so today on my video blog we're going to be unboxing the Merc stealth keyboard
This is a steel series keyboard it's uh a fairly premium gaming keyboard and the
reason for that that they bring is what they bring to the table is a unique
gaming terrain layout so what that means is they've got a whole section of this
keyboard that is dedicated entirely to gaming Keys okay it has red blue or
purple backlight and let's see what other interesting features they have on
the back yeah that's pretty much it okay it
supports simultaneous keystrokes like most gaming keyboards these days and to
be perfectly honest with you the only reason I'm opening this thing is because
I want to see it uh the cameraman I have
uh substituting for the real cameraman today actually says that he's tried it
and it doesn't work for him because he uses some kind of like ancient old
school way of gaming where he uses like the right and left Mouse buttons to go
forward and backwards and like a z to strafe left and right I was like what so
it didn't work for him but I think for someone who uses a more well okay less
traditional but more modern WD layout it might work so it comes with a steel
series sticker okay there it is it comes with a steel series uh terms and
conditions which I can't imagine you could possibly care about it comes with
a steel series professional gaming gear oh this is just a brochure of some of
their other products okay that's good and then it comes with uh download
software you know I really like to see this instead of a disc to be perfectly
honest most people have the internet these days you can go download the
latest version of the software and we drivers and uh this is oh okay this is
like a manual how to use your Merc stealth so the Merc stealth is kind of
like the Merc except that it has a backlight and I think they've changed
the aesthetic of it slightly so before we look at the keyboard itself why don't
we just check out the cables that we have running out of the back here so I
just got to get this zip tie off and here we go so we got one thick cable
coming out of the Merc stealth and that plugs into a USB port on your computer
as well as your headphone and mic jacks on the back of your computer so what
that means is that this keyboard does have support for a USB hub and then it
also has support for you to plug your headset and well your headset into the
keyboard itself that just means you're able to run a shorter wire as opposed to
a lot of other keyboards which don't have that feature now you do have little
stands and if I can get the cameraman to kind of get like a weird angle on this
here from the side so you can see how much that elevates the keyboard versus
running it just flat like that there you go and then let's have a look at the
gaming terrain because besides the gaming terrain you've got a fairly bog
standard layout here okay tactile feedback on the keys but basically what
it comes down to is this part of the keyboard so actually I'm just going
going to go ahead and put my hands here so there's your WD there's your q& e so
to speak cuz they've got it sort of mapped out for you that way and then
you've got tab caps lock I'm not sure who uses caps lock for gaming but uh
yeah I find it gets in the way more than anything else there's shift control so
actually shift shift forward actually that's kind of neat so the way they've
mapped it out basically is such that you've got a similar layout to here but
it's supposed to be quite a bit more comfortable and more ergonomic to have
your hand coming in at this angle you've got far easier access to all of your
number keys so it means you're going to be able to reach all of your weapons far
more easily as well as access with your thumb to quite a few more keys than
you'd normally have so actually it's kind of a pretty cool looking feature
I'd like the cameraman to just kind of have like a quick look at the keyboard
overall I don't see anything particularly stupid about the layout
like every once in a while you'll see something like a shortened shift key or
a short backspace key or something ridiculous like that doesn't have any of
those mistakes and we'll just have a quick look at the back and thank you for
checking out my video blog on the steel series Merc stealth