The word "game keyboard" is not unfamiliar to many players who love games. As the name suggests, the game keyboard is a keyboard product designed for gamers to use this particular group of users. However, in the market in recent years, various strange shapes have appeared. Various keyboards have been branded as "game keyboards". A normal keyboard that sells for 30 yuan, the manufacturers change the color of WASD's four key caps, plus a few LED lights immediately turn into a "professional gaming keyboard" that costs hundreds or even hundreds of dollars. , And as some of the entry game players often can not distinguish between the tricky, so listen to the shop rumors have been fooled.
So what exactly must be a qualified gaming keyboard? How exactly do we choose the right gaming keyboard for us? Today Xiao Bian came to you for a minute to talk about the game keyboard.
1, Appearance Appearance is important to all people. Do not believe that the better the things you use, the more mediocre it will be. Now it is the 21st century. Appearance and utility are the way out. Of course, the appearance does not mean that the style is quirky and the colors are garish. In general, an excellent game keyboard has more ergonomic design in terms of styling. How to allow users to get the most natural and comfortable experience in use is the most successful appearance of a keyboard. On the other hand, many so-called "game keyboards" are currently pursuing alternatives. They do not care about what consumers feel when they use their products. If they use the keyboard for a long time, they may cause fatigue and affect the use of players. Feelings.
2, the key layout first as a player, you must understand what is the type of your main game. The same as the game keyboard, the difference between the game keyboard corresponding to the traditional game and the corresponding MMO game is still very large. Before a friend paid gold to buy a well-known brand of thousand-dollar gaming keyboard, back to Xiaobian I vomit, saying that such an expensive gaming keyboard is not as good as an ordinary keyboard for tens of dollars, the result went to his home Look, he is buying an MMO game artifact, and his own game is a traditional game type such as CF, which is no wonder it does not work. Because different game types are not only used in keyboard modeling, the difference in key arrangement is also very large, traditional games should try to choose the standard form of cloth keys, and online game players should consider some function keys more Game keyboard. This is also the difference between a game keyboard and an ordinary keyboard, and the use of right can reflect the advantages of the game keyboard, otherwise it will only pay money for thanklessness.
3, operating feel First of all, ordinary keyboard. The main function of the normal keyboard is typing, because it is to take into account the reasons for the user to work long hours, so the keys are almost soft on the touch, so it is not easy to fatigue. On the other hand, game keyboards do not appear to be extremely long-time operations. Therefore, the use of performance is more important in this respect. As a qualifying game keyboard, first of all, it must be fast enough for the button to rebound. The dragging and typing feeling is unable to meet the requirements of the game. In addition, there are strict requirements on the key process. This even extends to each type of game. For example, in FPS games, the triggering of keystrokes must be quite rapid, because such games are more particular about the momentary operation response, and if there is a slight delay in triggering and responding, the keystrokes will create a successful failure; and for RTS. In fact, the required keystroke cannot be too long, because in the case of multi-unit operation, the player needs to mobilize multiple key operations within a short time. If the keystroke is too long, it will affect the operation rhythm, which is also not allowed. Therefore, there is a clear difference between the keystroke and trigger time of the game keyboard than the normal keyboard.
4, keycap material keycap as a very important part of the keyboard, often easily overlooked by the player. The keycap determines the height and depth of the keys for a keyboard, as well as the feel and so on. Ordinary keyboards generally use only ordinary engineering plastics. The kind of material is not durable, and problems such as oiling will occur in a short time. I believe that many players who have used ordinary keyboard games will know that some common keys are used for a short time. The inside will look like oily, slippery, which is a big difference between a normal keyboard and a game keyboard. The keycaps of game keyboards are generally U-shaped, so that when the fingertips and keys are touched, they can completely fit the fingers and achieve a rich touch, which can improve the feeling to a certain extent. According to world-renowned mechanical keyboard manufacturer Cherry, the slight differences in human index finger, middle finger, ring finger and tail finger should all be reflected in the corresponding keycap concavity. This is also the unique design of the game keyboard.
In terms of keycap material, PBT and POM are all very good materials. In terms of subtle handfeel differences, there is no need to entangle which one is better because currently the industry has not conclusively considered which material can replace each other. However, in terms of cost, the POM should be slightly higher. In addition, the feel of the keycap depends to a certain extent on the surface coating of the material, or the sanding process. With the two-color molding process, it can have a longer life than laser printing, laser packing, and mimeograph printing. In this case, the cost is relatively high, which is why the game keyboard will be sold more expensively.
5, the stability of the game keyboard relative to the ordinary keyboard, the keyboard stability is also a lot stronger. Because the game is too tense, players often make a lot of effort. If the keyboard is too light, it will easily shift to cause output errors and so on. Therefore, the game keyboard has been given a heavier treatment inside the keyboard, and some keyboards have even been slip-resistant at the bottom. In this way, the gaming keyboard can firmly grasp the surface of the platform during use, thereby increasing the operational stability.
6, extension function Now most game keyboards are equipped with supporting driver software and some other program software, some of which are vendors to sell dog meat, the so-called supporting software only adjust the backlight brightness and some tasteless features, these are some Indulge in a few tricks. A qualified gaming keyboard will inevitably rely on the corresponding supporting software to implement some of the core functions, (now also began to appear some products that use internal chips to adjust the function) such as macro settings, shielding settings and so on. These functions can be used to facilitate the repetitive operation of some games, as ordinary keyboards will not have these functions.
