It’s hard to tell when you’ve actually triggered a key press, and the bounce time is long, so keys can’t be immediately re-activated after pressed. The click action in the keys is a little murky, however. Your fingers can simply glide over the tops of the keys on their way across the keyboard, and the short, two millimeter throw means pressing them barely stalls your progress. After you start to acclimate to the difference in key feeling, it does provide a number of advantages.Ĭhroma is stripped-down on the DeathStalker, and a bit underwhelming. The short jump between keys and the lack of raised edges means your hands might be a little lost at first. An acquired tasteĪs you sit down to play a game with DeathStalker for the first time, you’ll immediately notice the difference if you’ve used a mechanical keyboard before. There’s a rubber grommet to prevent strain at the connection point, but a lot of gamers prefer braided cables now for their durability and flexibility, and it would’ve been a nice touch here as well. The DeathStalker is USB only, with a standard length cable, but unlike a lot of other devices, is still rubberized. If you have other Chroma devices like a mouse or mousepad, you can tie the color profiles together for neat effects across your desk.
Synapse is still a solid, if not slightly complicated, application for managing all of your Razer devices. I didn’t notice the same with Razer’s BlackWidow. Only the letters, which are fairly small on the keys, let light shine through evenly. Key nears the outside edges, like Escape and Windows, aren’t fully lit.
There’s also a bit of bleed between keys as it animates, which explains the larger sections in the software. Individual keys can’t be configured or lit, and instead the lights are managed in three large zones. Chroma is a little underwhelming on the DeathStalker, however, in a few key areas.ĭespite being the only membrane keyboard with multi-color back-lighting, it’s not the same Chroma tech that’s present in other Razer devices. Whether it’s a little distracting or super swanky depends on your taste, but its execution on devices like BlackWidow and Mamba looks simply stunning. Razer’s Chroma backlighting, when at its best, is an elegant, responsive system. There are macros, too, but if you want to use them you’ll have to use the Razer Synapse app to assign recorded macros to an existing key.
RAZER DEATHSTALKER CHROMA WINDOWS
The gaming mode allows you to prevent configurable actions like pressing the Windows key or alt-tabbing from happening so you can game without finding yourself on the desktop suddenly. Newer USB standards have helped raise that number, but ten is high for the category. Membrane keyboards of old had severe issues with ghosting, and typically could handle as few as three simultaneous key-presses. That means it can accept input from 10 keys at once. One of the standout features of the DeathStalker Chroma is 10-key rollover. There are no dedicated macro, shortcut, or media keys It takes a significant amount of pressure on the keyboard’s upper area to see any bending, and when it does it springs right back. The DeathStalker features a generously sized palmrest, a two inch strip of glossy black plastic that runs the width of the keyboard.īuilt with thick plastic and lots of support, the DeathStalker doesn’t feel flimsy at all. The clean look works well with any desk setup, and the multi-color Chroma backlighting lets you change the lights to match too. The DeathStalker Chroma is wrapped in a textured black plastic that surrounds the keys and the palmrest. Does it make an argument for going insane with the membrane, or is mechanical still king? Keep it simple Right in the middle, the DeathStalker Chroma offers the tech of the standard model with complex backlighting, multi-color backlighting.
RAZER DEATHSTALKER CHROMA FULL
At the top end, the DeathStalker Ultimate replaces the numpad with a full color touchscreen with eight keys with custom digital icons based on what you’re playing. The standard DeathStalker has backlighting and full anti-ghosting. The essential is the most basic, sporting partial anti-ghosting and no backlighting. There are actually four different models of the keyboard, all of them with high quality membrane switches. There aren’t a lot of opportunities to do so, but Razer’s DeathStalker is one of the leading (and few) membrane gaming keyboards on the market. As scissor switch and membrane technology improves, it’s worth reexamining whether that’s still true. In the world of gaming keyboards, the leading school of though is that mechanical keyboards are the best, and serious gamers shouldn’t waste their time with anything else.
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