After making a powerful impression with their pair of Streak mechanical keyboards and light-weight, symmetrical Flick 2 mouse, Fnatic are rounding out their second gen peripheral line-up with the decidedly right-handed gaming mouse, the Clutch 2. Featuring the identical Pixart 3360 sensor, Omron switches and roughly all the identical specs as its Flick sibling, is that this one a greater purchase? Let’s discover out.
It’s a fraction thinner than the Flick 2, shaving 4mm off its total width, however what it saves in total girth is made up for in top. The Clutch 2 might solely be 3mm taller than its Flick sibling, but it surely immediately feels larger below the palm, particularly when you’ve got a extra relaxed grip like me and have a tendency to relaxation your total wrist on the mouse mat behind it.
On the entire, although, the Clutch 2 remains to be a really comfy mouse to make use of each day-to-day and for enjoying video games. Despite its bulkier construct, every part feels inside excellent attain, from its scroll wheel to its pair of distinguished aspect buttons. Indeed, other than its total form, the Clutch 2 shares most of the identical traits because the second gen Flick, together with its RGB lighting on the scroll wheel and Fnatic emblem alongside the inside nook, its central DPI button and its three little white LEDs signalling which of the Clutch’s reminiscence profiles you presently have lively.
You additionally get the identical shade of Fnatic orange worming its means around the mouse’s decrease edge and underbelly, however its extra overt curves and sculpted chassis make it rather a lot much less apparent once you’re peering down at it on out of your desk. Not a significant loss, all instructed, but it surely does imply it’s ever so barely much less attention-grabbing to take a look at in comparison with the Flick 2. Still, once you’ve received your hand clamped spherical it, none of that stuff actually issues, does it?
You’ll in all probability nonetheless have to make a number of changes to the Clutch 2 once you get it out of the field, although, as its default DPI (or sensitivity) settings are undoubtedly a bit on the low aspect for basic mouse work. 400, 800 and 1000 DPI could also be positive for some individuals to begin leaping straight into video games, however I are likely to desire one thing across the 1600 mark.
Much just like the Flick 2, the Clutch 2 can technically go all the best way as much as an impossibly quick 12000 DPI if you happen to’ve received laser imaginative and prescient and occur to expertise time in gradual movement each time you have a look at a pc display, however nobody of their proper thoughts will ever have to go to that excessive.
Whatever DPI you find yourself utilizing, although, I’d extremely advocate utilizing Fnatic’s OP software program do make these changes somewhat than the mouse itself. Yes, everybody hates devoted peripheral software program, however when the latter includes holding down the 2 aspect buttons and central DPI button for 5 seconds after which utilizing the scroll wheel to go up and down in 100 DPI increments, it’s a recipe for catastrophe. It works, however once you’re outdated and your reminiscence’s barely decrepit like mine, a fast slip of an overeager finger can ship your complete adjustment course of into disarray, as there’s no means of telling what DPI you’re presently on or how a lot you’ve modified it by.
Personally, I a lot desire having some concrete numbers in entrance of my face once I’m making these sorts of changes, particularly when the Clutch 2 gives such intricate ranges of fine-tuning. As I discussed in my Flick 2 evaluate, OP’s UI doesn’t precisely do an incredible job at explaining what the Clutch 2 can do, however in addition to adjusting the mouse’s basic DPI settings, you may also set it to have one DPI pace for horizontal sweeps and one other, utterly totally different one for shifting the mouse vertically – identical to the Flick 2.
Admittedly, this type of setup doesn’t precisely lend itself nicely to a wholesome work-based relationship together with your mouse, however FPS followers might doubtlessly use one thing like this to rapidly scan the map backward and forward whereas nonetheless retaining that positive, creeping motor management when elevating their sniper sights up and down, for instance.
Personally, I’d somewhat be the one answerable for altering my DPI with one thing just like the Asus ROG Gladius II‘s little on-the-fly thumb button than have it at two fixed speeds for an entire match, but I guess that’s why you’ve received additional profiles so you possibly can swap issues up mid-game. Thankfully, reaching the Clutch 2’s central DPI button is pretty hassle-free, as even my stiff, brittle fingers might get to it with out a lot effort or contorted hand gymnastics.
OP isn’t only for altering the Clutch 2’s DPI settings, in fact, as you may also use it to regulate its RGB lighting (or flip it off altogether, if you happen to desire), and alter its numerous button bindings. The aspect buttons do the standard forwards and backwards internet browsing-based clickage out of the field, however you may also use these to activate macros (albeit solely ones you’ve recorded utilizing Fnatic’s Streak keyboards), launch purposes and open information or hyperlinks. Or, if you happen to merely need to swap one button for one more, you need to use the remapping device for straightforward reassignment.
Much just like the Flick 2, you may also change the Clutch 2’s polling charge (how usually your mouse communicates together with your PC) from 250Hz as much as 1000Hz, and its lift-off distance will be raised from 2mm to 3mm, simply to offer you just a little bit of additional reassurance when shunting it rapidly throughout your mouse mat.
Really, although, there isn’t a lot to tell apart the Clutch and Flick 2s aside from their total form. They each do precisely the identical issues and share all the identical options, they usually even value the identical amount of cash, too – $60 within the US, with UK pricing to be confirmed shortly. As I discussed above, I believe I’d desire to spend a bit extra and get one thing just like the Asus Gladius II (£70 in the UK and $95 in the US) if I needed actually fine-tuned DPI controls, however for those who need one thing just a little bit extra upmarket than one thing just like the £30 / $40-odd Steelseries Rival 110 or £40 / $45-ish HyperX Pulsefire FPS, then both Clutch or Flick the Second ought to serve you completely nicely.
