Map Rotation and Manipulation

[Sylinias]

What was the design reason behind not being able to rotate and move a map? Not being able to see what’s in front of me is so Dungeon Siege - what this reminds me of - is maddening.

[AndrewTilley]

If you’re talking about being able to rotate the camera then this answer by Mike Weicker to a similar question during the March 12th dev stream should provide some insight into their reasoning.

@AndrewTilley

Q: Any plans to allow more camera adjustments to see bottom side of screen at a further distance?

A: Unlikely I would say. We tried rotating the camera angle once upon a time actually, and level design hates it…hates it so much [Mike laughs]. So this statue right here, it has to look good from this angle but it doesn’t have to look good from the other side – if the camera was rotated 180 degrees. It has a lot of extra work that suddenly comes in – and I know we’re talking about changing the camera angle to be further up so that you can see down more, but that also changes things. There’s a lot of considerations we’d have to make if we were to change the camera angle. A lot of them are level design stuff, a lot are – even enemy layouts in zones would have to change. We’ve talked about making changes like that, but we don’t plan to at the moment.
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