Hello, this is The Provoked Prawn, and this is the Roccat Kone Pro. This is another lightweight
gaming mouse from Roccat with a honeycomb design shell to it with some RGB lighting on the
mouse buttons, which is fairly unusual. It's a redesigned variant of the Kone lineup, and they
say it has a better ergonomic design for improved comfort, refined to perfection. And I'm going to
talk to you about what this mouse is like to use, show you as it comes out of the box, and cover off
what the features and facets of it are and what I feel about it and how I've enjoyed using it,
and the things I don't like about it and the small annoyances with it, but otherwise generally is
been a nice mouse use, it is quite a nice looking one, fairly unusual. Usually the RGB lighting is
on the back rather than on the front. Also has, as you'll see, some quite shiny areas to it,
which I have mixed feelings about and you may well do too. But it is generally speaking a nice
looking mouse. It's lightweight and it's quite a good size as well, I found that fit
nicely in my head. And that sort of goes in line with previous Kone mice that I've seen,
slightly larger, more comfortable. Now this mouse is available in black and white. And there's also
an air version, which is a wireless model, which is more expensive and I'm going to be reviewing
that in the near future as well. So stick with me, and watch out for that video.
Now, as I said, this is a honeycomb mouse. But what the Roccet's done is
they've kept that sort of outer shell to it in the same way they did with the Burst Pro,
so they can keep it lightweight by using that honeycomb design but also not have you worry
about getting dust and dirt inside it by having open holes in your mouse. So if you
want a lightweight mouse, but don't want to have to worry about it getting dirty, then this is
the one for you now, Other highlights of this mouse is the includes an
Owl Eye sensor, which is Roccat's own sensor, and that's based on the Pixart PMW3370. It has an
adjustable lift off distance that you can change within the Swarm software, and I'll show you that
and other things later on. 50 G's of acceleration up to 19,000 DPI if you're insane, you can go
that high. One thing of note is there is no DPI adjustment button on the mouse itself. As you will
see going through this video there's only a button on the underside for switching profiles, but you
can customize the buttons to do other things. You'll note there's quite a large mouse wheel
and I'm going to go into a bit one on that in a minute and some large thumb buttons on the side.
It has a very smooth texture to it. A very shiny texture, which I found gets a bit oily and greasy
over time and could be a bit slippery in a hand. So unfortunately there's no grip tape included in
the box but you will see there's extra PTFA feet if you need them. Now wanted to measure the weight
of it because Roccat claims it was 66 grams. Mine actually comes out at 92 with the cable.
But 63 if you take the cable away from the scales, and you'll see that 63 so it's actually a bit
lighter than they claim depending on whether you want to weigh the cable in with it or not. It is a
lightweight flexible cable though, it's designed to be agile and not to cause you dramas and I
haven't had any problems with it. Those PTFA feet also mean it glides around the desk really nicely
and it's easy to move and fun to play around with. It's a nice looking mouse too. They've done a good
job with the ergonomic shape of it, you can see there's a nice recess where your thumb would sit,
that's not a rest for your thumb exactly but. it does have a nice design. Now on the underside,
you can see that profile switching button I was talking about, that's the default set up so you
can set profiles within the Swarm software and flick between them. You'll also note some fairly
large PDFE areas, I've seen larger. I've also seen smaller, it's quite nice to have big ones
because they're obviously very slick and you get extra are included in the box so if they do
get scratched or damaged over time, you can swap them out and that's always nice to have additional
things added you can use without having to pay extra to worry about so that's nice. This mouse,
as you can see, is nicely designed and has a good shape to it. It's designed to work with fingertip,
palm, or claw grips, depending on your preference and how you game, and as I said I found it fits
nicely in my hand, I've got larger hands and I generally prefer larger mice. And I found this
one to be quite comfortable. The mouse buttons themselves had a good action to them. And it's an
interesting bit that you might notice here you start to pick up on is there's a raised housing
on the buttons which is fairly unusual. At first I thought there was an issue, that there was a
problem with it but actually it's designed that way on purpose to let some of the RGB lighting
through, and I'll show you that in a minute. The mouse wheel, however, I'm not a massive
fan of I'll be honest, it's designed from milled solid aluminum and it's meant to be
precision engineered and such, but I found it a bit scratchy initially. Now got used to it. It's
not so bad and it is quite large. And it does have sort of satisfying tactile feedback to it. But
it just felt a bit like it was rubbing in not a nice way on my finger, it was strange. And
picking small holes in what you can see is pretty generally a nice mouse and a good one to use. But
these are things to be aware of. Now those side buttons also look like they're jutting out really
