Review - Corsair Harpoon RGB Mouse

[Jizaboz]

Last night I'm playing with the clan in Warzone. Go to shoot a dude. What feels like 2 seconds pass by as nothing happens and dude just unloads on me. Didn't fire one shot. My battery must be dead? Swapped it out. Nothing. Replugged the bluetooth bit. Nothing. DEAD. Used the mouse from my Mac setup to get me through..

Today I went to Walmart (Price tag 39.99 but knew from the internet it was actually 26.99) and finally bought a "gaming" mouse. Plugged it up, used it a bit, instantly had that "Why didn't I do this earlier?" feeling. On one hand yeah, it's fucking stupid I've been trying to accurately shoot people with a bluetooth Logitech mouse I bought like 5 years+ ago for 15$. Blamed the dips in my plastic bench all my gear sits on at one point for why the mouse would just randomly not move. It's like when you realize your ethernet cables or routing setup is very out of date; you just feel stupid. I just touch it.. and it reacts! This is magic!

It is lightweight. No wireless, due to USB3 being faster and fuck buying more AA or AAA batteries unless it's for the Steam controller or a TV remote. No problem snaking the USB cable by the right Creative Labs speaker. Some people don't like that but for gaming I like fairly lightweight and for work fairly overweight. Thinking about going weighted and ergonomic vertical mouse for the latter soon, actually. But for FPS gaming I want to be able to "flick", and flick accurately. This thing also has a DPI sensitivity option you can toggle for things like more accurate movement when sniping from long-range! However, with all of this fanciness it does take some time to break in and get uses it it. Using the iCUE software to properly set my sensitivity toggles (I only want 2, not 5! heh) and setting up the exact LED sequences I wanted (slow burn thru R-G-B like my LED salt lamp which is interrupted to bright green (fast) or red (slow) if I hit the DPI sensitivity toggle) was actually quite easy and the software isn't horseshit!

[Jizaboz]

Update: This mouse is still wonderful and has helped me get many sniper kills in Warzone!