articales.
