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A few weeks ago, Shroud - a competitive Counter-Striker-turned-electrifying Playerunknown's Battlegrounds streamer - found himself, as you so often do, between the blue and a hard place. With the deadly boundary of the Battle Royale game's infamous shockfield crawling closer to him, and only 20 players to go, he darted from cover to cover, looking for a respite from its ever-tightening grasp. Soon, he found it: one of the island's cavernous warehouses near the Mylta power plant, though probably bereft of its vital loot, enjoyed the advantage of position dead in the center of the fresh circle."I'm gonna see how it works out," he said. "There could already be someone here." As the words escaped his lips, he turned the corner, and found another gunner lying face-down, primed for an ambush. A clatter of suppressed fire rang out, like marbles rattling in a jar - the telltale love cry of PUBG's take on the familiar UMP sub-machine gun, a favourite of the camper class - and just like that, the pro was flat on his back, dead as a spent shell. Better luck next time.
As you might expect, in that moment Shroud seemed equal parts disappointed and amused. "Well, shouldn't have gone in," he said, laughing. It's the easy refrain of someone who has already played half-a-dozen games that day, and will play quite a few more. His chat was less forgiving. "That guy is playing the game to its fullest potential," said one. "Prone and everything." "Stupid NA players," another chimed in. Maybe they were just a bit peeved that their action-hero star fell so ignominiously before the climax - after all, some of Shroud's highlights wouldn't be out of place in the combined oeuvre of the Two Johns, Wick and McClane - but, if the word of the community is anything to go by, it's clear that there's something here besides a simple tactical mistake.
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