[KICKSTATER] The Z

At least, there is one person who share my liking ^^

Yeah, looks ugly even though being quite advanced. Also, is it plastic?...

5 buttons are quite handy to have. Though button 4 & 5 are not buttons I often use in games, I tend to use them a lot when browsing. Never realized just how comfortable it is to have a "back" button on my mouse, but now I won't go back to just having 3 unless I absolutely have to. In games I only really use them in strategy games where zooming out is useful (think Homeworld or Company of Heroes).

Primary fire, Secondary fire, Aiming, Melee, Special attack, Cast spell, Grenade, Blocking, Jumping, Crouching, Reloading, ...
Sure it's doable with your keyboard, but it's a lot easier with a mouse with more buttons. I personally like jumping and melee-ing with my two additional buttons. Left and Right mouse button are almost always used for primary fire and aiming (or secondary fire). Having more buttons just makes it more enjoyable to play.

And that's not even mentioning MMO and Strategy games which have lots of actions.

hmm, how will you be forced to? you can bind / no-bind whatever you like to ewhatever you like - if you don't like to use zoom the new way you don't bind it the new way ;)

For me it looks cool, but still too complicated to my liking - while I like idea of light/heavy buttons, trigger buttons etc, I'd prolly not use tilting or lifting as I'm not used to it. But someone who gets used to this mouse may find even better use out of it ;)

As for consoly elements - this is actually somewhat good, as far as I prefer PC controls, aka mouse and keyboard, there are games that simply work better with analog controls - for example almost anything driving related, because on keyboard you can only choose to move left or right while with analog controls you can choose how much left or right you want to move. Should it be steady and peacefull turn, or swhould you be turning left like crazy. If a game features only driving I can play it with controller instead, but if for example it has both driving and walking/shooting elements (like let's say GTA) I can see how it can be a good thing - you can have your precise mouse aiming for shooter segments, while having precive steering of analog for driving segments ;)

like with any kind of controler it requires getting used to. Someone who only played on consoles for example, if you gave him your precious keyboard would make mistakes all the time as well b4 he'd get used to new control scheme ;) The same way you say it's bad because you may make a mistake with force of your click, someone may make a mistake and press W instead of Q on KB if he's now used to it ;)

nailed it, watched the video thinking, if i can get a backer version for 50-70, thinking they'd pricepoint it at 80-100 i wouldve backed it. I mean some of the features seem useful, I like the flattened mouse buttons alot for example, and the straight finger buttons look useful for fps, the tilt and all that, meh, either way, at 149$ for the lowest available backer option I'm gonna pass.

For a decent gaming mouse you're gonna need to pay at least $60 or so. If you're only playing single player games a $20 mouse is fine, but for competitive FPS, MOBA, strategy etc you're going to be really disadvantaged.

^this
no matter how good it is, if for it's price I can do a big upgrade to my PC I'd prefer that. Only If I'd have already best high-end PC possible I'd consider paying more than 80-100$ for new peripheral (mouse, KB, controller, headset etc).

still - new thingies always cost a lot, so I hope it turns out good, other manufacturers start including some nice solutions like these in their stuff and in 2-3 years you'd be able to buy something like this for a price of current good gaming mouse :>