Razer Onza Xbox 360 Controller
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Ghengis_John
[13] Hero
So these were supposed to ship by now. Anyone got one yet? I put my order in but at this point I'll be waiting 1-2 months.
Ghengis_John
[13] Hero
It just arrived today. And what can I say? It's not all I was hoping for. More on that, later. I'll need some time with it.
Tyberius
[12] Conqueror
I keep waiting for them to be in stock but every time a check there's a longer wait time! It now says 6-8 weeks and I swear it's said that forever now. Ghengis, is it worth me waiting for or what?
Ghengis_John
[13] Hero
Well here's the deal. The buttons are great, they feel great they respond great. They have microactuators in them right? Mechanical switches. So they click like a mouse clicks for instance or an arcade stick's butoons click. It's easy as heck to do some maneuvers like pianoing or even pressing the two buttons next to each other horizontally at once with your thumb. Very responsive. Great. Can't say enough good about the face buttons. D pad...
Well the D-pad's got a rubber membrane under it, so when you push down on the buttons they're still a little mushy. That's not so bad though because the directions are on individual buttons right? Some maneuvers like dashing in on makoto while parrying in BB CS or dashing while buffering Ryo's 646 P in KOF have never been easier. But here's where things get messy. The controller has a problem with fast inputs on diagonals like hydokens. or shoryukens. You have to slow down and roll over the buttons slowly to make sure it picks up the input. If you do it to fast it simply picks the input up as 26 or 62 respectively. As if that wasn't bad enough it seems to get "overloaded" if you enter in a very complicated input very quickly. "Ride the Lightning" style inputs (632146 attack) seem to be too much for it to handle. It can't do them at all. I was making good and sure to get my thumb all the way to the 4, I even held it there half a second and it refused to detect the back input, skipping to the forward. Just to make sure it asn't me I handed the controller to my brother and my friend and they all reported the same thing "It just can't do them.". If you plug it in and try out a fighter with input displays you'll see your back input's not registering. Even going out of your way to make sure you're pressing it. Big strike against it.
The programmable bumpers are nice but they put them right in front of the triggers where regular l and r go. Big mistake. The triggers are also weird they feel like oars compared to the regular triggers and aew slower. My brother liked the controller all in all but he is argumentative and forgives easily when it's not his money. Even he had to admit the thing couldn't do ride the lightnings though.
As an added negative, that d-pad is MURDER on your fingers. It wasn't designed to shoulder a heavy workload, the sides of the buttons are rough and thin and angled oddly so that they dig into your skin. Find a point on anything plastic you own, possibly your keyboard or keyboard keys, where two pieces of plastic meet. Failing that roll your thumb across your down and forward arrow keys. Is it rought? Does it kind of hurt? If so then run your finger over it 500 times. That's what using this dpad is like on rolling motions.
I think in a generation or two this is going to be a very good controller. But the d-pad isn't there yet. If they slap microactuators underneath it and redesign the d pad buttons it'll be all aces but it seems clear that not enough attention was paid to the dpad. When yours gets there try it and see if my appraisal was wrong. atm I'm trying to figure out how to return it and it's all packed up again.