Wooting responds to Razer's cheating keyboard.

It's not a direction we like to see hardware move towards. But If this is the direction competitive keyboards move towards, we want to make sure we offer the tools you need. Ps. Nice case😎

So moral of the story is get a Wooting keyboard if you want almost a decade of support.

Wooting about to release a diss track next

Last Input Priority SOCD has been a thing in fighting games for about a decade now. Games coming out in the early 2010s were not designed with SOCD in mind, and holding, for example, left on the dpad and right on the analog stick allowed you to block both directions in some games. A lot of developers started to make engine-level changes to how inputs are read in-game to prevent this from being a thing, since you obviously can't ban the controller the console comes with. All-button controllers, which are basically keyboards under a different name (like the devices made by Hitbox or the Snackbox) had hardware level SOCD solutions, but they worked the way the Huntsman and this Wooting solution does. Capcom recently ruled that Street Fighter 6 won't allow last input priority SOCD anymore, and a lot of controller manufacturers had to update the firmware for their devices to allow for the new standard that SF6 demands (which, for the record, is that two opposite direction inputs cancel each other out and it acts as if you're pressing nothing).

SOCD cleaning/handling has been around for at least a decade in arcade controllers. This isn’t super new, it’s just a keyboard implementation of last input wins SOCD cleaning found in all button controllers. The FGC has created many rules on how this is handled - usually on a per game basis.

This is why Wooting is such a premium company, its not just an amazing keyboard, its an amazing team of developers

Credit to Wooting for a fast release and supporting older keyboards! Devs of competitive games geared at realism will just have to implement inertia-like physics to make such motion impossible (or be lazy and put input delay on rapid opposing motions).

Crazy how the FGC had to figure out a way to handle SOCD before and now FPS players have to figure out the same issue! History repeats itself I suppose.

Wooting also has "whichever key is pressed further" priority, because of the magnetic switches.

We got keyboard beef before GTA 6

I applaud this man. 5 minute video that does not try to dilute the video for extra view time, he even gives you a recap in case people missed the discussion, and it's still less than half the length of what you'd see from other YouTubers.

Oh no, we going through the Hitbox SOCD drama again. The history repeats itself, fighting game players faced this exact tech quite some time ago, and only now its getting to keyboards.

SOCD cleaning with "all button controllers" is a contentious topic and HAS had ruling by judges / TOs within fighting games.

"May cause Razer to pull the feature" — that would not do anything, cat is out of the bag now. You can even now download and install this feature to any open source mechanical keyboard.

This makes me think that Wooting already had the code at least a little ready, but wasn’t sure about the community response from implementing something like that

This happens in every conpetitive space. People have some weird moral justification to give them selves a small advantage, and then that advantage gets normalized, then the next one gets normalized, and so on.

SOCD was a bit deal in the FGC as well. When Hitbox released their version of a fightstick controller, it definitely turned heads that SOCD was a thing since it used sanwa buttons instead of a joystick for movement.

The fact that wooting asked their community to make sure it was something they wanted, when they could have just implemented the software to compete with razor, is why they’re more than just a keyboard company.

I love how fast you get these videos out. They’re both quality and a great source for information

number of refunds for the Razer huntsman gotta be diabolical bro ☠️