Not so Glorious... - Glorious Model O 2
**Testing the Glorious Model D+ Mouse**
I recently had the opportunity to test the Glorious Model D+ mouse, which I was excited to try out. As a gamer, I'm always on the lookout for new and improved mice that can enhance my gaming experience. The Model D+ is a wireless mouse with a 26,000 DPI and 650 IPS inches per second sensor, making it suitable for fast-paced games. It also features a 1,000 Hertz polling rate, which is relatively high.
One of the first things I noticed about the mouse was the change in liftoff distance, which I adjusted to increase accuracy during big movements. I found that this adjustment made a significant difference in my gaming performance. Another feature I experimented with was the debounce time, which is the time between button presses where it won't register. As a pro gamer, I'm always on the lookout for ways to improve my accuracy, and adjusting the debounce time seemed like a good idea.
I also explored the polling rates and found that I could adjust them to suit my needs. However, since I was using the mouse wirelessly, I didn't have much concern about battery life, so I left it at its highest setting. The software for the mouse is relatively standard, with options to save and export profiles, which is always a plus.
Unfortunately, I encountered some issues with the mouse's wireless connection, specifically Dropout, where the mouse would disconnect frequently. This was particularly frustrating when playing games, as it would cause me to miss shots or lose my place in the game. I tried moving the dongle closer to the mouse and updating drivers, but the issue persisted.
To try and resolve the problem, I decided to test the mouse wired, which seemed to eliminate the Dropout issues. This led me to suspect that there was a problem with the wireless connection rather than the mouse itself. Upon further investigation, it became clear that the issue was likely related to the wireless dongle rather than the mouse.
**Testing and Observations**
When testing the mouse, I was surprised by how much of an impact the Dropout issues had on my gaming experience. The mouse felt cheap and the accuracy wasn't as good as I expected. The sensor seemed to struggle with tracking, particularly at high speeds. While the Model D+ is a well-rated mouse, its performance didn't quite live up to my expectations.
**Comparison to Other Mice**
In terms of comparison, I would say that the Glorious Model D+ is an okay mouse, but not particularly impressive. The accuracy and sensor performance are good, but the feel and experience don't quite match other mice in the market. If you're looking for a high-quality wireless mouse, I would recommend holding off on buying the Model D+, and instead opting for one of Razer's mice or Logitech's options.
**Conclusion**
In conclusion, my experience with the Glorious Model D+ mouse was underwhelming. While it has some impressive specs, its performance in real-world usage fell short of expectations. The Dropout issues and poor feel were particularly frustrating, making it difficult to enjoy gaming with the mouse. As a gamer, I need a mouse that can deliver accurate and responsive performance, which unfortunately, the Model D+ didn't quite do.
If you're looking for a reliable wireless mouse, I would recommend considering other options like the Razer Mamba or Logitech's G502. These mice have received positive reviews and seem to offer better performance and value for money.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhen it comes to PC gaming peripherals glorious is sort of like the dark horse Champion that I've always dreamed of hey they might not sell the most mice the most mice that's weird to say but they always produce pretty darn good results and the price is always quite fair today we have one of their first sequels the model 02 essential Like Oxygen I was kind of a I'm kind of a little disappointed I thought this was going to be kind of a cooler gift box but this is just trash do better glorious inside this gift box there's three devices one of them is the Glorious Mouse Bungie a great device uh absolutely not necessary considering we are unboxing a wireless mouse today goodbye what is inside of this nice little case oh it's just a little travel case that that's that's all that's in here cool and now the model O2 this is one of the most popular models of Glorious mice it's an ambidextrous one you know kind of like a G Pro maybe 305 sort of shape uh you know like most glorious mice although there are some close body ones this is a honeycomb Mouse uh which I am slowly growing to like a little bit more we have this little thing of papers register your product I will not your RGB brightness is set at five percent oh that's pretty neat I kind of like that it lets you know I will be installing software so I'd find that anyway but just a little tip cool I love to show I'm quite excited to unbox