Collective Minds Cronus Zen (PS4, Xbox Series, Xbox One, Gaming Console)

Good so far, was almost put off when looking at the 1-3 star reviews but I took a risk. Seems like i’m one of the lucky ones who got a new, unopened, working device. Don’t exactly have to be a tech genius to set it up but you do need to know how to follow instructions carefully and have a laptop/pc available for setup. Many have said you need a wireless dongle for series x controllers which isn’t true, the instructions do however say this but you can use the cable provided which is better anyway as this will minimise any input lag. If anything changes, i’ll update this review but so far, so good.

This review is from a PC user, I have not tested this with consoles.Pros:It looks niceCons:It literally does not do a single thing that it's meant to do!I'm a Call of Duty player. I use keyboard and mouse and I play on PC. I have kit that's compatible with this device and I've spent many hours trying to get it to work.My background - I used to be a programmer / developer in a previous career. I am very computer literate and I've yet to meet a device I can't get working. Until today!The device registers fine with my PC. I can download a game profile and I can connect peripherals to it - XBox one controller, gaming mouse, keyboard etc. But that's where the success ends.The device completely ignores most of my key presses in game (I've mapped and remapped them several times). It causes lag with my input, so I'm actually worse of with this device than without it. And no matter what features I select in my game pack, I still have recoil and I don't have the aim assist! So, it's an expensive paperweight that makes you worse at gaming and doesn't do as advertised. I cannot return this thing fast enough! It's useless.I've followed the manufacturers instructions. I've watched their Youtube channel. I've watched other people's Youtube channel. I've spent many hours doing the same thing over and over to try and get this to work thinking perhaps I was doing something wrong - but I'm not as I've done exactly as others have.This device, for PC gamers, is pointless and best avoided! Don't waste your cash.

Some class these devices as cheating and no doubt if you ramp it up you risk getting banned from most FPS games.I brought one after years of coming up against them in Apex mainly and getting beamed cross map with little to no recoil. You just know when someone's using one!The product does as it says but there's a few things to consider that most people will know if you've researched others may not so if you have scroll on if you haven't I'll give you a quick breakdown of things I overlooked;1) This is not an aimbot. It's essentially a system that will combat horizontal and vertical recoil of weapons in FPS games. I was using on Xbox.2) It's not plug and play. I mean it is and it isn't. For optimal performance, you need to go onto forums and download profiles for weapons and send them to your zen using a laptop/pc (if using consoles something to consider). Now this isn't difficult and isn't necessary but for OPTIMAL performance you kind of need to. It's that important that some of the best game/weapon profiles people charge for. You can get more than adequate ones for free though.3) The zen itself has a menu accessed in game, pause and select simultaneously opens it on the Xbox.4) The anti recoil settings are specific to each gun. I.e on apex a flat line and r301 have different recoil patterns and if you have a 301 selected on the zen and shoot using a flat line this can be an issue.5) I had issues looting death crates with the game thinking it needed to fit recoil when in crates. Maybe this was the profile I had, maybe anti recoil was too high? I'm not sure. It's not major, more a few milliseconds of inconvenience but enough for me to blame my death on a few times haha!It's an amazing product and some of the above may have been user error I'm aware. But I just want people to be aware that this isn't a crack open the box, plug in and instantly beam everyone. There's a bit of a setup process and it takes some getting used to in-game.

This product basically allows cheating on console with the only downside being that it does not completely do everything for you in game (meaning a person still has to be good in a game for the zen to have an effect).

It doesn't mention when ordering this that you need the wireless adapter v2 for the xbox to use this. That was a kick in the teeth. To add to it you have to pay 24.99 for it on their website and it says out of stock. If i had of known this I would have ordered the adapter with it. I feel like sending it back now

Works great learn to understands scripts thoOnly used with my standard ps5 controller

Works well as it should and no you don’t need to pay for scripts that do the same thing

So I’m 15 right and my friend had been banging on about this ‘zen’ and ‘zim’ witch was awesome and you could get no recoil and a bunch of other stuff, and as you could probably imagine my first thought was I want one so I saved up for like 5 months then bought one.It came a few days ago and this this is so incredibly bad from the packaging to the tutorials so first of all you buy a 100 pound piece of plastic and you get it packed like a 10 pound toy from like a car boot sale so that was the first sign of what this root was going to be then when I opened it greeted with some nice cables and the zen I scanned though the instructions did what it said to do then boom no worky re try still no worky at this point I’m kinda disappointed but not to lose hope I try one more scipt and unglued and plug in my keyboard and mouse one last time, what do you know no freaking worky worky.So neeeeever buy this depression box (if you like to be sad this will be great for you though) and have a great dayPs. How do I give no stars????