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Colorshift : The lights will cycle between a variety of colors. Steel Engine offers four selectable palettes for Colorshift mode. Lighting has become an expected feature for today’s gaming mice. The SteelSeries Rival 100 comes with customizable lighting under its scroll wheel and rear logo.The SteelSeries Engine software lets you choose from a theoretical 16.8 million colors, though admittedly the granularity is hard to see. While they do nothing to help your game, they do add some style points to your desktop. This mouse is plug and play for both Windows and Mac and uses the Steelseries Engine 3 software which we’ll get into later in the review. Supporting full RGB of 16.8 million colors, the logo lights up with a subtle soft orange light when you first plug it in. The ergonomic shape and 6-button right-handed layout were designed to work comfortably with any grip style. The mouse features a soft-touch surface with sculpted side grips that provide a raised texture for maximum comfort, so gamers never lose grip or control in the heat of battle. Make it Yours You an adjust DPI sensitivity in software as per your sense ( extremely useful) i.e. Acceleration Customization/Deceleration Customization
Steelseries Rival 100, 300 gaming mouse, superior control Steelseries Rival 100, 300 gaming mouse, superior control
The custom-engineered sensor of the Rival 100 delivers superior, unmatched performance. The enhancements made to create this new-breed sensor produce significant advantages for users, like: You can have multiple configurations for a mouse, and even duplicate or delete the profiles. Polling rate is at 1000 but you can choose 500, 250, or 125. Angle snapping is a nice feature where mostly side to side or up and down movement will correct slightly off trajectories and move the mouse exactly in that direction. I can already see a use case for that in Photoshop. I played around with acceleration and deceleration here, might be useful for snipers in games I think. I had a choice between this and Logitech G302 mouse both are designed with MOBA players in mind but are extremely good for daily/office use. For the review of the Steelseries Rival 100 & Rival 300, I thought I’d do something a little different, a side-by-side to see how these two tiers of gaming mice compare. I have the Steelseries Rival 300 in white on the left, and a red Steelseries Rival 100 on the right. Steelseries is considered to be one of the best gaming mouse manufacturers on the market due to their reputation for quality and the longevity of their products. So let’s see what they got.
Ease of Use
Two additional buttons grace the left side of the mouse, with both the left and right sides having a textured finish for additional grip. Underneath the mouse are three smooth feet — one long one at the top going the width of the mouse and two smaller ones near the bottom. The smoothness of the feet makes for some smooth gliding on both mouse pads and smooth surfaces. Finally, the USB cable Left side buttons on the Rival 100. SteelSeries delivers Prism RGB illumination on the Rival 100 – the only mouse in its class with millions of color options, variations and features. Features beyond color, like illumination motions and real-time game actions via GameSense can all be controlled through the powerful, SteelSeries Engine software suite. We determined early-on that we weren’t going to sacrifice anything when designing the Rival 100. In fact, it was our goal to develop a multi-button gaming mouse, with features and performance beyond any similarly-priced mouse,” said Ehtisham Rabbani, SteelSeries CEO. “We are confident that this is the mouse gamers are demanding.” Under the Hood A few customization options are available for the Rival 100 through SteelSeries Engine. For starters, all the buttons are programmable. Another neat feature is the option to set customized macros. And finally, there are the options to adjust CPI settings, lighting, angle snapping, and acceleration settings.
Steelseries Gaming Rival 100 Optical Mouse Black - Scan Steelseries Gaming Rival 100 Optical Mouse Black - Scan
The Rival 100 comes in a fairly compact form factor. Measuring 4.75 inches tall and 2.65 inches wide, it fits in the palm easily, yet still leaves enough room for you to completely lift your fingers off the mousepad. For this reason, it caters to all three grip styles (palm, claw, and fingertip) very well. Featuring an ambidextrous design, the Rival 100 does not discriminate between hand preferences. SteelSeries Engine allows users to map the 6 buttons to custom game controls, adjust optical sensor sensitivity for any style or speed of play and create personalized configurations from acceleration/deceleration to CPI settings. Ever since my first SteelSeries mouse review, I’ve been a fan of the SteelSeries Engine and the company has been keeping up with updates over the past couple years to it. With the Rival 100, you can easily modify any of the six buttons and the scroll up/down functions. It’s super easy to modify the behaviour of any of these buttons including keystrokes, macros, media buttons, mouse buttons, launching applications, launching configurations, launching engine apps, OS specific shortcuts, and you can even deactivate them if you choose. The Rival 100 configuration screen in the SteelSeries Engine software app. The Rival 100's lighting options might not be as expansive as those offered by Razer and Corsair, but they still offer a nice bit of flash (and choice) for a mouse at this price point.
Design
We’ve reviewed a couple SteelSeries Rival gaming mice now and for the most part, they’ve been solid mice. Our SteelSeries Rival 100 review takes a look at a simpler, affordable gaming mouse — let’s see if it lives up to the SteelSeries reputation! Specifications Bought the mouse at 1500 and it feels great to hold. Since I have a palm grip, this mouse completely suits me. Also recommended for those having a claw grip. The Rival 100 has two lighting areas: the mouse wheel and the SteelSeries logo on the palmwrest. Both areas share the same lighting setting, so you can't configure them independently, unfortunately.
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