far from the angles of this video and they're easy to access. But actually, when your thumb is below
them on the rest, they're actually not that easy to feel, they don't sit that high off from the
thumb rest. And so again, that's another point, another minor annoyance, but they are satisfying
to us, I just find them, they're a bit difficult to feel with a thumb when you're in the middle of
the action. And as you can see I'm measuring my hands, just to give you a demo, we're at seven to
eight inches depending on how you measure them, whether you're measuring from fingertip to the
palm or all the way around. And you can see then how the mouse fits in my hand. And it fits pretty
nicely. It's got a good shape to it and fits quite well, I would like to have seen more of a thumb
rest, but obviously shedding the weight, keeping it lightweight, while still remaining a nice
ergonomic shape to it. And it does have a nice interesting shape too, it fits quite comfortably
in the hand. And here you can see a bit more of that speed flex cable. This is really common now
on the lightweight mice, it's basically a very floppy, easy to move USB cable that's just doesn't
cause any problems, doesn't get caught on a desk, moves around, flicks about really easily as
well. So a really nice set up there too. I've been using this mouse for my gaming sessions,
and during the day working, and for video editing and I haven't had any problems while
using it. I've got some footage a bit later on, I'm using it with Aim Lab, I wanted to test out
how I was getting on with it. And it's been very nice. I haven't noticed a massive improvement
in my gaming. But I switched mice so often it's quite difficult to measure that. But here you can
see some of that RGB lighting. Now I will say that I'm not too sure whether I like this RGB lighting
or not, it depends on the angle of it. I do really like Roccet's RGB. This is the AIMO
intelligent lighting. When it's first plugged in, you can see that RGB lighting the way it changes,
it moves through various colors. And it does it in a really satisfying way. When you set
this alongside the magma keyboard, which I'll show you later on, it really glows nicely and it does a
good job of matching up with those devices. So if you have multiple Roccat devices, it's really
nice. Also unusual to have lighting at the front like this. And it makes your fingers glows, it's
quite interesting, because usually have the back of the mouse lit up where the logo is and such.
And you then have your hand over it so you don't get the benefit of it. But here it's at the front.
Here you can see a close up of the side profile of it. And you might get an idea of what I was
talking about with those thumb buttons not sticking out far enough. And you will also
be able to see what I was talking about with the raised buttons. And you can see,
you can see underneath and into the mouse itself. But what you will note is there is some more
material inside like a transparent shell that stops any ingress of dirt, but also allows for
the RGB light bleed. I think that probably over time, you still will find that dust and dirt
gets into the front of that. Because if you look inside that you can actually see some gaps. So it
could potentially be a problem in the long term. However I think because the buttons are raised,
you should be able to just blow some compressed air into there and clean it up nicely. Also, you
can see the glow on my fingertips here, at night, this really shines really well is under heavy
lighting for video. So it's probably not doing it as much justice. But it does really light up well
on your hand. And that's quite nice. It's quite unusual to see, I think it's quite a nice design
once you get used to it, it was quite difficult to get used to at first because it's very unusual,
but it is a nice one, it does look good, you can adjust the lighting within the
Swarm software. Again, I'll show you that later. When you combine it with
other Roccat products. Roccat Cone Pro uses Roccet's Titan optical switches, so they use optical
light to measure the actuation rather than the traditional setup. And that means that not only
is it more accurate, and it offers a faster actuation, but it also is guaranteed up to 100
million clicks. So this mouse should be designed to last and last and shouldn't let you down over
time, which is obviously a bonus. There's zero debounce delay, and it's designed to be
durable and fantastic. I have actually found it to be very accurate and responsive while gaming.
One thing I will note though is that I found the shape of it quite difficult to get used to. The
sides and overall shape is quite nice, but I find it's quite tall. And so it pushes my palm a bit
and it's a bit hard to put that into words but I feel like maybe it's a bit too rounded off
at the back and the top. But this is a personal preference. And again, I'm trying to pick holes in
a mouse that is generally affordable, comfortable, agile, really nice looking. And fantastic for what
it is. If you're a fan of Roccat products, and you happen to have a Roccat keyboard, you can
see the RGB lighting looks great, they work well together. And overall, it's a great experience.
Here we are within Roccat Swarm software. And you can see the Kone Pro up here.
And you'll see a number of different settings that you can change between, you can adjust the
vertical scroll speed, double click speed, pointer speed, and DPI switching. This is an interesting
point of note, because as I said earlier in the video, there is no DPI button on the mouse itself.
