Camera Zoom/Pan - Feels Claustrophobic

[kozure[agw]]

First up - I love the Men of War: Assault Squad 2 series - thanks for your amazing work on that game. Playing that a lot with a large online clan, we also thought that it would be fun to move over to Call to Arms, so just recently a number of us installed it and started playing together. I'm especially a fan of post-2003 weapon systems and asymmetrical warfare, so it seemed like a perfect fit.

That said, all of the people I'm currently playing MoW: AS2 with really dislike the default, unmodded limit on the zoom in/out of the camera in Clash of Arms. To be clear, I'm not talking zoom on weapon scopes - we're talking about the player GUI camera zooming, rotating and tilting.

Per the pinned FAQ I did a search on this forum and there are a few people discussing this, indicating the same observation - one can't zoom out and rotate/tilt the camera enough to manipulate units well. The responses from posts in 2017 and 2016 seems similar - at the time it was an optimization decision by the developer. There doesn't seem to be much more discussion of it beyond that.

The other response is that the zoom levels can be modified in the editor or by mods.

Apparently there's was a workshop mod that modified it, but it hasn't worked since 0.921:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/302670/discussions/0/135512104777092612/

... seeing as that mod is no longer working, is there a commonly used community mod that does the same thing?

If we're playing online with friends in co-op mode (which is our preferred way of playing) how can we just set it to be a further out level of zoom by default without having to go into the editor each time?

I'm just wondering if there's any plan to address this in future. I'd love to buy the full game, but right now the limited camera control makes me hesitate.

Regardless of whether you are or not, we love your work and hope that there's an opportunity to continuing playing your games as they develop!

[hikip922]

I have a mod that changes it back, would you like me to upload it to the workshop?

[kozure[agw]]

Hey hikip922 - that would be fantastic. Could you post a link?

Also, when you say "changes it back" - do you mean back to more like it functions in MoW:AS2?

I'd actually love to hear whether there are any intents by the developer to change this as a in-game feature instead of a player mod, since player mods can (and do) break with different versions.

[hikip922]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1668484717
Ok here it is, it should mimic what the camera is like in Men of War.

Edit: Forgot to set it to public, now it should work.

[kozure[agw]]

Wow, thanks, hikip922 - I'll try it out tonight and let you know how it works for us. Appreciate your work!

[Redarmy]

Originally posted by hikip922:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1668484717
Ok here it is, it should mimic what the camera is like in Men of War.

Edit: Forgot to set it to public, now it should work.

Never played the other game but thanks for sharing.Camera needs a lil love.