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New Camera Cycle Update is "still" bugged.
sadrielfett
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I noticed in the patch notes today that they:
"Increased the maximum camera distance on space maps to help captains fly larger ships with ease."
I figured, cool, I can finally zoom out a little more on the Borg Juggernaut ship. I made the mistake of changing it, so it's manageable, and now ALL of my Camera settings are messed up on ALL of my toons. I've tried to reset the zoom on the Excelsior ship of my main toon using the normal "Cycle Zoom" function with the "A" button on the Xbox controller. I figured I could at least reset it to one of the three default cycle zoom settings (Close, Medium, Far). It keeps trying to zoom all the way out, even while I'm using the "A" button cycle function. When it finally stops zooming back and forth and I think it's set properly, as soon as I move the ship the camera zooms all the way out. Every single time, it zooms so far out you can't even see the ship. I reset the zoom again, and while I'm still flying around and attacking, it automatically starts zooming all the way out. This needs to be hot patched ASAP. This makes the game pretty much non-playable when it does this now. The whole point of the game is the space stuff. The ground stuff is "meh", at best. If you can't do any space stuff, why bother?
"Increased the maximum camera distance on space maps to help captains fly larger ships with ease."
I figured, cool, I can finally zoom out a little more on the Borg Juggernaut ship. I made the mistake of changing it, so it's manageable, and now ALL of my Camera settings are messed up on ALL of my toons. I've tried to reset the zoom on the Excelsior ship of my main toon using the normal "Cycle Zoom" function with the "A" button on the Xbox controller. I figured I could at least reset it to one of the three default cycle zoom settings (Close, Medium, Far). It keeps trying to zoom all the way out, even while I'm using the "A" button cycle function. When it finally stops zooming back and forth and I think it's set properly, as soon as I move the ship the camera zooms all the way out. Every single time, it zooms so far out you can't even see the ship. I reset the zoom again, and while I'm still flying around and attacking, it automatically starts zooming all the way out. This needs to be hot patched ASAP. This makes the game pretty much non-playable when it does this now. The whole point of the game is the space stuff. The ground stuff is "meh", at best. If you can't do any space stuff, why bother?
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--Sadriel Fett
"There are few problems in the galaxy that cannot be solved by the suitable application of concentrated phaser fire."
--Sadriel Fett
"There are few problems in the galaxy that cannot be solved by the suitable application of concentrated phaser fire."
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So at least it's a common enough problem that it's a known issue and has been made a priority to get fixed. Let's cross our fingers.
--Sadriel Fett
"There are few problems in the galaxy that cannot be solved by the suitable application of concentrated phaser fire."
Camera distance settings won't save regardless of what you do.
--Sadriel Fett
"There are few problems in the galaxy that cannot be solved by the suitable application of concentrated phaser fire."
It's definitely one of those things that should be a priority to fix. If we can't control the view or see the orientation of our ships in battle there is little point in playing at all.
You set the desired size using R-Button (up/down) and can fix it by pressing the R-Button!
I don't hope they'll switch back to the pure zoom setting of just 3 stages, because small ships (e.g. D7) were barely visible, even in the largest of the three...
Now, you can't even see it at all. You use the Right Joystick to adjust the size to where you want it. Then, when you go to "Sector" Space it's zoomed out so far you can't see it. You fix it again, and as soon as you go into "System" Space or a TFO, and it auto zooms all the way out again. Can't even see my Excelsior class, much less my Klingon TOS D-7.
I agree that the 3 stage zoom settings were lacking, but I'd rather have that and have it actually work, than have this current setup and neither of them working properly.
--Sadriel Fett
"There are few problems in the galaxy that cannot be solved by the suitable application of concentrated phaser fire."
Before (just 3-stage-mechanic), small ships (D7) were "permanently too small" even in the largest level without being able to do anything about it...
Definitely. It was nice actually being able to finally see the Romulan Stormbird art on the bottom of my D-7. Up until it zoomed out so far I couldn't even see it firing. Hahaha. They definitely need to keep the scrolling zoom function. If they're interfering with each other, then scrap the 3-zoom mechanic for the more versatile one.
--Sadriel Fett
"There are few problems in the galaxy that cannot be solved by the suitable application of concentrated phaser fire."
You set your zoom in system, but you can't use the Zoom Cycle button (A Button) or it still keeps moving back and forth. Why even have that as an option now? It forces you to use the Right Joystick to zoom in and out.
When you go into Sector Space you're still zoomed way out. When you fix it to where it's a decent zoom, once you go back into System Space, you're zoomed all the way back in close again.
This is beyond frustrating trying to play the game like this. I used to get on almost every day to run my dailies. Since this started, just before Xmas of last year, I haven't even been online in the game more than about ten days total. It just takes the entire enjoyment out of playing, having to fight with the UI bug every time you log on and every time you fly to a different map area. Please, put some real effort into trying to fix this bug. If you can't, then just take out the new zoom function until you can figure out how to implement it properly into the game without it messing up the rest of the camera zoom UI functions. I like being able to zoom the distance I want from the ship, but not if it ps going to keep doing this. Better to have to old zoom system that was more limited but actually worked, than have the new one and have it be like this all the time.
--Sadriel Fett
"There are few problems in the galaxy that cannot be solved by the suitable application of concentrated phaser fire."
--Sadriel Fett
"There are few problems in the galaxy that cannot be solved by the suitable application of concentrated phaser fire."
--Sadriel Fett
"There are few problems in the galaxy that cannot be solved by the suitable application of concentrated phaser fire."
--Sadriel Fett
"There are few problems in the galaxy that cannot be solved by the suitable application of concentrated phaser fire."
Fingers crossed.
It will possibly be months before they finally get it working properly
--Sadriel Fett
"There are few problems in the galaxy that cannot be solved by the suitable application of concentrated phaser fire."
I know they’ve looked at it as it says it has been updated today but i very much doubt they will answer it
--Sadriel Fett
"There are few problems in the galaxy that cannot be solved by the suitable application of concentrated phaser fire."