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After a six-hour session in Spectre Divide that ended with a \"sour\" loss during a Sept. 6 stream, a visibly frustrated Shroud switched over to Deadlock to decompress\u2014but before jumping into the game he let loose about how Deadlock has taken over everything from his stream to his casual gaming sessions. \"I feel like this game changed the way I perceive myself and my peers. Deadlock has twisted my brain,\" the streamer said. A viewer, unaware he had just switched over, asked why he wasn't streaming Spectre Divide\u2014and they quickly became the next target of Shroud's tirade. \"I was just playing [Spectre Divide] for five fucking hours!\" he said before standing up and walking off, taking a breather. He eventually returned and cracked on with a few matches of the MOBA shooter before calling it a day. It's not the first time he's \"praised\" Deadlock in such a way; the 30-year-old FPS star has shared his love for the Valve shooter recently, dubbing it the first arena shooter that's \"actually good\" and enjoying the depth and complexity it offers. This is all coming from a player who has said he \"isn't much of a MOBA guy.\" But Shroud, now known as \"MOBA Mike\" since his Deadlock debut, has invested an incredible amount of time into streaming the MOBA shooter. In the past 30 days, he's clocked in just over 100 hours of Deadlock on-stream according to stats site Streams Charts\u2014a full 30 hours more than Spectre Divide. That's not to say he's enjoyed his time streaming his game Spectre Divide, which is enjoying moderate success since its launch on Sept. 3; it debuted to over 30,000 players on Steam on day one despite review bombing over the pricing of cosmetic skins. 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