this Mouse uh it's not drastically different than their last Model but I don't think it needed it was quite a good product but there's a lot of uh significant refinements that should turn this into quite a compelling little package but we will cover those as we get to them let's keep unboxing silica last couple things in the box we have our paracord cable it's nice little touch that it's the same color as the mouse uh even when you plug it in it'll look good together I guess you could run it as a Wired Mouse maybe use the bungee uh but uh we will not be doing that cable good quality it's nice nice little detail we have the Glorious logo etched into the USB next we have our dongle and our dongle adapter I'm a big fan of including adapters like this because you can use the same cable to charge your mouse as you would use to plug in your dongle keeps it simple uh less cable it's always a good time that brings us to the main event the model O2 Wireless itself glorious has changed a lot about the model o including the texture which is a little rougher to my hand but I think it feels fairly premium and it would last the shapes also a little bit different including the honeycomb design that is circles instead of you know hexes you can actually see all the way through which is interesting that the honeycomb design persists on the bottom meaning that there is kind of a big point of Ingress at the bottom of your mouse which I'm not a huge fan of that being said you shouldn't be dragging your mouse through a puddle of Mountain Dew anyway in terms of Aesthetics on the mouse I am glad that they're kind of Bringing Down the giant face on the side to a little logo at the top as well as you know some branding on the side I am not a big fan of flashy mice I don't even like RGB on my mice but uh this is a little bit better another change is they've reshaped the buttons they kind of curve a little bit more to your hands based on the shape and my you know small to medium-sized hands I will immediately Palm grip this mouse which is not my default hand stance my stands enhanced but it's comfortable in the hand I find I have many points of contact which is you know good for for Palm this mouse is a little bit bigger than I would like for my style but it's definitely very comfortable and the texture provides a solid amount of grip in terms of other buttons we have our two side buttons my thumb lands pretty naturally on them I'm not a big fan of buttons that are designed to feel sort of seamless from each other the the side buttons are fairly pronounced from the body of the mouse itself but I can definitely tell you right now if I use this mouse a lot I would press both buttons most of the time and often press the wrong button on the bottom notes we have a reminder that we live in 2023 update all your peripherals and then we have the stickers for our PTFE feet it's pretty smooth uh I feel like the Glide pads are a little small and so the experience I'm having is it's not bad but it's certainly not amongst the smoothest mice I've ever experienced on the bottom we have our DPI indicator and we have the Banff 2.0 sensor which has a whole slew of improvements we'll get into and also an indicator of one of I think the most important upgrades this mouse gets like the original there is the 2.4 gigahertz mode but this one also comes with Bluetooth most of the time when I'm at home gaming or working I'm going to use the 2.4 gigahertz mode when I travel there's a huge risk of losing it my laptop and many many laptops only have one type a port and so if I need that one I'm unplugging my dongle putting it down you know unplugging replugging and there's just a risk you know of it going missing you don't have to do that you can do Bluetooth sure you lose a little performance but what's a little performance in the face of overwhelming Victory by not losing your dongle moving to the inside of the most glorious has upgraded the switches on the inside to 80 million rated ones as opposed to the 20 million rated ones that's four times you know on paper reliability that can't be a bad thing these scroll wheel feels fine uh not too loose not too tight I feel like it would get pretty loose fairly quickly I personally like looser scroll wheels and this one's already feeling kind of on the edge of Toulouse I don't like the texture on it it feels okay but it it kind of feels cheap overall I would give the feel and build of this mouse you know a solid pass there's a few spots that kind of look crappy the seam between the bottom and top assembly uh can be felt and seen and I think that that sort of brings down the overall impression at least from a distance like you can't probably see it as well as I can but that's you can hear it that's just my finger rubbing against this this is probably the most pronounced Gap that's somewhere that there's a high likelihood my hand would be touching I'm kind of a little bit disappointed in