Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This was perfect on paper… – Pwnage Stormbreaker”.
I thought gaming mice had peaked, but pwnage is here to prove me wrong once again, I’m always wrong. This is the pwnage Stormbreaker Mouse. It is a premium magnesium alloy special edition Mouse, high performance gaming, all that good stuff we’re just gon na get right into it. Let’S unbox everything we have our Mouse, we have our wireless receiver.
This is surprisingly light. Normally these things are like Hefty. You know they want. They want to stay in one spot on your desk. We have a braided usb-a to type c uh about six feet. Long. That’S a pretty good length. The dongle actually has a type c, so you plug into this, but it’s also your charging cable, big fan of that type of solution. We have our grip tape, which is included kind of a neat design.
We may put that on and then we have this, which I genuinely don’t know what it is. Oh, it’s a little screwdriver, I’m actually a big fan of this, and this will be useful for this mouse Secret Killer feature, which is that it actually has a sensor. You can change the position of we’ll get to that when we get to that first things.
First, let’s talk about the way this Mouse looks. This is a magnesium alloy Mouse uh, but at first glance that’s not what you would notice. You would notice this beautiful design. Very reminiscent of a final Mouse, Starlight Mouse almost looks like a copy, but that’s okay. I like the way the honeycomb shape kind of adds.
This sense of you know speed to the the shape. Even the Honeycombs extend all the way to the mouse buttons uh and the sides kind of almost like a tiger stripe uh, even some speed holes on the bottom, all in all a pretty darn good, looking Mouse, if you’re into this sort of aesthetic it comes in Five different colors, including the red which we have surprisingly the details, are actually a little more different. I assumed it would be almost exactly the same thing, just the blue replaced with red, but there’s a little more of the silver on the blue, one which is kind of interesting. Next, let’s talk about the shape and how this mouse feels in the hand.
This is a magnesium alloy Mouse, so it’s exceptionally sturdy and rigid, even though it comes in at a very light 51 grams. The advantages of magnesium is that it’s, you know, 33 lighter than aluminum, and you can use less of it compared to plastic. You often end up with these exceptionally light mice that are very rigid, especially considering the honeycomb design. 51 grams. Isn’T the lightest gaming mouse, but it’s pretty close uh. The measure that pwnage wants you to focus on is the weight density. They say that this is one of the lowest density gaming. Mice is coming in at 0.17 grams per centimeter cubed, compared to the average of like 0.25, All In All In Real World terms. What that means is that’s a light Mouse by default.
It comes with a PTFE feet. You can get optional glass feet which would be nice. I still think they’re a little bit too small of a surface for it to be most effective uh, and this is really a lot of drag even for PTFE feet.
The weight is even more impressive when you consider that the battery is capable of 120 hours according to pwnage and can charge in just under two hours. That’S pretty good battery performance for a mouse of this weight uh and this kind of performance, caliber, uh and that’s nice to see like I’ve said on this channel before I’m, not a huge fan of honeycomb mice, I’m coming around and I’m trying out a few more Of them uh the way this pattern feels on the hands. You can definitely notice the indentations. It’S not the most invisible honeycomb pattern, uh, it’s not uncomfortable, but it’s definitely I’m hyper aware of the skin contact I’m having with this mouse, where I grip it on the buttons.
I don’t feel that I find the holes most pronounced feeling on my ring finger and thumb I’m a big fan of right-handed mice um. I prefer the shape of like a 703 to a G Pro, and I’ve been looking for a ultra light, high performance, right-handed Mouse, because I, like the way that my hand shapes into it. The clicks are very clicky. They feel very consistent, the side buttons.
I can feel the difference when I press them with my thumb. These these buttons are the Omron 20 million rated switches, which is you know disappointing when you compare it to some of the other mines that have 80 million clicks. 50 million clicks um, but pwnage has said that they hand pick and test every switch that goes into a mouse, so even though it might be a lower rated switch um, I am a big fan of having my parts, hand, selected and binned. For me, this scroll wheel is awesome, it’s very light to move, but it’s very clear how many clicks I’m pulling through.
I like the size of it, the position of it, I’m feeling very disappointed by The Click, though, that is a bad click. Listen to the beautiful main button clicks and then listen to the that’s disappointing. The scroll wheel feels so good to scroll so bad to click and that lackluster click is pretty disappointing, especially when you consider that, like most FPS Focus mice, there isn’t any other buttons. There’S a lot of games that have actions assigned to the middle Mouse click uh, and I think that In the Heat of a moment I would have trouble pressing without clicking and even knowing, if I had clicked. So that’s that’s pretty disappointing and there really is no other buttons there’s not even a DPI switch, which is interesting. Considering that one of the big appeals of this is the customization of the location of the sensor, which, thank goodness, is an excellent sensor. It’S the Pixar 3395, which is a flaw sensor. It’S got very low, liftoff distance DPI up to 26 000 IPS of 650, which, in my opinion, is a more important measurement.
