Camera requests in Arena

[Clanf]

just a few small camera requests, mostly for arena:
- allow a bit more camera zoom-in for the Arena mode, it's not like it will be game breaking or hard to implement (just change one number, right?), but it will be much more convenient to fight and especially to watch fights of your hirelings
some maps already damn dark, weapons small/thin, it's really hard to see anything sometimes, zoom will help, a lot
- save camera zoom level, so new round starts with same zoom level as previous, it's really, really annoying to zoom-in on beginning of every freaking round, it's either you get nice freebie hit on enemy right in a beginning or spend this time to zoom-in and adjust camera to see anything where you freaking swing at all
maybe make it adjustable in the options? like "default zoom level" or just make game to remember it
- (optional/more complex) auto camera rotation / smart camera, so camera automatically always stays behind your back
but since character rotates quite a lot while fighting (swinging weapon) - maybe make it a bit slow/smooth, with timer before camera start rotating to new position (few seconds for example)

 

[Minq]

A camera follow feature exactly as you describe has been tried and abandoned, because it didn't work (motion sickness and control problems). The controls are designed to be used at any angle, so you aren't supposed to have the camera follow your back. Controller support (at least for steam controller, possibly for other controllers, like Xbox) is coming, with screen relative movement, rather than character relative.

We may see some more camera options soon for observing fights. More zoom is also something that might be added too(maybe). From what I understand, too much zoom messes with the controls a bit, but who knows.

Take this with a grain of salt. I'm obviously not a dev, just a fan. I'm pretty sure this is all true, though.

 

[restinpieses]

This!!!!11111

save camera zoom level, so new round starts with same zoom level as previous, it's really, really annoying to zoom-in on beginning of every freaking round, it's either you get nice freebie hit on enemy right in a beginning or spend this time to zoom-in and adjust camera to see anything where you freaking swing at all
maybe make it adjustable in the options? like "default zoom level" or just make game to remember it

 

[Orlacktherof]

just a few small camera requests, mostly for arena:
- allow a bit more camera zoom-in for the Arena mode, it's not like it will be game breaking or hard to implement (just change one number, right?), but it will be much more convenient to fight and especially to watch fights of your hirelings
some maps already damn dark, weapons small/thin, it's really hard to see anything sometimes, zoom will help, a lot
- save camera zoom level, so new round starts with same zoom level as previous, it's really, really annoying to zoom-in on beginning of every freaking round, it's either you get nice freebie hit on enemy right in a beginning or spend this time to zoom-in and adjust camera to see anything where you freaking swing at all
maybe make it adjustable in the options? like "default zoom level" or just make game to remember it
- (optional/more complex) auto camera rotation / smart camera, so camera automatically always stays behind your back
but since character rotates quite a lot while fighting (swinging weapon) - maybe make it a bit slow/smooth, with timer before camera start rotating to new position (few seconds for example)

1. You can mod the game to zoom more. I'll try to get the link to the thread with the thing.

2. That would be nice, perhaps the devs will see this and consider it.

3. Set you key binding for camera snap to one that is out of the way, and weigh it down.

 

[Clanf]

just found auto-camera option in ini settings, was it always there or was it added with update? you know, all those ninja updates without any changelog is just rude, how could you know if some particular bug was fixed or not, what changes was made...
anyway, yeah it kinda works, although it needs lot of tuning, at current state your get extremely dizzy almost immediately