Shroud explains why \u201cfun\u201d Call of Duty Blackout mode was doomed to fail Activision-Treyarch \/ Mixer: ShroudCall of Duty\u2019s first foray into the battle royale genre with Black Ops 4\u2019s Blackout was always doomed to fail, Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek believes, with timing, playerbase, and the nature of the franchise all playing a role in its demise. While he\u2019s been dabbling in Escape from Tarkov recently, and had a stint playing World of Warcraft Classic when the remade MMORPG first launched, shroud has \u2014 for the most part \u2014 stuck to what he knows best: shooters. In particular, the Mixer superstar is a leading name in a host of first-person battle royales, from PUBG and Apex Legends, to Call of Duty\u2019s short-lived first stint in the genre, Blackout, which launched in Treyach\u2019s Black Ops 4. During his March 1 stream, one loyal fan asked Grzesiek if they could pay him $6.90 to give Blackout \u201cone more chance.\u201d The Mixer star declined the request, and explained he wouldn\u2019t be able to anyway because of the playerbase. According to the streaming star, Blackout was always going to struggle to keep interest after its release, especially its PC version, and added the timing of Treyach\u2019s battle royale release just added to its rapid-paced disappearance. At its core, Blackout was a \u201cfun\u201d title, shroud said, but because Call of Duty is primarily a console-based franchise, and Apex Legends exploded onto the scene soon after the battle royale was finally finding its feet, interest died out. \u201cNobody plays that on PC anymore, I promise. I promise if I tried to dabble in it, and tried to play it on PC, I bet you I don\u2019t even get a lobby,\u201d shroud told his fan eager to see him return to Black Ops 4\u2019s coastal 100-player warzone. The Mixer star added Blackout may still be thriving on console, but a few external factors denied it the chance to really stretch its wings \u2014 Call of Duty\u2019s yearly releases, and the arrival of Respawn\u2019s Apex launch in February. \u201cBlackout was a fun game actually\u2026 it was an Apex before Apex Legends existed. That\u2019s what Blackout was, and it was sick. I really enjoyed it, and it only got better. Games like that don\u2019t last on PC though,\u201d he added. And that, at its core, was the reason it suffered, he said. With the player bases split, dwindling lobby-counts were felt all the harsher. \u201cI was hoping to see some crossplay in the future, but we just never got it,\u201d shroud concluded. For mobile readers, the related segment begins at 12:35 in the video below. Funnily enough, shroud\u2019s 2020 sentiments echo what he first said about Treyach\u2019s battle royale back in October 2018: \u201cAt the end of the day it\u2019s CoD, and I feel people are going to get over it pretty quick,\u201d he said. At the time he was streaming with Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins, who disagreed \u201cbecause of the battle royale,\u201d and suggested the franchise titles only get old when they\u2019re based around the annual multiplayer features of the games. In the end, however, shroud was right, and it leaves one wondering if Modern Warfare\u2019s new Warzone battle royale will fair any better. Call of Duty fans will know the answer soon enough, it seems, after famous game leaker TheGamingRevolution revealed Infinity Ward\u2019s take on the ever-popular battle royale genre could be dropping on March 10.\u2019 That\u2019s not all that\u2019s been leaked either: character animations, in-game challenges, and the amount of players set to duke it out have all been dug out of the title\u2019s code \u2014 now all that\u2019s left is to see if Warzone outlasts Blackout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shroud explains why \u201cfun\u201d Call of Duty Blackout mode was doomed to fail Activision-Treyarch \/ Mixer: ShroudCall of Duty\u2019s first foray into the battle royale genre with Black Ops 4\u2019s Blackout was always doomed to fail, Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek believes, with timing, playerbase, and the nature of the franchise all playing a role in its […]<\/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-31182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31182","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=31182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}