The Twitch streamer shroud compared the two tactical shooters Counter-Strike 2 and Valorant and believes one of them is easier than the other.
Who is it about?
- Michael “shroud” Grzesiek is a 29-year-old streamer from Canada who has over 10 million followers on Twitch.
- shroud is known as a shooter god because he plays every shooter at a high level in his streams – whether it’s battle royales like Apex Legends, hero shooters like Overwatch, or extraction shooters like Escape from Tarkov.
- However, shroud is especially known for the two tactical shooters Counter-Strike and Valorant, which he even played professionally for teams like Cloud9 and Sentinels during his gaming career.
- Currently, the 29-year-old often streams the beta test of Counter-Strike 2, but shroud is also working on his own shooter.
What does shroud say about Valorant and CS2? In a stream, shroud played CS2 and talked with his teammates about Valorant and Counter-Strike.
During the conversation, shroud said that Valorant is currently the “number 1” first-person shooter. However, he did not mean player or viewer numbers, as he clarified shortly after, adding: “I promise you, CS2 is easier.”
Already in 2020, shroud expressed the belief that Valorant could surpass CS:GO, but at that time, he still believed Valorant was “much easier.”
You can watch a clip of shroud’s statement about Valorant and Counter-Strike on Twitter:
What kind of discussion is this? Valorant and Counter-Strike are often compared in shooter circles because they are very similar in some gameplay aspects while fundamentally differing in others.
This raises the question for many players of which of the two tactical shooter giants is the better game, and they discuss the topic, for example, on Reddit.
Common discussion points include the user-friendliness of the titles, which game has the better maps or smoother gunplay, as well as the different agents and abilities in Valorant.
