I received my Taipan day before yesterday and I must say Razer HAS OUT DONE ITSELF.
I have played for more than 10 hours and i can say this mouse has been highly misunderstood and misinterpreted on this forum. I’ll do extensive testing and based on the results will post here as soon as i can.
A little backgrounder about myself, I have been a professional cs1.6 gamer for the last 11 years in my country, and have performed on multiple platforms from my team. I have used many gaming mice in the past e.g. MX518, Logitech G300, CM SPAWN, CM STORM, Razer deathadder, Abyssus, Logitech G9, intelli 1.1a, intelli 3.0, Steelseries Kinzu, Xai, Sensei etc. My aim has always been performance and quality, and would strive to my best of abilities to achieve the level of gaming I’m at, at the moment.
This review is all about my experience of the mouse and in turn also a response to the reviews Taipan has received earlier on this forum.
SOLID BUILD QUALITY:
Body:
• The body and texture of the mouse are exceptional and unlike anything i have ever seen before. The coating on top is a high quality anti sweat material. I always had a problem with my sensei slipping out of my hand but Taipan, damn, it’s like glued to my fingers: D I love the control I have over the grip.
• The sides are of a different material but a good as well none the less.
• The mouse feet are not that flat at all, they actually glide exceptionally well on my Steelseries QCK full size pad.
• The wire is braided and is placed appropriately and doesn’t affect/hinder my game play.
• The downside to the shape are the side curves, i find them uncomfortable at times and need to find a sweet spot for my self where my thumbs snugly grip the mouse firmly.
SENSOR:
Tracking:
Unbeatable tracking, this mouse doesn’t skip, doesn’t miss, doesn’t lag and please I found no acceleration, (+VE or –VE) I did extensive swapping on my pad with full speed and very slow swaps and the mouse lands on the same spot every time. I did this about a 1000 times.
For those of you who have used some sort of so called “AUTHENTIC” mouse acceleration testing methods to test for +Ve & -Ve acceleration, I don’t know what you all are trying to prove here with all those graph charts and plot diagrams; all what matters is how your hand movement feels in-game at the end of the day.
Mouse Lag and smoothing EXPLAINED:
I have noticed the mouse feels a bit different but has no lag what so ever. When I switch from my intelli 1.1a to Taipan, yes it feels as if the cross hair is gliding(NOT LAGGING) at first, but then when I get into the game, it feels completely normal.
I want you all to think of this scenario like when using a high end gaming mouse e.g. like a intelli1.1 or G9 it feels like you are driving a race car without automatic fuel injections system, anti-breaking systems, automatic suspension management system, the race car predominantly will run fast but won’t have that strong spark/ that edge of control, that’s how I feel when I use Intelli1.1a or any other high end gaming mouse, that being said I mean the mouse movements are very raw or untamed. Now than imagine installing all of these automatic functions in a race car, they will now give the driver more command, more control and more stability and a filtering agent over all those human errors. This is exactly what Taipan is all about, the sensor is freaky when it comes to performance by that I mean it can track very very high speeds of movement, but to give the gamer more control and command over so much power there is some sort of a smoothing agent incorporated on the mouse chip that gives that different feel, that edge, that authority over your shots.
At first one might think damn this is stupid; my shots won’t be accurate at all, that’s just how I felt in the beginning, I was like damn I have made that stupid mistake again, of going into the market and purchasing something stupid, another marketing gimmick.Theoretically speaking that just might be the case, but if you get down to playing with this mouse, you are like ok, BOOM one shot, two, three, four Wohooo???
When I switch from other mice to Taipan it feels different or one might say the cursor feels as if it were on a leech ‘GRANTED I AGREE’ but it isn’t noticeable at all once I get into gaming. By the word “different” I mean I have CONTROL/STABILITY/POWER over the cursor movement, i have that higher end, that edge to draw out smoother curves, smoother trail shots etc.
