The left click gave out after about a month. So instead of trashing this mouse because I got a lemon, I looked up feedback in the www. Fortunately, there is a fix that requires you to open up the mouse and put a bit of crazy glue on the top of the button plunger.
The problem is that the travel on the button for a click is so small that after about a month, the plastic has worn down and the click no longer registers. This is a big problem indeed. Needless to say, I opened it up and fixed it but no consumer should ever have to do this. I suppose I could have tried to contact Creative, but the discussion on the forums led me to believe that Creative is either non-responsive, cyclical in their responses, or only offers to replace it with another mouse which will break in a month.
Design While many mice are designed to be gripped half-heartedly with your fingertips, the Fatal1ty is a full-handed affair. It's designed to be held firmly, with the palm of your hand touching its back most of the time anyway.
This may take some getting used to, particularly as your fingers hang slightly over the front of the mouse, but it's certainly worth it in the end as precision and control increase tremendously. Also benefiting control is the fact that, as you'll notice in the attached images, the mouse's width extends significantly passed the right mouse button, providing a place to rest your index finger.
With many mouse designs only your index and middle fingers rest on the top of the mouse, while the rest grip onto the sides -- we prefer the Fatal1ty method. This will likely seem overkill to all but the most serious of gamers, but another cool design feature of the Fatal1ty is its set of three interchangeable weights.
These slot into the top of the mouse, and come in 3. The logic behind this is that some users find that a heavy mouse offers better precision, while others prefer a lighter unit. We found ourselves using the 11g weight most, but obviously others may feel differently.
The mouse offers five buttons, all of which are customisable through the intuitive user interface. In addition to the left and right buttons and the clickable scroll wheel, there's also a thumb button on the left side and another up top on the right, designed to be clicked with your ring finger. We found the thumb button to be slightly too small and difficult to push in the heat of battle, but the extremely handy ring finger button makes this a non-issue. Read on!
The pic really doesn't do the box justice. As soon as the Fatal1ty appeared on the Gear testing desk, we were impressed. Not necessarily with the mouse, but with the box it came in. The super shiny heavy duty cardboard was nearly dripping black and red all over the place. Integrated magnets! Certainly the most impressive packaging for a mouse we have ever seen. Sadly, the box won't really hold the mouse properly unless you save all the plastic and paper cutouts that secure the mouse for shipping, so its utility as a display stand is limited.
Wide open. After we got tired playing with the box, we turned our attention to the itself. It's quite different than any other gaming mouse we've used before.
Squat and short would be the best way to describe it. Compared to the G7 we had on hand, it looks almost like a travel mouse. Whereas most mice are gripped with the palm of the hand and lethargically manipulated with wrist and arm motions, the Fatal1ty mouse is far too short for this sort of style.
Instead, the must be held in a claw-like grip between all five fingertips with little to no palm contact at all. For those accustomed to traditional mice, it's a pretty big change, but this was the way Fatal1ty wanted it, and Creative wasn't going to argue.
Pretty much every other aspect of the 's design revolves around this new grip style, so we'll cover the layout and features before diving in to what it feels like to make the grip-switch.
It's about an inch shorter than a G7. Notice how far back the thumb button is. The Fatal1ty has four main mouse buttons: three across the top and one for the thumb. That's right, your ring-finger is now part of the clicking action, all in keeping with the fingertip grip style. The thumb button is situated aft of the mid point of the mouse and is almost recessed into the body, making it close to impossible to hit if you are trying to hold the mouse in a traditional manner.
The click-wheel is tight and accurate with a nicely tuned clicky-ness as it rotates. We would say that we preferred it to the stiffer motion of the G7's click wheel, except for the fact that Creative did not incorporate a tilt feature to the wheel. Our only explanation is to speculate that Fatal1ty has a real issue with tilting wheels and insisted upon not having one on his signature mouse, as the absence of this feature is otherwise inexplicable.
Located directly behind the click wheel is a lighted button for on-the-fly CPI adjustments.
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