>>2331328
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance has literally perfect zoom/camera mechanics.

>>2331338
ill check it out

>>2331328
RUSE but you have to torrent because its pulled off the stores for licensing issues

>>2331328
Sins of a Solar Empire

>>2331328
SupCom and derivatives. Wargame and everything eugen made.

>>2331328
SC2, could never get into Sup Com cause 90% of game is you zoomed out

I know it's not really "zooming in", but it's pure kino when you can possess/take control of one of your units and view your base in third person.
The only game I can think of that does it is DK.

>>2331328
>Zoom down and control individual units in FPP
>Zoom out to sky level and you can issue orders, build bases, etc
>Zoom out to orbit and and you can view and rotate around the the entire planet issuing orders right down to the same unit you controlled in FPP
HeavyD may be janked but the smooth zoom from ground to orbit was unprecedented and it had some neat mechanics.
>Clouds in the atmosphere acted as a fog of war for units (but not structures) meaning you could identify bases from orbit but not where their troops were
>AA was overpowered so you couldn't scout everything by air and had to do ground pushes
>Full unit customization for your none-grunts units
>No tech tree, the game had a Metal fatique-esque where the only way to unlock higher-lvl/more parts was to salvage them

My biggest critiscism was the game only had one (admittedly very large and hand crafted) planet. And the complete lack of naval, which was somewhat understandable because it would have allowed you to skip large parts of the planet.

>>2331359
fuck i forgot about Ruse
I only played the demo a long time ago and it seemed dope, could only get a few games back then though
>>2331406
fair, saw it more as 4x
>>2331421
I like Wargame's for the most part
>>2331477
Call to Arms and Gates of Hell Ostfront does that, never like their(CtA and Men of War) zoom out

WiC has a great camera system and good rts controls too.

What is it with all the uncs that want the camera on the arrow keys. Insanity.

Ground Control 1 and 2 have my favourite camera controls in all of RTS
>arrow keys or mouse3 to pan the camera across the ground
>putting the cursor on the edges of the screen rotates the camera up/down/left/right
>mousewheel to raise and lower the camera's height, can go really high or all the way down to infantry eye level
It takes a little bit of getting used to because nothing else controls like it does, but once you do it's intuitive as fuck and you never feel like your view of the game world is restricted.

>>2331598
Because keys are for shortscut, not for camera.
Middle mouse panning or similar is enough for everything.

>>2331328
dumb zoomer

What really sells WiC's zoom is that when you get in close, there's unit banter.