Shroud argues battle royale esports won\u2019t succeed without a major change Twitch: Shroud\/Epic Games\/Respawn EntertainmentTwitch streamer Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek has explained what he believes is wrong with competitive battle royales, explaining that the winner is not always determined by who is the most skillful player, but who is the luckiest. While streaming on May 11, shroud engaged in conversation with his chat, regarding the current state of competitive battle royale games. Recently, shroud has frequented popular battle royales such as PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds and Apex Legends and maintains an incredibly high standard of gameplay. Although he does not explicitly name it in the clip, it is hard to believe his thoughts don\u2019t at least partially relate to Fortnite Battle Royale, particularly with the World Cup qualifiers ongoing. \u201cThere\u2019s no way you get rid of the RNG at the beginning, of who gets what loot,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019ll stay, that\u2019s what makes it kind of interesting. But progressively, what makes it less interesting, is the mid-game. Because the mid-game, everyone is hiding, and then the late game is a clusterfuck\u201d. Basically, shroud is not a fan of the defensive play styles players employ in order to stay alive, which then cause the final, small circles to be incredibly busy and based on luck, rather than the most skillful player coming out victorious. He explained: \u201cThere needs to be something there so that there\u2019s not 40 people [alive] at the very end. Because then it\u2019s not a matter of skill, it\u2019s a matter of who gets the luckiest to win the game. And it shouldn\u2019t be that.\u201d He concluded by saying that \u201cto determine a win for the whole match. Luck? No, no, no.\u201d It\u2019s clear shroud thinks there are changes needed to make battle royale games sustainable, popular esports. He\u2019s not the only one, as other streamers, such as xQc, have echoed his concerns. It remains to be seen what developers such as Epic Games can do to alter the play styles of their competitive players, as the ultimate goal of a battle royale will always be to be the last man standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shroud argues battle royale esports won\u2019t succeed without a major change Twitch: Shroud\/Epic Games\/Respawn EntertainmentTwitch streamer Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek has explained what he believes is wrong with competitive battle royales, explaining that the winner is not always determined by who is the most skillful player, but who is the luckiest. While streaming on May 11, […]<\/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-58788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58788","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=58788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}