the overall build quality another thing that's upgraded on the inside is the battery the previous model o was rated for around 70 hours on the 2.4 gigahertz Channel now you get 110 using the dongle and to up to 210 so that's got you covered for plenty and plenty of usage but you know what else is plenty for anyone our sponsor Newegg thanks to Newegg for sponsoring this video looking for the latest technology to upgrade your gaming rig home office or entertainment setup look no further than Newegg as one of the largest online retailers of computer hardware software and electronics Newegg has everything you need to take your Digital Life to the next level they offer competitive prices fast and reliable shipping 30-day hassle-free returns and excellent customer service to ensure that you have the best shopping experience possible so when you're a tech Enthusiast gamer or just looking for the latest gadgets Newegg is the go-to destination for all your Tech needs check out Newegg mg.gg Newegg excellent we're plugged in slid the dongle in turned our buddy boy to 2.4 and uh away here we go okay there you go sure first impression when I turn it on I am not a fan of RGB but I think this looks pretty nice actually that really five percent I don't believe you in terms of software we have the Glorious software so we can customize it let's click and see what's available to us lighting this thing is uh cutting in and out a lot what the hell is going on this is not a great experience they lied to me they said it was five percent brightness okay so that's gonna 100 let's see what that looks like yeah it's brighter you can customize your key binding and your performance I'm a big fan of this I usually just disable uh everything but two dpis you can change the color of the DPI stage so you know which one you're using I don't think the lights doing anything so I have the different DPI stages that I'm switching between but the light is not doing anything I want to maybe have to turn the lighting on that would be a big mistake yeah that's stupid in order to get the DPI indicator color changing on the mouse you have to turn on the RGB on your mouse that seems like a little bit of an oversight hopefully it's something that can be fixed in firmware um thankfully I know that I want 800 so outside of that you can change your liftoff distance so you can kind of increase your accuracy when you're doing big big movements and kind of lifting your mouse on and off of the mouse pad and your debounce time which is an interesting thing to change basically your debounce time is the time uh in between button presses where it just won't register and so if you're worried you know about double clicks or whatnot you would turn up your debounce time you know I'm a pro gamer though I'll be going down to zero milliseconds let's go you can also change your polling rates uh I'm not concerned about battery today so I'm going to leave it a fire or something beyond that you can save and Export your profiles kind of standard stuff uh nothing super extraordinary in the software but it's uh it's there which is always greatly appreciated I'm definitely having an issue with Dropout uh the dongle is you know two feet away from this mouse I'm not sure what's going on the mouse is charged uh I don't think that it's a laptop thing but maybe it is it's kind of an annoying issue we're going to pop into CS go and see how this thing performs at clicking on heads now that I've swished my hand across this desk pad a couple times my impressions of this mouse are kind of dropping it it's feeling you know kind of cheap uh it's not sliding as smooth as I want it to it it's fine but I can tell you right now that I am not loving this why is it dropping out what's going on I'm gonna try a different USB port if I wasn't shooting a video I would be much closer to the screen so I could see a little bit better okay I don't know what's going on but that is not a good experience to have my mouse just kind of drop out every 10 seconds or so uh if it wasn't for that I would be crushing these Bots that's kind of a problem it's a Dooms like other nice I'm kind of fed up with these dropouts I'm gonna test this mouse wired so I'll unbox this mouse bungee huh this is not having the dropouts which leads me to believe oh David you suck that it's more of a mouse issue which is not great it seems like it's stopped like it's not doing it at least as often the problem here is not the accuracy The Band 2 sensor is up to 26 000 DPI and 650 IPS inches per second so that's kind of the speed it which is able to track that's good that's better than the previous generation of mice and totally adequate it's a 1 000 Hertz polling rate which is absolutely okay but the fact that I'm having so much Dropout is really alarming we plugged in the mouse wasn't having the issue and so it seems like there's some wireless connection problem I just before I say that I should just