This is an excellent sensor. It’S not gon na have any issues and I’m very interested to see what it’s going to feel like. As I slide the sensor up and down this bad boy, because it’s so light, I feel like the weight distribution might get thrown off uh. But that’s something I’m going to have to test out after I tell you about our sponsor secret lab thanks to secretlab for sponsoring.
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I was installing the pwnage software and it is not working. No, it is but there’s no text, it’s very confusing. I don’t know what I’m clicking.
This is fun all right. Let’S check out this software we’ve got our Mouse in the wrong color. That’S a little detail. That’Ll be nice to change on this main page. We can customize what our buttons do. Uh, not our left click, but everything else. We can kind of mess around with it. You could, even if you wanted, assign one of your buttons to be a DPI key. You can change the liftoff distance. I’M not sure why you would want anything but the lowest option uh for increased accuracy. Uh. You can turn on motion synced uh.
Theoretically, it’s supposed to pair the polling rate of the mouse better with CPU Cycles, so that there’s no cycles that are not getting Mouse signal. Next, we have our slam, click prevention, so you know you slam the mouse down it’s supposed to prevent it. Uh, I’m guessing! It’S just disabling Mouse clicks when it’s coming down, you save your profile, export them uh. It also gives you a little status indicator, so it’s charging no you’re, no one’s, not smooth Mouse and that’s really disappointing uh, especially on a premium gaming mouse. That should be one of the primary focuses. I also becoming more and more irate with these speed holes on the side.
Luckily, opponent is included grip tape that kind of covers those holes, and I’ve actually enjoyed some grip tape on semis before so I’m going to try putting it on it’s pretty cool that it has a little design, um and we’ll see how it feels on the hand. This is something I’m not good at. We have the grip tape on I’ll. Let you guys judge the Aesthetics uh. No, I mean it’s. This is the grip tape itself feels very good um, but it has that five-year-old rubber stickiness like when it’s starting to degrade.
I know that’s not what it is, but it’s not a super Pleasant feeling – and I kind of like all my gaming stuff to be smooth and this would get gunked up and gross really quick. I’M getting all set up for some Halo on this great when show desk pad available at lttstore.com plenty of room plenty of smooth. This house feels really good to play on, like very accurate, very responsive immediately. I’M like this is a mouse I could have as my daily driver gaming mouse. If I could get over the speed holes. This is otherwise an excellent mousing experience all right. Let’S try moving the sensor using the included, screwdriver uh. It’S interesting.
The screws are Phillips, but the included bit is a slant. Is it two-sided? It’S two-sided. We could actually move it down if we wanted more into the palm area, uh kind of a cool thing. Maybe there’s someone out there that has that desire, but the trend seems to be moving the sensor higher up.
So you have a little more fine control using your wrist and fingers. Just like we figured out on the Arrow one unboxing, let’s uh, take the sensor from down here and put it up here, feels pretty similar a little more sensitive, which I think is good. I was finding that the 800 DPI on this mouse and monitor felt a little slow, so this is actually feeling a little bit more familiar for me.
Oh hello, yeah. I actually like having this sensor at the top. So that’s definitely a plus. The customization is very much appreciated. The only question that remains is am I recommending you buy this product no.
On paper, based on the specs and the information I had, I had very high hopes for this mouse, but after using it for a bit, it’s not super comfortable to use these speed. Holes are worse than any I’ve experienced before it’s really uncomfortable, and once you put the grip tape on that premium feeling goes away when you’re paying 180 for a mouse. I expect it to be the perfect Mouse and I feel, like these small compromises, sort of add up and make it that I would probably shift my attention to a different Mouse. I really like to find a mouse Starlight, but I personally prefer the G Pro X super light, which is actually 30 bucks cheaper than this.
If money is No Object, there’s that Razer Viper signature mini, which is, in my opinion, my favorite gaming mouse. But that’s a hundred dollars more if you’re, someone that likes honeycomb ice and you don’t grip your mouse or you don’t mind, putting grip tape on your mouse. This is not a bad option as a gaming mouse, it performed really well, it felt good in game, but it is not the one for me thanks for watching short circuit. If you like this video, why don’t you check out my unboxing of the arrow one? The mouse that has its sensor close to the top .