in my hand i have two keyboards that
cost them millions to make now if you
saw my last video on the hundred thieves
keyboard you'll know i said some very
mean things it's hot swappable it's got
an orange silicone dampening foam
it's orange you did it
when we go on instagram or we're
scrolling through forums we're like oh
wow like this keyboard is beautiful the
sound they were able to create we see
that but we weren't able to do that
before i could have paused it there and
said we see that but we weren't able to
do that that would have been too mean
i'm not going to do that to you guys the
build overall just ended up sounding
clacky and
really not that unique if you look at
that f row what were they thinking for
some reason they decided let's send this
guy a keyboard again they sent me an
email and said we're gonna send you this
keyboard the attack on titan 100 thieves
keyboard we hope that it's better based
on the improvements that we made such as
a silicone weight brand new switches
which are enthusiast grade and some
other things that we'll check out later
so they spent millions on this keyboard
but does it matter well
let's find out i accidentally left the
silicone out of the keyboard just
putting it together filming b-roll and i
was like you know what let me just test
it let me see what it sounds like and i
think it potentially sounds better
does it sound better i forgot to hit
record on obs did i not record any of
that
i didn't so some of this is from my
stream ignore that
this is the attack on titan keyboard
from high ground so first things first
we've got this a jelly bag can i eat it
it's also got a jelly strap he looks
like he kind of smelled the fart gets
and now hippie oh does a fashion show
would you guys like my 40 jelly bag
gamers let's go what's in there nothing
because i can't afford it because i
spent 40 on a jelly bag so this ttc
titan heart they've made new switches
for this keyboard new switches this
doesn't feel heavy enough for a keyboard
okay so this is what you get if you buy
the keyboard normally this appears to be
a box for a mouse pad that i don't have
yet but i'm assuming it's in here cute
guy on the box there's a cute guy right
here
here's the package with the keyboard and
everything
slightly clear polycarbonate this is the
high ground attack on titan keyboard
this bad boy retails for 140 may 6th is
when you're gonna be able to purchase it
the keycaps can be bought separately for
55. the mousepad can be bought
separately for 50 and we'll talk about
that and the jelly bag can be bought for
40 bucks
it looks like dye sub printed keycaps
they're 1.5 millimeters thick instead of
i think the others were 1.3 millimeters
thick now you might be wondering how did
high ground make these keycaps one thing
they might have done is used blender
blender is how i've made my keycap set
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howdy hey howdy hey i would say the dye
sub quality is actually pretty decent it
looks like they've tried pretty hard
here so the lettering is side printed
and on some keys it's very hard to see
honestly i question why it's there in
the first place i think overall
impressions is the design is interesting
it's not exactly my style if you like
attack on titan and are a weeb please
leave a comment right now and let me
know what you think of this thing i'm
gonna have to be a little bit mean here
and say i am fully biased
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my desk matt 25 bucks on kineticlabs.com
incredibly high quality great material
this feels
comparatively cheap
it's the same size the print quality
looks okay and they want 50 for it i
know they had to pay for licensing these
are officially licensed the pricing is
probably out of their hands i just
you're not getting value here the
keyboard also comes with a usbc cable
keycap puller and a switch puller
here's a quick sound test of the
stabilizers and such
now hold your thoughts let me get the
other one for a side by side now this
has been tape modded and such so it is
not fully representative of the board
keep in mind this keyboard has been tape
modded and phone modded and i think it
sounds
objectively worse it sounds like they've
potentially improved on what they said
they might have let's investigate it a
little bit further so this is solid
plastic this looks to be
also solid plastic potentially
polycarbonate or abs and it's
significantly heavier
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they've improved the keycap thickness
1.3 millimeters to 1.5 millimeters
they've added extra weighted silicone to
the bottom of the keyboard to improve
dampening and typing is what they say
they've upgraded to a longer braided
cable and sadly just a normal usb-c
cable i mean seeing kikron do custom
coiled cables and cool braided cables
and their boards this was a little bit
lame they have their own exclusive ttc
colorway so it's not an exclusive switch
it's just an exclusive recolor and they
said they've improved internal
structures to the frame to strengthen
overall stability here's things they
probably didn't change led direction
they probably did not change mounting
style so if you're looking for south
facing leds probably not here if you're
looking for a gasket mounted keyboard
probably not here if you're looking for
officially licensed attack on titan
stuff i guess this is the only place you
can really look it looks like they've
gone with an entirely different keycap
manufacturer potentially for these on
the left you have their previous keycap
design but it's got a boxier stem it's
also a bit thinner and the dye sub
quality seems worse their new keycap
quality is definitely a more robust stem
and slightly thicker ppt the improved
