[V7.16.0 -Air Combat] - The new air combat zoom is janky

[Skitso]

At least on my system, the new zoom with 3(?) steps feels incredibly janky and almost broken. I can't put my finger on it precicely, but it just feels wrong: when I scroll the mouse wheel (no matter if it's set to smooth scroll or not), camera jumps to a certain zoom level and then instantly backs up a bit making it look jittery. Some times I can't zoom back out and it just jerks back to the previous zoom level. There doesn't seem to be set zoom levels and it just behaves oddly. Some times when I zoom in, it goes to level 2 and then to level 3 but when zooming out, it might go instantly back to level 1, some times it zooms directly in to level 3, skiping the level 2 and some times I can't make it go to zoom level 3 no matter how much I scroll the wheel. Overall really unpredictable and using it feels terrible.

Not connected to this bug, but I'll just vent this here too: The whole air combat camera system is really not that great. Why do I need to constantly micro manage my camera while doing air combat? It'd feel so much more polished if the camera just followed the UFO/UFOs automatically and managed the zoom in a way that all the air crafts were always nicely in the view and properly zoomed. There's simply no reason for me to pan or zoom the camera manually in the air combat. 

Edited March 28 by Skitso

[Kouki]

On 3/28/2026 at 4:53 PM, Skitso said:

At least on my system, the new zoom with 3(?) steps feels incredibly janky and almost broken. I can't put my finger on it precicely, but it just feels wrong: when I scroll the mouse wheel (no matter if it's set to smooth scroll or not), camera jumps to a certain zoom level and then instantly backs up a bit making it look jittery. Some times I can't zoom back out and it just jerks back to the previous zoom level. There doesn't seem to be set zoom levels and it just behaves oddly. Some times when I zoom in, it goes to level 2 and then to level 3 but when zooming out, it might go instantly back to level 1, some times it zooms directly in to level 3, skiping the level 2 and some times I can't make it go to zoom level 3 no matter how much I scroll the wheel. Overall really unpredictable and using it feels terrible.

Not connected to this bug, but I'll just vent this here too: The whole air combat camera system is really not that great. Why do I need to constantly micro manage my camera while doing air combat? It'd feel so much more polished if the camera just followed the UFO/UFOs automatically and managed the zoom in a way that all the air crafts were always nicely in the view and properly zoomed. There's simply no reason for me to pan or zoom the camera manually in the air combat. 

Oh yeah that definitely is weird, we'll look into it asap