CM Storm Trigger Keyboard Review

Testing the CM Trigger

The Trigger catches the eye on the tabletop. By being heavy and illuminated, it’s a solid and attractive peripheral. If space is not a concern, we recommend attaching the wrist rest because the Trigger is somewhat thick. The mechanical keys are very accurate. The anti-ghosting technology can register six strokes at once without messing up the individual signals. On the virtual battlefield, we ended up dying by our own mistakes, not due to the hardware error. The keyboard’s response is excellent.

The huge amount of configuration is a great feature of the product, which can be used to run applications and game functions throughout the whole keyboard. The decision to have only five individual keys for macro recording kept the keyboard’s body on a regular scale, so it does not feature too many extra keys all jumbled together. Also, the macro keys were put in a perfect spot, easily reachable, but not so close as to be hit by mistake (something that happened with other models that clustered several macro keys together). In addition, the user gets to choose the other keys that he or she wants to assign to the other ten available macros per profile.

We missed individual multimedia keys. Since they are associated with the regular Function keys, the user also has to press the CM Storm button for them to work, something that is neither very practical nor quick.

Since life is not just fun and games (unfortunately), we needed to take the Trigger into consideration as a keyboard for just typing. In this case, we have to point out that a mechanical keyboard resembles those clunky old typewriters with some loud clicking (our virtual squad mates heard the keyboard over the teleconference), and the force feedback effect can be tiresome. It’s up to the user if he or she will want to keep an older membrane keyboard on the side just for work and typing.