Valorant: Shroud Makes a Positive Statement- Calls for Gamer Attention

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard about an upcoming new game called Valorant. The title will mark Riot Games’ first venture into the First-person shooter genre. A highly anticipated game, it’s release draws ever closer. The multiplayer FPS will be available in a closed beta which goes live on April 7, before it is released to the general public.

Developers invite streamers for playtesting

Popular streamers have a lot of influence over the gaming community. Many fans stick to their favorite streamer’s word as a law in the world of gaming. Naturally, the developers gave a few high-profile streamers a chance to experience the game first-hand.

In a genre as competitive as FPS, any title would happily welcome a good word from popular streamers. The game will be in direct competition with immensely popular titles like Overwatch and Counter Strike Global Offensive, among others.

Riot Games will be satisfied after the closed-door testing of their game given the positive and exciting reaction from the streamers.

Michael ‘shroud’ Grzesiek, a former professional CS: GO player turned streamer, is a big name in the streaming industry with a staggering 7 million+ followers on twitch and 5 million+ on YouTube.

Here, we take a look at what shroud has to say on all things Valorant- right from the gameplay preview to his feedback after having played it this weekend.

Shroud’s take on Valorant

Watching the gameplay preview, shroud was left perplexed, more than anything. Understandable, given the various elements within the game which nobody can truly understand until they actually play the game.

CSGo meets Naruto

Shroud has little doubt the game will be a hit, but not sure if it can surpass Counter Strike.

“CSGO meets Naruto, now that’s funny”, says a chuckling shroud, reading a comment from a follower.

He was also left uncertain about how popular Valorant would prove to be from a streaming perspective since it’s not as straightforward as CSGO.

While reading up on the 8 characters that will feature in the game, shroud was ecstatic about one named ‘Phoenix.’

“That’s dope! this is my kinda character right here. Everyone was saying they wan to be Jett, but this sounds cooler.”

Having read up on all the characters shroud was left impressed () but also confused. he was left impressed (“Some pretty neat characters. It’s cool!”) having read up on all the 8 characters, but that did not do away with the confusion.

It’s obvious you have to play the game, and for a while, before you understand all the concepts and mechanisms within.

“Fun” – shroud

Over the weekend, Riot Games invited shroud, among other streamers, to check out the game in a behind-doors test play.

Shroud, however, gave us a very reserved feedback(“fun”), keeping us all wondering.

Oh well, guess we will have to wait until the beta is out to truly understand shrouds take on it, but fear not, the streamers have permission to show their videos on April 3. keep watching this space to get more news on Valorant.