Michael Grzesiek, better known as Shroud, is a former competitive CS:GO player for Cloud 9. Since his retirement in 2018, he has turned his hand to regular streaming where he became something of a smash hit due to his calm and collected stream, and exceptional skills in shooting games.
Lots of people watch his stream and want to play like him, feeling a good way to try and replicate his success is to see what they can learn from his settings and keybinds. While this can sometimes be revealing, an important point to note is that players like Shroud has worked incredibly hard, for years, on their skillset. Much of that practice happens in obscurity, so be prepared to put all the work in if you truly want to play like Shroud.
Shroud’s keybinds
- Use:Â F
- Jump/Stand/Mante:Â Space
- Prone:Â Z
- Crouch/Slide:Â Left Ctrl
- Change Stance/Slide:Â C
- Weapon Mount:Â E /Â Mouse 5
- Sprint/Tactical Sprint/Steady Aim:Â Left Shift
- Reload:Â R
- Alternate Fire:Â B
- Melee/Finishing Move:Â Capslock
- Tactical Equipment:Â Q
- Lethal Equipment:Â X / Mouse 4
Mouse Settings
- DPI: 450
- Polling rate: 1000 Hz
- Sensitivity: 7.5
- Vertical sensitivity mouse: 1.00
- ADS sensitivity: Relative
- ADS sensitivity (Low zoom): 1.00
- ADS sensitivity (High zoom): 1.00
- ADS sensitivity T. timing: Gradual
- Monitor distance coefficient: 1.33
- Mouse acceleration: 0.00
- Mouse filtering: 0.00
- Mouse smoothing: Disabled
Video Settings
Shrouds video settings are fairly basic, prioritizing frame rate over everything else. He plays at 1920×1080, and a refresh rate of 240. It should be noted that Shroud has a great gaming rig, so he doesn’t really have to make any sacrifices to image quality to get those frames.
- Depth of Field:Â Disabled
- Filmic Strength:Â 1.00
- World Motion Blur:Â Disabled
- Weapon Motion Blur:Â Enabled
- Shadow Map Resolution:Â Normal
- Cache Spot Shadows:Â Disabled
- Cache Sun Shadows:Â Disabled
- DirectX Raytracing:Â Disabled
- Ambient Occlusion:Â Disabled
- Display gamma:Â 2.2 (sRGB)
- V-Sync:Â Disabled
