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Keyboard and mouse on Nintendo Switch Fortnite - YouTube
Channel: Kevin Kenson
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- We've talked before
about using keyboards
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on the switch, but today is
something a little bit different
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and takes it a bit of a step farther.
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This is the GameSir VX AimSwitch.
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Now the GameSirs made a
number of keyboards like this
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that are paired with mice that are used
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for PC and mobile but the VX is different
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in that it actually works
on PS3, PS4, Xbox One,
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and the Switch, now when I
say this works on the Switch
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I don't mean it in the same
sense that we've talked before
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with keyboards where you
can hook it up to the Switch
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and use it for typing
which doesn't really have
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a whole lot of use in the US right now.
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There aren't any games that need that.
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This actually maps itself on your switch
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and works like a regular controller,
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enabling you to play games with a keyboard
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and mouse setup, now we're
gonna talk about the full
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possible ramifications of something
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like this a little later,
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but for now let's just
look at the product itself.
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So this is the left half of a keyboard
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you can use it just for your left hand
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and it has all the buttons you would need
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along with these four buttons on the side.
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Now what these are used
for is for adjusting
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the sensitivity of the mouse
for whether you're doing
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hip shooting or for whether
you're aiming down sights.
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Specifically the idea is this is what
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it's being used for, in
first person shooter games.
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So when you're not holding
down the aim button.
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This button here is going
to affect how easy it is
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to look around and move with the mouse.
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Whereas if you are holding
down the aim button.
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These ones are gonna
adjust the sensitivity
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while you're in that mode.
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Meanwhile the mouse I do have all
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the traditional setups
here, we have the left
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and right click, a center scroll wheel
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that can also click down,
two side buttons which
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are normally mapped to
the front shoulder buttons
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on most controller and then there is also
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a DPI adjustment back here.
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The built quality of both
of these is pretty solid
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and in fact the keyboard
itself actually uses
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blue mechanical switches
so it's giving you that
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little bit of pushback
and that very satisfying
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clickity clack sound.
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Now setting this up is very simple,
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it varies a little bit
from system to system
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and the switch in particular is actually
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one of the easiest ones that you can do.
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All you need to take is the
wireless dongle attachment
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that comes with this,
plug it into the switch,
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put the keyboard into Switch mode,
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and that's it, you're done.
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Now I've only played with this enough
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to really make sure that
it works that the setup
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is working properly and that
I can use it on the switch.
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Let's go head and actually do a real test
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and try it out in Fortnite.
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(upbeat electronic music)
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Alright so we're in a match,
before we start dealing
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with having to survive other players,
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real quick for the setup that I'm using
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I'm just using the
preset key configuration
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this guy has, you can customize it using
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a separate mobile app, but by default.
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The layout actually for
the most part makes sense.
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I don't know if it's gonna
apply to every single game
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you try, but everything I've
done so far it works well.
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But of course you can always fine tune
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for personal preference.
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Yeah moving the mouse
actually feels pretty natural,
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it doesn't, you don't have the same sense
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of actual mouse acceleration but it's just
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acting like a control
stick but yeah that feels
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not weird, not as weird as it should be.
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Wow that person was really not good.
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You definitely need to use this guy
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for awhile before feeling
really comfortable
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because even when your brain is like yeah,
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you just have to press
like B to pick something up
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or it's not B it's like X.
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But you see that prompt, if
you haven't been using this
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long enough it's like wait,
which key is that again?
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But I mean it's all very snappy
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and responsive, I'm playing right now
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and nothing it doesn't feel
like there's any real input lag
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I have good refined control
of just looking around.
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I'm honestly really
surprised that this is going
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as swimmingly as it did, I really expected
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there to be some kind of
more noticeable input lag
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or I don't know just more
confusion on my part.
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But it's, it really works.
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I need to find more people.
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- [Man] Is it just like
playing on a computer at home?
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- It feels like it, I mean there's maybe
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a tiny, tiny bit of input lag,
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but it's pretty minute and
honestly that's probably more due
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to the TV that we're using than this.
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Okay so I finally died and
I'm still not very good
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at Fortnite but the important point here
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is while I was alive and still playing.
