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Summoners!

We are pleased to announce that we’re closing the books on our Spectator Mode beta and moving into our full release. In the coming patch, we’re rolling out some exciting new features that will bring your experience spectating games to the next level. In the full release of Spectator Mode you’ll be able to jump to specific points in the action with Timeshift controls, allow the computer to control your perspective through Directed Camera, and spectate your friends’ games that are already in progress. You can even watch top players by selecting from a number of Featured Games pre-selected for you on the PvP.net landing page.

For a full rundown of the new features available in the full release of Spectator Mode, take a look at the video below.


Spectate Your Friends

In the full release of Spectator Mode you’ll now have the option to drop in and watch a friend’s game that’s currently underway. To select this option, simply right click on their nameplate in your Friends List, and select the “Spectate Game” option to begin watching. You will immediately join the selected game with the standard, three-minute delay already factored in. There’s no limit on how many players are allowed to observe a friend’s game in this manner.

Featured Games

Interested in watching a few matches featuring players at the very top of League of Legends? When you load the client, you’ll now have a list of live Featured Games that you can view. These games showcase some of the best players that League of Legends has to offer, so be sure to check them out any time you’re interested in viewing some high-level play. There is no limit on how many players can observe a featured game.

Timeshift Controls

We know how frustrating missing an important moment while viewing a heated battle on the Fields of Justice can be. So to prevent you from ever missing a beat, we’ve added the Timeshift controls to Spectator Mode. Through Timeshift you can rewind, slow down, or even pause the live game you’re observing to take in all the action at your own pace. Once you’re done, you can fast forward or jump ahead to catch back up with the progress of the match.

Directed Camera

By engaging Directed Camera mode you can allow the computer to guide your perspective, automatically selecting the most interesting action on the field. While this mode is engaged, the computer will analyze everything that is currently happening in the game and select the most significant event, whether it’s First Blood, a team fight or a baron attempt. You can even select a specific player that you’d like the Directed Camera to focus on, or jump to another event by pressing the space bar.

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I'm being all helpful and such lately, is this not insane?? :O
Feel free to edit this one as well, just wanted to let everyone know :P

Pip pip summoners! It is I, Cho’Gath. I’m newly returned from my constitutional in the Outer Void and ready to share my unexpected good fortune with you commoners. If you’ll gather ‘round, I shall display the most extraordinary collection of wares for your perusal. These skins and champions – gained at great cost through the personal expenditure of my brandy snifter slush fund – are now being offered to you at a severely discounted price. What do I gain from it, you ask? How droll! As if the gentlemanly desire to aid my fellow beings weren’t reward enough! Feel free to examine them at your leisure.

• Cassiopeia, The Serpent’s Embrace: This dusky beauty displays a most appealing devotion to all things serpentine. Normally, she would cost a daunting 975 RP, but I might be persuaded to part with her for a mere 487 RPs.
• Zilean, The Chronokeeper: I confess I never enjoyed this gentleman’s company. Too fixated on that infernal clock. 585 RP is the asking price, but I’m happy to send him to you for a mere 292 RP.
• Urgot, The Headsman’s Pride: Urgot proved a most delightful companion. Our evening games of whist proved quite memorable, particularly when he lost and reduced the cabana boy to toxic sludge. You too can share in his whimsical eccentricities for only 487 RP, less than half his base price of 975 RP.

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• Kennen M.D.: Much as we may loathe our visits to the physician, they are unfortunately necessary… especially when one’s pustules fail to ooze at acceptable levels. I recommend Kennen M.D. for such occasions. Though normally he runs of 975 RP, I can present him to you at the discounted cost of 487 RP.

As tempting as my goods are, I can only offer them from this Friday, April 27 until next Monday, April 30. I wish I could do better, but I do have pressing obligations elsewhere.

Speaking of which, I can’t help but notice that… well, with all your attention focused on my humble offerings, your soul has taken on a most delicious hue. And now that you are within devouring distance, I’m afraid my baser appetites are rapidly overwhelming my fine breeding. Would you mind terribly if I had a taste? There’s a good chap… NOM-NOM-NOM-NOM-NOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!




Hope you don't mind that I spruced this up a bit ;)

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