

And someone always asks so I'll answer in advance. Plus, there's a shit ton of color choices and combinations and printing styles and even graphics to choose from if that's your thing! The squared off sides combined with the increased surface area make it easier to hit the key you're going for. The top 'face' of they keycaps have more surface area and and there's less space between keys, which sounds like it would cause more accidental keystrokes but it actually decreases them for me. The uniform flat profile makes it easy to "feel" your way across the keys to hit the tough (default) hotkeys. Check out some of the screenshots to see what I mean. They're not a very well known keycap style but there's a surprising amount of though behind the design. #9 I put some G20 ABS Keycaps on my Filco TKL with blue switches and I really like it as a Starcraft keyboard (specifically BW because of the flat keycap profile). Personally I would recommend the plum 84 keyboard to anyone who is serious about gaming, as it aces pretty much every criteria one can set for a gaming keyboard. Right-click on a key and select Edit This pop-up window will appear: In this screen, you can assign your G-Key as a: Keystroke - Assign a single key press, or a key press with modifiers. Choose the key you want to program and drop the command on top of it. It's surprising how big a role actuation force plays on your apm. When you drag a command over the keyboard, the configurable keys will highlight. I would definitely consider modding the switches with 30-35 g springs. If youve seperated the front panel you can see that the front panel has two smaller panels attached to it. But be carefull, because to many force will break them. It is attached with a lot of clips around the edge, so you have to carefully force them. Personally I like topre and topre clones as they strike a good balance between linearity along with tactile feedback with a force curve that makes it easy to bottom out (which all of starcraft gamers do). First you have to take out the whole front panel which is clicked onto the rest of the keyboard. For FPS'es linear switches are a must, but for RTS I don't think it matters. Not only did my apm increase, but I also found it much easier to play for prolonged periods of time, as my hand doesn't get fatigued nearly as easy.Īs to tactility, I don't think there's a right answer for RTS games. I attribute this your hands becoming fatigued quicker from many presses.įinally recently I got my hands on my first 35 g board, which really surprised me with how light it feels. with my 75 g alps boards, my apm fell from 260 to 230. I've tried to use switches with different weight, and I've noticed that the higher the actuation force is the lower your apm will be. I think one major change I would have made to your keyboard would be the switches. #2 this is so cool! I spend a lot of time and money on keyboards, and in the end I made many of the same conclusions you have made.
