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Rove

Oct 28, 2013 @ 9:22pm

I need to be able to zoom out badly

I really need this game to let me zoom out more. Too often I am very quickly killed by things off-screen either because long range attacks, spells or teleport abilities.

The screen at maximum zoom does not show a large enough radius for me to feel safe and "secure" in my knowledge of my surroundings. It's like having a partial blindfold or blind-spot or blinders like for a cart horse. It really limits the awareness and leads to unwanted surprises.

Ideally would be to have full map zoom like Supreme Commander 1 & 2 or Sins of a Solar Empire games. Then players could set their own comfortable level of zoom.

Right now I get ambushed to often and I feel like my view is jammed against the ground and making me blind. I'm playing at 1920*1080 and that shouldn't actually have anything to do with the viewable screen area, only the pixelation and rendering quality.

Anyways I think that is the biggest thing that could be done to improve DoTA 2 right now, allow larger zoom and if possible full map zoom with players able to set their level. That and having a graphics option to unlock the camera for full movement for people who are running systems good enough to allow that. You could leave it as a option to keep locked for people who need to improve performance on low end systems.

If zoom causes performance issues you could also allow to keep it locked in the graphics settings. For me not having great zoom is a gameplay issue and my character often dies to something off camera because I am looking about or simply can't keep all possible threats in my field of view at once.

TL;DR
Please allow further zoom out. Currently the level of zoom has me awareness-impaired.

Last edited by Rove; Oct 29, 2013 @ 3:04am

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minteK

Oct 29, 2013 @ 2:47am

Originally posted by KPOXOTO3ABP:
Originally posted by LT3 Xianahru:
Just because something isnt as easy doesn't mean it needs to be changed. Just take it as what it is, if you are not fine with feel free to look for another game.
It is not clear just why put such a restriction, it's the same as driving a car with a manual transmission when the car is an automatic transmission. Question solely for convenience and are not in balance.

Its 100% for balance, only noobs cant figure out why.

#16

Emma Watson has Dota 2

Feb 1, 2014 @ 1:01pm

Play League!

#17

S7.RainbowDash has Dota 2

Feb 1, 2014 @ 1:02pm

Lol buy wards, stop being a nub or go play lol, league of legend is for the bad players who can't play dota 2 and it allows for a more zoomed out camera.

#18

Rev. Dr. Broklynite has Dota 2

Feb 1, 2014 @ 1:10pm

You know that resolution doesn't affect zoom, right?

Yea, wouldn't it be nice if you could zoom out more? Then you could just ignore the minimap. Which shows the whole map. All the time. And you can even click on it to move around. So you can actually have map awareness.

Last edited by Rev. Dr. Broklynite; Feb 1, 2014 @ 1:11pm

#19

Very Beautiful Potato has Dota 2

Feb 1, 2014 @ 3:02pm

The problem is the HUD takes up so much space. It blocks way too much vision. I'm happy that there is now an option to put the minimap to the right, now they should rearrange the HUD.

#20

C-LOS N Y C has Dota 2

Feb 1, 2014 @ 3:14pm

Originally posted by KPOXOTO3ABP:
Originally posted by Rove:
I really need this game to let me zoom out more.

+1!

Originally posted by Elemental Sarcasm User:
This is the reason why map awareness and wards are so important.
It was made this way.

we dont need maphack, we need ZOOM OUT MORE

Originally posted by Scrumdiddlyumptious:
That's part of the game. Field of view modifiers are subject to VAC bans.

i think is stupid.

zoom out more is maphack basically. you wil be breaking game design in order to have advantage over the map. learn to ward, learn to have map awareness and stay away from range, it relaly is not that hard.

#21

Zero Action has Dota 2

Jul 23, 2014 @ 11:23am

Originally posted by Freefall:
The minimap is an incredible tool.

only because the field of view is so useless

Last edited by Zero Action; Jul 23, 2014 @ 11:23am

#22

76561198123851646 has Dota 2

Jan 24, 2015 @ 10:22pm

Originally posted by pringles:
Originally posted by Rove:
TL;DR
Please allow further zoom out. Currently the level of zoom has me awareness-impaired.

the thing is that everyone is at the same level of 'vision'. so you aren't 'impaired'.

think of it this way: if everyone in the world had only one working eye - then no one could be half-blind

unless you had a cataract or something, but you get what i mean

Dude,not everyone has the same vision. Have you ever tried playing on a PC w/ 800x600 or 1024x728 resolution?? I'm sure you haven't coz it's more zoomed in compared to 1440x900 or 1600x900. So how is this fair unless they don't show you the same AOE of vision in different resolutions???

#23

•NightmaRe † has Dota 2

Jan 24, 2015 @ 10:24pm

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#24

TheMetalCorpser has Dota 2

Jan 24, 2015 @ 10:46pm

Shadow you just revived a really old thread >>

Last edited by TheMetalCorpser; Jan 24, 2015 @ 10:48pm

#25

Kathelia.dokgu has Dota 2

Jan 24, 2015 @ 10:54pm

Your enemies are subjected to the same handicap. Just learn to play better. Noob.

#26

Rove

Jan 24, 2015 @ 11:03pm

Over 1 year old and still going!

Serously though, if full zoom freedom is not implemented doesn't it give people with 4K monitors a big advantage in field of view?

#27

Magikabula has Dota 2

Jan 24, 2015 @ 11:17pm

Have you tried buying a computer with a bigger screen?

#28

Rove

Jan 24, 2015 @ 11:20pm

It's not a laptop or all-in-one, I'd just buy the bigger screen.

I've already got 1920*1080. 4K isn't even supported for a lot of games yet and it's still very expensive. I probably won't buy till price is good and support is common.

#29