雷蛇新 Basilisk V4 鼠标一键转 180 度引发作弊争议

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Razer’s new Basilisk V4 mice launched with a one-click 180-degree turn, a feature that online competitive players have long eyed as cheating.

Overwatch and Apex players asked a decade ago whether a macro that flips you around counts as cheating, and replies urged caution. Fairness was already a hardware problem this week, after a Valorant player claimed a secondhand CPU carried a cheating ban. Then Razer built the trick into a mouse.

Razer Perfect 180 puts a one-click turn on your mouse

Razer unveiled the Basilisk V4 line on October 8, highlighting Perfect 180 as a feature for “low-sensitivity players.”

Players assign it to a mouse button in Razer Synapse, then click to swing their view around instantly, in either direction and per game. Razer pitched it as a competitive edge for low-sensitivity FPS players, precisely the problem two of those Reddit posters described.

If you’ve played any competitive shooter, you can see how a button that instantly turns you around 180 degrees to help you aim at the enemy faster could be an issue. In fact, players have been arguing over this very same point on Reddit for years; except before Razer made it official with a mouse, people were using macros.

A CS2 thread asking whether a 180 rotation macro gets you banned drew a top reply of “guaranteed ban.” Overwatch commenters called it sketchy territory, citing the one-button, one-action rule and the half second it saves on turning and re-aiming. One Apex reply branded macros cheater switches, while other commenters urged bigger mousepads instead.

Razer isn’t some small fry’s script, though. Perfect 180 is an official Synapse feature, and Razer sounded pretty thrilled about it.

PC Gamer’s Andy Edser called it a turn assist rather than an aim assist, yet admitted he’d still yell hax at anyone spinning that fast. Razer’s demo clip handed this decade-old argument some fresh fuel, and the $169.99 Pro and $109.99 HyperSpeed are on sale now.

Where studios draw the line on a spin button remains an open question. Riot has drawn hard lines on hardware before, though, when its Vanguard update blocked DMA cheating devices from its games.