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Will there be an option for a higher level of zoom in precision targeting mode for artillery ships like the Ares Ion and Perseus?

TL;DRStronger zoom for artillery ships in precision targeting is undecided; Yogi doubts it helps, and zoom strength may vary by operator mode or weapon, but nothing is promised.

Yogi KlattPrincipal Vehicle Programmer

That's an interesting question. I'm not sure, we'll see. So the gameplay is not about, we don't have sniper gameplay or something like that, right? If you fire from eight clicks with an Inferno or with an Ion against a target, this is not sniper gameplay, because the bullet will be traveling for quite a couple of seconds before it gets there. This doesn't really work. So I don't think having a super strong zoom actually helps. The other problem with zoom is that a zoom basically reduces the field of view to just a couple of degrees, right? Once you get down to, I don't know, 8, 10 degrees or something like that, you have the problem that the background might look really, really bad, because then things like background texture resolutions come very much into play. Also, having such a strong zoom doesn't really add a lot. But also the exact zoom strengths are up for discussion. We'll probably just ship it out with the first version. We might even have it on different operator modes, where different operator modes have different kinds of zoom strength. We might even change it based on the weapons. I don't know yet. So there is the potential, but I cannot just flat out say, yes, we'll do it. This would not be appropriate yet.

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Published on this date.17 Nov 2023