You think gaming chairs have gotten boring? Not this one!
Get down! Ah! The only good bug is a damn bug!
Ah!
You may remember when we looked at the Cluven Scorpion Chair-in, it turns out
they have a whole range of products covering the entire sci-fi spectrum,
from the stylings of Prometheus, all the way to Starship Troopers.
Unofficially, of course. And this is the M2HB50Cal BMG Ultimate Gaming Cockpit!
A sum-assembly-required Ultimate Gaming Cockpit!
I was told it would be more assembled. You made the mistake of believing Cluvens.
Okay, I see what the shape of the chair is now. There's less assembly than I first feared.
But what little assembly there is is going to be a bit of a challenge. The total weight of this chair,
given its nearly all-steel construction, is over 600 pounds.
Geez Louise, and that's without monitors and PC, and this guy over here.
I think I found our first gun. Geez!
Oh, crap! Are you selling it, or are you-
No, it's so much heavier than I expected. Like, now you'll be expecting it, but like...
What the heck? Does that make the point?
I think they mixed up our orders and gave us real guns.
Oh! It's so much more realistic than I expected.
Dude, this is so cool. Whoa.
It has moving parts. Yes!
These obviously aren't real guns, but they feel so real.
Like, there's weight to the man. Oh, look at this.
The one and only Jamie Pilke brought me one of this season's new colors
for our long sleeve, but that's beautiful.
You can get it on lttstore.com, but given the theme of today's video,
I'm actually going to go with the olive. The combat look. Yeah.
But you can get this one today at lttstore.com. Thanks, Jamie.
Okay, let's put the guns down and see what else we got going on. Sorry, you want me to put these down?
There was no manual online, so I'm really counting on there being a manual in here.
Literally everything's made of steel. Well, that explains the weight.
What do they do in the bag? What?
Okay, that's pretty cool. Now you have to keep it in your house.
Because, yeah, I don't think I signed that agreement anywhere.
Oh, I found the barrel for our gun. While David continues unpacking things,
I want to talk through some of the features of our gaming chair here.
The chair itself uses PU leather
with a high density cold-care PU sponge.
And the idea behind that is that it should have some give,
but it should also provide strong support.
Actually, initial impressions, not bad as far as gaming chairs go.
It even has some lumbar support. This one looked a lot more comfy in the photos
than the Scorpion did. Although that's a pretty low bar.
What the old Scorpion chair did a good job of, though, was the integrated cable management.
And the M2HB50 cal follows in its footsteps very nicely.
Inside here, we've got not one, not two, but three, but four.
Wait, did I say four displays? I meant five. Three HDMI's and two display ports.
Wait, the HDMI's are not all the same. They've got two different cables in here.
Also in here is a sketchy-looking power bar.
Holy crap. The HAYU electrical appliances,
no model number power bar, features international plugs,
which I don't think are to code. Hey, David, feel how light this is.
Oh, what? Well, understandably, I mean, this is a very weight-focused design.
They wanted to keep it light, so they balanced it out.
Where there is something, though, is behind the seat.
We've got surround speakers. And then are these lights?
There is supposed to be RGB integrated into the chair. I think these are just white LEDs, though.
Is Hecatea brand of speaker you recognize? Nope.
This is sort of our last shot for a manual. You want instructions? What are you, weak?
Drop down and give me 20. No, I'm kidding, obviously.
I have $20 right here. Did you think you were done, maggot?
I don't know if the computer that I got for this is actually gonna fit back there.
That's a pretty acceptable size, but I did get us the biggest computer of all time.
Oh, that thing looks sick. Did we ever do a video about this? No.
We were going to, but things got away from us. Dang.
And I thought it was metal. It's plastic, which kind of is a downer.
But the fact that it fooled me from, you know, more than five feet away means it looks pretty cool.
Try and lift it.
You call that lifting, maggot? Drop down and give me 20.
Sorry, sir. I'll do better next time. I'm all about creating a fair and equitable toxic workplace.
If everyone's getting abused equally, no one's getting abused. Now that everything's loaded off of it,
do you think we can get it off the pallet?
It's like the sound they make in old Navy films
when the boat's creaking. That's what it sounds like. It's happy.
Oh, there's wheels. Reese, you may want to take the back because you're taller.
Unless, David, you... Okay, ready? One, two, three, hop.
Oh! One's like, I slipped. Show me the other side.
Show me the back. Show me the front.
Those are good sounds. How the Sam Hill do they expect people to unbox
and unpack and set this thing up? Hey, Elijah, your new chair's here.
Remember how much you liked the last Cluvin's chair? How's your back feeling, buddy?
Still recovering. Okay, that's not, like, cut my Achilles tendon.
