{"id":31178,"date":"2025-01-28T15:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/shroud-explains-why-warzone-is-more-impressive-than-apex-legends-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:27:13","slug":"shroud-explains-why-warzone-is-more-impressive-than-apex-legends-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/shroud-explains-why-warzone-is-more-impressive-than-apex-legends-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Shroud explains why Warzone is more \u201cimpressive\u201d than Apex Legends &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shroud explains why Warzone is more \u201cimpressive\u201d than Apex Legends Infinity Ward \/ Mixer: shroudMichael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek\u2019s Apex Legends climb has taken a backseat for Warzone, and as the streamer spends more time in the Call of Duty battle royale, he can\u2019t help but admire Infinity Ward\u2019s \u201cimpressive\u201d game. The addition of Warzone \u2014 Call of Duty\u2019s super-sized battle royale successor to Blackout \u2014 has captivated the community and breathed new life back into the controversial Modern Warfare release. With 150 players, two different modes in your generic battle royale and the cash-based Plunder, unique revive mechanics with Gulag duels, the free-to-play game has been a hit with everyone. Warzone smashed through 15 million players within four days, equalling the growth of battle royale competitor Apex Legends. The Respawn-developed battle royale based loosely in the Titanfall universe appeared out of nowhere, racking up 25 million unique players in the week after its release. https:\/\/twitter.com\/CallofDuty\/status\/1238632552946003969 Given how much negative press Modern Warfare received, Warzone\u2019s rise in its first week has helped turned the game\u2019s misfortunes around. While there are a number of reasons behind its success, shroud pinned it down to one thing \u2014 it\u2019s just fun. \u201cIt\u2019s fun,\u201d he simply put in a recent Mixer broadcast. \u201cIt\u2019s chaotic as f**k, and you get flanked by no sound all the time, but besides that, it\u2019s fun. Being fun isn\u2019t enough though \u2014 a game can be fun for one round but fall off afterwards. What makes Warzone stand out, and keep shroud coming back, is its vast scale. With 150 players, a massive map, and tons of loot, the game blows its competitors out of the water by size alone. \u201cI give this game the exception because of its scale. I don\u2019t give Apex [Legends] the exception at all \u2014 that should not be how it is \u2014 but this game? Holy f**k.\u201d \u201cThis game is impressive just from a development standpoint. What they managed to achieve is pretty nuts. [It runs better than Apex with] four times the population, four times the loot, the chaos, the map size \u2014 everything. It\u2019s impressive.\u201d Shroud singling out Apex Legends isn\u2019t a surprise. The streamer has been on the grind on World\u2019s Edge and King\u2019s Canyon for weeks, and has found more problems with the game than anything else. He labelled the recent Deja Loot LTM as \u201cterrible,\u201d and he\u2019s constantly offering up solutions for issues like underpowered Evo Shields, blinding Muzzle Flash, and RNG-heavy supply bins. Warzone isn\u2019t without its flaws, but to the FPS veteran, that\u2019s part of the flair. Infinity Ward could have turned around and tried to make a hyper-competitive battle royale in Modern Warfare to replace Blackout, but it wouldn\u2019t have felt like CoD. By taking itself a bit less seriously \u2014 from sound design to gameplay \u2014 Warzone has a unique experience unlike any battle royale on the market. \u201c[The sound] was concerning for a second, but then I realized this game is not made for that kind of scale so I bet it wasn\u2019t even thought about,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s CoD, how are they supposed to dictate somebody shooting 600-1,000m \u2014 that\u2019s never going to happen. They treated this as more of a fun thing rather than super serious and that\u2019s why they could get away with stuff like that.\u201d Shroud isn\u2019t the only major name to commend Warzone. Dr Disrespect, who used to work as a Call of Duty level designer, described the battle royale experience as \u201csilky smooth\u201d and heralded the map as one of the best he\u2019s played. Whether Warzone can maintain his attention for the weeks to come remains to be seen, shroud is absolutely digging the new game mode for now, and might stick it out for a bit longer rather than returning to King\u2019s Canyon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shroud explains why Warzone is more \u201cimpressive\u201d than Apex Legends Infinity Ward \/ Mixer: shroudMichael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek\u2019s Apex Legends climb has taken a backseat for Warzone, and as the streamer spends more time in the Call of Duty battle royale, he can\u2019t help but admire Infinity Ward\u2019s \u201cimpressive\u201d game. The addition of Warzone \u2014 Call [&hellip;]<\/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-31178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31178","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=31178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}