[Bug] Not able to rotate camera anymore when dead

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• 20 Jun, '22
  Tim B

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  I agree It's irritating that you can't tell a teammate if there are threats around you or not when they are coming to revive you...
  Also you can't rotate camera when spectating a teammates view on their way to save you...

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• 06 Jun, '22
  Yannick Merged

  Since the last update, you can't look around anymore when spectating a fellow player while unconscious. The view doesn't even rotate with the spectated player, just fixed in one direction.
  
  (would understand if it just followed the view of the player to prevent helping, but sticking to one direction is bad)

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• 15 Jul, '22
  Corné van den Bosch Merged

  Since a couple of weeks, I'm unable to move the death cam anymore. It's stuck in a static position. Before you were able to at least look around and see whether the animal that killed you is still around. Very annoying!

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• 10 Aug, '22
  Taps Merged

  when im dead and watching teamates let me rotate to camera so i can see what they are seeing

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• 12 Aug, '22
  Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

  Hi there, does this still happen? Thanks.

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• 13 Aug, '22
  Megan L

  Yes, please bring this back. It was nicer to be able to look around and tell a teammate if they were near us and what direction.

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• 13 Aug, '22
  Elissa - Producer Admin

  Hi there, we can't reproduce this internally. Is it 100% of the time? Can you please send me a video of it not working? Are you a client or a host? Thanks!

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• 27 Aug, '22
  Jim G Merged

  What happened to it?!?!?!?!? We want it back!

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• 28 Aug, '22
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Freelook death camera" (suggested by Jim G on 2022-08-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 01 Sep, '22
  Remco

  Stops working once you use the map, it seems. Before that you can rotate.

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• 07 Oct, '22
  Mira

  Yes, it stops when you use the map once. After that you cannot rotate the camera, once you are dead.

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• 08 Oct, '22
  Tim Buda

  It doesn't work for me anytime I try to use it when unconscious... Has been broken for some time now...

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• 11 Oct, '22
  Kris

  Yeah, used to be a lovely feature to be able to look around when unconscious - Can't think why they would keep u at a static camera angle now!

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• 12 Nov, '22
  Bryan Merged

  I don't know if I'm alone on this, but I really miss being able to spin the camera around my dead body while waiting to be revived. I'm not sure if there was a reason that it was switched to a stationary camera angle, but it would be great if we could be free to look around again

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• 13 Nov, '22
  Elissa - Producer System

  "[Suggestion] Stationary view after death?" (suggested by Bryan on 2022-11-12), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 13 Nov, '22
  Elissa - Producer System

  "be able to rotate the camera while spectating team memebers" (suggested by Taps on 2022-08-10), including upvotes (3) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 26 Nov, '22
  NBTSESH Merged

  While in the death camera view, all I see is an odd side view or a view under the map/into cliff faces etc. I also have no option to rotate the camera to properly see what my friends are doing when coming to revive me. In summary, it just seems broken (likely a result of one of the updates) and unfortunately leaves me with a boring slot of time where I'm sat looking at nothing while waiting to be rescued.

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• 28 Nov, '22
  boxenknecht Merged

  The same here. But this has been going on for some time. I've only been playing Icarus for 9 weeks, but since then it's been like that.
  BUT what I found out, if I wasn't on the map before (not at all in the session), I can move the camera freely. If I then go to the map, the camera view is fixed sideways again as soon as I leave the map. Maybe this will help to find the error.

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• 28 Nov, '22
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Death camera shows strange angles" (suggested by NBTSESH on 2022-11-26), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 17 Jan, '23
  George Merged

  having same issue. When dead, you only look in one directions and cannot look around or change camera view like we used to last year in the game. Some update broke all of this. Also, when you spectate another player, all you see is a colored screen and the players name and Icon above his head. But cannot see anything else and you can hear all the sounds, but no display like before.

