Rummys Blog

Well, my Saitek Cyborg Command unit arrived on Friday, and I do feel a right geek for buying it (along with my bluetooth headphones). However, though I’ve not yet used it in anger, it feels much more suited to my hands that the Nostromo N52. I can reach almost all of the keys. Even the spare row of four keys that are obviously intentionally difficult to reach are actually fairly accessible though not for “twitch” use. The keys feel more responsive too. Probably the most important thing is that the thumb joystick and keys are actually in reach, due to the fairly novel swivel adjustment, so that’s 6 thumb controls that I can actually use without spraining myself.

The software on the other hand…. I run Vista with User Account Control turned on and this disagreed badly with the “profile editor”, a day or so geeking around fixed it, then I downloaded the beta drivers and they seemed to work “out of the box”.

As I say, I’ve not yet used this in anger, but I have high hopes, I think I can assign a key to all the “rapid” commands and a “shift-state” to the less frequent ones. I should only need the keyboard for chatting.

Will it make a difference to my gameplay? Time will tell (and so will I).  So far though this gamepad looks to be a better alternative to the oversized N52.