Wooting joins Razer with a speedy new keyboard feature for PC gaming
by Tom Warren from The Verge - All Posts on (#6PE47)
Image: Wooting Earlier this month, Razer beat Wooting to a speedy new keyboard feature that lets players counter-strafe more quickly in a variety of competitive PC games. Now, Wooting has implemented the same feature.
Normally, to switch strafe directions in a first-person shooter, you have to fully release one key before pressing the other. If both are pressed, they cancel each other, and you stand there like a dummy for a moment until you release one of the keys. Professional players have mastered not overlapping A and D keys to get perfect counter-strafing and movement in games, but with Razer's Tap Snap and Wooting's new Simultaneous Opposing Cardinal Directions (SOCD) beta, you don't need to release a key and can rapidly tap the A or D key to...