• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Bu-bu-but it has RGB light effects and 8 extra buttons that I’ll never use, and it was only $30! The sponsored Amazon link assured me that this would push my gaming skills to the max! They can’t just write that about anything!

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      7 months ago

      I won’t buy any mouse that doesn’t have extra buttons to configure. I’m totally going to configure all of them just give me time ok?

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          7 months ago

          I definitely do with FFXIV. I’m awful at using keyboard shortcuts like f1-9. Bonus is that I can also use the buttons in fpses and switch weapons and shit that way as it’s more natural for me.

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        7 months ago

        For browsing/work, bind page up and down, and home and end to the fancy buttons. And of course forward/back and volume up/down.

        I don’t think I can use a non-mmo mouse for productivity anymore.

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          Just to give other ideas: On my 16-button, I have Volume up and down, Ctrl (+click to open in new tab) and Win(acts like altdrag on awesomewm), Mouse4 and 5, ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab(next/previous tab), Ctrl+t and ctrl+w(new tab and close tab), win+tab and win+shift+tab(next/previous window), and win+left/right/up/down which I’m to lazy to remap to something more useful now that I’m not on windows anymore. The 5 extra buttons on top are rapid click, doing 40 clicks per second while held down, and stock dpi up/down, lighting mode and profiles switches that I never use.

          It was mostly empty and unused for years, but when it finally broke It felt like I had a hand chopped off, so I pretty much had no choice but to buy the same one again, even though it is heavy as fuck and the cable is stiff like rebar.

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      7 months ago

      I finally found a well-built comfortable mouse that has tons of wacky RGB effects and just a few extra buttons in a surprisingly useable layout.

      The one I ended up with was the Roccat Kone XP. The best part is that I rarely notice the extra buttons until I need to use them and otherwise just feels like a normal mouse most of the time.

      Totally not everyone’s cup of tea, but you can in fact get a feature mouse that also is well built. They do exist!

      I had gone through probably half a dozen mice before it in the 5 years before this one, but this one has lasted around 2 years without a single complaint.

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        7 months ago

        Can’t believe I completely forgot about Roccat, loved their mice like a decade ago

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        7 months ago

        Roccat Kone XP! I’m really happy with mine, got it in November. I know I’ll never use all the buttons but volume on mouse wheel is a no-brainer.

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      7 months ago

      Back when I used to play Fortnite, these extra buttons were the only way I could build, I never understood how people unironically used the default binds, like mate does your finger reach F2 while pressing wasd?

      It’s been really long since I’ve played, but I hope they’ve changed the default binds at some time. At the very least middle click has to be binded to straight wall.

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      7 months ago

      While the RGB bit is a complete ripoff for something I don’t ever want to use, I was actually looking for something good with more buttons (PUBG requires two keyboards and a church organ), and it did take me a while until I found something that is actually quality AND it has enough buttons. So many “pro” mice don’t have more than the usual 3-4 buttons, and I don’t get how people don’t want to de-clutter all the keys around their WASD/arrows.

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      7 months ago

      Actually, a 10-button mouse for $30 seems pretty good. If it is uncomfortable like OP’s example suggests, I wouldn’t use it as a first choice, but it could be a cheap backup that I could swap in without needing to change bondings. I would use all of those for MMOs, and probably most of them for shooters/MOBAs.

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        7 months ago

        Honestly that car most reminds me of the mad cats R.A.T. mice which look like they’d be hella uncomfortable but somehow are quite the opposite. Though I’m still happiest with my model o-

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      7 months ago

      You can take away the LEDs, but you will have to pry my 12 buttons side panel from my cold, dead hands

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        7 months ago

        I love buttons. The correct number of buttons is almost always more.

        Though my favorite mouse (MX Master) only has like 6 buttons, it has intelligent free-srolling and a horizontal thumb wheel. Whether I’m mapping, editing video, using excel, or gaming it’s amazing.

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        7 months ago

        Okay, not much of a gamer, but a teacher, and when I was working at a school with a 0-4 grading scale I so badly wanted a mouse with 5 side buttons so that I could scroll through Google classroom and grade one handed.

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      7 months ago

      Lol that one razer essential mouse with lights on it goes for under $20 sometimes and is genuinely as performant as a gaming mouse 5x the price tho. Probably the one component I’d most commonly recommend for someone planning a new build just due to insane value/$

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        7 months ago

        Razer hardware is generally solid. Their software is absolute dogshit and they’ll never have a dollar from me again because of it.

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          Yes. I had a Nostromo I used for processing photos. It was excellent, but required Razer’s Synapse software to work. One day there was an update that killed it. Never got it working right again, despite seriously trying for months.

          Never getting another Razer product again.