Huntsman Analog: Worse than I hoped for, but better than I expected.
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Probably neither? Maybe it just maybe me, I feel these are some of the most overpriced and overmarketed keyboards on the market. These may be marketed for gamers but probably overpriced for the average consumer. You would have to pay over 200 dollars for what? Cheap plastic and decent aluminum frames. Sure their software may be decent along with macro keys but overall their keyboard specs feel lackluster. In my opinion, kinda not worth it.
I am not saying these are bad keyboards by any means, just heavily overpriced. Heck, you can get a Keychron keyboard that has similar specs with an aluminum frame for under 100 dollars. Even the regular Glorious keyboards have an aluminum frame and customization for their switches and keycaps while being much less. A Royal Kludge full-size keyboard is probably already good enough for the average gamer while being significantly less.
These keyboards are good, but for that price, probably not worth it.
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I’m in the market for a new keyboard, and seeing as I love my Razer Basilisk V3 Pro, I was looking into this keyboard. I think I would like the features of the analog version, but it seems to be increasingly out of stock everywhere. Anyone know why that may be? Are they bad, discontinued, coming out with a new version? TIA!
The TLDR is that I'm going to keep it, but it's pretty much a waste of money.
When I heard about the analog keys, I was curious. The concept seemed to be a game changer. Then I heard the keys in a YouTube video, and tried to cancel my order. That didn't work out. I'm pleased to say that the keys are not as bad as I feared. They are louder than I was hoping for, but the analog mechanism gives them a good resistance. They don't crash into the bottom of the stem as roughly as I was expecting, which is a relief.
Unfortunately, that's about all the nice things I have to say. The superthin font on the keycaps lets very little light through. Combined with them being black (which absorbs light) and the lighting effects might as well not exist. At least not with the room lights on. They are exceptionally boring. I threw on a set of mercury keycaps, and that makes the colors pop much nicer.
Actually making use of the analog keys though... it's pretty pointless. In order for them to actually act like analog keys, the game you're playing needs to believe you're using a controller. That brings with it other controller baggage, such as aim assist. Want to type in chat? Forget it, your WASD is a joystick so you can't use those letters. "Your entence ill look like thi." I ended up creating two profiles so I can turn the joystick mode on and off, but that's pretty annoying. Worse, some games try to switch between keyboard and controller mode based on your inputs. For example, testing out in Borderlands 2, joystick mode would work fine normally. But if I were to crouch, the game switches to keyboard mode and my WASD begins to operate in binary mode until I stop crouching. It'll do things like show me an Xbox "X" button instead of my actual action key of E. The game has to believe through and through that you're using a controller for this to work, and... well that's not the PC way.
The analog keys end up not bringing anything to the table. It still works like a normal keyboard and I like it more than the BlackWidow, so I'm going to keep it. But I wouldn't buy it again and I don't recommend you do either. It's a waste of money. Just get a normal keyboard because this one doesn't bring anything meaningful to the table.