54 Chapter 54

The hype has still been continuously building up and even more so with me being a streamer. It might be a little difficult to keep on with my streaming career because once I begin my debut I'll be busy with many things.

Not just that, I'd be having to grind my skills in more intensity.

This concern was shared by my viewers who had by now already deemed the knife agency rumor to be true.

I was purposefully vague and did not present clear answers to my viewers when they questioned me on the topic but it's not like they're not allowed to know.

Rather, I think the Agency agrees with me being vague as it would just add a little anticipation and help the hype-train once the rumor is officially confirmed.

[Chat:

Thechairmen1: Charlie:(

Simp_popo: Truly a disaster for us around the world.

charlxsmp: convert into a simp

Th0t_popo: i might bro

Antisimppolice: take him down hes gone rogue]

As usual, the chat was being funnily dumb with their unique sense of humor while I mused over my thoughts.

No longer did I feel unfamiliar about streaming and since I do it every day now to grind the Modeling points, it's become an enjoyment to talk with the chat.

Maybe if I can keep on streaming I'd be one of the first celebrity streamers. It's not very common for celebrities to stream games, much less in Pangaea where there is a fine line between stars and gamers.

No clue why though, since streaming games and familiarizing yourself with people online will just help you grow your fanbase.

[chat:

Boxrapper: bro literally why does this always happen

Beltbeltdad: LOL HES zooted again.]

I smiled at the camera.

"Well, what should we do now? Do you guys want to vote on a poll?"

The streaming site had already enabled donations and John helped me contact them to be able to get the subscriber button. Though for this I also had to be contracted, the contract wasn't overbearing and the money from the subscription was just split 50/50. I just had to follow a few regulations and be a respectful streamer and example to the rest.

Of course, I'm not going to be trying to leave a stain or blemish in my reputation and early career. Can't be getting canceled before I can become huge.

'[birdboxer has subscribed to the channel.]'

Appeared on my screen.

"Thank you birdboxer for the subscription."

His message appeared shortly.

["Play rocket league." Robotic-voice.]

Woah, it seems the game also exists here. I still have not managed to figure out a pattern to what things are replicated in this world and which ones are not.

Of course, I acted confused to the camera and looked up the game.

With a similar game cover to Earth, the game appeared with two cars flying over to a ball.

I glanced at the chat and saw that it had become crazy. People were now spamming at me to play the interesting game due to curiosity by some, and others already being players.

The game in Pangaea had, unfortunately, come out a few months before Among Us hype began. Though the game was great, it was drowned out by the constant Among Us streamers and videos that appeared everywhere.

Right now though, since Among Us had already cemented itself pretty cleanly, it also gave room for other games, and Rocket League had become one of those games.

Rocket League, in basic terms, is football-soccer but with cars that can nitro-boost which allows them to fly.

On Earth, this game had come out in 2015 but right now it was 2020 in Pangaea which meant that players were still noobs at the game.

With my past experience with the game, I don't think I'll be that much of a noob. Especially with the Gaming skill now.

First Among Us, now Rocket League. I think I'll get a pretty big following from this car game without relying on my streamer friends like the first time.

I gave a thumbs up to the camera,

[Modeling has gained 15.5 points.]

And proceeded to buy and install the game.

The internet as quick as ever due to the new technology allowed me to quickly open the game on the computer.

I opened the tutorial and realized I would be playing the game on the keyboard and mouse for the very first time.

Usually, players would play on a game console controller but I currently have no such thing.

Dangit.

Contrary to the old Rocket League from 2015, this one was more similar to the 2020 one with the better game screen, game optimizations, and settings but without the recent car models.

[boardmankawhi has donated 5 dollars.]

["Yooo im good at the game ill carry u a bit IGN: Kawhi]

"Thank you for the 5 dollars Kawhi. I'll add you after finishing the tutorial."

The tutorial lasted a few minutes and I was finally released from the agony of watching bots play around.

I added him and invited him to a party.

"Yo wassup Charlie, big fan."

"Hello, Kawhi, nice to meet you."

"I've been watching your streams for a while now, they're amazing and when I heard you'd be playing Rocket League I just had to hop in bro."

"Haha, yeah. I'm not sure I'll be very good at it though."

"It'll be fine dude. Yo, can we invite one more person?? I'm sorry if it's too much but she's the one that showed me your channel and she's a huge fan."

"Yeah, go ahead. The more the merrier." I smiled.

"The more… the merrier. Wow, what a great quote."

"Haha…" I laughed nervously. What did he mean by that?

"Never heard of that before but wow."

He's never heard of such a common saying? What? Ah god dangit of course, we're in a different universe dumbo.

I barely stopped myself from slapping my head.

"Haha yeah, it just came into my mind."

Immediately a very loud "OH MY GOD" drilled into my eardrum without abandon.

Well god damn. I fought back the wince of pain that was about to show on my face and just smiled.

"God damn. Chill," groaned the other male in the party.

"I'M NOT MUTED?! Oh my god, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry I didn't mean to yell into the mic I'm sorry."

I laughed.

