this will be the software portion for the asus rog claymore ii the software portion is using asus's
armor crate and i do know that a lot of people have mixed feelings about armor crate and its
usages this is just going to be the basics of what you can do with it and whether you actually like
it or not that's up to you to decide at a later date but i'm going to let you know what you can do
and right now i have the claymore 2 plugged into my computer because in order to actually activate
armor crate you will need a hardwired connection from your claymore 2 to your pc i'm going to start
things off over here on our devices section as you can see it's got our keyboard layout right here
and it's saying hey here are all the keys that you have at your access what would you like to do
well we have our media keys that are part of our num pad that's detachable if i select that we can
change what that m shortcut key will actually do now that's not just for these keys here we can
do that for any key we can select what we would like it to do likewise on this screen we can also
disable alt tab and alt f4 because i think we've all been there where we're gaming or doing
something work related and don't want to be able to do that well maybe alt tab you want to keep
enabled but definitely alt f4 you can turn off that's all located here under our keys section
next we move over to the rgb indicator at the top of your claymore 2 you have lighting effect for
either battery mode or sync with keyboard light and depending on what lighting effects you have
situated is what will happen when you change from sync with keyboard light or change to battery mode
moving on we have our lighting this is going to be where you can do all of those really cool
lighting effects right now i have it on static which just has the lights has the keyboard rgb
lights just static they're on i have selected a singular color in this case red if i click on here
i can change anywhere in this color wheel or if i know the actual key codes for it i can type it
in there and generate the color the color that i would like i also have it at 50 brightness
you can control your brightness from here but you can also do that from the keyboard itself
moving on we've got our breathing effect now our breathing effect is going to kind of be
pulsating on the keyboard now we have a single effect right now showing but if we wanted to i
can select double and what that will do is that will change in this case between red
and this purple color and it will just pulsate on the keyboard with those colors we can also select
random right here and then it will just randomly pulsate colors on the keyboard likewise we also
have our led brightness 50 and then we could select our speed right now it's at normal but
if we wanted to we could move that up to fast and it will pulsate much faster now i'm going to bring
this back down to normal because well that's kind of where i like things we're going to move on to
color cycle and here we go this is our color cycle there's no option for you to change the colors you
can change your led brightness and your speed just like you could before coming across we have our
rainbow effect now the rainbow effect is going to be partitioned on segments of your actual keyboard
mirroring those segments you have purple blue aqua green yellow orange red you can plus or minus
to add more segments you can change an individual color like let's say we don't like this red we
could change that to a different color and then that segment will change and then again brightness
and speed we also have directional options so this is gonna be the first time that we get some
directional options right now we're going from left to right but we can change it from right to
left and that will change which way our colors are actually flowing we're going to change it back to
what we had before and then we have our thickness right now it's on the thickest but we could change
it to normal and it will shrink the amount of space that those take up now we're going to put
it back onto thick scrolling back up we are going to come to react it now right now it's on random
it has held onto the random pattern uh that i set originally but what this will do is if i touch
any of the keys on the keyboard they will randomly light up and the random will also change the color
so i don't have a set color palette they will just randomly cycle we have our brightness and speed
again and we're going to come down to our ripple effect tap on the keyboard you'll see that when i
tap on things it ripples across the keyboard it has random or you can change it to a pattern so
that specific colors happen at specific intervals you have your brightness you have your speed and
then your thickness again coming down we have starry night and what this is going to do is just
randomly light up letters whether you type on them or not the letters and numbers will just randomly
turn on and off right now i have background turned off but if you turn background on that
will turn on the led backlights to your keycaps instead of just the letter light we also have
random or we can change our two-tone colors or we could have a single color we have our brightness
setting as usual i have at 50 and then speed just like with everything else quicksand again we have
this set as a random effect but what quicksand will do is starting at the top it will blend down
into the keyboard kind of like you're thinking in quicksand you've got your top level and then as
pressure builds it syncs down towards your other keys you have your brightness settings you have
your speed settings and you have your directional right now i have from top to bottom but we can
swap that from bottom to top and it looks like a little pyramid going the opposite direction
we're going to put it back down to direction going down moving on we have current and current's going
to light up your keys from left to right kind of looking like a little little wave pattern
it's not as random as starlight starry night was but it's still randomly lighting up things as it
goes across you have the ability to select a single color or you can have it on random
for pattern you can have single double or random so that's going to be your coloration as well
brightness and speed we have raindrops and that's going to be lighting effects that go down
a row of your keyboard looking like rain again we have random right here we have background so just
like before if we select single that will light up the background we can change that color if
we don't want our background color to be bright white we're just going to turn that off to make
it easier to see the pattern as it falls again random colorization led we have our led brightness
and we have our speed moving on from our lighting tab we actually have our power options
wireless power saving options right now you can see it's charging it's at 93 lighting altered when
battery percent reaches and then it will adjust the lighting effects when you reach specific
points of power left in the keyboard so you've got 50 you got 25 and never switch to sleep mode after
being idle four this is in minutes i have it for three minutes helps save the battery if you don't
type on the keyboard after three minutes it goes into a power saver mode and then power saver mode
on which is turn off the keyboard leds or decrease the led brightness so i just have them turn off
the leds all together and last tab over here is our firmware in the upper right hand corner here
you can see that we were on default and what this is is the default profile for my claymore two you
can have up to six because you have a default and then five individual profiles for the claymore
two selecting the three dots next to your profile you can export it duplicate it rename it create a
new profile create new import sync all profiles and reset all profiles and that's the majority
of what you can do to change your claymore 2 using armor crane however if we come over to
our devices and select this we have a secondary tab for our macros if we wanted to set up a macro
using armor crate this is where we would do it we can simply select record and then type what
we want to be recorded and then stop and then that will create a macro which we can save edit
or cancel or we can clear it i'm going to cancel because we don't want to actually save that we can
insert a macro we can select options here and it will show us record delay fixed delay toggle there
are lots of things that you can do with macros and if you're of the type that needs them this is
where you can kind of get a little more advanced than what you can do just from the keyboard itself
coming down with our rest of our options in armor crate we'll just breeze through these very quickly
you have aurasync you need to have a compatible device a claymore 2 is a compatible device
you have your aura effects right here and then aura performance mode extra steps not going to
get into it too much you have access to your gaming library here you can see some of the
games that i have if i select them from here they will launch the game as you see right there moving
down we have our scenario profiles so right now i have one set up for diablo 3 and one for lost ark
what this will allow you to do is pick a specific lighting queue that you'd like for that game so if
i were to create a new one i will call this call this valheim and then it's going to show me the
system configuration so volume input device and then we have our color so if i don't want static
maybe i want starry night when i start up valheim it will change to volume 28 use the claymore story
knight hit save now i have a third now i have a third option set up you've got featured which
is really them just pushing information to you you have news again this is just going to be
informative information for you really don't come down here you've got your user center which you
will need to create an account for and then you've got your settings which will allow you to choose
the theme you've got the rog theme you've got the gaming armor crate theme and then you've got your
asus armor crate theming you have your choose armor crate landing page so you can select which
one of these tabs you actually want to end up on i generally keep it on or async because that's where
i'm going to go you've got your update center and then you've got about and that has been a
more in-depth look than i thought i would do for the armor crate software for the rogue claymore ii
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