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couple weeks back scuff announced a new controller specially designed just for PlayStation the Vantage and I'm here III where they actually invited me to unbox one check it out look at all the features firsthand and kinda just get sort of a first look at it and there's a lot of cool stuff going on here so let's start by just getting this package open take a look at it and go over what they've changed okay that is really pretty I've ranted to you guys before that pardon me hates myself for this but I love silver designs and this just looked really good in the silver I would love to use this with like a silver PS or slim I think it'll just look great together let's go ahead and take it out and get a look here now something that's really important to talk about right away is that past scuff controllers for ps4 have all been modified dual shocks so they had the Infinity which added the paddles and a few of their signature designs to a regular girl shop or they made the impact which was the kind of same idea but they also added a new shell which was a big improvement but this guy the Vantage is a brand new controller built top to bottom so this is not any kind of modified thing this is a just built pro controller and you can just tell the difference right away just picking up and feeling it I really like the grip design on this guy it's really comfy there's a lot of stuff here that are kind of standard features of scuff controllers but there's a lot of new stuff too so let's gonna start with what's returning we've got the back paddles of course which are different shortcuts you can use they're shaped a little differently so it's really easy to access these outer ones the inner ones take a little more effort to reach in but it's not that bad these ones though super comfortable now to top off these two they have added two more shortcut buttons on the side which the idea here is that when you're gripping the controller you can hit the top bumpers using your fingers and if you want hit these side ones you just lift up right here and it's a little weird at first closely like the idea I get it but it would definitely take some training to really kind of start developing the reflex to do that comfortably what's really cool though is that if you don't like this you can just easily pull them off like that so if you don't like using this feature you can get rid of it not a problem at all now another big thing with scuff controllers is just all the customization items while there have been a lot of them before one of the main issues was that you had to use a lot of different tools to point it all together and you need to get these different keys to unlock different things change different stuff they've simplified a lot of that town which I am a huge fan of because while all the tools were handy you could lose them and they were small and it was a little annoying so with this guy but they have going on first off is on the back for adjusting the trigger stops you can just do it yourself with your finger so you can have the short stop or the full stop really easy and if you want to change out the sticks or anything you just lift the whole base plate off like it's really easy to do - it's just magnetic so that's super super simple there's some more stuff going on in here but I want to go back to that later the main idea here is that all the customization and stuff you want to do does it really need tools anymore the only one that still does is if you want to adjust the tension on the triggers you still have to use the key there so you have a single key to deal with but as far as features go this one's honestly kind of a minor one and if you figure out the trigger tension that you like just set that up when you first get it and you're good to go what are your things that's coming back to is they do have a changeable triggers for the back so you get these extended ones but a change this time is that these new ones have like a rubberized grip to them so it feels a little different it's a little more tactile it kind of just grips to your finger a lot more easily so that's more comfortable personally I've always liked using just the standard triggers but for those of you that like the extended ones this is a big upgrade now I mentioned there's a lot of new things on this controller one of them is the side buttons I talked about already another one are these touch controls right here for audio so if we're using a plugged in headset you're able to adjust the volume by just brushing this pad right here for raising it or lowering it and if you want to mute your mic you just tap it really quick so super simple another big change is that like I showed earlier you can remove the faceplate this makes it really easy to change out the sticks all that good stuff but the other thing too is that you could actually take out the rumble features so if you want to make your controller lighter or you don't want any kind of vibration function for a particular game just rip these things out super easily or you can put them back in really simple so yeah there's a lot of new functions going on here but I think the biggest thing honestly just really impacts my personal experience it's just how easy it is to change everything I mean with older scuff controllers customization is cool but it was always really annoying when you had to deal with oh where did I put this key or where did this oh that's another thing I almost forgot so remapping controls remapping controls used to use a side tool as well where you have this little magnetic key that you would put on the back which yeah that's cool but what if you lose the key now it's just a little switch at the bottom of the controller you just enter remap mode or turn it off and use that in order to map whatever buttons you want to these different shortcut keys way easier to customize and just change stuff out really quickly and easily you not to worry about losing any tools like I said the side buttons are something to get used to but I really like the idea of them especially as far as just adding two more shortcuts that are really easily in reach the grip feels comfortable access to all the buttons is great they've also added mechanical buttons for a lot of things the d-pad uses mechanical which feels really nice the top bumpers all mechanical yeah this is a definite upgrade over the impact now something you're doing different with this guy as well is that normally they always focus on customization where you're you know buying all little of different upgrades and stuff this time it's just one package you buy altogether which you can grab from their website or from Gamestop this time which is really neat if you want more customization you can spend more money on their website to get like other color options there are different specific sticks but this one does come in a prepackaged with also taller dome sticks as well so you're gonna get some of those options right away with just that base package now this guy comes in a wired and wireless option the wired one is giving you give you that just kind of standard Pro wired connection if you want to spend more money though you can get this guy which does wireless was really cool about the wireless one though is that we're gonna get a carrying case as well but if you want to use it wired by plugging it in you're still gonna get the connectivity of a Wired experience not just giving power to the controller it's actually going to give you that faster response time so Wireless is gonna give you the best of both worlds you're spending more money for it I really excited to get my hands on this guy for an actual like full test cuz this is just me hearing all the features and just checking it out I'm really excited to give it a full test once it comes out these are up for pre-order on their website I believe they said they're shipping in August so I've already got mine set up I'm excited to really give it a full run in a few months