After all, if you can't use the mouse without the Firefly mouse pad, how often will you be in a situation where you can't simply open the Razer software? ('Tournaments' are one obvious answer, although as discussed above, the setup isn't that tournament-friendly.) Performance The Mamba can also hold up to four onboard profiles, which is a lot less useful than it sounds. My only complaint here is that turning them on and off on a game-by-game basis is not intuitive you have to launch a game at least once before it's even tracked in the Chroma apps menu. This covers big-name titles like Overwatch, Diablo III, Doom and Final Fantasy XIV, as well as a ton of smaller indie titles. There are also the Chroma apps, which automatically activate preprogrammed lighting patterns as soon as you boot up certain games. (The lighting on the Mamba looks good, though.)

The LED lighting on the Firefly is not that bright, even on maximum settings, and there's also simply not that much of it, physically.

But unless you look very closely (or you're in a very dark room), you might not know it. The Firefly and the Mamba sync lighting by default, which is a nice touch. It's not as dead-simple as Razer's Synapse 2.0 software, but it's a lot prettier, and just as comprehensive.īoth the Mamba mouse and the Firefly mousepad take advantage of Razer Chroma lighting, and this is where I first encountered some performance issues with both of them. You can customize just about any button, set up an alternate 'Hypershift' set of commands and even synchronize the Chroma lighting with Philips Hue smart-home systems. Adjusting dots-per-inch (DPI) sensitivity, polling rate and lighting is simple enough, as is programming macros to map to the thumb buttons. The LED lighting on the Firefly is not that bright, even on maximum settings, and there's also simply not that much of it.īeyond that, the Mamba Hyperflux runs on the finally-out-of-beta Razer Synapse software. Razer's system is paradoxically less versatile, but (potentially) more expensive. The PowerPlay charges mice and includes separate receivers, which means you can power up a mouse with the PowerPlay (or a USB cable), then use it anywhere else for as long as the battery lasts. Compare and contrast the Logitech PowerPlay, which has two mice (and counting) available, one of which is amenable to lefties. There's also the issue of the Mamba being the only mouse available for the Hyperflux setup.

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