WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.279 you can reach what 20 maybe 23 keys on 00:00:03.840 --> 00:00:11.639 your gaming keyboard garbage get a load of this the azeron 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:16.859 cyborg puts over a hundred keybindings and macros at your literal fingertips 00:00:14.280 --> 00:00:21.779 with up to one two three four five six functions per finger you are gonna need 00:00:19.500 --> 00:00:26.100 a bigger action bar still not enough for you how about Unlimited Custom profiles 00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:33.180 endlessly adjustable switch positions and whatever color scheme you want yeah 00:00:30.119 --> 00:00:36.360 when I saw this thing I knew I had to 00:00:33.180 --> 00:00:38.520 try it or rather pay someone else to try 00:00:36.360 --> 00:00:44.340 it for me because as good as it sounds in theory to have 29 programmable 00:00:42.300 --> 00:00:49.020 buttons within mere millimeters of my fingertips it can take weeks or even 00:00:46.620 --> 00:00:53.940 months to overcome the 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Shake spoiler alert at the end of what ended up being actually two months 00:01:39.360 --> 00:01:46.560 I offered it to him for free for real you can have it 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:49.140 and he won't take it which is troubling 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:54.180 for azeron but hold on it's probably not for the reasons you think and he did 00:01:51.420 --> 00:01:58.979 find a lot of potential benefits if you're willing to unlearn what you have 00:01:56.460 --> 00:02:03.600 learned the cyborg is hardly the first game board on the market everyone from 00:02:00.780 --> 00:02:07.740 Belkin to Razer to Red Dragon has at least dabbled in the space but the main 00:02:05.399 --> 00:02:13.980 differentiators are that unlike its competitors it has no support for wasd 00:02:11.340 --> 00:02:19.040 movement it relies instead entirely on the thumbstick and unlike others it has 00:02:16.739 --> 00:02:23.340 the ability to mold to your hand dramatically reducing the distance 00:02:20.940 --> 00:02:27.660 between your fingers and your wide repertoire of abilities potions and 00:02:25.739 --> 00:02:31.020 spells ploof plays a lot of first and third person shooters and while he's 00:02:29.340 --> 00:02:35.400 much more accurate with a mouse than a thumbstick his left hand does 00:02:32.640 --> 00:02:39.120 legitimately get tired from holding down forward or back for hours during a 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:44.400 lengthy gaming session with three school age kids I can hardly relate with these 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:48.900 problems or feel bad bad for him at all but it can be a legitimate issue 00:02:47.099 --> 00:02:54.060 especially for people with accessibility concerns to represent FPS games then he 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:57.540 briefly tried valorent briefly more on that later but ended up logging most of 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:01.140 his Play Time In Dying Light too for a third person shooter he finished Leon's 00:02:59.459 --> 00:03:05.459 second run in Resident Evil 2 remake then to make sure that we had a game 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:09.959 that benefits from a lot of key bindings he played a bunch of DOTA 2. first of 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:14.040 course though he had to set it up I mean it's not ergonomic if it doesn't fit in 00:03:12.180 --> 00:03:18.780 your hand right they ship it with this little hex key and actually really nice 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:22.920 feeling aluminum driver handle that unfortunately 00:03:19.980 --> 00:03:27.120 uses this non-standard freaking bit so you can't use anything else in it and 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:30.379 can't use it for anything else kind of a bummer you know what can be used for 00:03:28.379 --> 00:03:36.000 anything though the LTT Screwdriver from lttstore.com we've got a lot of 00:03:32.940 --> 00:03:39.959 adjustments here you got your length you 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:43.319 got your spread you got your angles here 00:03:39.959 --> 00:03:45.599 okay so is that yeah that's locked lots 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:48.900 of adjustment on the thumb here and have it here here or here depending on the 00:03:47.099 --> 00:03:54.299 length of your thumb even the thumb ARM has like a second hole so it can be out 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:59.340 farther Earth than this adjustment range okay this thumb one is a little funky 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:03.360 very 3D printed in terms of build quality I don't mean 00:04:00.900 --> 00:04:08.099 that as like an insult it just is oh my God yeah I can see why this took 00:04:05.940 --> 00:04:12.659 you so long to configure man literally took me at least a half hour now that 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:16.859 it's dialed in it's actually like pretty darn comfortable this feels good but one 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:21.600 thing to note is that they actually have a compact version that instead of having 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:26.280 these scorpion tail style switches for the uh fingernails actually has a button 00:04:24.479 --> 00:04:29.940 on the tops of these towers and I think that floof and I are on the same page 00:04:27.780 --> 00:04:34.139 when I say that we would probably prefer that yeah yeah let's start with the 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:38.100 thumbsticks