try a different Mouse and see if that this is the issue one of the worst mice experiences I've had in a long time maybe I'm unlucky maybe I got a dead one but uh this certainly isn't inspiring confidence what is the issues uh it's just there's lots of Dropout and then I'm it's just having issues just connecting so I I never in my life have I needed to call in Tech Support to get a mouse to work properly uh after updating drivers uh including Mouse drivers that are kind of just generic ones uh it seems to be working a little bit better not a great user experience but at least now we're not having dropouts nearly as bad the problem persists that it just doesn't feel like that great of a mouse therefore in conclusion should you buy this mouse how much does it cost nope the hard note it's an okay Mouse and I feel bad saying this I like glorious products a lot of the time this doesn't feel quite as refined as some of their other products and the feel of it the experience isn't great it's still a fine Mouse the accuracy is good the buttons are fine but I think there's better options if you want to stick with glorious I still love the model D minus both the wired and wireless one I think that's a better shape uh yeah the sensor is not you know as up to date but it wasn't a problem before you're never going to go over the 400 IPS anyways and there's a whole bunch of refreshes that I'm sure going to come now that they have the new sensor so yeah don't get this mouse hold off wait for another glorious one or you know get a Logitech a 305. it's a lot cheaper and feels uh kind of better that's it thanks for watching short circuit if you like mice videos why not check out video where I unbox one of the best mices I've ever used which is a Razer strangely enoughwhen it comes to PC gaming peripherals glorious is sort of like the dark horse Champion that I've always dreamed of hey they might not sell the most mice the most mice that's weird to say but they always produce pretty darn good results and the price is always quite fair today we have one of their first sequels the model 02 essential Like Oxygen I was kind of a I'm kind of a little disappointed I thought this was going to be kind of a cooler gift box but this is just trash do better glorious inside this gift box there's three devices one of them is the Glorious Mouse Bungie a great device uh absolutely not necessary considering we are unboxing a wireless mouse today goodbye what is inside of this nice little case oh it's just a little travel case that that's that's all that's in here cool and now the model O2 this is one of the most popular models of Glorious mice it's an ambidextrous one you know kind of like a G Pro maybe 305 sort of shape uh you know like most glorious mice although there are some close body ones this is a honeycomb Mouse uh which I am slowly growing to like a little bit more we have this little thing of papers register your product I will not your RGB brightness is set at five percent oh that's pretty neat I kind of like that it lets you know I will be installing software so I'd find that anyway but just a little tip cool I love to show I'm quite excited to unbox this Mouse uh it's not drastically different than their last Model but I don't think it needed it was quite a good product but there's a lot of uh significant refinements that should turn this into quite a compelling little package but we will cover those as we get to them let's keep unboxing silica last couple things in the box we have our paracord cable it's nice little touch that it's the same color as the mouse uh even when you plug it in it'll look good together I guess you could run it as a Wired Mouse maybe use the bungee uh but uh we will not be doing that cable good quality it's nice nice little detail we have the Glorious logo etched into the USB next we have our dongle and our dongle adapter I'm a big fan of including adapters like this because you can use the same cable to charge your mouse as you would use to plug in your dongle keeps it simple uh less cable it's always a good time that brings us to the main event the model O2 Wireless itself glorious has changed a lot about the model o including the texture which is a little rougher to my hand but I think it feels fairly premium and it would last the shapes also a little bit different including the honeycomb design that is circles instead of you know hexes you can actually see all the way through which is interesting that the honeycomb design persists on the bottom meaning that there is kind of a big point of Ingress at the bottom of your mouse which I'm not a huge fan of that being said you shouldn't be dragging your mouse through a puddle of Mountain Dew anyway in terms of Aesthetics on the mouse I am glad that they're kind of Bringing Down the giant face on the side to a little logo at the top as well as you know some branding on the side I am not a big fan of flashy mice I don't even