Shroud explains why he struggles to stream competitive games shroud \/ Riot GamesMixer star Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek has revealed why he struggles when playing competitive games such as Valorant on stream, after experiencing much of the tactical shooter\u2019s closed beta. While Shroud is now one of the most popular streamers around, he was first known for his impressive career as a pro player in Counter-Strike. Following the beta release of Valorant, Shroud quickly hit his stride on the new FPS title and explained one problem he had when playing the game during one of his recent streams. Shroud was deciding what to play alongside former Apex pro Wickd and when the pair brought up Valorant as an option, he shared his thoughts on Riot\u2019s tactical shooter. Shroud explained that, while he likes Valorant, he finds it hard not to get competitive when playing, \u201cValorant\u2019s a fun game, it is, but because I used to compete\u2026It feels very weird to play that game because it\u2019s hard to treat it for fun.\u201d Wickd added that games like Valorant are not those that can be casually enjoyed, with the pair agreeing that, due to the nature of the 5v5 round-based game modes, they are much more competitive compared to battle royale games like Fortnite or Apex Legends. Shroud later admitted that he probably could compete if he really wanted to but he would have little time for himself between his regular streams and competing or practicing with a team, \u201cI don\u2019t really want to do that again.\u201d He also admitted that, while there was an urge for him to return to competition, he was happy with his current streaming career on Microsoft\u2019s platform and how it had affected his ability to enjoy the game on a casual level. \u201cI love what I do now\u2026It just sucks because Valorant\u2019s a great game,\u201d he explained, \u201cI love it and want to follow it all the way through but it\u2019s not casual enough, I can\u2019t enjoy it casually. Even unrated isn\u2019t casual\u201d Shroud has previously spoken about his potential return to pro gaming and claimed that his days as a professional esports star are now over, with him focusing on the growth of his stream following his move to Mixer instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shroud explains why he struggles to stream competitive games shroud \/ Riot GamesMixer star Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek has revealed why he struggles when playing competitive games such as Valorant on stream, after experiencing much of the tactical shooter\u2019s closed beta. While Shroud is now one of the most popular streamers around, he was first known […]<\/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-58802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58802","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=58802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}