Razer Lycosa Gaming Keyboard
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Over 600 mixed reviews averaging around 3 stars over at newegg
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I’m concerned about their always connected to the internet, always got an eye on you way of operation.
I’ve been gaming for a long time, and always manage to be just as competetive with the keyboards that come with my system. They keys havent fallen off, they dont miss random keystrokes, and they don’t have any software to install.
If it aint broke, dont fix it.
I know, right? Look what they did to kids.woot!
Someone done broke it!
Is it just me, or do others find keyboards with “flat keys” to be less practical for gaming? Contrast to keyboards in the last decade with keys that stick out about almost half an inch?
I also tried one of Razer’s gaming mouse. I intended it to be a work mouse, but found out that none of the programmable features worked with Office documents, and general navigation. I just assumed that a gaming mouse would be a superset of those features too.
If you look at the Newegg 5 star reviews for this keyboard, they all seem to be for CPU’s Monitors, etc. Weird.
I have two, one I bought when the Lycosa first came out, and another I bought refurb’d from Woot.
I bought the second one because the first had started acting strangely. The touch-panel that controls the lights and audio would “spaz out” occasionally and stop responding to input, while constantly cycling the backlight or turning the volume up/down. I don’t know why it happened, but I suspect it has something to do with power draw. This thing uses 2 USB ports and needs a lot of juice.
The refurb’d one from Woot worked great… for a few weeks. Then the same symptoms started again, worse than before. It got so bad I ended up switching back to my original keyboard.
Since then, I’ve started using a USB hub to power the thing, and I also have a different PC now. The problem seems to have gone away, though I probably just jinxed it.
It really is a nice keyboard, and I love the short keystroke, but unfortunately I cannot recommend buying one of these. Too many problems with that stupid touch panel!
[QUOTE=ackmondual, post:8, topic:370890]
Is it just me, or do others find keyboards with “flat keys” to be less practical for gaming? Contrast to keyboards in the last decade with keys that stick out about almost half an inch?
I also tried one of Razer’s gaming mouse. I intended it to be a work mouse, but found out that none of the programmable features worked with Office documents, and general navigation. I just assumed that a gaming mouse would be a superset of those features too.
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to each his own, i suppose.
i do own a mechanical, the letter-less das keyboard 2 ultimate. i had to put rings under the keys as i do love the responsiveness but the clicking had to go. btw, i chose the silent version. not silent enough.
in my room, though, i’m gaming on razer’s own deathstalker ultimate. other than the sparkly 10-LCD customizable keys and the lcd touchpad, i really got it for the chiclet keys (even flatter than flat) and stronger backlight. (mostly the backlight)
if there’s one thing i can say about razer, it’s that their industrial design sucks me right in. i’m a sucker for the industry 
lycosa isn’t 250bones like my deathstalker…but for those that like blue who happens to be on a budget…i’ll recommend their keyboards. prior to anansi and my current board, i was eyeing lycosa for quite a while. seems like a solid board with equally striking design. their synapse CAN BE a pain in the ass to deal with depending on your OS configuration etc…but it’s fine for my tower and i’m satisfied with their products.
Nice find! that is strange.
It works fine for gaming as intended. Had some issues with QC though; I think I’m on my 3rd one, although this one hasn’t had any problems (although I think the USB port is still hit or miss - could have been really useful but oh well). I really like the travel and response of the keyboard - not quite a mechanical, but pretty good. Great for low-light, i.e. when I’m working late. A little noisy though. No real complaints other than the software is not really all that good. I believe most of the functions can be accessed directly through hardware though, and being able to disable the Windows key when needed is a really useful feature.
However, I’ve worn through my WASD keys on this one. The rubber’s come off and I can see the backbone of the switches. Ah well, I touch-type anyways.
newegg’s central focus is on information-technology, their audience is typically more tech-inclined than say, amazon.
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I have two, one I bought when the Lycosa first came out, and another I bought refurb’d from Woot.
I bought the second one because the first had started acting strangely. The touch-panel that controls the lights and audio would “spaz out” occasionally and stop responding to input, while constantly cycling the backlight or turning the volume up/down. I don’t know why it happened, but I suspect it has something to do with power draw. This thing uses 2 USB ports and needs a lot of juice.
The refurb’d one from Woot worked great… for a few weeks. Then the same symptoms started again, worse than before. It got so bad I ended up switching back to my original keyboard.
Since then, I’ve started using a USB hub to power the thing, and I also have a different PC now. The problem seems to have gone away, though I probably just jinxed it.
