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How a 109€ glasspad and a 5€ pack of skates let you build the surface you actually want.

Fast or controlled: that's usually the whole conversation with a glasspad. The Odyssey turns it into a much more interesting one.

I bought the @LockOnGear Odyssey for a total of 114,95€ (including shipping) from @wearemaxgaming and it arrived about 4 days later, which is the usual shipping time I know of from MaxGaming.

Why the Odyssey

The glasspad market is saturated. Many new releases chase the same thing: more speed, or a louder gimmick to stand out from the pile. The Odyssey goes the other way. Lock-On built it as an evolution of the Harut, officially stating "faster than Harut while remaining controlled and approachable." Approachable is the main story here. But it comes from something the spec sheet doesn't necessarily mention: skates.

Specs & What's in the Box

• Size: 490 × 420 mm
• Surface: 2 mm aluminosilicate glass, precision micro-etched finish, uncoated
• Base: Full-surface rubber backing
• Edges: Rounded and beveled
• Glide (official): Balanced, leaning toward speed with low initial friction for micro-adjustments, controlled dynamic friction for stopping power
• Price: 109,90€, a total of 1000 units worldwide, individually numbered
• Warranty: 1 year manufacturer's warranty

In the box: the numbered pad, custom art packaging, an X-Raypad U9 Air skate pack (40 dots), a "Thank you" card, a branded microfiber cloth, four Lock-On stickers, and a collectible coin unique to this release. Pad, Collector*s coin, microfiber cloth and "Thank you" card. Included stickers

Design & Build Quality

The build is excellent. The rounded and beveled edges are the detail that stands out — finished cleanly, and never catching my arm during longer sessions. Edges Print The Odyssey comes in two styles, and I went with the "Black & White" over the "Colored" purple variant. I wanted something more muted for my rotation, and it fills that slot exactly right — lowkey on the desk without fading into it. My taste runs to both ends: I love a good anime print, and I love a fully muted one-colour pad. This art lands between the two: loud, but not hateable.

It's a good-looking pad. Print quality is high, and you keep catching small things in the artwork the longer you sit with it.

Base

Lock-On went with a full-surface rubber backing, and it does the job. Under normal use the pad doesn't move at all for me. If I really try to shove it around the desk I can, but that's me deliberately testing it and not something that ever happened mid-game. Planted enough that I stopped thinking about it, which is all I want from a base.

Surface Feel

Out of the box, the Odyssey is very textured. That's the first thing I noticed, and it sets an expectation the pad doesn't actually keep.

The surface is uncoated aluminosilicate glass with a micro-etched finish, and that "uncoated" part matters. It means the texture comes through raw and direct, with no coating to wear off over time.

The trade-off is skin-stick. I tend to sweat a little more, and once the humidity climbs it's clearly there. A sleeve fixes this entirely, so it's never been a dealbreaker, but if you run hot and skip sleeves, keep that in mind.

The texture gives something back, though: dust resistance. The Odyssey basically never has dust issues, and my guess is that it just falls into the deep texture and almost vanishes. I only realized how dusty mine had gotten when direct light caught it at the right angle and even then I never needed to wipe it. Compare that to pads I clean several times a day, and it's a quality-of-life difference I noticed immediately.

The Star of the Show: Skate Manipulation

Here's what sets the Odyssey apart. I've never used a glasspad that responds to skate swaps the way this one does.

Same sheet of glass, three completely different pads:

• @UnwsGear Magic Ice Plus: smooth and definitely speed-oriented. The texture recedes and the glide opens up.
• @meowgaminggears Ultraglide Silencers: balanced with a tendency to speed, just a hint of texture.
• @UnwsGear Silver Fox Plus: heavy control, with strong textured feedback. The surface gets some teeth and pushes back when you lean into it.

That's not a subtle shift. That's three different pads living inside one piece of glass. Most glasspads hand you a personality you either click with or you don't; the Odyssey lets you pick.

In-Game

Almost all my time on the Odyssey has been in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 with a side of KovaaKs. My main focus was target switching, and for that the pad is perfect due to the rather fast, low-friction base glide makes snapping between targets effortless. I mostly ran the Ultraglide Silencers for a bit of extra smoothness on the track right after a switch while still retaining the balanced nature of the pad. Long tracking is an option as well, but how easy it feels depends heavily on your skates: on the Silver Fox Plus it takes a good amount of effort, while Magic Ice Plus turns it very smooth. Paired with the Silver Fox Plus it's great for clicking scenarios, though it drags going from a flick into a smooth track as there is a bit too much control for that motion. Same point again — you're not stuck with one behavior, you tune the pad to the part of your aim you care about.

Gameplay: https://x.com/asunoaim/status/2072358388558688423?s=20

Who This Is For

This is why I'd hand the Odyssey to someone new to glass over almost anything else. It doesn't commit hard to one extreme, and it responds so strongly to skates that a newcomer can spend €5–10 on a pack of dots and reshape the entire surface, either dialing it toward speed or toward control until it's the pad they actually want. No second or third pad needed to find your preference. You run the experiment yourself, cheap, on a pad that's well-built to start with.

For an enthusiast, that's a fun tuning tool. For a beginner, it's the most forgiving way into glass I can think of.

Downsides

Two things. First, size. 490 × 420 mm is good enough for how I play mostly, but at this price you can find bigger pads — plenty of options around 109–120€ give you more room if you play low-sens or just appreciate the space.

Second, and this one matters more: the included skates. The X-Raypad U9 Air are a very controlled, heavily textured way to meet the Odyssey. They let the full texture through, and for someone opening their first glasspad, that raw feedback can be off-putting. I think Lock-On would've been better off packing something more balanced that softens the texture a little, a friendlier first impression that still shows what the pad can do. The fix costs 5€, but a beginner might not know that yet.

Final Thoughts

Most glasspads ask you to adapt to them. The Odyssey adapts to you. It's well-built and it sits in an approachable middle ground, however the main reason I'd recommend it, especially to anyone stepping into glass for the first time, is that a few euros of skates turn it into almost whatever pad you need. At 109€, that flexibility is easy to recommend. Just budget for a sleeve if you run warm, and grab a spare set of skates before you decide how you feel about it.

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