And so although you can set different levels of DPI, you can't actually switch between them
as standard, The button underneath the mouse is actually for profile changing. And you'll
notice down the bottom, there are five different profiles set up here. So you
could set a different DPI level for each profile and maybe some other settings,
and then switch between them by pressing that. Whether this bothers you or not,
is obviously going to be a personal preference, I like to have a DPI button on my mouse personally,
I like to be able to change DPI levels depending on what I'm doing, when I'm gaming or working,
or even just adjusting it. And to have the ability to set different levels, you can see you can go
up to 19,000 is the maximum if you wanted to and all the way down to 50, which is very,
very low. And obviously you can then apply these and switch between them in here or on the hardware
and our button assignment is something that you can do, you see, for example, that it is possible
to change the Profile button and that is something I've done because I have gone to button number
eight, which is the underside Profile button, and I've changed the DPI cycle you can go DPI up and
down, you can cycle between the various modes, or you can do whatever else. You can also see that
you can reprogram all of the buttons on the mouse, including left click, you have the ability to
change between various different presets that are already set up. Balanced preset, you will notice
as an interesting setup to it because it includes Roccet's easy shift button as the rear
thumb button. Now easy shift is an interesting technology from Roccat which allows you to set a
secondary action. So on the right hand side here you will see that there are easy shift buttons
set up for all of this. So what you have is the easy shift activation button on button seven rear
thumb button, press and hold that. And then you can activate these other actions. So in this case,
it goes for media playback. So if you press and hold seven, and then press the left mouse button,
it'll skip back a track, right mouse button, it'll skip forward a track. So this is like an easy
access control for playing music on your device. But you can also use it for other things. So if
we keep it on the balance preset, you'll see that you could change it to anything you want.
You could assign a macro, you could assign a hotkey, you could create your own shortcut, or
you could just make a single press like "F" if you wanted to open something, for example in a game,
or you could go through advanced functions, go to browser, open specific programs, you can do all
sorts of things with this. And I really like the easy shift technology. As long as you don't mind
losing a mouse button functionality, you can then gain access to a load of other ones. And obviously
that has a benefit if you're playing games that require a lot of buttons, access to have more. So
even though the mouse doesn't have like masses of buttons, you potentially have a lot more,
because you have seven on the mouse as standard and then access to another eight once you've got
that easy Shift button activated. So there's loads of potential here. Even if you just keep
the - most of them as standard, once you have that access to the easy shift, you then got access to
seven or eight more buttons depending on how you set it up or just one if you just want to
change one. So there's loads of potential there, and loads of things you can do with it. Another
thing, as I said is you can assign a macro, and there are macros from various games already
included in here so you can go through, find your favorite game, if such a thing exist,
as well as Photoshop. So there's some Photoshop already included, or you can create your own,
you can record your own macros in here. And that's easy enough to do as well. So you can set up
and record your own. So create a new folder, or click on this button, then click to add a macro,
and then you can just start recording, do whatever you want to do.
I'm just gonna do reload for now, and then stop that recording. And you'll see, up and
down it gives you the access to what you've done there. And you can insert delays, you can delete
bits of it, you can also have a fixed delay of a certain amount of time. So the recording of
macros is pretty simple. And then you can assign that to the various different buttons. So this
makes this mouse pretty powerful. And all Roccat products are really nice for having this easy
shift technology built into them. illumination is another thing that this mouse does well,
especially if you have other Roccat products and they highlight this point here. But you can see,
you have the AIMO intelligent lighting system, you can then go through wave, you can turn the
lighting off entirely, you can adjust it so it's fully lit. And you can choose from custom lighting
for left and right. So you can have a different little brightness or different color for each
of those areas. And you can set it through a themes, so it will go through these various
different color schemes and have different colors on each button. Heartbeat will just glow,
breathing is a similar sort of thing. Blinking goes between them, blinking like that.
And you can adjust the speed and brightness of these settings as well. But the intelligent
lighting system is the one I enjoy the most because it sort of fits nicely
with Roccat keyboards and such and it just gives a really nice glow to the mouse as a whole. You'll
see that you can adjust the distance control which is lift off distance, and basically shows you
how high you can lift it off the disk between low and very low.
And you can customize it as well based on what you're doing and calibrate it there. To be honest,
low and very low is not much difference in it in my experience. Polling rate is also set to 1000 as
default. And then there's a few other settings including setting the RGB lighting to time
out. Fairly straightforward software and you can obviously program a multitude of settings
and profiles depending on what you want to do. So it's really straightforward and
easy to use. One last thing that I wanted to do that I'm experimenting with with mouse reviews
from now on is testing a mouse out in Aim Lab, so Aim Lab is a software that you can get for free on
Steam that will let you hone your shooting skills for FPS games. And it can be used to basically
test and find weaknesses in your abilities. So I thought this might be an interesting way to sort
of sum up how I am performing with each mouse and then be able to compare them in future to
see if mice give me an improvement but here you can see someone was scores from a lab.
Using this mouse obviously, the effect is going to vary depending on your skills and your setup and
your DPI levels. So it's not a perfect gauge of it but, results from Aim Lab and from just general
experience have been really good. So all in all, a very nice mouse. Really good looking and capable
in a number of ways. The only low lights for me is it's possibly a bit too shiny and slippery on the
sides and the lack of grip tape means it's hard to keep hold off. But it is nicely ergonomically
shaped and sits relatively comfortable in the hand. It is a bit tall for my hand. But I do
like the overall size of it. It's also lightweight and agile and responds really well all day long.
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