I’ve noticed the minimap zoom function has had persistent issues for years in Ground Battles that I don’t think get enough attention. I wanted to check if others are experiencing the same problems.
When you activate minimap zoom (keybind to activate the mouse ingame + mouse wheel), a few things happen consistently:
- Wrong centering – sometimes zooms toward spawn instead of your current position
- Edge clipping – zooming toward map boundaries cuts off visual information at the edges
- Zoom reset – after calling in artillery, the zoom resets to default every single time
These aren’t game-breaking, but they’ve been around forever and make map navigation frustrating when you need precision.
Has anyone else run into these? Especially on certain maps or in specific game modes?
I’ve filed a detailed bug report if you want to check it out and give it visibility for the dev team by clicking “I have the same issue”, https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/TYaHgJBCWdVc
but I’m more interested in whether this is widespread or if I’m missing something about how the system is supposed to work:
- Yes, all three
- Yes, some of them
- No, not really
- I don’t use minimap zoom