It really is a nice keyboard, and I love the short keystroke, but unfortunately I cannot recommend buying one of these. Too many problems with that stupid touch panel!
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Ditto everything you said.The touch panel is wonky at best. I tried other drivers but no help at all. I’m typing on mine now and can’t wait for a decent replacement. My advice is stay very far away from this one
When it worked it was a great keyboard, but mine would frequently have a random key stop working, requiring a USB unplug/re-plug.
Someimes I didn’ cach i for a while, which was frusraing.
Switched to a Logitech G-19, couldn’t be happier.
I bought this keyboard when I was upgrading my PC. It is a very responsive keyboard, which is especially noticeable with the flat keys. It does not take much pressure to execute a keystroke, which is a definite plus for me. I’ve also never run into problems with keyboard rollover while gaming, and this is in somewhere over 1000 hours of gaming since I bought it, spanning many genres of game from MMORPG to RTS to FPS.
However, there are some definite drawbacks that I’ve noticed. As many have noted already, the touch panel has a tendency to go haywire. This can be especially annoying with the volume controls, which can lead to your pleasant background music turning into a deafening roar in your ears. The touch panel actually has 7 keys; play music, stop music, next track, previous track, volume up, volume down and the cycle keyboard backlight button. All of these have at some point gone screwy for me. The only way I have found of fixing it is to unplug the keyboard and plug it back in.
On top of these issues, the keys themselves will “stick” sometimes(as in one key is not physically pressed down, but the operating system certainly thinks it is). This often leads to my character in a game rotating in one spot, or walking straight forwards or backwards, normally ending in death in-game. Again, the only solution I have found that works is to unplug the keyboard and plug it back in(sometimes I will have to press the stuck key once, as well).
I have made sure to stay up-to-date on drivers, but so far I am still experiencing these problems. Ultimately, I would still say this keyboard is worth considering, as long as you think you can live with the occasional screwy behavior(and I do mean occasional, maybe on average once every 8 to 10 hours of use). If you aren’t into gaming, but really like the looks or just a good flat keyboard, this kind of behavior will probably be easier to mitigate.
I mostly bought this keyboard as a matching peripheral for my razer mouse, the deathadder(which I love to no end as it ACTUALLY FITS in my big ol’ hands, and like this keyboard is VERY responsive). I think my next keyboard will probably be a logitech one, as there are several of those that have many of the pros this keyboard has, without the weird cons. Most of the logitech G-series keyboards seem like a good choice for gaming.
For the love of all that is good and holy, avoid this keyboard.
I bought one from woot years ago. The touch sensitive buttons are a JOKE. For whatever reason the buttons would effectively push themselves, randomly causing the keyboard to change lighting modes.
That’s not the worst part. If that’s all it did, change the light modes, then it would be annoying but tolerable. Imagine my ire when I realized that with every mode change, it would also cause all the keys to hang!
A replacement refurb keyboard from Razer yielded the exact same results. After trying to deal with their AWFUL tech support and them giving me the runaround (I even paid for the shipping for returning their first faulty keyboard!), the only solution was to break the stupid thing over my knee and buy a proper keyboard without inane touch sensitive buttons, one I’ve used WITHOUT INCIDENT for years.
Buyer beware!
I have this keyboard and really like it. The soft touch style keys are really nice, and it’s not quite as short of a keystroke as a notebook KB, but definitely shorter than most.
I had the same issue with my first one. I found that resting a key or my zippo over that touch pad quieted it down so just kind of ignored it (I never use that thing anyway). When I finally looked into it, realized it wasn’t an isolated thing and contacted Razer, they sent me a replacement hassle free. Didn’t even have to return the old one. (YMMV) I’ve been using this now for probably two years, haven’t had that or any other problems with it.
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For the love of all that is good and holy, avoid this keyboard.
I bought one from woot years ago. The touch sensitive buttons are a JOKE. For whatever reason the buttons would effectively push themselves, randomly causing the keyboard to change lighting modes.
That’s not the worst part. If that’s all it did, change the light modes, then it would be annoying but tolerable. Imagine my ire when I realized that with every mode change, it would also cause all the keys to hang!
A replacement refurb keyboard from Razer yielded the exact same results. After trying to deal with their AWFUL tech support and them giving me the runaround (I even paid for the shipping for returning their first faulty keyboard!), the only solution was to break the stupid thing over my knee and buy a proper keyboard without idiotic touch sensitive buttons, one I’ve used WITHOUT INCIDENT for years.
Buyer beware!
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This is the worst keyboard I have ever owned. Do not buy. Every once in a while it just becomes unresponsive