"It's okay, I'm Charlie. Nice to meet you."

"Oh my god, Charlie. Hello, I've been watching you ever since you started playing with Poodlefluff and the others."

"Oh wow, thank you for your support."

I conversed with them both a little bit when Kawhi got us into a match. I found out the girl's name is Tiffany but she shakily told me to call her Tiffy.

"Oh, wowow are we getting into a game now?"

"Yeah, are you ready? It's competitive by the way."

"Wait, what? Isn't there a level I need to reach before playing competitively? And what if we lose? I've never played and I'm really bad."

"Don't worry, I'm sure you'll carry us. There's still no requirement to play ranked though which is weird. Well I mean, like, I guess people wouldn't buy the game again just to mess with low-level people." Hah, I guess it's still too early for there to be smurfs. Kawhi's voice was still a little shaky from the nerves but he seemed to be joking just fine.

Meanwhile, Tiffy was being very quiet.

Now, the game countdown was beginning.

'3'

'2'

'1'

"Oh, I'm nervous I think I won't be able to do much."

"It's okay, we're just in Platinum right now."

"Ah, just in Platinum? Isn't Platinum very high? I'm going to miss the ball."

The ranks for ranked were: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Champion, and finally Grand Champion which was reserved for the very best players of this new game.

So far, there's still no Supersonic Legend which is supposed to be the very last rank after Grand Champion but it seems it hasn't been added yet.

"Nono, I think you'll be fine. We're here. You're at the front right now though so you have to go get the ball."

"Ah, okay. How do I use my rocket booster thing again??"

"From the buttons in your controller, you hold the button in the right."

"Wait, I don't have a controller. I'm on mouse and keyboard," I acted like I was panicking.

I'm still trying to act like a newbie unfamiliar with such a new game. Still, I'm not lying because I truly don't know how to boost in the computer.

"Ah! Oh god. Try clicking shift? Or the mouse buttons?"

"Oh, the left button worked! It worked!"

While I was trying to figure out how to get to the ball, the opposing team had already reached it and had sent the ball flying to our net.

"Hit it out hit it out!" Tiffany, still on her nerves and probably not wanting to embarrass themselves the first few seconds of the game yelled at Kawhi.

Fortunately, Kawhi hit the ball out easily and followed it very cleanly.

Hold on hold on. This does not look like Platinum gameplay at all???????

Even more, the ball control doesn't seem like something the players of the new game should have????

Are people just this good already? After a few months?

"Wow, you're really good. How'd you fly like that?"

"Haha, well um. I'm actually a Grand Champ but my account was banned haha."

"What the heck? That's the highest rank or something right? No wonder you said they're just Plats."

Though I'm acting shocked, I'm still actually surprised he's a grand champion. Since the game is new, the number of players is relatively small in comparison to other games, but it's still a pretty big community.

For him to be a grand champion he's like the 0.1% of the player base or something.

I still did not expect Grand Champions to be that good already though. I thought it'd take a while for people to get good at controlling the ball like that. Especially since I don't think there are Training Packs in the game yet.

Are Pangaea gamers just better gamers?

He flicked the ball over two players who rushed at him and smoothly punted the ball in their net.

"Woooooaaaah. That was impressive. How do I become as good as you?"

I asked him as his smooth goal was replayed. Damn, I think I should already be an actor.

"Haha, well. There's this thing called Free Play and you can just hit the ball around the field and you get good really quick."

There's Free Play already? Nice for them. No wonder he's already this good.

"Is Tiffy this good as well?"

Shocked at her name being called, I heard a little gasp as she stayed quiet.

"Uh, I'm not as good as Kawhi but I'm a champion?"

"What the? You guys are so good. Why are we playing in plat though?"

She nervously laughed, "Hehe, uh, my main account was also banned?"

"You both were banned?"

"..."

"..."

"Why?"

"..."

"...Hehe, uh, toxicity."

"...You got banned for toxicity?"

"Um… well supposedly but I'm never toxic."

Dang, they both seem like shy people but I didn't expect them to be this legendary.

"Oh…"

"Yeah, we play 1v1s a lot and the saltiest people on the planet are in that game mode. So we just get spam reported for being toxic and for some reason the creators made it so that if you get spam reported you get banned."

Hmm, this didn't happen at all in the past.

"That sucks. Have people reported this?"

Silent in concentration, Tiffany this time scored a goal by bouncing the ball on the backboard and tapping it into the goal giving the platinum ranked defenders no chance to save the goal.

(Wow!)

(Wow!)

(Wow!)

(Gtfo smurfs)

I don't blame them. They're losing their ranked points playing against supposedly higher ranked people.

"Yeah but the developers have been a little slow in trying to make a better report system."

"So you had to buy the game again?"

"Oh no, we just linked another account."

"Oh."

No clue what that means but I'll just pretend I do.

This time Kawhi centered the ball in front of the defender's net and gave me a free pass into a goal.

"Wow! Thanks!"

They congratulated me and spammed the quick chat "Nice shot!" before the anti-spam prevented them from spamming anymore.

Uh, maybe they got banned for this instead?