![]() ![]() The final item in the adjustment to my peripheral setup was one I could directly tie to an in-game death resulting in a team loss. This shell coating wipes clean with a soft cloth, even if you are the type to mouse and eat - I recommend using chopsticks to keep your buttery fingers off your peripherals. The Kain 120 looks like it’ll avoid this problem entirely with some sort of coating that ROCCAT has used on the entire body, including the buttons and undercarriage. The rubber surface had begun to degrade from the natural oils present on my skin. The mouse I’m retiring has “grip” portions on both sides that, after a year of use, were starting to come apart. Similar tech is applied to the scroll wheel, though I noticed a marked difference in the former and less on the latter. Underneath the button lies the switch, as you’d expect, but what’s different here is that they are angled and placed directly against the mouse buttons, meaning a few milliseconds of travel time is shaved off before you even press it. Housed in a semi-flexible body is a solid spring, pulling the switch back to neutral position, and ensuring no “wobble” in the click. This isn’t exactly new tech, as my cheap $10 ETPC X-08 has the same design, but the quality of the switches makes a world of difference. The Kain 120 solves this with a mid-body mechanical hinge with two individual buttons. ![]() Mice with a unibody can create real challenges with missed clicks as the entire body has to flex to actuate the switch underneath. That said, it’s pretty unlikely that you’ll use these higher values as they tend to make the mouse somewhat hard to control. The sweet spot for FPS gaming is in the 3000 range, but with a capability of hitting 16,000 DPI, it’s perfect for slower and more delicate work like Photoshop or the rapid slow/fast/slow pace of games like Valorant. Unpacking these, the PixArt and Owl-Eye chips handle the DPI settings, as well as liftoff detection, resulting in a sensor that can adjust from 100 to a whopping 16,000 DPI - for reference, the first laser mouse invented, the original Logitech MX 1000 laser mouse had a DPI of 600. ROCCAT® Owl-Eye optical sensor with 16000dpiĪIMO illumination – RGB Backlighting and LED lighting effects My mousing setup was subpar, so it was time to see what the Kain, Sense, and Apuri could do for my input world.īefore we dig into the Kain, let’s see what’s under the hood: Now, we see some of the first fruits of that combined company - the ROCCAT Vulcan120 AIMO keyboard (you can read that review here), Kain 120 AIMO, Sense AIMO mousepad, and the Apuri Raw mouse bungee thrown in for good measure. Recently, we’ve seen these two peripheral titans merge as Turtle Beach acquired them in March of 2019. ![]() A German peripheral company, ROCCAT has been making accessories for Europe and Asia since 2006. Undoubtedly you’ve heard of Turtle Beach as we routinely check out their high-quality gear here, but you might not have heard of ROCCAT. ![]()
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