Shroud explains why he\u2019s \u201calmost over\u201d Apex Legends ranked play Popular Twitch streamer Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek has revealed he is already feeling the effects of ranked play in Apex Legends, suggesting he is \u201calmost over\u201d the new mode. After an underwhelming Season 1 battle pass left fans desperate for more content, Apex Season 2 kicked off with the launch of ranked play, allowing players to climb divisions based on their skill level. Players will start off in the Bronze rank and work their way towards becoming an Apex Predator. However, shroud may have already had enough, after alluding that he is suffering from burn out. Shroud played CS:GO professionally for years, regarded as one of the finest players in his peak, but explained that this could be the reason why other \u2018competitive\u2019 games wear off on him sooner, namely Apex Legends. Questioned why his long-term friend and teammate Tyler \u2018Skadoodle\u2019 Latham \u2013 also a CS:GO professional for many years \u2013 wasn\u2019t playing Apex Legends as much, shroud said: \u201cHe\u2019s probably over the way this shit plays \u2013 it\u2019s annoying man. When you come from a really good competitive background, and you play a competitive BR, you hate it. \u201cIt is fun for a little bit, but it\u2019s not the right way to play. It\u2019s a fucking nightmare.\u201d Shroud explained that he sympathized with Skadoodle, as both have put in thousands of hours into a game like Counter-Strike, and battle royale games inherently cannot match that competitiveness He said: \u201cHe\u2019s probably just over it and I\u2019m almost over it too. I like Apex which is why I\u2019m still playing it, but I\u2019m almost over it too. The ranked part of it anyway.\u201d Judging from shroud\u2019s comments, it seems that even with the very best ranked mode possible, Respawn wouldn\u2019t have been able to match the \u2018competitiveness\u2019 of more tactical, less luck-based shooters, due to the nature of BR. Apex Legends\u2019 main competitor, Fortnite, has also been criticized for coming up with a lackluster ranked playlist, another hint that the problem may be the battle royale genre, rather than the developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shroud explains why he\u2019s \u201calmost over\u201d Apex Legends ranked play Popular Twitch streamer Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek has revealed he is already feeling the effects of ranked play in Apex Legends, suggesting he is \u201calmost over\u201d the new mode. After an underwhelming Season 1 battle pass left fans desperate for more content, Apex Season 2 kicked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}