The developers of WoW are backtracking and changing the maximum camera distance. It’s still not quite the same as before.
A middle ground between “old” and “new” camera in WoW
Among all the many positive changes that the prepatch of World of Warcraft: Legion has brought, there were also some adjustments that players did not like. There was loud protest when Blizzard reduced the maximum camera distance. Previously, players could increase the distance to their character even more than the interface settings allowed – this changed with Legion. Now all players must adhere to the guidelines – until now. Blizzard is now backtracking and has explained in a lengthy forum post what they intended with the changes and what was definitely not their intention. In some excerpts it says:
“World of Warcraft is an avatar-driven open-world RPG where players step into the shoes of a hero experiencing adventures in Azeroth. With the previous maximum camera distance, the hero occupied even less space than in isometric games like Heroes of the Storm, Diablo, or even many units from StarCraft 2. At this zoom level, details of the hero and the game world are lost. The game is ultimately designed to be experienced from the zoom levels of the interface settings. (…)”
“Anyway, in the last hotfix, we increased the camera’s ‘hard cap’ again to a value that lies between the old maximum and that of the interface settings. Players can once again increase the camera distance via console commands if they wish.”
Consequently, it is now again possible to zoom the camera out further through certain console commands.
You can find the full article from Blizzard as usual in our sources.
Mein-MMO says: Whether the players are satisfied with this will show in the coming weeks. Personally, we were not bothered at all by the new camera settings – one could still see enough of the game world, and even as a tank, it was no problem to have “only a foot of the boss” on screen. However, the number of complaints was probably so large that Blizzard felt compelled to take action.
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