Spectator Fog of War

GGLineaR·2/7/2017, 12:54:13 AM·1 votes·740 views

I've just now been getting into the habit of watching LCS, and something I think I came up with an idea that that will help, not only the audience, but also anyone who has ever spectated a game of LoL.

As most of us know, vision is a VERY important asset. You need proper vision to splitpush, gank, and avoid ganks. And while the summoner-side fog of war is perfect, I think that Spectators should see the fog color coded.

A blue shade of fog over the areas that that show where blue side cannot see, a red shade of fog that show where red side cannot see, and a purple shade of fog where neither team can see. And again, only spectators can see this, for summoners in game, nothing's changed.

I'm not sure if it'd be possible, but I think it'd be useful. Any thoughts?

3 Comments

RageQ22/7/2017, 1:04:49 AM2 votes

I'm going to have to say no if this is what you mean by fog. If you're talking about fog where a player cant see then it would make no sense because it would stay purple/normal fog, but if you're talking about a red/blue overlay that happens when, say for example a red team has current vision in a brush, but the blue cant see past that bush or inside it so those parts on the mini map stay with a blue overlay. if you're talking about overlays of color then it would makes sense, the other wouldn't. Also having neither team see something is the exact same mechanic as the current fog of war

Mysticman892/7/2017, 1:06:20 AM2 votes

I'd be concerned that it'd create a lot of visual noise.

For spectators spectating in-client, they can toggle the different fog of war themselves. For pro matches, it's not uncommon for observers to toggle fog of war if theres some particular detail that they want to draw attention to. I know for worlds, they sometimes had an alternate stream set up where they'd spectate/cast entirely from the perspective of one sides fog of war, so I don't know if they are doing similar for lcs matches.

CancerBasedGod2/7/2017, 2:09:41 AM2 votes

I'd like to see this as an option, it might be confusing for some people though.