Unlocked camera

[Juicymango]

So I saw a couple of videos lately, were people played with unlocked camera and I thought this is actually pretty cool. You feel even more inside the game then.
So my question is: Why cant we play with unlocked camera? I know it wouldn't take sts much effort to change this I guess.
Also I know that you can play with unlocked camera, but you would have to root your phone for that...

A suggestion would be if we would at least be able to play with unlocked camera in towns. This would make chillin' even more fun!

What do you guys think about that? Share your opinions :)

[Hallweeen]

Or you can just do it urself. It's not hard :D

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[Juicymango]

Or you can just do it urself. It's not hard :D

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I know its not hard, but rooting your phone or tablet has it's negative things, for example the incresed rate of getting viruses and loosing your garanty.
That is why I dont want to root :)

[Hallweeen]

I know its not hard, but rooting your phone or tablet has it's negative things, for example the incresed rate of getting viruses and loosing your garanty.
That is why I dont want to root :)
Good point :0 it's good for taking ss of everyone tho! It looks nicer

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[Zylx]

But... if we get rotatable camera, then there would be nothing left for AL-hating PL players to whine about!

[Commanderkeen]

I know it's been brought up before and STG said that there are areas of the map that have nothing to look at. Just empty space so STG would have to go back and fill them areas in. They basically said they don't wanna waste resources to do that when they can be working on new content.

[kinzmet]

Here is the thread ----> Camera Rotation. Why don't we have it? (http://www.spacetimestudios.com/showthread.php?86321-Camera-Rotation-Why-don-t-we-have-it&highlight=camera+view+rotation)

Players already got used to non-rotating view in AL, in PVP most have already developed ways to negate the camera angle advantage of the opponents.
This topic always pops-up once or twice every year.

[Dragoonclaws]

I dont want to ruin your party... But unlocked camera isn't very legit... Just don't post pictures or videos about it on forums.

[Schnitzel]

I had a chat with Seo a while back, here's what he told me:


The game is intended to have a locked camera so changing that would be considered an alteration to the game which isn't allowed. In short, it isn't allowed.

On another note,
here's what Samhayne said about what happens if AL did have a rotating camera:


Here's why:
http://www.spacetimestudios.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=24385&d=1360701234

This is a picture in Windmoore behind Shazbot (as a Dev I can move the camera around).

Notice that there is no geometry for the rest of Shazbot's wagon? Also, notice that there is nothing out over the water that you can see from Windmoore? The game lacks a lot of "extras" in the environment in an effort to help keep the framerate of your device good when you play. The entire game is built around a fixed camera. If the camera were to be unlocked and freely rotated, users would see all this "broken" stuff. If we fill in all the other stuff, then everyone has to suffer with worse framerate just so that some people can rotate their cameras.

Also, all of our new user testing of Pocket Legends, Star Legends and Dark Legends pointed out problems that the average user has playing the game and dealing with a freely rotating camera. Arcane Legends is simply more user friendly because of a fixed camera.

Sorry, but the camera will not be made to be freely rotated. I hope the above helps you better understand why.

Thanks for playing Arcane Legends!

[ClumsyCactus]

The 2 main reasons it is not standard I believe are that there are a lot of unfinished empty spaces, and also pvp.
The unfinished chunks part is pretty basic, but as for pvp, TDM is built around a certain point of view, and people being able to scout the map while not being on the bottom side of the map is going to change pvp drastically.

[Seoratrek]

Here is the thread ----> Camera Rotation. Why don't we have it? (http://www.spacetimestudios.com/showthread.php?86321-Camera-Rotation-Why-don-t-we-have-it&highlight=camera+view+rotation)

Players already got used to non-rotating view in AL, in PVP most have already developed ways to negate the camera angle advantage of the opponents.
This topic always pops-up once or twice every year.


I had a chat with Seo a while back, here's what he told me:


On another note,
here's what Samhayne said about what happens if AL did have a rotating camera:

Yep! Thanks for finding that. Closing this up now :)