like RGB on my mice but uh this is a little bit better another change is they've reshaped the buttons they kind of curve a little bit more to your hands based on the shape and my you know small to medium-sized hands I will immediately Palm grip this mouse which is not my default hand stance my stands enhanced but it's comfortable in the hand I find I have many points of contact which is you know good for for Palm this mouse is a little bit bigger than I would like for my style but it's definitely very comfortable and the texture provides a solid amount of grip in terms of other buttons we have our two side buttons my thumb lands pretty naturally on them I'm not a big fan of buttons that are designed to feel sort of seamless from each other the the side buttons are fairly pronounced from the body of the mouse itself but I can definitely tell you right now if I use this mouse a lot I would press both buttons most of the time and often press the wrong button on the bottom notes we have a reminder that we live in 2023 update all your peripherals and then we have the stickers for our PTFE feet it's pretty smooth uh I feel like the Glide pads are a little small and so the experience I'm having is it's not bad but it's certainly not amongst the smoothest mice I've ever experienced on the bottom we have our DPI indicator and we have the Banff 2.0 sensor which has a whole slew of improvements we'll get into and also an indicator of one of I think the most important upgrades this mouse gets like the original there is the 2.4 gigahertz mode but this one also comes with Bluetooth most of the time when I'm at home gaming or working I'm going to use the 2.4 gigahertz mode when I travel there's a huge risk of losing it my laptop and many many laptops only have one type a port and so if I need that one I'm unplugging my dongle putting it down you know unplugging replugging and there's just a risk you know of it going missing you don't have to do that you can do Bluetooth sure you lose a little performance but what's a little performance in the face of overwhelming Victory by not losing your dongle moving to the inside of the most glorious has upgraded the switches on the inside to 80 million rated ones as opposed to the 20 million rated ones that's four times you know on paper reliability that can't be a bad thing these scroll wheel feels fine uh not too loose not too tight I feel like it would get pretty loose fairly quickly I personally like looser scroll wheels and this one's already feeling kind of on the edge of Toulouse I don't like the texture on it it feels okay but it it kind of feels cheap overall I would give the feel and build of this mouse you know a solid pass there's a few spots that kind of look crappy the seam between the bottom and top assembly uh can be felt and seen and I think that that sort of brings down the overall impression at least from a distance like you can't probably see it as well as I can but that's you can hear it that's just my finger rubbing against this this is probably the most pronounced Gap that's somewhere that there's a high likelihood my hand would be touching I'm kind of a little bit disappointed in the overall build quality another thing that's upgraded on the inside is the battery the previous model o was rated for around 70 hours on the 2.4 gigahertz Channel now you get 110 using the dongle and to up to 210 so that's got you covered for plenty and plenty of usage but you know what else is plenty for anyone our sponsor Newegg thanks to Newegg for sponsoring this video looking for the latest technology to upgrade your gaming rig home office or entertainment setup look no further than Newegg as one of the largest online retailers of computer hardware software and electronics Newegg has everything you need to take your Digital Life to the next level they offer competitive prices fast and reliable shipping 30-day hassle-free returns and excellent customer service to ensure that you have the best shopping experience possible so when you're a tech Enthusiast gamer or just looking for the latest gadgets Newegg is the go-to destination for all your Tech needs check out Newegg mg.gg Newegg excellent we're plugged in slid the dongle in turned our buddy boy to 2.4 and uh away here we go okay there you go sure first impression when I turn it on I am not a fan of RGB but I think this looks pretty nice actually that really five percent I don't believe you in terms of software we have the Glorious software so we can customize it let's click and see what's available to us lighting this thing is uh cutting in and out a lot what the hell is going on this is not a great experience they lied to me they said it was five percent brightness okay so that's gonna 100 let's see what that looks like yeah it's brighter you can customize your key binding and your performance I'm a big fan of this I usually just disable uh everything but two dpis you can change the color