using a stick for wasd is hardly a new idea and has some very real 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:43.139 world benefits especially when it comes to comfort but there are situations 00:04:40.400 --> 00:04:47.820 particularly for PC gaming where the keyboard is still King the problem with 00:04:45.479 --> 00:04:53.460 a thumbstick like this is twofold you can't press multiple opposite directions 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:55.440 at once and it's not as easy to hit the 00:04:53.460 --> 00:05:00.300 exact Direction you need this first problem is basically why ploof couldn't 00:04:57.660 --> 00:05:04.440 play valorent or Counter-Strike or any competitive shooter with this thing want 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:08.400 to get into a strafe battle I mean you can but good luck want to stop on a dime 00:05:07.020 --> 00:05:12.540 by inputting the opposite direction while holding your current direction not 00:05:10.740 --> 00:05:16.259 happening ploof managed to finish just one match of valorent before he 00:05:14.340 --> 00:05:22.560 completely gave up on it and I can definitely see why as for problem number 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:24.900 two it can't really pull d-pad Duty wasd 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:30.000 can at least kind of act like a d-pad allowing you to activate each Direction 00:05:27.500 --> 00:05:34.320 individually and this is the kind of thing that mostly doesn't matter I mean 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:38.639 thumbsticks are superior to d-pads in many ways but in Resident Evil 2 for 00:05:36.419 --> 00:05:42.780 example the d-pad is used in a number of puzzles and for things like lock 00:05:40.500 --> 00:05:47.280 combination entry and we ran into many situations like the statue medallions in 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:52.080 the police station where accuracy became a problem because of how easy it was to 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:56.639 accidentally hit left or right when trying to go up or down there is this 00:05:54.780 --> 00:06:00.780 little nub in here that you could rebind to wasd depending on which version of 00:05:58.919 --> 00:06:04.380 the cyborg you get but isn't all that comfortable to reach even for my tiny 00:06:02.820 --> 00:06:07.680 baby hands our last point about the joystick isn't specific to the cyborg 00:06:06.300 --> 00:06:12.720 but it is something to keep in mind because nearly all joysticks have a 00:06:09.960 --> 00:06:17.280 sizable dead zone or an area where they move but don't register an input they 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:21.539 can feel pretty unresponsive compared to a high quality keyboard with a clear 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:25.139 tactile actuation point and this can make fine adjustments to character 00:06:23.100 --> 00:06:29.880 position a little bit challenging which comically resulted in ploof walking into 00:06:27.840 --> 00:06:34.500 a lot of door frames and walls user error absolutely but the bottom line is 00:06:32.699 --> 00:06:39.180 that he missed his keyboard in Resident Evil 2. with that being said he loved 00:06:37.139 --> 00:06:43.440 having the cyborg In Dying Light too because you're almost constantly holding 00:06:41.400 --> 00:06:47.580 forward while parkouring through the city unfortunately though this game is 00:06:45.840 --> 00:06:51.900 where the cracks started to show in the software for someone who doesn't want to 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:58.560 use a keyboard but wants to keep their Mouse the cyborg is a dream come true I 00:06:55.380 --> 00:07:01.199 mean 29 programmable buttons a profile 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:05.000 for every game mwah but 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:09.780 that's also its biggest problem sometimes your main profile right the 00:07:07.740 --> 00:07:14.280 one that's just on there by default is going to work perfectly with a new game 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:20.039 right out of the box but because of the non-standardization of controls on PC a 00:07:17.340 --> 00:07:25.860 lot of the time it won't In Dying Light 2 for example Z is your hand glider H is 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:28.139 heel m is map and C is Crouch so wait 00:07:25.860 --> 00:07:32.880 now the control key that you had mapped for Crouch and CS go doesn't work in 00:07:30.300 --> 00:07:37.020 this game and bloody hell where's the gym app Z again if you're the kind of 00:07:34.860 --> 00:07:42.479 gamer you know who you are who plays that game just that one game this might 00:07:40.139 --> 00:07:46.139 not be a problem for you but if variety is the spice of your life 00:07:44.220 --> 00:07:49.919 the cyborg may feel a little bit like the next day on the toilet I mean to be 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:54.240 clear azeron's software was pretty intuitive and bug-free it supports an 00:07:52.139 --> 00:07:58.740 unlimited number of profiles and can store two of them on board for gaming 00:07:56.220 --> 00:08:02.699 events and the like but this sky's the limit flexibility can also take the joy 00:08:01.440 --> 00:08:07.620 out of just sitting down to game for a bit when each 00:08:05.460 --> 00:08:11.460 and every game you play requires going through this process where you launch it 00:08:09.479 --> 00:08:15.180 check the default key bindings Tab out of the game double check your azeron 00:08:13.020 --> 00:08:18.539 profile bindings cross reference the two accounting for any new functions that 00:08:17.099 --> 00:08:23.220 this game might have that the last one didn't then go back