I can only speculate on why Roccat went with TTC, and it might well be because Cherry simply has too much demand from Corsair and Logitech to the point where other companies have had to wait for months at a time to get their switches in. This was my first time with the TTC switches, and I have no complaints about them except for the part where Roccat does not seem to have a linear switch option and both switches available have a relatively strong tactile bump that does not translate well into some games. At $140, there is a lot of competition from companies who offer a better software experience or a better hardware experience, and RGB backlighting alone is no longer new to the market either.

Switches aside, the Suora FX has two sides - hardware and software - that affect the user experience. The former is among the best for a gaming brand company, with a thick aluminum housing, minimal bezels, and good soldering work. The LEDs and LED housing are also very good and uniform for what RGB can do, with the usual white color having a blue hue being an issue here too. If you have no bugs with the software, it does a decent job in terms of performance and action settings whilst giving you some preset lighting effects to choose from as well.

That is where my experience also took a bad turn with a driver bug causing issues in even getting the keyboard "module" downloaded and the firmware updated. Once done, I was also left slightly disappointed with the custom lighting mode being as simple as it is and the macro settings not being as customizable as I would have preferred. When opened from the system tray, Swarm often failed to scale to a high resolution monitor, and I had to quit the program and re-start it to get it open in a large enough size to see anything on my 4K display. Roccat is having some growing pains here again when it comes to their software team, and hopefully, they will work on getting it better - there is certainly a good base to build upon.

At $140, there is a lot of competition from companies who have a better software experience or a better hardware experience, and RGB backlighting alone is no longer new to the market either. If you do not need the RGB backlighting, the blue backlit Suora makes a much more compelling case for itself at the $90 mark. I just am not convinced RGB backlighting merits a $50 price hike.