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medium00rare

ACOG Zoom

By medium00rare, in General Discussion

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sanguinius51    13

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The zoom in the arma series is meant to represent focusing on an object.

 

I imagine it is because, in real life, as you focus more on a particular object, you do not pay nearly as much attention to your surroundings. Pretty simple, right?

 

However, when you're playing a computer game, that's different. You have a significantly reduced field of view, therefore even if you focus on an object, you will be able to see other objects in your FOV fine, because it is quite small.

 

Therefore, having the ability to zoom in represents focus, because you lose perspective on other objects.

 

Same with zoom out - you're focusing on the environment, not an object.

 

Those are my two cents, I have heard BI staff call zoom in 'focus', and that is merely my reasoning behind that term.

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