# Time to re-consider zoom restriction?

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**Created:** [September 7, 2025, 4:16am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/time-to-re-consider-zoom-restriction/279857 "2025-09-07T04:16:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![MedicMaaan](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/medicmaaan/32/124336_2.png) [@MedicMaaan](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/MedicMaaan)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/time-to-re-consider-zoom-restriction/279857/14 "2025-09-08T04:35:47Z")

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Well yeah, it’s subjective. I think it looks awful. It doesn’t help that the shadows and lighting system starts to break down, units start to overlap with their health bars weirdly, and the terrain geometry looks much worse at a distance.

To put it very plainly, it looks terrible.

Edit: it was an official mod added in an update over a year ago, you can only use it in skirmish (no multiplayer)

> [@Free camera: what kind of max zoom would work for you?](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/free-camera-what-kind-of-max-zoom-would-work-for-you/245564):
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> Free camera mod added in latest patch allows us to manipulate the camera however we want, so i thought it’d be good if we use that to post potential ludicris zoom suggestions for the future updates, to give all possible context on how to make it right distance and angle here’s my take: now for anyone curious i mimicked the aoe3 DE ludicris zoom distance and angle for above screenshot as for zoom in: smt …

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