Logitech G has revealed a slate of new peripherals within the Logitech G Pro series, the top-of-the-line range designed for esports and pro players. This includes Logitech’s first analogue keyboard, the Logitech G Pro X TKL Rapid.
This tenkeyless keyboard features magnetic analogue switches, which allows for dynamic actuation points. In other words, it detects pressure and the point where a key press is pressed can be adjusted.
This allows for more range of input from pressing only one button like an analogue stick on a controller does. Slightly press to walk and hold it down to run, or slightly press to cook a grenade and hold it down to throw, for example.
The Logitech G Pro X TKL Rapid offers more than just that. Using the G Hub software suite, users can also adjust key priority and how the keyboard resolves Simultaneous Opposing Cardinal Direction (SOCD). In other words, what input the keyboard detects when two keys of opposing direction is pressed.
This keyboard supports Rapid Trigger. And this is where the “Rapid” in the name comes in. This is a phenomenon where the keyboard resolves SOCD by giving priority to the last key input.
Rapid Trigger has interesting uses like in rhythm games- this allows players to register the hit of the most recent key even when the previous key hasn’t been fully depressed.
More controversially, Rapid Trigger allows almost anyone to counter-strafe in FPS games, strafing on the opposite direction over and over while still maintaining full accuracy on any shot fired. In FPS games like Counter-Strike 2, this requires high skill to do and master- doing it wrongly will result in an accuracy drop, but time the presses correctly and you won’t move enough for the accuracy drop to kick in, which allows you to consistently shoot where you’re aiming at while making yourself hard to aim at.
With Rapid Trigger, this can be done by almost anyone.
Gamer Matters attended the Logi Play event in Malaysia, which introduced the newly released Logitech G products including the Logitech G Pro X TKL Rapid, available to test by the media. Our rudimentary on-site tests show that this keyboard is indeed a game-changer.
The keyboard allows configuration of rapid trigger and actuation points settings without the use of G HUB (handy for tournaments where third-party software is banned). With G HUB, individual keys can be configured to have different actuation points or have rapid trigger on.
If you play racing games (where precise, minute changes in input can shave off some tenths in lap times), fighting games (where a specific way of SOCD can make some special moves faster to input), FPS games and rhythm games, an analogue rapid trigger like this can provide you an unfair advantage.
The Logitech G Pro X TKL Rapid will be available in early December in Malaysia, priced at RM899.
Logitech G also announced the release of two new mice in the Pro series, the Pro X Superlight 2 Dex and Pro 2 Lightspeed, available now in Malaysia.