of the DPI stage so you know which one you're using I don't think the lights doing anything so I have the different DPI stages that I'm switching between but the light is not doing anything I want to maybe have to turn the lighting on that would be a big mistake yeah that's stupid in order to get the DPI indicator color changing on the mouse you have to turn on the RGB on your mouse that seems like a little bit of an oversight hopefully it's something that can be fixed in firmware um thankfully I know that I want 800 so outside of that you can change your liftoff distance so you can kind of increase your accuracy when you're doing big big movements and kind of lifting your mouse on and off of the mouse pad and your debounce time which is an interesting thing to change basically your debounce time is the time uh in between button presses where it just won't register and so if you're worried you know about double clicks or whatnot you would turn up your debounce time you know I'm a pro gamer though I'll be going down to zero milliseconds let's go you can also change your polling rates uh I'm not concerned about battery today so I'm going to leave it a fire or something beyond that you can save and Export your profiles kind of standard stuff uh nothing super extraordinary in the software but it's uh it's there which is always greatly appreciated I'm definitely having an issue with Dropout uh the dongle is you know two feet away from this mouse I'm not sure what's going on the mouse is charged uh I don't think that it's a laptop thing but maybe it is it's kind of an annoying issue we're going to pop into CS go and see how this thing performs at clicking on heads now that I've swished my hand across this desk pad a couple times my impressions of this mouse are kind of dropping it it's feeling you know kind of cheap uh it's not sliding as smooth as I want it to it it's fine but I can tell you right now that I am not loving this why is it dropping out what's going on I'm gonna try a different USB port if I wasn't shooting a video I would be much closer to the screen so I could see a little bit better okay I don't know what's going on but that is not a good experience to have my mouse just kind of drop out every 10 seconds or so uh if it wasn't for that I would be crushing these Bots that's kind of a problem it's a Dooms like other nice I'm kind of fed up with these dropouts I'm gonna test this mouse wired so I'll unbox this mouse bungee huh this is not having the dropouts which leads me to believe oh David you suck that it's more of a mouse issue which is not great it seems like it's stopped like it's not doing it at least as often the problem here is not the accuracy The Band 2 sensor is up to 26 000 DPI and 650 IPS inches per second so that's kind of the speed it which is able to track that's good that's better than the previous generation of mice and totally adequate it's a 1 000 Hertz polling rate which is absolutely okay but the fact that I'm having so much Dropout is really alarming we plugged in the mouse wasn't having the issue and so it seems like there's some wireless connection problem I just before I say that I should just try a different Mouse and see if that this is the issue one of the worst mice experiences I've had in a long time maybe I'm unlucky maybe I got a dead one but uh this certainly isn't inspiring confidence what is the issues uh it's just there's lots of Dropout and then I'm it's just having issues just connecting so I I never in my life have I needed to call in Tech Support to get a mouse to work properly uh after updating drivers uh including Mouse drivers that are kind of just generic ones uh it seems to be working a little bit better not a great user experience but at least now we're not having dropouts nearly as bad the problem persists that it just doesn't feel like that great of a mouse therefore in conclusion should you buy this mouse how much does it cost nope the hard note it's an okay Mouse and I feel bad saying this I like glorious products a lot of the time this doesn't feel quite as refined as some of their other products and the feel of it the experience isn't great it's still a fine Mouse the accuracy is good the buttons are fine but I think there's better options if you want to stick with glorious I still love the model D minus both the wired and wireless one I think that's a better shape uh yeah the sensor is not you know as up to date but it wasn't a problem before you're never going to go over the 400 IPS anyways and there's a whole bunch of refreshes that I'm sure going to come now that they have the new sensor so yeah don't get this mouse hold off wait for another glorious one or you know get a Logitech a 305. it's a lot cheaper and feels uh kind of better that's it thanks for watching short circuit if you like mice videos why not check out video where I unbox one of the best mices I've ever used which is a Razer strangely enough\n"