die sub printing that is better overall
the keycaps are much higher quality than
their previous keycaps there's one check
yay these keycaps are very nice but how
are the switches let's check those out
in the 100 thieves previous line of
keyboards we had lame
stock switches i think these were
gataron but in this case they have gone
with ttc ttc is quite a big boy when it
comes to making switches i think this
was a really clever idea of recoloring
the ttc heart line of switches as ttc
makes very good stock switches that
generally don't need that much factory
lube and they've gone with the heart
line of switches and made it a smoky
dark color i think these look really
good so this keyboard is hot swap so we
can pull out the switches but
unfortunately they've kept north facing
leds so if you wanted to swap out these
keycaps for something more custom later
let's say you get bored of attack on
titan or they kill off your favorite
character if you use cherry profile
you're going to get interference what
that means is your middle row will sound
not very good but hold on hold on hold
on hold on do these ttc switches have
cherry interference i'm not entirely
sure are they long pole switches i'm not
entirely sure
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hey guys i got the d
let me test the south facing
and then let me test the north facing
do these switches not have interference
i don't think i'm hearing any
interference here with south facing and
cherry switches my final verdict on
these switches though is like they're
very nice stock so these switches have a
gold-plated spring 42 gram force with a
1.2 millimeter actuation point and a 3.6
millimeter total travel to me they feel
quite good because they're very light
springs i generally like light springs
when gaming they sound pingy
i don't know how you define pingy but i
do not hear ping i think they did good
here i will give them another point is
it healthy to eat switches
so these are two pin switches so if you
wanted to pull them out and use them on
a board that only supports five pin
wait boards don't only support five pin
two pin three pin whatever you wanna
call it there's two pins here there's
not two pins here there's a center pin
some people call that three pins some
people call that two pin and this is
maybe something worth mentioning for why
they went with north facing leds the
heart is shown in the north facing
orientation
the stabilizers are a little bit eh i
assume they've been slightly factory
lubed and let's check that out mine look
pretty dry now this could be a
consequence of it being one of the
reviewer boards or it could be that
they're just not factory lubing the
stabilizers we're going to mod this
keyboard now i promise it's going to be
interesting and here's why this keyboard
already sounds pretty decent and with a
few simple tricks i think we're gonna
make it sound even better to get this
keyboard open it's pretty simple we're
just gonna need to pop off some keycaps
in some strategic areas which we're just
gonna do with our little keycap puller
link in the description if you'd like it
now with my handy dandy wow stick link
in the bottom left
slam method works perfectly you guys so
the pcb you can clearly see orange did i
mention orange
you can see clearly there is some
silicone between the plate and pcb the
plate is metal i can't tell if it's
aluminum or stainless steel and in this
case
get it because it's the case
in this case they filled the whole
keyboard with the silicone weight this
adds a lot of heft compared to the
original high ground board if you pop
out the silicone you can see it's been
precisely sculpted to fit the board
which is good there's also another bit
even more precisely sculpted to fit the
board this is dummy thick actually and
it's even branded with high ground which
i think is a good touch
these guys worry me i'm gonna put
electrical tape on this pcb why do we
put tape on pcbs well there's a whole
lot of reasons about it and i've got a
video that will appear in the top left
tape mod tape my tape mod tape on so
we've added one layer of tape
now we've got the keyboard tape modded
there's not a lot of dead space in there
for me to put anything else so we can't
put anything else in there but we can
lube these stabilizers a bit i'm using
permatex dielectric grease in this hobby
syringe for any of you that are
wondering i'll have those linked down
below in the video as well so now we've
got the keyboard stabilizers kind of
lubed up honestly these stabilizers are
pretty hard to save so if you get this
board i recommend durock plate mount
stabilizers just swap them out lube them
up yourself now ultimately at the core
of this keyboard it's still
fundamentally a 20 to 30 dollar chassis
that they stuck exclusive keycaps on and
a nice recolored enthusiast switch is
this
worth it ultimately that's up to you
this keycap design is officially
licensed which means that they paid
money for it take notes keycap creators
you're paying for the looks and the
hundred thieves high ground branding
they're good at that marketing branding
stuff as you saw in the last video so a
lot of what we're doing is marketing
anyways if you like this video check out
the last hundred thieves video make sure
you hit the subscribe button please and
watch the whole sound test otherwise my
youtube algorithm overlords will not let
me eat bye now does this board sound
good now let's put it to the test
against the original high ground
keyboard
i accidentally left the silicone out of
the keyboard just putting it together
filming b-roll and i was like you know
let me just test it let me see what it
sounds like and i think it potentially
sounds better
what