For those not in the know, Elijah won the privilege of using it for a month last time.
I think he lasted less than a week before he had to just give up.
Is your head abnormally large or is there no way to fit ahead in between those speakers?
But how's the back and the bum? Oh, man, this lumbar support sucks.
At least it has some. Does it? I cannot tell. It is overall comfier.
Thanks, Elijah. Hey, it's on wheels now, though. Check this out. I did notice that when I sat down.
I mean, what good is, you know, an armored vehicle that doesn't move?
Oh, man. You okay? I'm just trying to figure out, like...
I feel like I'm already in the chair. So where do all these pieces go?
We found the online user manual. That's great news.
Can the chair be carried upstairs? The chair can be disassembled
by removing the armrest to reduce its weight and then carried upstairs.
The chair is large and heavy, but its dimensions are suitable for almost all elevators.
4,200 US dollars. Of course it was 48 with the guns.
What would you rather have? 75% of a 5090 or a...
Yeah, that's fair. To be fair, this is actually way cheaper
for this product category than I expected. M2HB machine gun operating.
That's a real... This is for an actual gun. Wait, we're supposed to get like bullets for this thing.
Oh yeah. Where are the decorative bullets? We found the guide.
It's video. That's why you weren't able to find it. I see.
And the timeline is gonna take to watch that video. We're just gonna friggin' install this crap ourselves.
This goes here. This goes there.
We're done. I found your answer, David. Yeah? 200 bullets of 50PMGR worth of it.
$1,000. So I must emphasize that I never provide ammunition.
So in his demo systems, that appears to be actual ammunition.
Live ammunition? That I don't know, but it's some sort of either replica or whatever.
He doesn't provide it. So I had to watch the video to find that out. I don't think that's on the website.
Remember when I said we had an instructional video? Yeah. We don't, it's marketing.
Oh. I can't find a step-by-step instructional video. Clubans, I'd really appreciate it
if you made a proper manual. So will the rest of your 27 customers.
They've apparently been doing this for 10 years. 10 years of this?
Yeah. It should be fair. It's pretty cool. It is cool.
It's just hard to imagine buying one. Some stuff's obvious.
Like this clearly goes in here, and then slides to the right. But I have no idea how I'm supposed to get under this thing
now and tighten those bolts. There's another threaded spot in the middle.
So you put that screw in, and then it kinda like is fine.
This thing's grown on me. Like a wart.
With just the weight of the monitor ARM, the whole thing's kinda twisting this way,
and it's freaking me out. So guys, I think I remember this from last time.
You gotta have both monitors on, and they kinda like balance each other out.
The bottom hole's really hard to get to. I can see my hole, but I can't fit it in.
I think the screws is too big. Maybe a little lube would make it fit. Okay, settle down.
I'm actually gonna lose my patience with this hole though. Okay, big moment.
Uh, clearly not right. Well, I rotated it 90 more degrees, and now it's here.
So if this was here, actually that does make more sense.
Sorry, get down and do it again. Yes, sir!
Whoa, are you okay? David needs some time in the crying room.
Ah! David, the screaming room is over there.
This is the crying room. Oh, oh wait, I got it through the first stage of the hole.
Boy, hey! Okay, she's on.
Mama. Just some pieces came off. Also, I figured out what that other hole is.
What's the other hole? I think it's like a set screw.
Okay, just gotta loosen it up a little.
This must be it. Yes, that feels so much more correct.
Okay, all right. Progress, in armrest storage?
Are you sure we're not supposed to put a human in there first then build around them?
It seems really hard to get in and out of this thing. Reese, if you wouldn't mind, can you kind of like
play around with the angle until this screw starts to go in for me?
Maybe shake it slower. Shake it less stupid.
Not even trying to pimp the screwdriver right now, but aligning these with the screwdriver was way easier.
You guys should just abandon the Allen key. Hold on, let me just tighten them and then you can have it.
So anyone else notice there's a lot of little bolts that are just not tightened?
The good news is that we basically only have the guns in the monitors left.
Oh, really? Yeah. Okay, let's figure out the guns. I think this is a two man lift,
if we want to get it up there safely. Okay.
Beauty. This is not aligned at all.
Watch me. Oh.
Ah, yeah, you're right. And it's in. No, I think you're cross-sided. Should we put it on first?
I think we should put lube on it. Generally? Yeah, oh yeah. Okay.
I think the bigger issue is just that the angle's wrong. You can't even tell that it's not screwed in.
I think someone will tell when it falls on their head. And in it goes.
Oh, and all the lube farted out. What a stupid problem.
My 50 cal won't mount to my gaming chair.
We just need to get it perfectly aligned. Holy crap, I think we're gonna get it.
