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However, in the bid to make the shape comfortable for both claw and palm users, the thumb button presented a bit of a problem. Ergonomics The mouse was comfortable to use for those with medium-sized hands. Great for keeping important functions out of the way but within trigger finger reach. So all the buttons can get a secondary use when you hold down the thumb button. For the thumb button you can either set the mouse to drop the DPI down, allowing you to line up a shot or you can set a function shift. All you have to do is drag and drop to assign mouse buttons to the functions. Upon installation, it detected all the games we had installed, even the latest ones like Titanfall and provided profiles.
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Logitech needs to iron out of few things on the software side.
This is fairly common with new technology.
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After that the mouse absolutely refused to update its internal firmware. It was smooth sailing right up until the latest firmware update was released.
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It was quick to detect on a Windows 7 PC we tried it on, but on a Windows 8-based Sony Vaio, it refused to detect until we installed the drivers and software. Setup and software We took a bit of time to get the mouse up and running. While playing games, you can cycle through all your weapons or powers Another great feature to have in a growing list for this mouse. Just swipe the mousewheel once and you’ll autoscroll through the comments easily. It's a great feature for when you want to scroll down long websites, like the ones found here.
This disengages the brakes on the mousewheel, allowing it to continuously rotate. Remember the button above the mouse wheel? It’s a toggle for the freescroll function. The mouse is after all, named after the Greek god of versatility.
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The mouse was easy to configure: Just fire up the software, do a series of movements and your mouse is calibrated.
It did not falter at all, though playing on the couch was uncomfortable, but that’s no fault of the mouse. We tried it on glass, wood, a rough mousepad and on the couch. Proteus Core gently glides across any surface. Great for night gaming sessions without waking up the household with your furious burst fire. The mouse clicks were silent, with a barely audible ‘tik’. Everyone’s wrist is different, especially in the weight it exerts when using a mouse, so to negate lift on the left side, you can just anchor that side down with a weight to bring balance to the mouse, thus reducing strain. The weights are cut in an arrow pattern, and you can place them in anywhere around that pentagon. Open it and you’ll see the odd pentagonal weight placement pattern. Around the sensor is the housing for the weights, which is secured in place by a magnetic cover. This is mostly to aid the sensor in its all-surface features. The PTFT mouse-feet, instead of being at the four ends of the mouse, surround the sensor housing in an odd way, and in large chunks. The underside of the mouse retains that triangle motif as well as the blue colour. The other two are DPI up and down buttons, both at different angles so you can feel them out easily. One is a toggle that frees your mouse wheel (more on that later). Up top, above the mouse wheel, there are three buttons. On the same side is also a Thumb Trigger button for quick DPI shift or additional button mapping in a function shift. Then there are the Back and Forward buttons on the left hand side of the mouse within easy reach for your thumb. Apart from the usual left and right buttons, there are two on the side of the left mouse button, possibly for quick weapon switching. The black and grey are accented with streaks of electric blue on the thumb rest and on the lit up G and DPI indicators. Matte is on the top and back, in between are strips of glossy plastic, at the sides are rubberized plastic with a moulded triangle pattern. This is serious, high-grade plastic in various finishes to aid in grip. While the mouse is plastic, it’s none of that cheap, bendy stuff. The body of the mouse is made completely of oddly shaped plastics cut in various polygonal shapes. Logitech has taken its tried and tested shape from the legendary MX518 and has transplanted it into a new body straight out of Tony Stark’s bag of toys. The G502 brings physical form to the phrase “cutting edge.” With a design so familiar and yet so alien at the same time, it’s hard not to sit back and appreciate the design of the Proteus Core, with it’s weaponized uneven front curving up into a back with a big mouse wheel holding the two shards together.