Zoom Scrolling: Lost in a Sea of Complaints

As anyone reading these boards for ten seconds will notice, there are plenty of issues for people to complain about. Big issues. Issues that effect a lot of people in a lot of ways.

I'm not going to talk about those. ^_^

Recently, an update changed the mouse scroll so that instead of zooming smoothly from first to third-person view, there's this huge sticking gap before the camera will move out. This was done, supposedly, to make it "easier" to play in first-person perspective.

So did ANYONE actually have a problem with the old system? Was it so hard for people who wanted to stay in first-person view to just, oh, I don't know... not touch your mouse wheel?

I know it's a tiny, tiny issue, but as someone who swaps from first to third-person perspective a lot during play, I'm really starting to loathe the new system.

A lot.

If things that weren't broken must get fixed, can we at least get a toggle in the options, please?

Seriously, did anyone have a problem with it the way it was?

Is that a rhetorical question? If people had a problem, we'd have heard massive whining theads about "LOL SCROLLING!!"

But we didn't. That update made no sense.

Actually, yeah, it was a bit of a rhetorical question. ^_^

Now if they'd just change it back before I pull my hair out...

put it this way..

instead of fixing balance, AI, meta, and scaling problems...

this is what ANET does to "fix" the game!

BOOYEAH!

It's driving me crazy...I fail to see how this makes it "easier" to play in first-person, they really need to switch it back. All you have to do is scroll the mouse wheel and you're zoomed in, making it more time consuming to zoom out doesn't make any sense.

It's not that bad.

yeah really annoying would like it to be changed back

Old way was better... for me at least

I find it annoying, but nothing extremely bad.

/signed

Very annoying, as I too switch between both modes and I still don't quite get why 1st person players would ever need to touch view change controls at all if they don't change views, and why on earth would dual-view users would want an instant view change one way and a delayed view change the other...

eh, that's my 2 cents anyhoo...

One reason I did not play in first person in the past was because of the limited view of the field from that position.

The primary reason I did not use first person is because of the constant red flashes from taking damage - if they want to make first person easier to play with - REMOVE THIS

Back on subject, the scrolling update is not that damaging to game play, but it IS annoying and quite pointless. Maby if ArenaNet thought about what they where doing once in a while before putting it in the game...

It is things mentioned in previous comments here that constantly make me wonder "What are they thinking, and who is giving this stuff the green light?!".

This new zoom thing seems entirely pointless, there really was nothing wrong with the old style. Why fix what wasn't broken?

It bothers me too >_> though it's mostly my own fault for having a mouse with a stiff scrolling wheel, so sometimes I can't get out of 1st person mode at all.

I'd love it if they'd make it an option in the F11 panel, you could switch it on of off depending on your style of play. I'd also love the ability to switch all auras, damage numbers and effects and such off as well, but that's beside the point.

I thought this was a bug, not an intended feature addition, but if it WAS intended, someone at ANet needs to get back on the short bus...

Could be that someone at ANet had a problem with the old system!?

I don't know of anyone who uses First Person view anyway...it has no point.

it is rather annoying....i only go inot First PoV for brieaf periods of time...and it is bothersome that you can't easily switch back out like you used to be able to...

It didn't seem necessary at all.

1. Don't touch the wheel.
2. Who plays in 1st Person?
3. How does the fix solve the problem?
4. No one seems to care anyway.

I have the same issue with you.
I preferred the old way of playing it like that, it's horribly annoying to get the camera view set properly, I always used to zoom completely in, then zoom out for 2 'notches' on my mouse wheel. Now I can't do that anymore, and am just messing around with my mouse wheel to get my usual view.

Wouldn't mind having this 'feature' a toggle-ish thing.

I do when I'm walking about from mob to mob, gives me something to do scrolling back and forth