Nice. This is never coming apart again.
All right. For all the pain that it was to get it set up,
it looks pretty cool. Yeah. Look at that.
First ride. Cash money, boys. So it was a skill issue on the other side then.
No, no, it wasn't. The other side was really poorly aligned. Oh, it's way cooler with two.
Look at it from the front. Stand right there. Yeah, stand right there.
Stand right there. Yeah, stand right there. Very funny, you guys. It looks kind of dangerous, you know?
Am I the only one who feels like this level of engineering
for the slide was not necessary for a prop gun?
Reload action's pretty freaking sweet. We keep telling them, why did you do it this way?
And then we keep being like, oh man, this is cool. This is pretty cool.
I can't put the back on.
This needs a manual. We may want to email them at this point.
Hey, you solved it. What did I miss? You just have to make sure all the parts are where they belong,
including the piece that we had trouble with belongs over here, outside of the guns.
And you put the monitors on too. Oh, this is like gaming ready now.
I'm actually so excited for you to get in there. Although, it goes at an angle when you pull it out.
That's not actually great for keeping stuff on here. But you got guns above your head.
Dude, it looks so sick. And I mean, things don't have to not fall down
if we just store them inside. These ammo boxes also double as snack faces.
Oh, sick. Wait, did you not see the mouse pad that it came with? Do you like the way that they're perfectly sized
for the metal that they go on top of?
They're not. This is very not flat. Does it slide this way?
It slides this way. It should really go this way and this way a little bit.
This is one of your controllers.
Be careful. You can do a combination of movements that will chop your freaking hand off.
I got real close. How do I stop it?
Usually when you press it again. How do I stop it? Usually when I press it again.
David! David, how do I stop it?
When I press it again. It's encroaching.
It'll stop on its own. Wait, where is it even moving?
It's just moving along the gun barrel.
You can see the lube marks where it is originally. One thing I can see right now is these lights here.
These are not great. You thankfully can turn them off
with the button that you have on the armrest. They've got to be like this. This has got to be what they're for,
but they just are their ass. Button three.
Okay, that's pretty cool. It's really cool. This is crazy.
Can you... That's the flip side.
There's definitely some creaks and crunches that I really don't like at the end of the movement ranges.
Also, do you remember how we had trouble putting in that left barrel? Cause it like wasn't quite aligned.
I can tell the whole thing is this way a bit.
And so because of the monitors, the whole thing is this way a bit.
Four, I assume is the opposite of that. Can I stop it?
Yes, I can. Yeah, with this one it interrupts. Five.
I'm going up. Am I going to crash into the keyboard? So far the answer is yes.
Yes, I will. Contrary to how this might look, I'm not excited about what just happened.
Okay, seven. I understand why it can't move faster,
but I wish it did. It would be really nice if it had presets.
Nine. One thing of note is that you can actually upgrade to a voice control package.
That just seems so absurd, you know, in a really grounded product.
It's definitely cool. Locked in.
The position of the mouse pad is terrible. I feel like these arms might be nice
if they came with your angle a little bit. I understand why they don't because there's a mouse on there.
Is there anywhere to really rest your arms while you're gaming? You can kind of put your elbow here
and like kind of here. It's not optimal.
I mean, I would probably put my keyboard over there because I don't like having my keyboard in the center.
It would also have been nice if there was a way to change the tilt of the monitors.
Yeah, there's really not any control with how you can mount these monitors.
Basically, eight screw holes and a screw through them.
Hopefully it works. Windows is insane, dude. So I'm in game, okay, whatever.
I go out of game. So my start menu is popping up here over top of nothing.
I want to change the volume. So I click that over here and it pops up over.
Like, I don't know if this is NVIDIA drivers or if this is Microsoft.
To be fair, this is probably a NVIDIA surround issue.
We use NVIDIA surround so that it shows up as one giant monitor to Windows.
Shame on both of them. Okay, speakers, real tech audio. Yeah, I'm not hearing anything through these speakers.
Am I, oh. Okay, they work.
My head hits them when I, there's like nowhere to fit my head
when I don't have the headrest down. Oh man, there's like a-
A metal bar that holds everything together. Oh man.
Do you want the headrest back? Yeah, sure.
Oh, it's worse. It's like knocks my head off.
But you got that from lttstore.com. I know.
Aw. There's LTT on it. I want it to knock it off.
How is it so bad? It's unfathomably bad.
You just slip off of it. Somehow being-
If I pull it out more. On it is worse than slipping off of it.
Which is somehow worse than not having it. Which is somehow worse than being on it.
It's, whoa.
I don't think I've ever seen it do this. What are the specs of this machine anyway? This is the latest Alienware Area 51.
