- Allow lockdown camera pullback. Clever knights will have an opportunity to see the field. Just don't get caught looking too far away and get stabbed in the back.
I don't understand how you thought adding such feature was a good idea, it was totally unnecessary and it's broken.
People can use the minimap, see arrows on screen, communication, sounds and use their own knowledge and game sense.
I don't think I have to explain why seeing a huge part of map from the top is a bad idea, also because this change makes it more difficult to be sneaky with every class especially with the Recon, and you know how the Recon class works.
This change lowers the skill ceiling even more and ruins many things, in general it's just a bad idea.
There's enough questionable features and balance in items, this one just adds on top of it ruining Lockdown even more.
But you know what? It makes it easier to fight against players from the bottom. With default camera if a player is below you, they have a clear advantage and the "camera pullback" kinda solves the issue but then it crosses the line of what's acceptable.
So this is how it should be:
Default camera only, No zoom whatsoever. But the default camera is shifted more on the top (not fully top down view) with a slight zoom out to compensate (otherwise it's too close to the character and you won't be able to see much)
Here's a visual concept of what I'm talking about:
Before: https://i.imgur.com/AMtVJjL.png
After: https://i.imgur.com/63BaD05.png
It's not precise and could definitely get some tweaking, but you get the idea behind it. It's much better in term of gameplay.
Its only cons is that you see less in front of you, but in exchange of more view below you and on the sides even on low resolutions and ratios (looks like some of your changes were aiming at that as well)
The other solution would be simply rolling back this change, but that issue still stands: Harder to deal with bottom players and because of how maps are designed, often hard to deal against spawn camping.
But reverting back the change is the minimum you can do.
The change may have been made to level the playing field, since some cheaters modded their game to have this pullback feature (check out youtube, some big name SK channels got it on display)
Funny thing is, people who cheat and take shortcuts in life end up robbing themselves of the natural high of winning (also the strongest high)....gotta love karma. (dont be that person, play fair ppl) :)
yeah the change is fine, they should leave it in the game, adds a nice strategy element to the game for cappers