Gadgetory

hello everyone I'm Dimitri with Huracan ox welcome to another video the RGB phenomenon for gaming peripherals is old news now for SteelSeries because today we're taking a look at the mouse that vibrates think about that so the SteelSeries rival 700 has many cool features that maybe justify the high price in a few months because right now unless you are a hardcore csgo dota 2 or a minecraft fan you can skip it altogether the main highlights here are the OLED display on left side that can show custom bitmap pictures resolution is pretty bad but you can sketch in the editor for little messages and whatever and its placement is actually not bad you can let the mouse to view the screen but in all honesty even with game specific features for those csgo dota 2 and minecraft after even forcing myself to look at the screen more often to gather information it was anything but useful it is kind of cool though to see the number of headshots your kill to death ratio the team score and many others and I also got to give it to SteelSeries for doing a fantastic job with giving users a lot of options with what happens on screen but with a very poor UI unfortunately and it took me some time to figure out exactly what I wanted to show and how to show it on the display so is the OLED display a gimmick yes a big fat yes I don't even see how it would be used in eSports you know I can sort of justify the RGB colors and branding and all that but you would never see like a camera zoom in on a mouse player to see how much ammo they have in the competitive match that's just not a possibility since our eyes are glued to the screen and never do we give the mouse any visual attention and this is where SteelSeries has introduced a new fantastic feature with tactile alert which which vibrates the mouse and that's I would say a lot more functional useful than an oled display so again this is only tied to those three games and I bet it's challenging to develop those custom api's so for example in csgo every event can have a distinct vibration like you get a kill your health drops below 20% or you can select the range let's say you only have 10% of your ammo left you get flashed and all those combined can have different vibration indicators and this is actually pretty cool if you narrow down too or play style for example I have a double vibration every time I get a kill and csgo which means I don't have to look at the kill feed and detract my eyes from the crosshair the same thing with my health bar every time it drops below 20% I have a distinct vibration that I know what it feels like so that I know to be more cautious and you can loot certain things and create your custom vibrations so that you you know you know what's going on inside the game without having to detract your eyesight from the crosshair and look to beyond those other UI elements and you would also think this is a big fat gimmick but actually has improved my concentration on the crosshair again because I don't have to look at those UI elements for information everything is coming from the mouse and those vibration indicators as for the rest of the mouse it is very well built this great surface all around the back cover is removable for extra plates the rubber piece in the back is removable too the cable is removable you have to included one long one which is braided and one soft one which is the soft PVC rubber one and finally the sensor is also swappable the optical Pixar 33 66 is included it is considered to be the best sensor ever and also found on many other fantastic mice with an optional laser sensor module available you can buy that separately and I can kind of see what SteelSeries is trying to achieve here with having a good core body that is customizable as for the rest of the stuff we have excellent buttons the primary clicks feel the best out of my entire collection the scroll wheel is submerged exactly how it should be with a nice light middle-click and every scroll step is recognized even if you're spinning like a madman and I like that we only have to CPI settings I always only enable two on all my other mice and the only thing that I would say is out of reach here is the bottom thumb button the browser clicks are great but needing to reach all the way to the front is a big no that requires grip readjustment which brings us to form and weight we have great curve in the right side slightly taller body on the Left which supports my hand very well no complaints here but the way it is 135 grams without cable so it's a pretty heavy Mouse I'm used to the united gram FK 1 or the 9 for Graham caster but good thing though the balance of the rival is great and totally smooth glide feed help with the transition of getting accustomed to this heavier Mouse what you're seeing now is csgo gameplay the sensor here is brilliant no acceleration with very low LOD the vibration is just subtle for you to notice it but without affecting the aim and this has actually replaced my Zoe for csgo because of those primary buttons I feel the pressure required to press them is just perfect out of my entire collection now I like their engine three driver software integration so you can adjust your CPI acceleration polling rate and buckling customization plus the two lighting zones but I'm surprised that left off distance is not configurable and then entering the game sense tab is where you can go nuts which screen and tactile control for these three games unfortunately those three games only honestly I wish that they ditch the OLED display and drop the price $79 which is that sweet spot and very good quality mice that are available for that price point especially since you know for 95% of the time you don't use it and pass the point of like experimentation with it and seeing if you can actually find functional I didn't but that tactile vibration is absolutely amazing and you know I was more impressed with it than I initially expected so that concludes the rival 700 of you I hope you guys enjoyed it the vibration motor is great the Olin display not so much I'm Dimitri with Hera Canucks thanks so much for watching we'll see you in the next video