welcome to my unboxing and first look at the rocket rocket rocket rocket that's
the way to say it rocket rocket iscu FX
so this is a premium level gaming keyboard and before we get too far into
this no it isn't mechanical but it does have a lot of features that do set it
apart from other keyboards even at this price range so the MSRP is something
like €99 but it's really the software that
sets this guy apart as well as some of the design things that they've
integrated that really do make it a tool for enhancing your gaming experience
whether it's to make you better or whether it's just to make it more
enjoyable and so we'll get into some of those in a bit more detail once we get
it opened up so first there's a quick installation guide important document
you know what we're not going to worry too much about that download the latest drivers off the rocket website and that
was pretty much it so packaging is very minimalistic on this guy there we are
and let's start going through some of the features once we get this uh
covering sort of torn off there we
go there we go all right so relatively low profile
keys so you can see the key caps don't stand up very high so it's not quite
like a like a laptop keyboard but it is uh there the idea is responsiveness so
it features 1,000 Herz pulling rate so there should be pretty much no leg and
then the idea with the low profile key is that you should be able to actuate
them more quickly this is especially important for membrane key switches
because you do have to bottom them out in order to activate them I'm actually
going to pull this up as a cheat sheet because there's a lot of stuff to cover
all right programmable keys so you've
actually got a Zone here and I'm going to use this to illustrate it right here
of 20 keys that can have macro
functionality programmed into them and simply by using the rocket shift plus so
you have a regular shift key and then you have another sort of see you can see
it's got like a weird sort of graphic on it with like a downward shift and a plus
so that's the shift plus so when you're gaming you put your hand there and then
all of these Keys over here in this Zone that you can reach with your hand can be
programmed to have macro functionality this to me is a way better solution than
having something like a programmable key that's off to the side I mean we've seen
ones with banks of programmable keys that are this big how you going to reach
any you don't take your hand off the keyboard to go like fumble with a macro
it doesn't work that way so the shift is a great addition not only that but with
rocket talk so if you have a rocket Mouse as well you can press shift on
your mouse and then activate a macro key
on the keyboard or you can press shift on the keyboard and change the
functionality of any of the keys on the mouse so the way that they work together
is very very very cool you've also got some fully programmable keys so these
can have a basic function programmed and then a shift plus functionality
programmed into them so either those can be macros or regular functionality and
they've added three thumb buttons here that they're calling like quick strike
buttons or something along those lines so the idea is that they're things that you could reach with your thumb rather
than spacebar and there's a little indent here so you can tell which one
you're actually touching so that's very very cool stuff they've actually also
added an indent on the W key itself so
there's your regular home row ones your W and then this thumb one here as well
as the five over on the number pad the layout is very standard so they haven't
committed any cardinal sins the caps lock key looks like it's been replaced
I'm not sure if they have a software functionality to turn that back on it's
probably not the end of the world since most Gamers should have their cap slot
Keys taken away anyway um long enter
backspace and shift keys so nothing nothing wrong with the layout whatsoever
quick macro recording so on the Fly you can record macros and use them this is
kind of neat this is something we have seen before there are also media Keys up
here at the top and and pretty soon it's going to be time to start talking about
some of the other software functionality which I've kind of forgotten about ah
yes so rocket FX is pretty neat so you
can actually tell the keyboard you want it to have certain effects when certain
things happen so if you get hit for example the keyboard could glow red it
has fully uh adjustable colors so something with 16.8 million colors so
you can light it up in whatever color you want 180 plus programmable functions
and the macro live recording k25 Plus functions assignable to Media plus hot
Keys okay yeah we got all that got all that six brightness levels ah it has
anti- ghosting so you don't have to worry about uh so what ghosting is is if
you press a bunch of keys then it can just register random extra key strokes
so it does have anti- ghosting th Herz pulling rate we've covered already the
rocket talk set bonus is neat so the uh cone pier and The Cone
uh shoot xtd are the ones that actually
support that functionality with the keyboard
uh we'll be back in a moment so you can have a number of different game profiles
and that can be indicated by the profile selector button up here so that'll shift
to a bunch of different macros and all that kind of cool stuff the wrist rest
is actually I think one of the stronger points of this keyboard not necessarily
because it's like uh super heavy duty or anything like that but it's quite long
so it actually gives you somewhere to rest your wrist unlike a lot of the
gaming keyboards we've seen in the past that are kind of like this where you fall off them especially if you have
long hands so it's a very natural it's a very natural shape to put your entire
Palm down which is technically bad keyboarding form but let's face it a lot
of people do it so it is what it is you've got cable management holes on the
bottom here so you can route your mouse cable or sort of any other necessary
cables around you've also got a nice rubber on the bottom all over the place
so the entire under the uh wrist rest is here here here and here and then up on
the top of the keyboard they're here here and here and then these
unfortunately do not have oh do they I
can't I can't quite tell it looks like it yeah these have the same rubber pads
on them as well so that's actually quite nice to see because sometimes you put
those feet up and they don't have rubber on them so they can actually move around
yeah the whole keyboard is not going anywhere once we got it set up so I
think that pretty much covers it for now thank you for checking out this unboxing
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videos actually it occurs to me now we should have done a uh a night shot of
this guy so you can see we've got it on a cycling effect where it's changing the
colors or it's breathing or it's doing something I don't know there's a bunch of different functionality that you can
access just by pressing the there we go so there's some different brightness
levels it's kind of neat the way they've done the illumination so the keys
actually don't even look like uh like they're clear like they're seethrough
for the uh for the buttons themselves you can see them quite clearly in the
light but then they do illuminate once the keyboard is uh once the light gets a
little bit darker in the room so now we're actually done