Starcraft 1/2 with Cherry Blacks

[Asp]

Has anyone had any experience with RTS gaming on Cherry Blacks?

I've tried out blues for a while with a friend's keyboard and it was pretty good, so I was thinking about getting a Filco with blues. However after all the furious circlejerking over Blacks about gaming I was wondering if anyone had any experience with them specifically with SC.  The actuation and bottom-out force is pretty high with the Blacks so my main concern is if it will tire out fingers bottoming the keys out so much. SC is a little different from FPS gaming, nobody hovers with the keys slightly depressed, it's more like typing frantically.

So, any experience/theories?

[zeph]

I've been playing Starcraft 2 and Heroes of Newerth with Cherry blues for the past couple of days and they're great. I've tried Cherry blacks on the Steelseries 7G, and although I can see why they'd be great for playing Q3/CS/insert new FPS of your choice I can't imagine why they'd offer any significant advantage over blues/browns for RTSs.

[elbowglue]

For games like starcraft 2, blues are better than blacks.  For first person shooters black are better than blues.

The audible click confirmation of hitting a key is useful to know you hit the key successfully.

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[Viett]

I've been playing Starcraft 2 and Heroes of Newerth with Cherry blues for the past couple of days and they're great. I've tried Cherry blacks on the Steelseries 7G, and although I can see why they'd be great for playing Q3/CS/insert new FPS of your choice I can't imagine why they'd offer any significant advantage over blues/browns for RTSs.

Same here. Blues work great for SC 1 / 2 and HoN. All you need is a press -- no precision is necessary -- which makes Blues perfect.

Honestly, I'm against the entire notion of "Blacks are good for gaming." Many FPS require hovering and bottoming out to actuate, which eliminates all Cherries and Topres from the viable keyboard pool, as their actuation point is mid-keypress.