A video posted on social media shows a gamer playing a first-person shooter game on a hardcore gaming rig that makes an extra step, or two, for realism. X user @interesting_aIl shared the clip showing the engineer playing an fps title with firework mounts arranged around their monitor. Whenever an opponent took a shot at them, a pyrotechnic is launched at the player, who wore a full-face helmet and a jacket (hopefully, fire retardant) for protection.
A Chinese engineer turned a standard gaming setup Into a physical combat rig that fights back in real time pic.twitter.com/ak81K4jMqWJanuary 17, 2026
Another scene showed the player underneath an in-game rainstorm, with the clip then transitioning to the player blasting away while being pummeled by wind and water in real life. It is also in this part of the video that we see the player’s smoke or wind machine fall apart during operation.
The last few seconds show the player wearing some sort of electrical contraption zapping them every time they get shot in game. This does not just give them a whole-body shock — instead, it only electrifies the specific limb that received damage, like an arm or a leg. But when they were cornered and mowed down by their opponent, you can see them getting knocked off their chair with the electrocution they received from their arms and legs up to their torso.
This gaming feedback rig isn’t practical at all, especially as you will have to reload the fireworks after every encounter — so you either have to pause your game after every fire fight, or you need to pay someone to do it for you. More than that, the electrical zap effect is visibly painful and dangerous, which kind of defeats the purpose of playing fps games. Still, the post gained a lot of admiration from the gaming community, with even tech mogul Elon Musk commenting, “Hardcore,” followed by a laughing emoji.
This isn’t the first time that we’ve seen gamers take gaming to the literal next level. A Bilibili user called blyat, possibly the person in this Tweeted video, built a three-crew tank rig to play World of Tanks in, while another one built a jet fighter sim rig, complete with a full motion gaming chair, a recoiling machine gun, rocket launchers that shoot fireworks, countermeasure dispensers behind the cockpit, and afterburners that spurt out literal flames.
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