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• 17 Jan, '23
  Elissa - Producer System

  "[Bug] Spectating while unconscious only in one direction" (suggested by Yannick on 2022-06-06), including upvotes (11) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 25 Jan, '23
  noobcakefl Merged

  Pretty much what the title says, when i'm dead/downed i can look around the environment around my body with the mouse but once I click M for the map and then go back i can no longer look around and the camera is in a fixed position, logging out of the mission and then back in fixes the bug

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• 25 Jan, '23
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Fixing Bug Not Allowing You To Look Around When Dead After Pressing Your Map" (suggested by noobcakefl on 2023-01-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 22 Apr, '23
  Keith Clayton Merged

  It has come to my attention that while playing the game, if at anytime I use the map, I lose the ability to rotate my camera or free look upon my death. I am still able to spectate the other players in the server but I cannot rotate the camera. The camera doesn't even follow their line of sight. I'm simply stuck looking in the direction I was already looking when I fell unconscious.

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• 24 Apr, '23
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Spectator camera rotation on death" (suggested by Keith Clayton on 2023-04-22), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 01 May, '23
  Swung Merged

  During the "Unconscious" screen, while spectating other players, add control to rotate the camera, currently this is not possible, and this makes it difficult to actually spectate other players. For example, if another player is inside a building with a ceiling 1 wall above the floor, often the camera is locked at a height where all you are able to see is the roof, also if players are running in certain directions all you can see is the tops of their heads and the ground behind them. Seeing as if you're waiting to be revived, the only form of "gameplay" is to spectate, this feature should be hammered out.

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• 03 May, '23
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Camera Rotation Control while spectating other players." (suggested by Swung on 2023-05-01), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 21 Jun, '23
  kevin c Merged

  so while playing icarus with my friend doing a crazed hunt mission i was knocked down, as was my friend. he respawned, I wanting to see how far away he was pulled up the map with m. then I noticed I could no longer pan my camera to see around me, it became static.

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• 21 Jun, '23
  Elissa - Producer System

  "camera rotation in multiplayer death" (suggested by kevin c on 2023-06-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 20 Aug, '23
  BreadGar Merged

  It would be be nice to be able to rotate the camera when spectating someone else while dead.

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• 04 Sep, '23
  Adam

  This is reproducible every time, if I die I can move the camera around on myself or any other character. Only once I open the map does this cause the camera not to be rotatable.

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• 06 Sep, '23
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Let us rotate the camera when spectating someone else" (suggested by BreadGar on 2023-08-20), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 24 Nov, '23
  JTgarrett Merged

  I can't turn my camera when i am dead since nearly a year or longer... fix it please

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• 27 Nov, '23
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Camera turning when dead" (suggested by JTgarrett on 2023-11-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 14 May, '24
  Baka Merged

  When you died and in spectator mode - you can't use chat unless someone wrote into it and you use mouse to "Catch" window and place cursor in it. And then you can type. But window can fade away and your message not trigger it to appear.
  Also When you died - you can for brief moment use right mouse button to rotate spectator camera, but on next clit to right mouse button - you loose this ability and start switch players and camera angle became fixed forever.
  Also there no way to change player switch buttons.

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• 15 May, '24
  Elissa - Producer System

  "[Bug] Spectator mode controls not working properly" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-05-14), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 26 Aug, '25
  Sykotek

  still happening 3 years later :(

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• 07 Jan
  Leonmitchelli Merged

  Currently it is clearly broken. You can't type into chat, you can't rotate camera and any mouse click result into loading screens.
  First - remap player switching buttons from mouse to something else. Maybe "A" and "D".
  Second - in spectating mode enable free look to be able rotate camera as you want.
  Third - enable properly using chat by "Enter". Now you can also use chat if you can 'catch' it's window in brief period of time.
  It is 4 year long bug that pretty nasty in multiplayer.

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• 15 Jan
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Fix Unconsious screen" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-01-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 15 Jan
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Cannot move death cam anymore" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2022-07-15), including upvotes (1) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 09 Mar
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Ability to rotate your camera in spectate and unconscious cam." (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-03-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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