Wait, so we won't get to fight an 8-foot tall Xerces?

par for the course for EA. They insist on shipping it while the developers get to be the shit magnets.

Who is worse? A Company releasing a shitty sports game every year, or the people who buy them EVERY YEAR?!?

key fact being the quotes around "lifetime" - meaning, what they think the lifetime of the software should be.

CJ_Parker, I am not sure if head bobbing can be disabled or not. However, if you have by chance deleted your user.ltx file and allowed the game to generate a new one, you will have this rediculous view sway effect that maked you feel like your head is made of jello.

A freshly installed/patched version of the game should have this in user.ltx,

cam_inert 0.

but if the game generates the .ltx file on the fly it will set it to:

cam_inert 0.7

Try setting it to " 0. "

you also might play with the line immediately below that,

cam_slide_inert 0.25

I have set it to cam_slide_inert 0. , but did not notice a difference.

Weird that they would already announce a full blown sequel, why not milk the cow and release an expansion pack to the original first...

Daggerfall was when Bethesda peaked. It has been downhill from that point on.

Everything is automatically scaled in difficulty to your level. I can't imagine anything more boring than that. What's the point of playing if everything stays basically the same all the way through?

Well I had a good friend get a ban on an account that he had since Beta.

Let me assure you he does not cheat, he is extremely anti in that regard.

So if I had a huge blocklist of millions of IP addresses and I was playing an SOE online game and had specifically found and unblocked that games' IP addresses in the list by splitting up the ranges that comprise the known IP addresses of SOE... and then they went and changed the games' IP addresses...

I would have to reblock the previous ones and then unblock the new ones.

So, you probably thought you were making a joke, but you instead demonstrated your utter lack of IP blocking knowledge.

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