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so today I'm a videoblog we're gonna be unboxing the Merc stealth keyboard this is a steelseries keyboard it's a fairly premium gaming keyboard and the reason for that that they bring is what they bring to the table is a unique gaming terrain layout so what that means is they've got a whole section of this keyboard that is dedicated entirely to gaming keys okay it has red blue or purple backlight and let's see what other interesting features they have on the back yeah that's pretty much it okay it supports simultaneous keystrokes like most gaming keyboards these days and to be perfectly honest with you the only reason I'm opening this thing is because I want to see it the camera man I have substituting for the real cameraman today actually says that he's tried it and it doesn't work for him because he uses some kind of like ancient old school way of gaming where he uses like the right and left mouse buttons to go forward and backwards and like a Zed to strafe left and right I was like what so it didn't work for him but I think for someone who uses a morte well okay less traditional but more modern building you a SD layout it might work so it comes with a SteelSeries sticker okay there it is it comes with a steel series terms and conditions which I can't imagine you could possibly care about it comes with a steel series professional gaming gear all this is just a brochure of some of their other products okay that's good and then it comes with download software you know I really like to see this instead of a disc to be perfectly honest most people have the Internet these days you can go download the latest version of the software and where drivers and this is okay this is like a manual how to use your merc stealth so the Merc stealth is kind of like the Merc except that it has a backlight and I think they've changed the aesthetic of it slightly so before we look at the keyboard itself why don't we just check out the cables that we have running out of the back here so I just got to get this a zip tie off and here we go so we've got one thick cable coming out of the Merc stealth and that plugs into a USB port on your computer as well as your headphone and mic jacks on the back of your computer so what that means is that this keyboard does have support for a USB hub and then it also has support for you to plug your headset and while your headset into the keyboard itself that just means you're able to run a shorter wire as opposed to a lot of other keyboards which don't have that feature now you do have little stands and if I could get the cameraman to kind of get like a weird angle on this here from the side so you can see how much that elevates the keyboard versus running it just flat like that there you go and then let's have a look at the gaming terrain because besides the gaming train you've got a fairly bog-standard layout here okay tactile feedback on the keys but basically what it comes down to is this part of the keyboard so we're actually I'm just gonna go ahead and put my hands here so there's your WASD there's your Q and E so to speak because they've got it sort of mapped out for you that way and then you've got tab caps lock I'm not sure who uses caps lock for gaming but yeah I find it gets in the way more than anything else there's shift control so actually shift shift forward that's kind of nice so the way they've mapped it out basically is such that you've got a similar layout to here but it's supposed to be quite a bit more comfortable and more ergonomic to have your hand coming in at this angle you've got far easier access to all of your number keys so it means you're gonna be able to reach all of your weapons far more easily as well as access with your thumb to quite a few more keys than you'd normally have so actually it's kind of a pretty cool-looking feature I'd like the cameraman to just kind of have like a quick look at the keyboard overall I don't see anything particularly stupid about the layout like every once in a while you'll see something like a shortened Shift key or a short backspace key or something ridiculous like that doesn't have any of those mistakes and we'll just have a quick look at the back and thank you for checking out my video blog on the SteelSeries merchant stealth