
Mad Catz - R.A.T. 7
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Don't think they make them anymore but madcats rat7 is great for bigger hands
I use the madcatz rat 7. Works for me, parts can be expanded.
went through 5x rat 7 i need that corpus but the innards are trash. the thing that powers the lazer sucks bawls rat8 chinese reboot of british rats worked for 1 day and then lazer started to turn off at random intervals. so you draw circles and they miss random pieces swiftpoint as a micro company their software is terrible and dangerous to pc unless you how to fix it through bios. and it has drivers on the server that is down because they are tiny elecom is barbie size. like baby girl sized. bought it online, on a picture it looked normal proportions. about 15 logitechs all start to double click then tripple click roccat arrived dead and was an arse to return and refund. chose because they keyboard served me for 5+ years until it started to die recently steel series worked for like 1,5-2 years and started to multiclick like logitechs. costed a ton of money. like a month or two worth of food. ~5-8 a4tech their finish peels hard. they are just shoddy but some can survive for several years. some can die faster with multiclicks or dying buttons. lottery. 5x garisons i love the GM-740G corpus despite it being a joke. if they didn't create it but stole it i wish i had the original. but it's made of garbage plastic. the MMB just breaks. some even arrive broken. defender is already a rattly one but uses the same buttons as everyone, so after some time starts to multiclick genius cheap mice so it's random when they break and how. razer got deathadder and after like 2-2,5 weeks mmb stopped working right now after these amazing adventures i gave up and bought razer naga trinity which costed a half of my monthly salary. about one year and all the paint peeled from the buttons ahhahahahah. and two cheap acers even if one breaks i have the second one. so far they are alive but i barely use them only one of them i connect to my phone together with keyboard. + wireless (xiao?)mi that i got as a gift with a laptop. so far works i wish i could try super fat logitech (and see its buttons fail like always) and corsair m65 but you can't buy those two for years
Yeah I had an OG RAT 7 for a couple years and then swapped to one of the newer RAT 5s after they swapped over. The quality went downhill but it was still one of the best mice I’ve used for adjustable ergonomics. Their new stuff isn’t *quite* as good, but it’s worth it if you have huge hands like OP. I have decently large hands and there was still more to give past what I thought was comfortable.
I had the mad catz RAT 7 and Rat 5, they look really beautiful but they really arent great to play. Heavy and not comfortable, still have used it many years
Whoa, Madcatz is still going?! It was the original Rat 7. It was actually the only mouse that was ever wide enough for me, but two things were really bad: The side thumb buttons were so small (ie. thin) and required **so much** force to press that the entire mouse would move when I pressed them. I really don't know why they went with such insanely heavy thumb switches for a gaming mouse. Seriously, Thor would have needed thumb exercises to use it. That alone made it unusable. The other problem was that the palm rest was the perfect shape when it was retracted, but extending it to where I wanted it meant that it poked into the bottom of my palm in a very uncomfortable way. I think it would have needed its angle changed to be comfortable when in its extended position. I see that latest design still has those tiny thumb buttons. I really hope you're not using the same switches you were back then!
I had a madcats mouse once basically exactly this just in white. It's HORRIBLE. Looks awesome, in a way, but if you put any weight at all on the back it lifts in the front because it doesn't have any support there. So yeah I guess it depends on how you grip it, but it's shit in my opinion.
If it's still the exact same design as the first one I had, then my statement stands that it looks cool but it's design is shit imo and the worst mouse I've ever used. I'm not talking about ergonomics, but design faults. It might fit perfectly for someone else's hand without issues, which is why there's not one design on mice. For reference I had the MAD CATZ Cyborg R.A.T.7 Contagion Edition White in 2013. Don't see any point discussing this further, since you are clearly a fanboy, and I honestly don't care if anyone else waste their money.
Legit the rat7 was the only thing that fir my meaty paws
If you could get your hands (unintentional pun but keeping it) on a second hand Saitek/Cyborg R.A.T. 7 or 9, fully extended out it fit my large hands, best mouse I ever had. I have a Logitech g603 which is ok, and a Corsair Ironclaw, specifically marketed for larger hands, and it's also quite good.
Have you tried the Logitech g502? Otherwise the madcatz rat 7 is a good size