babelfish-lounge

[tribal saddle]

Aah I see

[fresh wharf]

ok but where

https://drg.pleasefix.gg/projects/DEEP-ROCK-GALACTIC/issues/DRG-29

and where would I report not translated strings now?

[boreal quest]

I assume this thread?
https://discord.com/channels/257785731072786435/1038087237667139645

[fresh wharf]

ty, it's kinda lost in those hundreds of threads as of now, though there's a link in the end of pinned thread

[shell vine]

Those issues were brought up, we are waiting for the devs to be back in the office tomorrow to read about it ^^

[thorny brook]

I see, that sucks

We keep translating them anyways, that's what we do

[vestal parrot]

Hello, I have the following problem: The game takes a long time to load, I press ESC - the game freezes. I select the settings tab - it hangs. I switch to another save - it freezes. I put fashion - hangs.
This is not a computer problem. The problem is in the game.

[thorny brook]

Please assert your game issues in #bug-discussion or #drg-chat , this is a translating channel, you see :>

[shell vine]

<@&296918282403840000>

[boreal quest]

The subforum is now live.

https://discord.com/channels/257785731072786435/1062710911367925780

[wheat wraith]

Cool!

[small kernel]

@boreal quest Isn't there a typo channel already?https://discord.com/channels/257785731072786435/1038087237667139645

[boreal quest]

Easier to find and it is also on pleasefix

[fresh wharf]

now this one's left

and where would I report not translated strings now?

like if I noticed some string in english where it certainly should be translated already in the game, where and how would I check if it's been reported or not?

[shell vine]

Those should be made as new posts on PleaseFix

[fresh wharf]

In Jira, I recall we had subtasks, hence the question: is there such view or name format to find and check them all quickly?

In PleaseFix it could easily be one of the filterable categories, but I don't see it at the moment.

[boreal quest]

Should I re-report missing characters from the typefaces to pleasefix as well? Considering that the system seems to focus on reproduction and upvoting, I am not sure it will be worth it, considering not many people would care for such a minor issue.

[shell vine]

I am not aware of a similar feature on PleaseFix. But there should be a low enough amount of those for this not to become a problem.

[shell vine]

Yes you should. If needed, you can always ask other translators/proofreaders to try it as well so they can confirm those.

[fresh wharf]

I'm just afraid that this low amount will get lost in cosmetic category where it belongs atm, hence the concern that it'd be hard to check those.

[shell vine]

The matter of translation/typos bugs and of how to effectively report those is still being discussed. More info on those when I have them, and am allowed to give them - this is a public channel after all.

[fresh wharf]

It'd make sense for devs to watch over all the reports no matter if it's confirmed or highly upvoted. Most bugs surely lack community attention anyways.

[long dawn]

The #1062710911367925780 forum is only for the english version of the game of also for typos in translations ?

[shell vine]

Only for english ones

Please report typos in translations here

[chilly orbit]

||MC is speaking to the team, so plural is the correct form||

[long dawn]

Makes sense, thanks

[sturdy fulcrum]

Ik I’m dumb but I’m new so the pod chats r they for pc bc idk which ones r for Xbox or what lol

[thorny brook]

Try asking in #drg-chat , this is the translation channel, you see

[clever notch]

where/how to report translation error?

[slim verge]

here I suppose

if it's for typo in the english version though, go to #1062710911367925780

[clever notch]

thank you!

[clever notch]

since belows are Japanese translation errors, I'd like to explain in Japanese. please tell me if these should be in English.
・1つ目
装備ターミナルのパークスロットで、passive perkは「パッシブパーク」と訳されていますが、active perkが「パークを有効にする」と訳されてしまっています。
・2つ目
生物図鑑のプレトリアンの説明文で、

