by Lineage » Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:41 pm
my mouse escapades over the years are as follows...
I used to own back in the day with a logitech mx310. Eventually, after oodles of frags, the left click gave out. I went out to the big box store and bought the latest and greatest logitech mouse, the mx1000 wireless. It completely sucked donkey balls for UT and any FPS in general. This was right around the time I got heavy into WoW so I basically said goodbye to UT and didn't look back for 6-7 years. Somewhere in between I had retired the mx1000 due to a fried battery that could not be recharged as well as a double-left click issue and bought an mx518 off ebay for like 12 AMERICAN DOLLARS from China. It was an obvious refurb, the S/N was blacked out and indentations were all over the glide pads like they had been removed. Playing random games like Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Starcraft II I used this until I came back to UT and realized it had some jitter issues. It is currently the mouse I use with my laptop when I go on trips as it's very robust and built like a tank.
With all of that being ancient-but-somewhat-still-relevant-history this is what I have experienced since coming back to the glorious video game we all know and love as UT99.
deathadder 3.5g, encountered a double left click problem about 9 months after I bought it, sent it in to be fixed and hasn't felt the same since even though it's "fully functional". Sits in my drawer as an emergency back-up.
g400 first gen - scroll wheel completely died out of the blue - rma'd for a new one, which was a..
..g400 second gen - The left click blew up while spamming to respawn in itdm one day. After some tinkering the left click was fixed using the right click from the 1st gen g400 (logitech didn't want it back) but it seems to have developed a jitter while making very slow movements, very noticeable in ms paint tests. I have yet to take it back apart to see if something is dirty or misaligned, now that it's in my mind that it jitters I don't think I could get it out.
deathadder 2013/4g - The jury is still out on this as I have had it for about 2 weeks, but the sensor seems much more precise than the 3.5g I used previously. The addition of the rubber side grips in place of the hard plastic seems like an improvement, and for most of the time it is. During hot and heavy game play you will encounter some slippage. I don't have super sweaty hands or anything like that (usually have cold hands like whitechoc) but I have noticed that I don't always have the greatest hold on the sides of the mouse when making quick movements. Perhaps I just need to break the rubber in a little bit more, but even the condensation from a bottle of water or a can of mtn. dew will have the same effect. I will say that when your hands are dry and clean you get a really good grip on the rubber.
I have access to more basic mice like a 1.1 m$ intellimouse and even the m$ comfort optical 3000 but just can't bring myself to think they'll be an improvement over all of my supposed "gaming mice"
Currently have a g500s hopefully in the mail, depending on if Newegg gets their ass in gear and mails it this week or next month..
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