It has a couple of old design flaws and a potential new one. All games use keys outside the "warzone." In a darkened environment it's finding the isolated ones that is most tricky, not the clumped together ones. Once I put my middle finger on the 'W' key, my fingers are naturally positioned to use the ASDF keys. Back-lighting should be available on any key the gamer wants backlit; so a thoughtful designer who designs for the enthusiast market might as well make the whole lot user-definable. What is specifically needed for the "warzone" keys is for the glyphs on them to be dye sublimated. Every fricken' backlit gamer's keyboard I've ever owned I've begun wearing off the glyphs after just a couple of months.... even on the expensive Corsair K90 Vengeance. It just makes for a shabby appearance.



The potential new flaw is the keyboard angle relative to the wrist rest. I have a hunch that the design lessens the amount of blood flow to the fingers more than any other keyboard, and we FPS gamers need plenty of blood flow to the fingers when not engaging in the other extra curricular activity.

Posted on Aug 14th 2013, 9:49 Reply