Technical characteristics
Sensor: 4000 dpi * Poll frequency: 1000 Hz *** response time: ** 1 ms* Buttons: 11 * Built -in memory: 128 KB * Interface: USB 2.0 * Dimensions: 8×13.5×4 cm * Weight: 161.5 g * The price of November 2010: 2700 rubles
Last year, the company Cooler Master Suddenly entered the market of the game periphery, releasing a wonderful mouse Cooler Master Storm Sentinel Advance , which we publicly subsredly on the pages of Gamery No. 12/2009 and even issued the medal "Choice of the editorial office". However, in Russia – and maybe all over the world, we can’t say here – an extremely funny incident happened to Sentinel Advance. Excellent, from which angle, you’ve been a mouse, which protrudes almost equal with the heavyweights of the e -sports front – Logitech G9, the Microsoft line of Sidewinder and a whole brood of thoroughbred raiser rodents, and did not gain among the players of popularity.
It is almost no on tournaments, she does not wipe the rugs in clubs, she rarely appears in polls on thematic forums. And this despite many positive reviews – even those magazines and sites that most often scolded and very high -quality devices praised the mouse.
Seek-see
Since after the Storm Sentinel Advance test I ordered and bought this mouse for myself – in addition to Logitech G9 And Microsoft Sidewinder X8 , – The situation seemed to me absurd. How is this – an excellent mouse, and no one really knows what kind of beast this. I have repeatedly allowed my play-players to test Sentinel. I liked the mouse. But everyone said that they saw her for the first time. This despite the fact that by that time the mouse was already sold for almost a year.
Having suspected something was amiss, I conducted a survey at game forums and passed through a dozen major computer technology stores. The fears were confirmed. Find Sentinel Advance is not easy for sale. And even where it is, noticing it is not so easy. On the upper shelves are usually slender lines of various models of Logitech and Microsoft, numerous A4Tech , the Razer with an indispensable NAGA At the epicenter of this rare part.
In general, you approach the window-and you see three or four "mouse" manufacturers who occupy the most of the space. Cooler Master do not notice. Even if you ask the consultant what good game mice he can advise, he will recommend Logitech, Razer and Microsoft (in almost all retail outlets I was offered mice in this sequence, I don’t know why) may mention A4 with a mandatory saying “ cheap and good ". Storm Sentinel will never say.
It turns out that the mouse can be found only when you know about it and you want to buy it exactly – then you come to the store, you ask and, if there is a manipulator, you take. In all other cases, the chances of merging in interspecific ecstasy with Sentinel Advance are small.
The theory of suspicion
Apparently, suspecting something was wrong with his first, Cooler Master decided to expand the cohort of play mice and released Storm Inferno. Of course, we immediately got her into our tenacious paws and tested her in any way in various games.
Inferno (translated from English – “hell”, sometimes “big fire”) turned out to be a mouse with a hole. She has its own characteristics and troubles that you need to get used to, adapt, and some of this mouse most likely not fit. In general, the full -time situation for any good game mouse, which is simply impossible to make universal: some love one grip, others – the other, some have a big palm, others have a small one. If you try to please everyone, you will not get a game mouse, but an epidermce with a tail (we will not poke a finger, but there are examples even in the line of eminent developers).
And inferno – the mouse is exactly what good. It is no worse, and in some ways even better Storm Sentinel Advance. Testing Sentinel, we were not yet sure whether Cooler Master would be able to gain a foothold in the Premier League. Now, having tested Inferno, we have no doubt – we managed.
Now, in fact, about those trifles, features and inevitable disadvantages that are made from Inferno of a thoroughbred gaming rodent.
Compared to Sentinel, the mouse is noticeably shorter and higher. What it gives? It is a little more convenient to handle people with little hands with her. Sentinel has a long back slightly lifted the base of small palms, I had to strain my wrist. When you hold Inferno, the wrist joint is rigidly fixed on the table. Players with large palms already wrinkle their noses displeasedly – they know that it is inconvenient to keep short mice, because the fingers are constantly hanging forward – you have to put pressure on the buttons not with the tips, but the second phalanges. In the case of Inferno, this problem is not. The back of the mouse is abruptly curved, therefore, even if the fingers are long and the palm is wide, the buttons are clearly under the pads – you just need to slightly push the wrist from the mouse, this does not interfere with the grip.
Mash – do not mumble
In Sentinel, the left side https://paradise-8-casino.co.uk/ of the mouse, where the thumb usually rests, had a large recess, and the additional side buttons were located above, on the ledge, and I had to constantly move my finger to click on them. Inferno, the recess has noticeably smaller, and the thumb immediately falls on both buttons. And here lies an important feature of the mouse. These buttons are very easily pressed, the gap between them is the minimum. There are no problems in strategies and role -playing games, but in the action where the speeds are higher, at first you constantly click both buttons at once. I adapted this intimate property for my needs-in shooters you can simultaneously fall and bring the sight-but someone may not like it.
For two standard side buttons, closer to the base of the palm, there is another, large and almost square. This is Storm Tactics Multiplier Key. You can hang on it a pre -programmed sequence of commands. In the action and strategies, the use of this is a few, but in MMORPG, which, according to Cooler Master, is oriented, is very convenient. Not naga, of course, but also not bad. If you do not play in MMORPG, let's say right away – the wise button does not interfere with living in the games of other genres. He does not ask for bread and does not fall under the fingers at an unnecessary moment: to press it, you need to very much with a thumb back.
There are two more multiprogrammable keys on Kant's mouse, on the outside of the main buttons. On the left, Rapid is already habitual for many – a click simulating multiple pressing on the shot button. In Inferno, Rapid is very ergonomic (a finger must be shifted just a little), the question is-whether you need it at all: few people use Rapid constantly, no matter how convenient it is. On the second side button, you can, for example, program the blow with a knife and perform it along with squatting or jumping, which some put on the right click of the mouse.
Inferno's main keys are slightly less responsive than Sentinel Advance. The move closer to the Microsoft Sidewinder, but still not so tight – it turns out to click very quickly. The sensitivity switching buttons are drowned enough and not by chance, they are not pressed, button for the selection of installations – the mouse has 128 KB built -in memory, where you can store the settings – also.
We will not describe the technical characteristics of Inferno for a long time and tedious – you can peep in the table. At the speed and response of the mouse everything is fine. The configuration program is extremely understandable and convenient (here you can even be equal to Cooler Master).
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Cooler Master got another excellent game mouse – with all the same serious flaw. In order for the devices produced under a new brand to begin to notice and buy, it is necessary that the mice of this brand be on the shelves, well, at least five or six pieces (not necessary, so that they are gaming). And Cooler Master has only two mice, and you can find them far from every store. So it turns out that these mice buy only those who read about them. Inexorable statistics suggest that most players (even those who are very carefully approaching the choice of a mouse) look after themselves, standing at the counter. We cannot influence the situation with stores in any way, but to give the novel “Choice of the editorial office” – easily: pay attention to Inferno, the mouse honestly deserves this medal.
Pros
- good mouse at a reasonable price
- Suitable for games of all genres
- Suitable for people with large and small palms
Cons
- The gap between the side buttons is minimal
- hard to find on sale
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