Remapping the movement to my natural WASD area was really unnatural because of the switch type used. My thumb would also eventually slip, even with the included textural rubber pads. It always felt a bit unnatural, especially for FPS.įor example, I cannot strafe as fast as I can with a keyboard because going left to right requires so much movement on the joystick. I literally spent hours reassigning key binds for my four fingers that are normally around the WASD area. It is kind of like combining the two in terms of ergonomics and customization, and it also gives you a little bit of that old school analog joystick movement. I’m not used to moving with my thumb because I’ve never owned a console, but this keypad would actually would be a great transition piece from a console towards PC gaming. This is where the frustration kicked in because my finger memory for FPS was totally messed up. The three fingers that are normally around the WASD area on the keyboard now had to activate all other key binds, and my thumb instead of hitting space bar all the time was in charge of movement with the analog stick. It is precisely because of the switches that I had to completely rethink my gaming grip. You definitely have to train yourself to figuring out how to use these in the most efficient way possible for your play style and for the type of games you play. Everything else is a bit more in reach and a little bit more comfortable to use then those two top buttons. The button towers for your pointer and middle fingers are slightly larger, giving you extra buttons up top that are a little bit awkward to press and it’s actually easy to forget to use them. You can literally customize this fully to your hand so that none of the controls ever feel weird or out of place, and for that Azeron gets another huge thumbs up! At the bottom you can loosen them up, adjust the actual distance of each finger tower based on your hand size and based on your finger length, which is a actually perfect. The few unconventional locations on the button towers give you six buttons for the point finger, five for the middle, and four for the rest. They are very tactile, have short travel distance, are easy to press, and they are fairly quiet. The switches are not your traditional keyboard swishes, instead they are using micro switches, the same type used in mice. Everything is customizable with two onboard profiles that you can switch on-the-fly with the button on the side or endless profiles through the software, more on that later. Now let’s get to the fun part, the 26 custom buttons, the five-way directional pad, and the full analog joystick. To fix that I had to plug into USB 2.0 port, install the drivers and update the firmware for it to finally work on the USB 3.0 ports, keep that in mind. This is because I plugged it into a USB 3.0 port. Now the first hiccup I encountered with this keypad when plugging it in is that my computer did not actually recognize it.
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