Zooming in closer and Zooming out further than usual

shortcut key and scroll wheel zoom related bug

These are my steps for producing this bug:

 

First off start out zoomed out the furthest you usually can like so

part 1

Then have your engineer/constructor selected, hold shift, in this case press (not hold) shortcut Q to bring up a metal extractor and start queuing up a few

part2

after this shift key, shortcut key, build stuff combo you should now be able to zoom in unusually close like so

part 3

now scroll back out to the max like so

part 4

the final step can be a bit tricky, it does not always happen/trigger, but scroll in a click or two with the wheel (zoom in a small amount), and immediately after scroll out really fast (like you are trying to make the scroll wheel spin on its own) and you should end up with a view like this

part 5

I have been able to zoom out even further depending on how fast I react with the zooming in then out step, I don't think we were meant to see this much of the map and more quite yet.

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The Zoom override "unintended feature" has been around as long as I recall (since pre-alpha). It is very useful for generating screenshots and personally something that I would prefer to have officially implemented, not fixed.

It doesn't cause major game-play issues so would be relatively low priority in resolving.