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Is there any way to zoom in or out? I seem to only be able to use one level.

ORIGINAL: toddtreadway

Is there any way to zoom in or out? I seem to only be able to use one level.

There is only one zoom level, you can use the jump map to jump to a different area of the map or scroll the map

Hi Peter,

Speaking of the jump map, .. should it be persistent?

As soon as I click on it, .. the map will scroll, .. but the jump map disappears .. [&:]

Cheers
Tom

ORIGINAL: Thomasew

Hi Peter,

Speaking of the jump map, .. should it be persistent?

As soon as I click on it, .. the map will scroll, .. but the jump map disappears .. [&:]

Cheers
Tom

It was programmed that way, so the jump map is not in our way anymore once you use it.

ORIGINAL: toddtreadway

Is there any way to zoom in or out? I seem to only be able to use one level.

Hi toddtreadway, I have not seen the game yet so I cannot comment on how different zoom levels look, but just a suggestion, when I looked at the tutorials I used my windows seven magnifier, and it worked fine at different levels.

Bo

The Windows magnifier is fine if you are playing in Windowed mode, but I can't play in Windowed mode because Windows 10 won't let me modify the config.ini file.

Regardless, in-game zoom levels really are an option that should be explored. I'm surprised it wasn't implemented on release. Honestly, almost all wargames have multiple zoom levels.

FYI, I am having a lot of fun with the game so far. It is so nice to be able to play ASL again (or at least the closest) thing I've seen to it in a computer game!)

ORIGINAL: toddtreadway

The Windows magnifier is fine if you are playing in Windowed mode, but I can't play in Windowed mode because Windows 10 won't let me modify the config.ini file.

Regardless, in-game zoom levels really are an option that should be explored. I'm surprised it wasn't implemented on release. Honestly, almost all wargames have multiple zoom levels.

FYI, I am having a lot of fun with the game so far. It is so nice to be able to play ASL again (or at least the closest) thing I've seen to it in a computer game!)

I agree about more zoom levels of you think it would befit the eyesight [;)]
Do not know about windows 10, it was just a suggestion.

Bo

Absolutely agree - the Zoom Levels really should have been there initially. I know the game was getting torched by some YouTubers for its "DOS-like graphics" (as I think one of them said).

That didn't bother me at all; as a tactical boardgame wargamer, I bought if for the play, not the counter art.

But not including things that even the first initial - relatively successful - attempts at porting board wargames to desktop/laptop had (Tiller's games, for instance) - like zoom levels, options for NATO symbols on the counters, options for seeing a bit more number-crunching details under the hood (a huge reason that keeps ASLers and their ilk from playing PC games) - was troubling to me.

I bought the game in spite of those - hoping later patches may bring some of those along - and so, far am glad I did. But something like Zoom levels beyond just the Jump Map seems like a "Need To Have" rather than a "Nice To Have" for game like this to me.

Still putting it through its paces though - we'll see if this is less an issue as time goes on. Or, gets trumped by bigger ones.

ORIGINAL: toddtreadway

The Windows magnifier is fine if you are playing in Windowed mode, but I can't play in Windowed mode because Windows 10 won't let me modify the config.ini file.

Regardless, in-game zoom levels really are an option that should be explored. I'm surprised it wasn't implemented on release. Honestly, almost all wargames have multiple zoom levels.

FYI, I am having a lot of fun with the game so far. It is so nice to be able to play ASL again (or at least the closest) thing I've seen to it in a computer game!)

Install the game in c:\matrixgames or some such (e.g., not in program files) and you'll be able to edit the ini file. I tried it earlier and it worked fine.

Windows 10 magnifier works great in full screen.