(PC) Mako zoom isn't working

Okay, I kinda found a clue.

That's one of the cutiest things - the devs changing game behavior and not telling players they done it.

In the original ME1, there was only a single button zooming the Mako scope. Press once - level 1 zoom, press again - level 2 zoom, press again - default view.

Now there are two separated controls: 1) a key zooming to level 2 (pressed and hold) and 2) something called "change zoom level".

So I was thinking the second option is like in the original ME1, and it is not working at all, although I can hear the sound of zooming.

The first one, previously absent in the game (press and hold), works normally.

So it looks like making this new zooming they broke the old one, because I doubt anyone would try changing zoom level while holding another button pressed.

Nope, mako has a dual zoom in the original.  Hitting zoom button twice should go into this, 3rd time exits zoom.  I’m running a fov mod which breaks this but the correct behavior is there.  As in I have to hit zoom button 3 times to exit it.

Yes, the original ME1 has a two-level zoom which I can't find in the LE version. In my copy of the game the only zooming option is to press a key and hold, which sets max zoom. Upon releasing a key, zoom resets completely.

It has something to do with the FOV it seems. At least for my case. I am not using the FOV mod from Nexus though.

For me, when I launch the game  the zoom works perfectly fine. Let me explain a bit. 

My default key for entering into zoom mode is Left Ctrl and I have set 'E' as my change zoom level key. So in Mako when I press LCtrl it enters into zoom mode. Now if I press LCtrl again it goes into a second level zoom and for third press it comes into Third person mode. Now in this case 'E' has no function. But let's say form third person view I have pressed LCtrl once, so it goes into 1st level of zoom. Now if I press 'E' it will change zoom level from level1>level2>level1>level2 >….. . But it won't exit the zoom. I need to press LCtrl again to exit zoom. 

Now what I was doing, in console I was manually setting FOV to 90 or 100 etc by "set SFXGame.SFXCameraMode FOV 90" (I think there are other commands as well to set FOV). It definitely changes the FOV of the game. But it also breaks the Mako zoom functionality(i.e. pressing LCtrl will get you to 1st zoom level and then back into third person view and won't go into the second level zoom).

In game even if you use these FOV commands once, Mako zoom won't work anymore till you restart the game.

So, it might be better to wait for some time to use these tweaks properly. 

Hope this is helpful for at least some people.