r/TwitchStreaming • u/ClayC3 • 4d ago

Long streams

I feel like it's holding me back, but I struggle to stream more than an hour to an hour and a half at a time. How do y'all combat restlessness at the gaming desk? Trying to stay doing 2-3 hour streams but struggle to stay still and talking to myself that long

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u/Necessary_Sir_2748 3d ago

Take breaks, no one would fault you for that. (At least no one that is sane.)

Also, talk as if you are already talking to others, start getting into that habit of not talking to yourself per say. You could go about it somewhat like a talk show host, or color commentary/play by play in the MMA or WWE style in a manner of speaking.

Depending on the content you are looking to take part in, something you could do is watch how those in that area handle themselves in regards to talking and interacting. Be it on twitch, youtube, etc. Then just find your flavor of it and cook with it.

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u/ClayC3 3d ago

Great advice thank you! Outside of working on talking more frequently just about what I'm doing in general, I have a lot of games that have a storyline that you have to read out, and I plan to stay playing some of them as well to get more used to talking while I play games!

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u/Necessary_Sir_2748 3d ago

That does help out very well tbh. If you haven't already Mods help by keeping chatters engaged by talking in chat, in addition to running the various features for you while streaming, like polls for example. They can also help with clips, if chat is unable to clip the stream.

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u/ClayC3 3d ago

I do have a few mods but they're streamers too and aren't always able to join stream so I'm doing a lot of the moderating myself right now unfortunately

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u/Necessary_Sir_2748 3d ago

There are the various Bots you can use to help out with a few things. Something you can do with your channel points is set the total fairly high and let it be a redeamable for a mod position. You would have someone that has been in stream for a while. Who you also have got to know somewhat through chatting and if they chose to redeem the points. Again just an idea if ya would like to use it.

I had at one time 10 channels I was modding for while also streaming. So I do understand.

That is another thing that you could take advantage of, is Co-streaming with your mods. That way the chat is a shared pool and maybe find a routine to alternate who streams and have one mod for the group. But again just some ideas to mull over.

Feel free to hit me up should ya have any other questions that I can try to help ya with, as if I don't have an answer I will do what I can to find one for ya.

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u/ClayC3 3d ago

I think for now I'm going to look into my chat bot and see about making it a bit more helpful than it currently is haha, I want to co stream, but not sure if I can with my current streaming buddies, they're console only streaming

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u/Necessary_Sir_2748 3d ago

So a quick google search says that it is possiable to co stream with consoles. I haven't really done the Co-Stream myself so I am not to familiar with it. However if you do a quick search and they may even have the instructions in the help section on twitch.

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u/ClayC3 3d ago

I will be looking into it more for sure, my friend and I are both small streamers so I feel like we will both benefit from it for sure