Hey boourns, a question:
Any chance of cancelling the camera snapping back to my hero on blue pill or respawn?
It feels totally unnecessary. It makes me go the wrong way for half a second if I spam right click while I'm dead, eager to get back to the fray.

Could it at least be made a toggle-able option?

On #11, is faking an eyefinity setup/messing with screen resolutions bannable (no zoom hacks, just config edits)? You can set resolution in the config.ini file. If you have a 1920x 1080 monitor, you gain a significant amount of view by setting the resolution to something like 1920x 640.

It may not be a "big issue" for the majority, but for the percentage that does prefer and use locked camera, being on the purple team can make an otherwise normal game absolutely miserable. With a locked camera, the UI can be devastating. It can block an enemy champion who is lining up for a skillshot that you could otherwise see and easily avoid if you were blue. If you try using unlocked camera, but are not used to doing so or just plain don't like it, the accidental scrolling of the camera in a crucial moment can cause a death that otherwise would not have happened if you were on blue team. It also hinders my ability to throw skillshots, because I find myself accidentally moving the mouse too far and end up losing sight of my target. Even worse when I'm running away and trying to land a skillshot that could save me.

I know the complaints have been voiced before, and undoubtedly I will get responses telling me to "learn to use unlocked camera", but I honestly prefer it for the ability to always be aware of where I am. I do unlock now and then when I am not in a battle and want to see what's going on with my teammates, but if I'm in the middle of a fight or about to be, I like to know where my champion is.

I also suppose I do not understand what the problem is with having purple's camera not directly centered on the champion, enough to give you the same range of view that blue has in front of you. It wouldn't add any view range that blue doesn't have, and wouldn't take away any view range that blue has. The only thing that it would detract from is being able to see behind you, but blue doesn't get as far of a back-view because it's blocked by the UI. This would also not affect the players who play with an unlocked camera, and would even the playing field for those who play with a locked camera.

I don't play with a locked camera and there are still a few problem points with the camera for me.

One is one is seeing Kog's ult when on purple side. The ideal camera position when Kog is attacking you from below is to have your own character at the top of the screen so you can see Kog - and since the warning line for his ult is directly above where it lands, most if not all of that red line is off the screen. You literally can't see it coming without sacrificing your ability to see who's attacking you (i.e., seeing the launch animation start). The problem is worst right around purple's mid inhibitor turret, when blue team is seiging you. Solution: give kog's ult some kind of warning particle on the ground as well. I understand that you don't want to mess with the viewing angle (personally I'd love top down view, tired of Blitz's broad shoulders causing me to click on the wrong person) but at least don't make game critical animations depend on it.

The other (and far worse problem) is when you're playing Kog'maw or Xerath, ulting into a teamfight from a safe distance... and then all of a sudden your attacks stop happening. You frantically click, but artillery fails to fall out of the sky. Two seconds later you get the Grey Screen bug, and only then do you realize that Lee Sin came from behind and ulted you out of range. It's hard to tell where everyone is at the best of times with all the lights of spells flashing everywhere - suddenly getting knocked out of where you thought you were means that you waste valuable half seconds in a teamfight hitting space to find where you landed and then trying to figure where that is relative to everyone else. Solution: (rapidly) scroll the view to the character when you get knocked out of your position by anything more substantial than Maokai's little push. It doesn't even have to center on you, just move until you're visible again.

What if there was an option to flip the map? For me I do enjoy locked play better than unlocked. I do seem to realize for myself that blue side is easier to skill shot from than purple, by a large margin, but what if there could be an option that could flip the whole map. Ex. Say I get into a game and I'm placed on purple side. I hit and option button and instead of going on the map from top to bottom, I'm now going from bottom to top. To get a better idea of this, Baron would be on the bottom of my new flipped map, and dragon would be at the top.

I use locked camera... maybe I don't show up in your stats at that because I haven't found the option to change that on my side, I just toggle it at the start of the game.

I like to play highly mobile champions, or ones that require constant input. Spamming me some skillshots is much more fun than auto attacks, and even auto attacks sometimes I send each one to a different target at 2.1 attack speed.

On trying the unlocked camera, I found it neither smooth nor precise enough for those times when I need it stationary to watch for enemy champions in lane stepping out of bushes to get into range, when I want to target champions I am chasing, or just laugh maniacally and throw bombs in all the bushes along the way so I can hear them calling out "maphacks" in chat.

Also, with the number of clicks I'm already giving to dodge and weave against skill shots, attack those minions, and precisely aim my own skillshots, I don't have time to wave at the edges of the screen, click the minimap, or depress middle mouse and swing the screen wildly, as my mouse is all tied up in the action.

I can't be holding spacebar for camera locking while doing that either, since I am very attentive and aggressive, and holding spacebar for 10 minutes solid during a game makes my thumb go numb.

I find skillshot ranges easier to judge in locked camera because of the camera angle making the distance across the screen they can travel be different by how far back or how near the camera is.

So I like totally learned how to land Caitlyn glaives and Ashe arrows by glancing at the minimap, and just firing off the corrected degrees. Artillery Skillz, Yo!


As for my LoL mentor who uses unlocked camera... well, I don't see it helping much, really, as they tunnel vision to their target, and run off without seeing the ambushes going off behind them and the rest of their team being killed as they plan to tank a tower for us or something. Or watch a fight, or their own Ashe arrow, and get walked up to and smacked by the enemy while paying attention to another person's lane.


Now to tackle the list of proposed solutions...

Flipping the camera for purple team:

Argument Against: Flips all important position of Barron Nasher and Dragon.

My rebuttal to the argument: Unflips jungle. It's more important to me when I play an AD carry to grab the small golem camp before minion waves meet to be the first to level 2, than it is for me to worry about someone trying to solo dragon the moment it spawns. If I have lane supperiority by that point, I can temp mid while mr AP and Jungler and Bruiser tackle any attempted dragoning.

Argument Against: Well, it does make front attacks and laning easier, but it makes purple teams have more trouble circling around behind towers to get into position for teamfights.

My rebuttal: Wha?
Expanded: What do I care?
Expandeder: How often does this come into play for my entire team even if I'm winding through the jungle to pick off retreating champions.
Expandederest: Why the hell am I zigzagging through the jungle with a slow AD carry with massively long skillshots when I could be attacking from the front where it is both safer, and I can get to in time even iff my team is circling.

Argument Against: Causes people communication not able to tell which way is top or bottem.

My rebuttal: Why are you communicating with blue team, the only people who aren't flipped as well?

Make spacebar disable camera lock on hold for locked players like it enables camera lock on hold for unlocked players.

Argument Against: Play unlocked NOOB

Rebuttal: *close thread*

Argument Against: Press Y, NOOB!

Rebuttal: Already do, but holding and toggling are apparnatly different enough you don't do it yourself, and it seems a very easy change.

Argument Against: Not as easy as holding spacebar the whole time!

Rebuttal: Hold spacebar for 40 minutes, say it was easy, and I'll never argue with you again.

Change Camera angle closer to straight down on the map.

Argument Against: You wouldn't be able to tell champions appart.

Rebuttal: I'm pretty sure Chogoth's back is different from TF's hat.

Argument Against: You wouldnt be able to stare at Sivir's legs while she runs.

Rebuttal: I'll take overhead of her rack anyday anyways.

But really, that's a joke entry.

Argument Against: Your field of view has been precisely calculated and this would affect game balance.

Rebuttal: Yeah right. Rather than play full screen at 16:10 resolution, I play windowed at 16:9, and can see 2 tank minions farther on either side. This has affected my combat, and the directions I pick to gank from. I really don't think you care that much.