There's an option to have it lock automatically every match? I always just press Y when the match starts. Also, for whatever it's worth, I don't entirely play with locked. I hate the feeling of holding down space bar, so I keep it locked until I need to unlock it (for a skillshot or to check somewhere on the map). It's very quick and easy to tap Y, click, and then tap Y again. I've seen that Dyrus does something very similar.

Wait, what? I don't see any option to have locked camera on by default. When I start a game, I have to hit 'Y' to enable it. So I'm slightly confused about your data when you're looking at people who have camera locked set by default.


Yeah, that's what I'm saying. If they're collecting camera lock data by looking at who has it set to lock by default, I'd like to know how to do that myself, because I know I'm not showing up in the data as a camera lock user either.

Lol I know, right?

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I read most. This stuck out right away though and I'd like to know Why...

""I don't think changes to camera angle or fov are likely to pass muster either, we limit zoom out and control the view angle so players with the money to buy larger monitors/faster video cards/higher resolution don't have an advantage.""

How would this benefit a more expensive screen more than a low cost screen (and cards and res). I don't get how it'll help one set of people more than another could you please expand on this?

Also I don't see how making both teams have the perception of moving up would hurt the game at all. It can't be all that difficult to do since all other games like this I"ve played do it already.

And the easiest idea I've seen to fix it is making a hot key that you can set at the begining of every game to align the screen a certain distance from your champ. Basically instead of centering on your champ have it center where you pick (I'd pick above my champ to the left when playing bot, above to the right on top so I can either see the enemies hovering just below the camera who are hitting me or the turret who's range is farther than I can see)

I'd also be a bit disturbed by the statistic of how many people play with screens unlocked vs. locked. Beginners tend to play locked. If the majority of your new players are just smurf accounts it means your company might not be attracting enough new people. I point this out since I've seen this trend kill games before.

Yes, we can!
Oh, it was already posted in 7...

Nevertheless, DO IT! At least try it internally. It is super awesome!
And, no, it does not require the game to be line targeting-based and such. Exact targeting will not become much harder.
Actually, if the camera is centered midway between your champion and your cursor, then to move cursor to a specific point/unit on a screen, you should move the mouse JUST as you would with free camera, only 2x less distance.

Honestly, I haven't played Dead Space, but a similar system is implemented in Bloodline Champions (It's F2P, you can get it at http://www.bloodlinechampions.com/ Hope, links to other games are not prohibited on this forum).
There're indeed not much unit-targeted spells, but plenty of AoEs which you want to place perfectly, and it turns out to be not hard at all!

Oh it was mentioned too.. A long post you have there..
The farthest you can look - is when your champion is at one corner of your screen, your cursor is at another, and the camera is centered inbetween them. And you cannot look further this way, because you cannot move your cursor out of the screen. So basically, it allows 4x greater field of view than fixed camera!
What happens when you try to free-look via map? I think it will behave the same way as it is now with fixed camera.

So, please, at least try implementing and using it in the office for some 30-40 minutes (it takes some time to get used to)! It should be awesome!

As a sidenote - I play with free camera, but if you implement this ('smart camera') I will be using it exclusively, I promise!

I really like the idea of having a hotkey you can set to orient the screen similair to hitting space bar except in a spot you designate in relation to your champ.

No, we currently wouldn't ban you for that. Zoomhacks are bannable though of course.

If you have locked camera on when you exit the game it will still be on when you join your next one. I just tested again to make sure.

That doesn't seem right to me, but meh. I played locked consistently, yet I do have to lock pretty often at the start of a new game. I dont see why I would unlock at the end though. but if you say so, I'd take your work on it.

That's what I see when I do it on my machine. If you can reproduce this not happening I would very much like to know! That's a bug and would affect our stat collection.

Specifically we look for LockCamera=1 in your game.cfg in the config/ directory of your install. I had QA check that this gets set correctly when we were pulling the stats for locked camera, but if you can find cases where this is broken please give us a set of steps to reproduce it.

If for some reason you always switch off locked camera by pressing 'y' before exiting, we would not know you were using locked camera during the game. However that also suggests that you are successfully using an unlocked camera...

Just throwing this out there, but the ONLY reason I would (and have) considered using locked camera is because when the VFX start flying in a team fight, I often lose track of my champ. Locked camera would solve that for me.

I don't use it because there are too many other associated problems with it, but I'll say this: if you gave me a big **** glowing arrow or beam of light pointing straight at MY champ all the time, I'd never even consider it ever again.

And I mean a really, really, super obvious thing, here. Not something subtle like a different color on my health bar.