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This felt normal, like entirely.
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Like if I didn't know
that I was on a Switch,
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this just felt like a standard keyboard
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and mouse setup without any problems.
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I mean I had a few mix-ups
with my inputs where
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I would forget which key was bound
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to which switch input
but once kind of getting
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that stuff you know
just through repetition.
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It just felt like playing normally,
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there wasn't really any
kind of real input lag
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or weird issues at all.
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Even just looking around and
using with the mouse felt fine
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and even if it felt a
little slow or a little fast
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I could still adjust it on the fly
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with these buttons over here.
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Like using something like
this isn't going to just
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flat out make you better at the game.
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Because you still need to
know how to play properly
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and have proper awareness
and map knowledge.
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As far as just helping
with the straight up use
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of aiming, moving and firing
I mean this felt better
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for sure, now of course
we can't talk about
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a product like this without
bringing up a pretty big issue
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that a lot of people
have which is the debate
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of whether or not using
something like this,
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a keyboard and mouse for console
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is considered cheating
in a competitive game.
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I mean if you wanna buy
this to use on your switch
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with Skyrim, playing single
player great, go for it!
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Do what you want to do, but
if you're playing something
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like Fortnite is that an unfair advantage
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and is it technically cheating?
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There are some very heated arguments
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about this very idea and
what it mostly boils down to
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is the idea of is it just
another expensive product
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that's giving you an advantage
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like anything else you can get?
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I mean after all people can get advantages
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by buying nicer headphones,
using a better monitor
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or TV, using a pro controller
instead of a standard one,
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is this just another step
in that same kind of logic?
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And after all there are
a lot of games out there
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that are even now supporting cross-play.
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If you're playing Fortnite on Switch
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but you're going against people on PC
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that are using keyboards,
why can't you too?
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Where this can get a little dicey though
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with the fact that you're using keyboard
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and mouse on a platform
that's designed to well,
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honestly handicap players a little bit
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because they are
traditionally use controllers.
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Oftentimes console
versions of games do have
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some degree of aim assist
to help balance out the fact
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that a control stick is
not as precise as a mouse.
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So if you're playing a
console version of a game
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while still getting the precision
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of a mouse is that unfair?
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Now me personally, I do
lean towards the idea
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that if you are using something like this
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for a online competitive game
you're not it just for fun
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you're not doing it in
single player stuff.
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Yeah that is a pretty
significant advantage
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and borders on cheating.
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But the circumstances of
that are starting to change,
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because once again the
whole problem with this
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isn't that you're using
a really good controller
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it's that you're using
a controller that has
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this kind of precision while still having
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the benefits of handicaps
built into the game
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for you know traditional controllers.
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So if we hit the point
where more gamesters
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are going to embrace the
idea of using a keyboard
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and mouse and just gets
rid of those benefits.
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Then something like this
is honestly super cool,
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and you're already seeing
this start to happen
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with a lot of other systems.
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I mean Xbox specifically is
already running a program
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where you can use
keyboards on the Xbox One
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and you can use it for specific
games that are designed
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to allow it to be used, right
now that is only Warframe,
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but that list will supposedly
increase with time.
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And to me that's something
that's really exciting
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because I love the idea of being able
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to embrace using all kinds of controllers
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on console, not just traditional ones.
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Don't get me wrong, I love
using a traditional gamepad
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and I still use it most of the time.
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Because I find it to
be the most comfortable
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especially if I just
want to play something
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really laid back, but if I'm
doing something competitive
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why not use something
that's a more precise tool.
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I mean after all if I'm
playing a fighting game,
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I'm going to use a fight
stick most of the time,
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not a gamepad, why can't that
apply to FPS games as well?
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Either way this is a
really cool little keyboard
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and mouse combo, it was
super easy to set up,
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it was really easy to switch
between using it on the switch
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versus the PS4 or the Xbox
One, I think it's a really
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handy controller it's just whether or not
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you feel comfortable using
it in a competitive game.
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Single player, awesome pick this thing up.
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Multiplayer, let us know,
let me know down below
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in the comments what do you think?
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Is it cheating to use something like this?
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Is it not cheating, why?
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Let us know, see you guys later.
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