into the game test 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:25.319 drive it a bit tune it and then finally 00:08:23.220 --> 00:08:29.400 begin the process of committing that profile to your muscle memory and the 00:08:27.539 --> 00:08:32.459 worst part is that while this does get easier over time 00:08:30.960 --> 00:08:37.140 you've put in literally dozens of hours on this thing I'm giving you credit for it because you 00:08:35.760 --> 00:08:40.979 really took one for the team there even for the games you play regularly there's 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:44.520 always going to be a small learning curve when you take a break maybe your 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:48.600 friends went on vacation and you haven't touched Dying Light too for a few weeks 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:52.440 uh prompt comes up and it's labeled as a key that you mapped it to 00:08:50.339 --> 00:08:56.700 can you remember where Q is on the cyborg in this profile 00:08:54.660 --> 00:09:00.660 maybe but more likely you're going to end up leaving the software with the 00:08:58.560 --> 00:09:04.980 profile map up on a second screen so that you can reference it which is 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:09.779 pretty immersion breaking compared to how naturally I suspect most of us would 00:09:06.899 --> 00:09:14.880 use a keyboard or a controller there are some shortcuts to this profiles for 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:18.480 example can be imported or exported and these surprisingly Vibrant Community 00:09:16.380 --> 00:09:23.580 around the cyborg has created profiles for many of the most popular games but 00:09:20.880 --> 00:09:28.260 as with the steam controller this isn't the Silver Bullet that you might hope it 00:09:25.800 --> 00:09:32.519 would be either and Dota 2 presented us with a fresh problem ploof ended up 00:09:30.180 --> 00:09:37.620 having to make custom profiles not just for the game but also for different 00:09:34.920 --> 00:09:41.339 Heroes depending on the usual items he bought and their number of abilities to 00:09:39.779 --> 00:09:45.240 be clear once it was all set up and working he actually loved having 00:09:43.380 --> 00:09:50.160 everything at his fingertips like this but the ability to just on a whim click 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:55.560 on a different hero and say yes I'm gonna play as you this match was 00:09:52.620 --> 00:09:59.100 kind of gone you can pay for re-wasd which will apparently detect the game 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:03.240 that you launch and swap profiles for you automatically it's a nice little 00:10:00.959 --> 00:10:07.500 quality of life thing but it's gonna cost you another 25 dollars for that 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:12.180 functionality at the time of writing and it doesn't solve the every hero needs a 00:10:09.959 --> 00:10:16.560 different binding problem only the I play a lot of different games one but 00:10:13.800 --> 00:10:20.880 hey at least it's comfortable right well about that we found that over long 00:10:18.839 --> 00:10:24.959 periods of time it was a bit of a mixed bag the shape is actually quite Pleasant 00:10:23.339 --> 00:10:30.360 after adjusting it and you can get the Palm rest in a couple of different styles with the curved one being right 00:10:27.899 --> 00:10:36.300 I'd say for for both of us the Omron d2f01 switches are not too hard to press 00:10:33.300 --> 00:10:37.980 and have a nice clicky sound and while 00:10:36.300 --> 00:10:44.100 you can fumble during some more intense sessions overall it does feel kind of 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:50.339 right to just rest your hand in this other hand however something about the 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:55.860 plastic material used for the switches particularly the bottom ones that your 00:10:52.680 --> 00:10:58.260 fingers rest in feels distinctly greasy 00:10:55.860 --> 00:11:01.200 after as little as 20 or 30 minutes and honestly when ploof told me this I 00:10:59.820 --> 00:11:07.440 thought he might just be being a whiny pants about it like seriously dude tired 00:11:03.839 --> 00:11:10.200 from holding down W for too long 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:14.339 but for this one after a few minutes I can actually kind of see what he means 00:11:12.300 --> 00:11:18.000 before I'm on azeron's website has a guide about using lizard skin on the 00:11:16.140 --> 00:11:21.120 switches and then you can buy grip tape for the Palm rest from azeron directly 00:11:19.800 --> 00:11:26.760 so it's not like these problems aren't solvable but it's just yet another thing 00:11:23.880 --> 00:11:31.200 to faff about with and pay more money for it to have a non-slippery experience 00:11:28.800 --> 00:11:35.700 and remember that all of this cost is on top of whatever mouse and keyboard you 00:11:34.019 --> 00:11:39.180 already have because this is not a full replacement for 00:11:37.560 --> 00:11:43.200 either of them so you can't exactly just sell them to recoup some cost unless you 00:11:41.100 --> 00:11:47.279 plan to just use the default name for every character in every game from now 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:52.440 on I mean I suppose it would be an option to get two of them for a total of 00:11:49.920 --> 00:11:56.820 58 programmable Keys plus additional layers and like type on them but unless 00:11:55.140 --> 00:12:01.260 you're used to similar systems like the data hand personal I would strongly 00:11:59.640 --> 00:12:05.399 recommend against it I think the more obvious benefit of that right hand 00:12:03.000 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