Before, when moving the camera with the hotkeys (pan_up, pan_down, …), pressing and holding down the left mouse button didn’t interrupt camera movement.
However, now when essing and holding down the left mouse button, camera movement stops
This also seems to apply with cursor screen-edge panning.
I would certainly like to see a dev response as to whether this is a bug or an intended change.
For me, I’ve been waiting for Relic to implement this change to camera behavior since the very beginning, 3 years ago. This is a massive QoL improvement in my book, as AoE4–for the time being–now behaves as previous AoE games did, where the screen no longer slips all over the place while I’m trying to drag-select groups of units. How anyone could want the screen to slide around frustratingly while selecting units is incomprehensible to me.
Whether this is an intended change or not, I’d certainly like it to remain as it now is, or if possible, implement a toggle in the camera settings so that players may choose for themselves whether they’d like the old camera behavior or the new [and improved, as far as I’m concerned] camera behavior.
Hoping devs see this and that this is something players would like to be available as an option.