It's equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 285K,
as well as a 5090. It is a pretty dang top tier system.
So under normal circumstances, this thing absolutely rips.
At 11K resolution, nothing does.
This is a pretty top end price.
And it's gone. Okay, I'm just gonna fire up the NVIDIA app and see if there's maybe a dry wrap.
That's possible. Yeah.
They're not as bad as I expected. But that's the nicest thing that I can say about them.
I expected them to be really, really, really bad.
Dude, I blame Microsoft. Did you see that? Looking for network?
Looking for salute? What are you talking about? Just go get into Windows.
Buddy, what is this? Your device ran into a problem and couldn't be repaired.
Are you friggin' kidding me? This was working like two seconds before I sat down.
Now, honestly, you have a gift. I think they call it a curse.
I've noticed while I've been sitting here doing nothing while David's been troubleshooting out there
that my butt's starting to get pretty sweaty.
I think they should have a gun-shaped fan pointed right at the rear end.
That's a wild thing to ask for. We are so back.
All right, so now having learned nothing, I'm going to re-enable Surround
and launch the game again. Are you serious right now? Full screen, come on.
No. Oh. Yeah, buddy. It's way better than the last one,
but my back is starting to get a little sore. Okay, would you trade the guns for a massage functionality?
I don't need a massage functionality. I just need, like, ergo adjustments for the chair.
So maybe Cyberpunk just... What? Did you see that?
Maybe Cyberpunk doesn't like Surround. Like I said, I had Forza Horizon 5 working,
so I say we go into a game that I know works. Well, this is a good sign.
NVIDIA Surround and AMD iFINITY have become such niche use cases at this point
that it never surprises me when things don't work properly, but I feel really bad for the folks that rely on it to work.
It's so frustrating to buy into something and have it kind of work for, like, 15 years, you know?
Yeah, why won't my Crossfire graphics cards work anymore in AMD? Come on.
Oh, no, but I think this is different than I thought.
It's a technology that we've been sold for so long and has just never really worked great for just as long.
It, um, occurs to me as I'm jumping headfirst
into a racing game that there is absolutely no way
to mount, like, a stick shift or a wheel
or anything to this. No, you could kind of Jerry-rig something,
but it would not be a good solution. I'd actually be more likely to buy something like this
if it was optimized as a Flight Sim setup or a Racing Sim setup,
not as a general purpose gaming cockpit. This is pretty freaking insane, though.
And, like, if there was another car that was bothering me, I could just be like,
light them up, boys! That's the Forza Horizon expansion I want.
Forza X World of Tanks. Do you feel immersed?
I do feel immersed. I wish that the angle was a little better,
but, hey, at least these Dell monitors have a pretty solid viewing angle,
so it's not bothering me that much. Are these cutie OLED?
Yes. Waiting behind traffic like a sucker.
Oh, God! Stout little man.
It's like Farquaad in a suit of armor. Apply.
The heck? I don't think I've ever seen a game give up faster than that.
Doom Black screens the second I launched it. Trying red dead redemption now.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on! I see a loading bar.
Oh, here we go.
Like, this video is transformed from the Cluven's chair to the David and Linus try and fail
to make NVIDIA surround work. I feel like the wow guy from South Park right now.
We are getting painfully close to Wally, though. Just need wheels on this thing.
It has wheels. I'm not gonna try to move it this time. I'm gonna let it just, I'm gonna give it a sec.
Looking so weird indie game. Oh, hey, oh!
You know what? Giving it a sec does legitimately seem to help a little bit.
To be clear, this game may not support surround at all.
Like, you know, clearly. But you look at the way this house just like,
is sometimes a wire, or is sometimes just framed
and sometimes is a complete house. Do you see this?
The thing I like is how it has like that 3D effect for social media where there's black bars
and then the things pop out of the black bars. I'm building the fence, I'm playing Fortnite, bro.
We're gonna turn it down to like medium settings. How about we drop the resolution down?
I'm beginning to think this may be an edge case that is specific to our exact hardware and software
right now because I just can't imagine that this is this broken under normal circumstances.
I'm not willing to draw any conclusion other than that.
This didn't work for us today. And frankly, it doesn't affect the conclusion
of this video anyway. This is a super weird chair with a very niche use case.
You have to be someone who doesn't want any sim equipment,
just wants a keyboard and mouse, but doesn't want them to be easily reachable
and wants your chair to look like a gun. But how will this chair do when it's being daily driven?
We're gonna find out by having Sammy sit in it every single day instead of his regular desk.
You should check it out, LMG.gg slash flow plane.
If that's you, boy, do I ever have the product for you.
And if it's not you, you'll probably be better off with something else.
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