Enthusiast gaming keyboard technology has made the leap to gaming mice – well, so far as far as a gaming mouse. The $179.99 Logitech G Pro X2 SuperStrike is the first to feature an analog sensor that uses induction to register clicks faster than the microswitches used in many mice.
Those sensors allow many great features besides low latency. There is a fast trigger setting popularized by Hall Effect keyboards, which lets them reset immediately after being pressed to receive another input. This mouse’s sensors also let you customize how much you need to press each main button to send input, requiring almost no pressure, a click requiring more effort (great if your trigger finger is itchy), or something in between.
One of the most interesting changes on the SuperStrike is that it has haptics in place of switches below its buttons. They simulate the sound and feel of a click with surprising accuracy, and unlike tapping on a motionless MacBook trackpad, the mouse’s main buttons move and bounce back up as you might expect them to. If their default click sensation isn’t working for you, you can make it more intense (at the expense of battery life), or remove it altogether for silent operation (at the expense, of course, of knowing when you’ve clicked).
Over the years I’ve felt irritated by many of the features introduced in gaming mice that claim to be more beneficial in competitive games than for real-life use (decreasing weight, 8,000Hz polling rate, optical sensor did nothing for me personally). But the SuperStrike feels like the start of a big change in gaming mice, and Logitech’s got a lot going for it here, even if its design isn’t fundamentally different from its previous models.
If you’re wondering if this mouse is for you, let me put it this way: the SuperStrike, with its analog sensor and adjustable actuation distance, is far easier to recommend than a Hall Effect gaming keyboard that offers similar features. The difference comes down to Logitech’s haptics; They feel like the real thing, but you can change the feel if you want. On the other hand, Hall effect switches in keyboards have a certain feel to them – quiet, almost no resistance – and that can’t be changed.
I have been using Superstrike for my work for a few days now The Verge And to play some games. Not surprisingly, Google Chrome isn’t that exciting at flexing its haptics and analog sensors. They had fun features to customize impasseHowever. With many, many button presses required to defeat creeps and player enemies – not to mention repeatedly clicking into menus to purchase upgrades – it felt right to reduce both haptics intensity and actuation distance for the left mouse button. With the faster trigger, I could lock on more quickly to make more shots. The increase in reactivity felt more noticeable with characters who can fire rapid bursts from automatic weapons (like Haze), compared to those who fire one round of ammo at a time (like archer Gray Talon).
I don’t imagine many scenarios when I would want to increase the actuation distance of the buttons. However, it does seem useful in extraction shooters, where your success may be limited to being silent at the right time. Being nervous about playing a game makes me prone to misfires, so requiring more effort to click may help me with that. Still, it’s nice to have this flexibility provided by analog sensors.
I’ve seen and read a lot of coverage about SuperStrike since it launched, and my favorite was Dave2D’s video in which he came to the conclusion that its low latency and fast sensors blunted his gaming chops, making him feel like he was at his peak again. As we age, our reaction times generally worsen, which explains why many young people in their teens and 20s play games professionally, but not many older than that do. SuperStrike is, unsurprisingly, proving popular among young professionals, such as eSports player Yigox, who recently won a Guinness World Record with 760 clicks in one minute using the mouse.
SuperStrike is not a magical youth serum for gamers. It doesn’t help you set goals or provide unfair shortcuts to success. But its features are not for show. Assuming you’ve been practicing to get better at games, Logitech’s new mouse could help you stay out of the competition a little longer with its faster, more customizable clicks.
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