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Saitek's Cyborg PC Controller Has Precision Snipe Mode

Townie — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:03:22 EDT

[i]I remember how long it would take to adjust the crosshairs for a sniper shot in Tribes 2[/i]

haha! cool that you mention T2! I still play the damm game! And 3 days of practice in T2 sniper made you complete pwn at it! No use for a lame fuction like this controler has.

Do you know Foo- btw? Yankie T2 player.

Townie

Saitek's Cyborg PC Controller Has Precision Snipe Mode

Azndude51 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:05:34 EDT

If you have a PC, why would you play an FPS with a gamepad? A mouse is a far superior controller for shooters and sniping than a thumbstick on a gamepad. A gamepad is better for other things though as I do have an xbox360 controller for my PC.

Azndude51

Saitek's Cyborg PC Controller Has Precision Snipe Mode

SBM_from_LA — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:48:01 EDT

I once owned a Gravis Eliminator Aftershock gamepad.. it was a great pad... but not made for heavy use because it kept breaking on me. The manufacturer sent me two replacement models..and each one failed after about a month.. The Precision control on that Gravis was totally useless... I remember how long it would take to adjust the crosshairs for a sniper shot in Tribes 2.. and I also remember the position of the button made accidentally hitting it unavoidable... I have no info on this Saitek gamepad... but I do remember buying a couple of Saiteks before and returning both of them. I can't remember what I didn't like about them. I think it had something to do with the software... I didn't like it or something like that. Maybe they'll update the software for this pad...

SBM_from_LA

Saitek's Cyborg PC Controller Has Precision Snipe Mode

hawks404 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:37:14 EDT

this looks like the evil reincarnation of a neo geo controller.

hawks404

Saitek's Cyborg PC Controller Has Precision Snipe Mode

rcousine — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:36:13 EDT

Hmm. Is precision really a noteworthy feature? I helped beta-test the Gravis Eliminator in 2000, and that USB gamepad's big feature was an analog "D-pad" with a "precision" button.

The precision button toggled just such a feature: reduced sensitivity on the analog pad for better precision when you needed it.

rcousine

Saitek's Cyborg PC Controller Has Precision Snipe Mode

waterdrop — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:52:57 EDT

You want Precision Snipe Mode? Use a mouse.

waterdrop

Saitek's Cyborg PC Controller Has Precision Snipe Mode

tandonmiir — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:30:04 EDT

I'm not sure why anyone would want to use an analog stick for FPS on the computer.

We use a mouse every day for the computer, and all these expensive gaming mice offer such better precision, why would you waste the scratch on a gamepad?

Guess I'm just crotchety: "In my day you could only play First Person Shooters with a keyboard and mouse and that's the way we liked it!"

tandonmiir

Saitek's Cyborg PC Controller Has Precision Snipe Mode

Candlejack — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:23:10 EDT

The controller, I'm gonna stay away from. Now the 5.1 headset might turn out interesting depending on its price point.

Btw, why does it have the D-Pad and left analogue stick swapped opposed to the 360 pad? I don't like that in general.

Candlejack

Saitek's Cyborg PC Controller Has Precision Snipe Mode

chilicoke — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:20:56 EDT

someone forgot to mention it has PS3-like joysticks

chilicoke

Saitek's Cyborg PC Controller Has Precision Snipe Mode

cwith — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:14:16 EDT

Stupid, in every sense of the word.

cwith