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Camera/Map Orientation.

Chaos Concordant·9/16/2014, 10:36:45 PM·2 votes·788 views

Why is it isometric? The map I mean. I just had a match of ARAM where I played as Jinx (I'm not a great ADC player by any stretch of the imagination) and I seriously prefer to play with the camera locked to my character. Which is mostly okay but when you're facing someone like Jayce and his huge health-sapping energy ball attack, it's nearly impossible to dodge it. My team were on the upper-right and his team was on the lower left. Why? Why not have the map going horizontal? Left to right or right to left? Like that DC MMO. I don't mind the camera's positioning but the way the map is rotated to the view is bloody annoying. How about Riot take a vote or ask for their players opinions or at least give them the option to select what way the camera is located in relation to the map/

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bunsenhoneydew779/17/2014, 1:31:15 PM1 votes

This has been brought up many times in the past and usually the response is "just learn to play with unlocked camera," which is frustrating. Riot has said that it would be too difficult to change camera orientation for a game. I, however, propose that they give you an option to zoom the game out rather than change camera position. That would enable people to see opponents within the fog of war that are hidden by the bottom of the screen.

To be honest though, this has been a problem for the last 4 years so if it hasn't been changed by now, it probably never will.