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Hey boourns, with how Varus's Q functions when smart casting (hold to charge, release to fire, if I'm wrong disregard me), would it be possible to set once button to control camera functions so that simply pressing the button would (un)lock the camera relative to your champion's position, while holding it down would center the camera over your champ (and lock it?).

Except my point had nothing to do with locked camera views & neither does the camera angle petition thread. Its about mirroring purple team to have the same view & angle as blue team. So tell me what does "locked camera usage stats" have to do with it?

Riot has been aware of the fact that its more difficult to play on purple team am I correct? So much so that purple team minions are slightly stronger than blue? as well as having higher ELO players play on purple? Yea it serves its purpose & involved much less time to "balance" but I fail to see why a generic fix like that was better than providing true balance by flipping the camera for purple team. If not a full mirror then even adjusting the map from left to right like treeline & crystal is a better solution than current.

As of now I believe that the absolute best way to overcome the issues with playing with unlocked camera is simply to get an expensive gaming mouse that would let you scroll around the map. As such, it's somewhat similar to a FPS player with Modified Controller.

Unlocking the camera also gives you vision of where your abilities can be, but it makes it more difficult to control your champion, as you need to scroll around your screen to the target, leaving you without a clue of whats going on 2 inches behind your champion, which means its easy to get ganked.

Locked camera is simply easier, and therefore better, and an advantage if you have the vision to see what's going on. Blue clearly has an advantage because they can lock camera and still pull off abilities with massive ranges. Purple however, suffers for this disadvantage, and though I've seen that the developers have tried quite hard to find other ways to counteract this, it simply isn't enough.

All you have to do is either uncap the maximum camera zoom, or allow the idea for the different camera angles, and the game will be so much more balanced! I really don't understand the reasoning in avoiding these two options.

The issue here is not that people are bad because they aren't as good at using the unlocked camera. The issue is that unlocked camera is more difficult to use and only one side can use a locked camera and perform well, with many of the champions. This is unbalanced, as one team gets the opportunity to use the easier (and therefore advantageous) camera option and perform unhindered.

Communication need not be hindered. If you simply flipped the camera angle for the purple side, and kept it the same as Blue Side's camera appears the entire match, then it would be far more balanced. This would not hinder communication with teammates because everyone on each team would still have the same view, and you typically don't communicate with the other team strategically.

I apologize if this has been said already--what about an option that scrolls your window until your champ is at the edge? Instead of your image wildly moving too far, basically it's stays relative to where your champ is at, without your champ leaving the screen. You can scroll the window with the champ as a pivot point.
It's kind of a "baby full map scroll" but I could see that as very useful, especially in those bloody top down fights.

Edit: Alternatively, give greater control to the HUD, so it could be placed off to the side--or maybe even so it changes based on where you move your cursor (flips top to bottom depending). Maybe that's an option i simply haven't found (I always feel pressured into GO GO GO when I start a play. Bot game tonight will solve that!)

I would reallllly love to see some of the stats on camera-locked players because I strongly disagree that free-camera users are the vast majority. If anything, its closer to 50-50.

For reference, here's a thread with a poll: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/....php?t=1781085

While it is still a small sample size, its good reason to believe that this problem is bigger than you thought.

I would like to add on to this.

That poll is a poll of players on this website. We can generally hypothesize that players who go through the trouble of the forums for games are probably putting more time into the game than many others (I would imagine the statistics show that far more people play the game than actively use these forums). If these are people that put more time into the game, then they are also likely to be players who are generally better than the players who don't put as much effort into it.

Now I obviously don't have the stats here but is this not a fair hypothesis? We can produce the theory that only about half of the players at this 'level' of the game are confident that purple is not at a major disadvantage. At lower average levels of skill, it is more likely that more people use locked camera all of the time because it is the default setting. As such we can hypothesize again that although the percentage may be roughly 50/50 for people on this website, it is likely that the issue is far more prevalent for players who put less time in.

Yes, it's all theoretical, but does it not make sense?

TL;DR: There are likely far more people that would vote for option one in the poll than option two, after we leave the setting of this website, as most users here are putting more time into the game than others.

Wanted to add my 2cents

you should be able to move your camera with AWSD i know thats a conflict with skill QWER...but at least make it to were you could place your skills for 1234 and be able to use AWSD for moving the camera...Which allows you to still use your mouse to click but not all this extra mouse movement just a thought

Please FIX with one of the suggestions. It's unbareable to play like this. It's scary that I now only play Twisted Treeline because those flaws you can at least play around since the core of the fighting doesn't happen in those areas.

Maybe to break the cycle, make the tutorial force locked cam for ten minutes, then un-locked cam for another ten, then, give them the freedom of choosing which camera to use, and when. After the tutorial, you can have an option box pop-up and ask which camera they want as default going into games.
Also, can't you just mirror the top teams fixed cam with the bottom teams fixed cam?