![]() But the Plus does at least telegraph to the world that you’re the owner of a mouse specifically designed for gaming. You pay a premium for that RGB lighting system, and in these straitened times, every penny counts. ![]() There is one question mark that hangs over it, however: whether it’s worth buying the Plus rather than the base version. Quite simply, it has the attributes to satisfy pro gamers, whether they favour MOBAs, first-person shooters or anything else. We used it with Apex Legends, Destiny 2, Elder Scrolls Online, Disco Elysium and Immortality, and it didn’t put a foot wrong.įlipping between different DPI sensitivities for different games was dead easy, and its sheer responsiveness was comfortably in excess of my hand-eye skills in the fast-twitch games. The G502X Plus is without doubt a proper all-rounder, no matter what types of games you favour. The scroll wheel has two settings, selectable by clicking the tiny button beneath it: one with (quite noisy) click increments, which feels perfect if, say, you’re using it to move up and down a document, and the other which removes the clicking, when you want hyper-fast vertical scrolling. It comes with a USB-C charging cable, and takes a couple of hours to charge fully. Mind you, the G502X feels so good in the hand that you’ll probably be tempted to use it as your default mouse for work, as well as gaming, so that battery life will come in handy. Even with the lighting on, we got over 100 hours’ battery life from the G502X Plus, which, depending on how much of your life you spend gaming, should equate to somewhere between a fortnight and a month of use per charge. There are lighter mice out there, but the G502X Plus is responsive and super-manoeuvrable, with PTFE sliders that made light of all the surfaces I used it on, including paper and glass.īattery life is mighty – Logitech claims 130 hours if you turn the lighting off, although given that you’re paying extra for said lighting, that feels like a travesty. The thumb-rest is perfectly placed and not a micron bigger than it needs to be and, crucially, it’s a pretty light mouse, at 106g. It’s slightly bigger than the average gaming mouse, but that doesn’t mean it favours those with bigger hands – it felt perfectly sculpted for my medium-sized hands. It’s difficult to fault the G502X Plus when you start putting it through its paces. Perfect for the likes of hardcore League of Legends or MMO sessions. There are 13 assignable buttons in all, and you can save specific profiles for specific games, so there’s a vast amount of headroom even if you favour the most macro-heavy games. You can assign specific actions or macros to any of the buttons or the wheel, and a second set of alternatives become available when you hold down the Profile Cycle button. Including setting a DPI shift – letting you assign a non-default DPI setting to the (reversible and removable) DPI shift key – although it also has two buttons on its far top left which by default are assigned to DPI up and DPI down (it’s easy to set the increment). ![]() But more importantly, it offers a great deal of very useful fine control over the G502X Plus. ![]() G-Hub is easy to find and download on Logitech’s website, and auto-senses any Logitech gaming devices when you boot it up. Logitech has always excelled as far as the software that provides control over its devices is concerned, and the latest iteration of G-Hub – its software designed for gaming devices – is exemplary, to the extent that plenty of other gaming accessory manufacturers could learn a lot from it. Via the Lightsync section of Logitech’s accompanying G-Hub Software, you can set a bewildering variety of lighting colours and cycle effects. The most obvious item in the G502X Plus’s specification – effectively, what you’re paying for when you opt for the Plus rather than the base G502X – is a distinctive RGB lighting strip that branches across the rear of its body. That’s a slightly bittersweet feature – designed to encourage you to buy more Logitech peripherals – but can bring a pleasing neatness and simplicity to your gaming setup. Plus you can use that one dongle to connect two devices – so if USB ports on your gaming PC are at a premium, you can run a Logitech gaming keyboard and mouse off just the one Lightspeed dongle. However tricksy the technology behind those switches, it works: they contribute massively to the general impression that the G502X Plus feels sumptuous in use, providing an analogue impression in tactile terms, yet achieving the instantaneous response that gamers need.īacking that up, the G502X Plus has an upgraded version of the previous generation’s Lightspeed wireless dongle, which Logitech claims has 68 per cent faster response times. ![]()
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