I have done extensive in game testing, played with pistols, M4/Ak, sniper. I play FPS exclusively, so my views might differ in many ways from others but yes all of these different modes of FPS gaming I played with this mouse I felt at the top of my game, I felt high in command of my shots and what a feeling that is, one I must say you just have to try to experience it
Flickers and fast swap shots with the sniper were incomparable to any other mouse I have used, truly exceptional. AK recoil control was so easy with this mouse, as the grip and sensor reflex tracking is so incredible that it makes the most complex of shots look very easy & effortless.
To further showcase what i mean i will be posting screenshots of the mouse cursor tracking, smoothing etc.
Z-Axis Issue:
Finally razer has managed to solve this issue on its high end gaming mice, I found no z-axis issues on my mouse.
CONCLUSION:
Ok so finally having the mouse tested for more than 2 weeks I have to say I'm impressed with the overall performance of this mouse.
Yes there is a smoothing agent or lag on the mouse, and for this i have come up with a significant solution (until the firmware is updated), e.g. on my intelli1.1a i used 2.8 sensitivity in-game (cs1.6) but with my Razer Taipan i use 2.85 (400dpi on the mouse) which gives me the same feeling as my intelli (very close believe me
).
As for acceleration I didn't find any acceleration positive nor negative, or it just might be that there is acceleration but at such low amounts that i can't see or feel it
No matter what tests i did i just wasn't able to produce acceleration on this mouse.
The mouse built quality is very high and optimal/premium.
The only downsides are the sensor lag, and the side lips of the mouse, which are a bit oddly arched and i dont like them protruding out like that
Lastly the synapse 2.0 sucks, and fails to store your personalized settings on your Razer Taipan built in memory, i noticed that when i exit synapse the last dpi settings i was using becomes the default and only dpi setting i can use on the mouse (SAD). Hope these razer support people fixed this issue soon.
Overall Great mouse, but crappy software and firmware issues.
ENJOY!
Edited by brainzasif - 10/5/12 at 1:46am
I have played for more than 10 hours and i can say this mouse has been highly misunderstood and misinterpreted on this forum. I’ll do extensive testing and based on the results will post here as soon as i can.
A little backgrounder about myself, I have been a professional cs1.6 gamer for the last 11 years in my country, and have performed on multiple platforms from my team. I have used many gaming mice in the past e.g. MX518, Logitech G300, CM SPAWN, CM STORM, Razer deathadder, Abyssus, Logitech G9, intelli 1.1a, intelli 3.0, Steelseries Kinzu, Xai, Sensei etc. My aim has always been performance and quality, and would strive to my best of abilities to achieve the level of gaming I’m at, at the moment.
This review is all about my experience of the mouse and in turn also a response to the reviews Taipan has received earlier on this forum.
MY REVIEW:
SOLID BUILD QUALITY:
Body:
• The body and texture of the mouse are exceptional and unlike anything i have ever seen before. The coating on top is a high quality anti sweat material. I always had a problem with my sensei slipping out of my hand but Taipan, damn, it’s like glued to my fingers: D I love the control I have over the grip.
• The sides are of a different material but a good as well none the less.
• The mouse feet are not that flat at all, they actually glide exceptionally well on my Steelseries QCK full size pad.
• The wire is braided and is placed appropriately and doesn’t affect/hinder my game play.
• The downside to the shape are the side curves, i find them uncomfortable at times and need to find a sweet spot for my self where my thumbs snugly grip the mouse firmly.
SENSOR:
Tracking:
Unbeatable tracking, this mouse doesn’t skip, doesn’t miss, doesn’t lag and please I found no acceleration, (+VE or –VE) I did extensive swapping on my pad with full speed and very slow swaps and the mouse lands on the same spot every time. I did this about a 1000 times.
For those of you who have used some sort of so called “AUTHENTIC” mouse acceleration testing methods to test for +Ve & -Ve acceleration, I don’t know what you all are trying to prove here with all those graph charts and plot diagrams; all what matters is how your hand movement feels in-game at the end of the day.
