The camera movement seems a bit 'odd' as in it's not the same as when you're playing. it seems a bit too smooth as if I have v-sync on or something. not a big deal, just nitpicking.

I would love an option to see what other games are live, sort of like a server browser. I hate the fact that I have to leave the entire game to watch a new game

Directed camera needs a little work. It seems to be very good when there is action going on, but when there is nothing happening it just cycles between the players every few seconds. This is really disorienting and fairly pointless when your view is changing between people walking back to lane or afk farming.

If nothing is happening that would warrent a camera change then just leave the camera on one person. Or allow the viewer to specify which player they want the camera to focus on when there isn't any overriding action taking place.

a couple of things i like

1.- i want to spectate the game that my friend is spectate, right now you can spectate your friend game, but no the game he is spectating. also if you spectate this way an option to let your friend control the camera or you control

2.- i want to see the stats/character page of the champs, so i can identify how much crit, or armor pen, or health regen, etcetera has

3.- an option that when you spectate your friend game you can have only your friend vision but without the delay. like if you were in his house next to him watching how he play. there is no way someone can cheat with that

"2.- i want to see the stats/character page of the champs, so i can identify how much crit, or armor pen, or health regen, etcetera has"

Press c while a champ is selected.

Haven't read the thread, sorry. Thanks for creating it though - now I can move here from "Official Spectator Bug Thread" ^_^

So, my biggest concern with Directed Camera seems to be that it does not "look ahead, so that it doesn't miss any action" as Phreak stated in patch preview.
Up to the point where it missed a kill on bot, while showing me farmfest on top. And that's without any of my intervention.
Another weird thing was when it was switching from a lane to a jungler right when the fight on that lane was starting - I could see MF's Q flying towards Graves while the camera was sliding away to show Lee killing wraiths.

I personally don't like pause being on P - I'd rather have it on spacebar, but I suppose it's just a matter of taste.

Double-clicking on a certain champion to lock camera on him works fine. But after I move my mouse to the edge of the screen to look around, it changes to Directed Camera (and not locked-to-that-champion, as I would like it to).

And lastly, I cannot be sure, but it feels like Directed Camera may fail to capture chases (when a champion is constantly moving away from his enemy team, while being not far from and/or visible to the enemies). Would be nice if you could double-check it.

Oh, one more thing. In one of the game I've watched there were two fights going on at the same time for quite a while (20sec?). DC showed me a bigger one), and then I decided to rewind and watch another. But the camera was constantly snapping to the bigger one, and it was quite annoying.
So I suggest that if you hit space after, say, a second (or even less) after the camera begins snapping to another "interesting place", then camera understands that you only want to see what you are looking at right now. At least for some time.

Oh, and one more! I'm a bit disappointed that featured games almost always show games 10-15 minutes into the game. Unfortunately, I'm very interested in the early few levels and laning, but have no way to watch them. Can we have at least one of the games featuring laning phase please?

Apart from that - spectator mode is great! Thanks a lot!!

P.s. Just logged into client and it didn't show any featured games. Relogged - and they were there. Feels buggy. Not sure where to the logs and whether you need them at all

I love the new spectator mode. However, those of us with two monitors, and I'm sure there are many of us, will find that when you try to use free look camera to go to the right side of the screen, rather than moving the camera, the mouse jumps to the other screen. I'm not sure if this is a personal issue or if this is spectator mode, however, I do not have this problem during normal game play. Until this issue is resolved, I am not going to be using spectator mode.

I love everything about it but a few things, one when you move your cursor on the borders of the screen, it takes it off of direct camera, and is annoying if you want to know what the ult of a champion does or current cool down of it or something.

the second thing is i think there should be more featured games than five, because say if i want to watch a game with someone playing a specific champion, i cant.

also we should be able to chat with other spectators, and i hate the anouncers voice, when a team destroys a turret, there isn't any enthusiasm in the voice. she also doesnt announce when kills are gotten.