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by lawless123 3455 days ago
warzone has a fog of war, i think people are confusing zooming out with that?

If you zoom out you will still only be able to see map area you revealed and in that map area you would only see enemy units if your units could observer an area.

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No. I'm talking about the unit position data which is sent from server to client. If the designers of the game intend for you to have a restricted view of the battlefield that you must scroll around actively and a mini map showing unit positions within the visible range of your army, they are consciously making a choice to restrict the way in which your game client views the data sent to it. By modifying the client to allow you to zoom out, you're bypassing this restriction and gaining a wider view of the same data.
OK i see what you mean, i wouldn't have considered zooming out like that cheating.