Anyone who “claims” to be a pro FPS gamer, and hasn’t tried one of these yet, who claims the mouse is used for “obvious reasons”, and says they’ll stick to “left click headshotting” all the time….. You’re very wrong about this particular device.

I see one thing very clearly when I see people with attitudes like that… it’s called ignorance. Fear of change is what makes some “old-school” gamers fall off the top.

Trust me, I’ve been gaming for a good 20+ years now (yes, way back to the t-80 days, if you can call that “hardcore” gaming =P) and the Novint Falcon is without a doubt just as accurate, and precise as a mouse. It’s even got an edge NO mouse in existance today can compete with, and that’s the simple concept of the natural sense of “touch”. When a bullet hits you from behind a crate at 3 o’clock, what does your mouse do? Right, nothing. If ANY type of object hits you, and you can’t tell where it came from, can you mouse help you figure out where? Right again, nope. The Falcon literally extends your natural sense of touch IN TO the game, so now when “something” hits you from “somewhere”, as naturally as getting hit by someone sitting next to you, you FEEL where it came from. Your ability to face “that” direction, and react is FASTER because there is no, “where did it come from”, thought process. You simply face that direction as logically as you would if something hit you in real life.

Now, with that said, There IS a learning curve to the falcon. There’s a learning curve with ANY new technology that breaks ground. Some new ideas, and technologies never really catch on, or simply fizzle out, so some people tend to ignore this learning curve, or interest until they see it’s here to stay. I’m here to tell you, this is one technological advance in gaming that is, with absolution, here to stay.

If you’re a gamer, you love immersion, and in this case even more accuracy in your FPS games, this is one learning curve that is MORE than worth it’s time.

I can go on, but that should suffice for the curious, and the devil’s advocate. Bottom line: If you haven’t tried one (and that means getting past the learning curve, into natural use like a mouse) then there is really nothing to argue about. Anyone on here saying they don’t like it, or it’s not accurate, or fun, etc, that just means they don’t have one.

With that in mind, now is a good time to snag one, they’ve got an awesome deal at the Novint site right now.

Best Regards,
Haxsys

P.S. tomnovint – I need a job! I’m a computer science major in Oregon.

The mid part of the axis(x,y,z) give more resistence as you reach the extemities as it moves that direction faster in the game so you never reach the sides.

The immersion is incredible, using Crysis as an example you feel every jump, every bullet hit you, and the force of the tree landing next to you.

No, I haven’t used one, but I’ll keep my $150 and keep left-click headshotting everyone. We don’t use joysticks in fps’s for a reason…even ones shaped like pistols.