Roccat's New Mechanical Keyboard Geared For eSports

[exfileme]

Here's a new eSports-focused keyboard from Roccat.

Roccat's New Mechanical Keyboard Geared For eSports : Read more

 

[qlum]

Id never go without a numpad especially not at this price.

 

[sephirothmk]

Small L-Shift key = terrible for gaming. Useless product

 

[thefounderx]

Id never go without a numpad especially not at this price.

agreed.

 

[J_Th4ng]

Why did the swap the Y and Z keys around?

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

Id never go without a numpad especially not at this price.

Then this isn't a product made for you. I am in the market for a mechanical backlit TKL KB and this one almost made me reconsider buying CoolerMaster Rapid-i, but they kill the whole point of not having NumPad (gamer here, never use it) by including this large ugly frame, and the price is the same as Rapid-i.

Why did the swap the Y and Z keys around?

This is clearly a German layout, which other keys prove as well. Isn't RC a German brand anyhow?

 

[DokuroKM]

Regarding the switched Y and Z keys and the small L-Shift key: Roccat is a German brand and this is the German standard layout. Just checked 3 keyboards here, that is a normal size for the L-Shift key here.

Interestingely, I never thought that the L-Shift would be too small for gaming, as my little finger is automatically there when I use WSAD. Never heard someone complaining about key size here...

 

[cypeq]

The headline seriously says that it's now 'geared for e-sport'? So previously roccat products were not?

Dang it I like their range and I strongly prefer TKL size but I think million macro gimmick and Independent lightning aren't meaningful enough to drop another 40$.

And I don't know... CM did awesome move providing tkl with a numpad at the cost of 5 more switches.

 

[cypeq]

dupe?

 

[twztechman]

As a lefty, I use the Numpad area for almost everything. This would not work for me.

 

[magicandy]

While it's true the numpad is almost always not used in games (even for macros it's not best to use since you have to take your hand off either the mouse or use your WASD hand to use it), I use the numpad outside of games all the time, whenever I have to input a number - it's just so much faster than plugging away at the top row numbers.

Sure it's a "gamer keyboard" but even competitive gamers use their computer for other things outside of games. Once you lose the numpad you'll start realizing just how much you actually used it.

I get it, Roccat is trying to cut costs by cutting down the number of keys and the expensive cherry mx switches that go with them. But as others have said this is unacceptable for a $140 keyboard. If they brought it down to sub $100 I could see it, but that's just too much to sacrifice the numpad.

 

[magicandy]

duplicate post, mods please delete this