Asus ROG Falcata Overview: A Cut up Gaming Keyboard

The wheel on the left facet has choices to regulate actuation distance, rapid-trigger sensitivity, and RGB brightness. You too can regulate quantity and media playback, and switch it right into a scroll wheel. The LED matrix under it’s designed to show changes to actuation distance however feels a bit awkward: Every 0.1 mm of adjustment fills its personal bar, and it solely makes use of the underside 9 bars, so the display screen will roll over 4 instances when adjusting (the highest three bars, with dots subsequent to them, illuminate to indicate what number of instances the display screen has rolled over throughout the adjustment). The saving grace of that is that, when adjusting the actuation distance, you’ll be able to press down any swap to see a visualization of how far you’re urgent it, then tweak the actuation distance to match.

Alongside all of this, the Falcata (and, by extension, the Falchion) now has an aftermarket swap possibility: TTC Gold magnetic switches. Whereas that is nonetheless solely two switches, it’s an enchancment over the singular swap possibility of most Corridor impact keyboards.

Cut up Aside

The interior meeting of this keyboard is simple but attention-grabbing. As an alternative of a typical tray mount, the place the PCB and plate bolt instantly into the underside half of the shell, the Falcata is extra akin to a bottom-mount. The PCB screws into the plate from beneath, and the plate is screwed onto the underside half of the case alongside the perimeters. Whereas the distinction between the 2 mounting strategies is minimal, it does enhance typing expertise by eliminating the “useless zones” brought on by a publish in the course of the keyboard, together with barely isolating typing from the case (which creates fewer vibrations when typing).

The highest and backside halves can simply be cut up aside by eradicating the screws on the plate (no breakable plastic clips right here!), however on the left half, 4 cables join the highest and backside halves of the keyboard, all of which have to be disconnected earlier than totally separating the 2 sections. As soon as that is achieved, the inner silicone sound-dampening can simply be eliminated. The froth dampening, nonetheless, was adhered strongly sufficient that eradicating it left chunks of froth caught to the PCB, making it not possible to readhere with out utilizing new adhesive. This wasn’t an enormous difficulty, for the reason that foam might merely be positioned into the keyboard, however it’s nonetheless irritating to see when most producers have figured this out.