Imperialarc
Mortal
posted 28 April 2002 09:49 AM
EDT (US)
2 / 20
what HSM said. Rotating is not important but I would certainly want zoom though. Maybe a default perspective view button can be implemented?(or has?). Dunno, does not really matter to me.
petard_rusher
Mortal
posted 20 May 2002 03:16 PM
EDT (US)
9 / 20
Being able to zoom out give a large strategic advantage because it allows you to see mroe at a time so you have to spend less time clicking on the minimap or paning with the mouse. The problem is that if you zoom out too far you can see anything, which is bad. I would hope that the max zoom in multiplayer games is small enough that even at mzx zoom people playing at the lowest graphics quality can distinquish the units from each other. If it is any more than this then it will give a unfair advantage to players with better computers, which is very unfair to people who don't have good computers.
Thunder
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posted 21 May 2002 11:57 AM
EDT (US)
13 / 20
Greg Street never said "you will have the option to play around with it" ...that's why it wasn't in quotes. The sentence was mentioned before Greg's quote, as information that was the current belief of how the camera would be treated.
Gerry
Mortal
posted 21 May 2002 02:03 PM
EDT (US)
14 / 20
So there won't be the possibility to zoom-out in the Multiplayer. THAT'S BAD ! They should have learned from the faults of SSS (Empire Earth).
petard_rusher
Mortal
posted 21 May 2002 04:25 PM
EDT (US)
16 / 20
EE didn't do bad because of zoom, i played it during beta when you could zoom out really far, and rotate, but nobody did. Zoom and rotation are for eyecandy only, and there for are only good in scenarios.
petard_rusher
Mortal
posted 22 May 2002 08:10 AM
EDT (US)
18 / 20
The problem was that at the full zoom out (with the registry hack) you couldn't even see the untis they were so small(or at least to blurry to see at 800x600)
petard_rusher
Mortal
posted 22 May 2002 10:32 AM
EDT (US)
20 / 20
yes, but most comps can play AOK at it highest resolution, almost none can play AOM at its highest