I play with follow camera, and I scroll to the edge to see what’s going on and shoot long range, especially with ming, but after a few seconds of moving the camera always pans back to me which is disorienting and frustrating as I’m always having to pan back again every few seconds. I just want it to stay where I put the damn thing unless i hit a button to center on me.
I don’t want to play on unlocked as i find that just as frustrating.
Play with the camera unlocked and get in the habit of tapping/holding the space bar to recenter the camera
I don’t want to it’s frustrating as all hell to play unlocked… i want it to follow me i just want it to stay panned where i put it.
playing with the unlocked camera can be very dangerous, yeah u thinks is disorienting when u play a long range character but sometimes you forget about urself and ur own character and u can be killed by a melee assasin like valera or zeratul, with the camera center going back to ur body and check the place near where u are is very usefull, about the "disorienting and frustrating" i can tell you this is mental, i always play with camera locked and feel very nice
You can press L to enable and disable camera lock. I believe that stops the auto scrolling.
I play with camera locked but never faced this auto reposition. Maybe because I move it too frequently.
I never travel without looking unless I know it’s safe to do so. I’ve died a few times from that (when I first unlocked my camera) and haven’t since. It’s a reflex now.
Learning to hold spacebar in combat is also a vital skill for this play style
I’m in the same boat as you. I would actually like this as well.
I know I should play unlocked but I like not having to worry about my positioning. I find having a locked camera I can dodge skill shots while focusing on the enemy, my team mates, make shot calls and the minimap but isn’t as good avoid ganks.
I can actually play both ways and change for different heroes but definately prefer locked. I like the space bar for focusing on my hero but I couldn’t hold that down for a serious team fight. I was thinking of changing the L keybind to something closer (maybe space bar but then I would loose the ability to highlight my character in a team fight if needed) but I don’t know if that would help. I normally just click on the minimap when I need to unlock the screen but as soon as you run into that spot it locks it again.
I made T be the cam lock toggle. It’s not too far from my index finger so I can reach it and it wasn’t used for anything I cared about. I guess just be careful not to hit it when trying to use your heroic. Then again, usually the only time I unlock it is when using Ana’s snipe heroic.
Also, I agree with OP. I play with cam locked, but for the times I move it to view somewhere else on the map, it ought to stay put. It’s the auto-recenter that is annoying, and I really see no reason for it to exist.
There is another option that requires special hardware but it’s in the long run more effective to play with than with a common keyboard:
IDK, I’ve played with the camera unlocked since alpha and I’ve gotten killed off-screen maybe only a few times in all these years. The advantages of free camera far outweight the risk.
Free camera is the only way to know what’s happening in the team fight before you get to it, and it’s the only way to aim from far away. How are you even supposed to properly aim a Hanzo/Nova ult, Tyrande owl, etc. without a free moving camera? Just tossing those over the minimap lacks precission.
No free camera is way better, you get used to it and you dont ever scroll your screen outside your toons area unless your scouting. What blizzard should do with a camera is be allowed to focus it on Misha and keep rexxar as the pet! hahah
You know you can still move the camera freely even with camera lock, right? All camera lock does is automatically center on your character while you’re on screen, moving, and not actively moving the camera. Otherwise it’s the same controls.
I see people write this all the time and I’m like “…You have no idea what you’re talking about.”
Basically, it just helps with motion sickness.
Old topic and game is no longer supported, but would be great if it was possible to turn it off somehow… without that quick re-center the camera would be perfect. Maybe in the future new devs will add it. Is good to have dreams ^^