With the recent major update, the Spectate Teammate cameras no longer behave as expected and various game elements are no longer rendered when spectating a teammate.
Previous/Expected:
Say you are sat in spawn looking straight down mid and press your spectate teammate key. When you release the key, the player character's camera should still be facing straight down mid/the direction it was facing as the key was pressed.
Current/Unexpected:
With the same example, when releasing the spectate teammate key, the player character's camera is facing a seemingly random direction.
The camera not returning to the initial orientation when releasing the spectate teammate key makes this feature arguably useless unless you are currently on a zip-line.
Additional Notes:
There is some relationship between camera direction while spectating to the returning orientation. It seems that the resulting return orientation is towards the map element/map area you are looking at from the spectated player's position but from the player character's position. Does not seem very consistent though when looking towards the outside of the map. Please see attached MP4 for reference, keep an eye on the spectate view cone & player character's view cone.
I don't have any good clips or examples of the other issue simply because I have not been using the spectate teammate features since it has stopped working properly. In general, it can be missing troopers, most hero spells don't show up, etc.
Previous/Expected:
Say you are sat in spawn looking straight down mid and press your spectate teammate key. When you release the key, the player character's camera should still be facing straight down mid/the direction it was facing as the key was pressed.
Current/Unexpected:
With the same example, when releasing the spectate teammate key, the player character's camera is facing a seemingly random direction.
The camera not returning to the initial orientation when releasing the spectate teammate key makes this feature arguably useless unless you are currently on a zip-line.
Additional Notes:
There is some relationship between camera direction while spectating to the returning orientation. It seems that the resulting return orientation is towards the map element/map area you are looking at from the spectated player's position but from the player character's position. Does not seem very consistent though when looking towards the outside of the map. Please see attached MP4 for reference, keep an eye on the spectate view cone & player character's view cone.
I don't have any good clips or examples of the other issue simply because I have not been using the spectate teammate features since it has stopped working properly. In general, it can be missing troopers, most hero spells don't show up, etc.