Mouse Lag and smoothing EXPLAINED:
I have noticed the mouse feels a bit different but has no lag what so ever. When I switch from my intelli 1.1a to Taipan, yes it feels as if the cross hair is gliding(NOT LAGGING) at first, but then when I get into the game, it feels completely normal.
I want you all to think of this scenario like when using a high end gaming mouse e.g. like a intelli1.1 or G9 it feels like you are driving a race car without automatic fuel injections system, anti-breaking systems, automatic suspension management system, the race car predominantly will run fast but won’t have that strong spark/ that edge of control, that’s how I feel when I use Intelli1.1a or any other high end gaming mouse, that being said I mean the mouse movements are very raw or untamed. Now than imagine installing all of these automatic functions in a race car, they will now give the driver more command, more control and more stability and a filtering agent over all those human errors. This is exactly what Taipan is all about, the sensor is freaky when it comes to performance by that I mean it can track very very high speeds of movement, but to give the gamer more control and command over so much power there is some sort of a smoothing agent incorporated on the mouse chip that gives that different feel, that edge, that authority over your shots.
At first one might think damn this is stupid; my shots won’t be accurate at all, that’s just how I felt in the beginning, I was like damn I have made that stupid mistake again, of going into the market and purchasing something stupid, another marketing gimmick.Theoretically speaking that just might be the case, but if you get down to playing with this mouse, you are like ok, BOOM one shot, two, three, four Wohooo???
When I switch from other mice to Taipan it feels different or one might say the cursor feels as if it were on a leech ‘GRANTED I AGREE’ but it isn’t noticeable at all once I get into gaming. By the word “different” I mean I have CONTROL/STABILITY/POWER over the cursor movement, i have that higher end, that edge to draw out smoother curves, smoother trail shots etc.
I have done extensive in game testing, played with pistols, M4/Ak, sniper. I play FPS exclusively, so my views might differ in many ways from others but yes all of these different modes of FPS gaming I played with this mouse I felt at the top of my game, I felt high in command of my shots and what a feeling that is, one I must say you just have to try to experience it
Flickers and fast swap shots with the sniper were incomparable to any other mouse I have used, truly exceptional. AK recoil control was so easy with this mouse, as the grip and sensor reflex tracking is so incredible that it makes the most complex of shots look very easy & effortless.To further showcase what i mean i will be posting screenshots of the mouse cursor tracking, smoothing etc.
Z-Axis Issue:
Finally razer has managed to solve this issue on its high end gaming mice, I found no z-axis issues on my mouse.
CONCLUSION:
Ok so finally having the mouse tested for more than 2 weeks I have to say I'm impressed with the overall performance of this mouse.
Yes there is a smoothing agent or lag on the mouse, and for this i have come up with a significant solution (until the firmware is updated), e.g. on my intelli1.1a i used 2.8 sensitivity in-game (cs1.6) but with my Razer Taipan i use 2.85 (400dpi on the mouse) which gives me the same feeling as my intelli (very close believe me
).As for acceleration I didn't find any acceleration positive nor negative, or it just might be that there is acceleration but at such low amounts that i can't see or feel it
No matter what tests i did i just wasn't able to produce acceleration on this mouse.The mouse built quality is very high and optimal/premium.
The only downsides are the sensor lag, and the side lips of the mouse, which are a bit oddly arched and i dont like them protruding out like that
Lastly the synapse 2.0 sucks, and fails to store your personalized settings on your Razer Taipan built in memory, i noticed that when i exit synapse the last dpi settings i was using becomes the default and only dpi setting i can use on the mouse (SAD). Hope these razer support people fixed this issue soon.
Overall Great mouse, but crappy software and firmware issues.
ENJOY!
Edited by brainzasif - 10/5/12 at 1:46am
