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I agree here. But the only keyboards I've ever seen with infinite rollover are mechanical.
Though, I would also say that if you need to press like 8 keys at once in the game, maybe the game's controls suck because that isn't very common. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
It's very common. Quake, as one example requires a number of simultaneous key presses for it's movement tech. Another I just tested out is Infernax, an old-school style metroidvania. With a controller I had no problem holding the forward and jump buttons, and then hitting the attack button. If I do that with the keyboard, the character won't attack. And to make sure it wasn't just that game, I loaded up Timespinner to try the same thing. If I hold forward and jump, they won't attack. Although curiously if I hold up and jump, they will attack, so I suspect it has to do with forward/back (a or d), jump (j), and attack (h) all being on the same row.
I'm honestly amazed there isn't a company out there making making premium aftermarket laptop keyboard upgrades, including with features like key rollover. Anyone jumping on this first would have zero competition (at least for now).
My favorite keyboard is a chiclet keyboard. I like the travel distance, and it's very hard to accidentally hit neighboring keys with my fat fingers. I like that each key has a plastic border around it.
I also don't touch type the proper way. My hands are way too big for that. I almost-touch-type with two fingers on each hand, and I do alright.
I kinda want to try a mechanical chiclet, if they even exist, but not the clicky kind. A quiet one with medium stiffness. Less than a rubber membrane, but more than the super light ones I've used in the past. (Cherry reds)
uj: cool, you like what you like. Itโs all good.
rj: clearly you uncultured swine deserve more laser keyboards.
I'm ambivalent about mechanical keyboard. I hate touch-based interfaces. ๐คฎ๏ธ
Well I love all kinds of keyboards, even chiclet, but I no longer enjoy rubber mat keyboards. (kinda feels like typing on a wet newspaper now) But if you don't mind the difference in typing-sensation, then why pay for it (if you can find one that fits your needs)?
My old CM Storm Quickfire XT died after 10 ish years and it was really only a couple keys, and my new one has solderless replacement design, so i hope it can reach 20y :) I really like that aspect. I tried repairing my rubbermats, and failed every time. n = 1 :), and I'm just a hobbyist repearer, so I probably just suck at rubbermat repairs.
I grew up with IBM Buckling spring keyboards, that might be why I enjoy the loudness of Blue switches. Best experience is ofc the spongebob keyboard, but that's common knowledge
Wow, that definitely brings color to your desk. I was just watching a video about a Topre keyboard last night, and I think it highlighted why I don't so much like the mechanical ones - the sound is too high. The Topre keyboard had a distinctly bassier sound, and I found that more pleasant. I have O-rings on one of the keyboards but I think think that goes far enough. I might experiment with different keycaps and other dampening methods to try to change up the sounds they make. One has clicky-sounding, uh, lavender cherry-style switches, and the other has reds which feel/sound more linear. I definitely prefer the reds by quite a bit.
check out tactile switches! and not cherry browns, those are just spicy linears.
I don't much like clicky or linear switches but I loooove my thocc-y tactiles.
If anything I want to try going as quiet as possible. I find deeper tones more pleasant than sharp ones, but overall I still want the least noise I can get.
If you wanna go deep, my most keyboard loving friend had like a 5x5 pad with 25 different key switch types, that really gave me crazy perspective on what I enjoy and what not when it comes to typing feel! Let's hope you find a home for your current one and you can find the right one to switch to :)
I got a mechanical at the advice of enthusiasts on Reddit a while back. This was a couple years ago, and I still find it clunky and cumbersome to use.
And fucking loud. It's the Razer Blackwidow Stealth, so the keys don't actively make a click sound, but there's still a pretty glaring plastic-on-plastic clash with every keystroke. I even bought rubber o-rings to put around the posts under each key, which helped to get it only-slightly-obnoxious.
I miss my scissor-switch keyboard. I don't want to buy a new one while this one's still working, but I'm kinda looking forward to when it craps out.
This is kind of where I'm at too. I want to get a preferable keyboard, but feel like doing so would be wrong since I have two perfectly functional keyboards already. Maybe I could give them away at some point.
I am a connoisseur of shitty membrane Bluetooth keyboards. All those bad boys need is some AAA's and a USB port. Learn how to replace the spacebar and its longevity increases from 1 year to 10 years. Highly recommend, never understood the mechanical keyboard craze, suppose everyone has a hobby though.
For me it's the customizability. My old keyboard I had ,before I switched to a low profile split one because I was staring to feel pain in my wrists, had cermic keycaps. Then the fact that they are basically infinitly repairable and I only need to spend a few hundred dollars for a keyboard I will enjoy forever as compared to probably 100$ for keyboards I will hate over my lifetime.