全面からの攻撃は殆ど〜
前面のタイポと思われます
側面から攻撃するのにに十分すぎる理由だ。
余分な「に」があります
・3つ目
これは好みの問題というか、単純に私の読解力の無さに起因するものですが、研ぎ澄まされた感覚のアクティブの説明文が分かりにくいです。
原文(英語)では
"1 / 2 times per mission, you can escape after being grabbed**, killing your captor in the process!"
となっており、直訳すると
「一度のミッションにつき1回/2回だけ、捕まっても自力で脱出でき、その際に捕縛者を倒す！」
となると思います。一方で翻訳文では
「一度のミッションにつき1回/2回だけ、掴まれても自力で脱出できる。つかんでるやつを倒してからね！**」
となっています。太字にした部分が分かりにくいと感じている部分で、原文では読点で繋がっている部分を翻訳文で句点で区切ってしまっているため、文が色分けされていることもあって「つかんでいるやつを倒してからね！」という部分が宙ぶらりんになっていると感じます。つまり、前後の文の繋がりが分かりにくく、原文を読むまでは「自力でつかんでるやつを倒してから脱出する」という意味には読めませんでした。
「つかんでるやつ」を「掴んでるやつ」にするなどして翻訳文に統一性を出す、または文構造が原文から離れてしまいますが「掴まれても自力で(掴んでいるやつを)倒して脱出する！」とするのはどうでしょうか？(些末な問題なので、こちらに関しては却下されても良いと思っています)

[slim verge]

@foggy pawn @uncut arch that is your alley I believe

[covert garden]

it was even interesting to hear, kkkkkkk

[thorny brook]

My japanese isn't good enough to help him unfortunately

Gonna resume studies beggining next month, gotta improve my linguistics

[broken path]

so, when I use the localization debug mode, how exactly do I make use of those string numbers? when I look them up on crowdin, I come up empty

[vital marsh]

Click your language in the top left to open the language list, select ‘DRG - Testing Language,’ and search there

[broken path]

thanks, I found it!

[lofty meteor]

In Russian language when pinging a maggot there's one line where subtitles say "There is a maggot!" (it's not translated as other voicelines do, it should say "Здесь личинка!")

[chilly orbit]

In the parameters of your game, could you turn on the debug language option, and activate it by pressing ctrl + o before pinging the maggot again ?

It should display you a code, in the form of #xxxxxx.
If so, please copy the code in here for us.
If not, that's because something broke between Crowdin and the game, and the game can't access the translation for this string

[lofty meteor]

It still says "There is a maggot!" even with the Language Debug on

[fresh wharf]

I just created the report, you're welcome
https://drg.pleasefix.gg/projects/DEEP-ROCK-GALACTIC/issues/DRG-202

[lofty meteor]

Thanks

[fresh wharf]

You can add your screenshots there via "Contribute" option, but there is probably no need.

Next time you know what to do when you encounter smth like it.

[broken path]

same thing happens in pt-br, it might just be every language

[chilly orbit]

Yep, the string in game isn't connected to its translation on Crowdin, that's a frequent break

[clever notch]

it seems no response yet
btw, is translation update done independently from patch/hotfix?
cuz that was from ps4 S3 patch10 and I wonder if steam had fixed it already (and hence no response)

[fresh wharf]

Normally translation gets updated every patch, but community translators are able to check new translation in-game next day after making a change.

If you have questions about japanese translation, perhaps you should contact japanese translators. You can probably find them in the pinned list from fakiyo.

[clever notch]

ok, thank you

[jovial folio]

any finnish translators used a name for rockpox yet?
i think "kivirutto" might work

[long dawn]

You can use the "Translation Memory" to check terms in already translated strings

[jovial folio]

oh thanks, haven't found that feature yet

greenbeard translator moment :p

[crisp badge]

do kazakh drg translators exist?

i've somehow found myself translating DRG to kazakh and i might need some help

[magic whale]

lol

[kindred urchin]

@full whale hi, i just search Thai word randomly and found out that you're interested in translating this game to Thai language. i'm volunteer into helping since i'm Thai person too and never have a problem using English language but i want drg to be popular here

[slim verge]

they probably do, but there probably isn't a lot of them

[shell vine]

Hello there,
We had a translator for Kazakh, but they abandoned the project quite a while ago and also left the server, so it is not even possible to get in touch with them anymore...
Feel free to ask about the translation here anyway, we will try to help as best we can.

[full whale]

always happy to have more people to help. translate away

[crisp badge]

Is there a way to change the language of the source text? it's much more convenient for me to translate from russian since i know it better

[full whale]

@kindred urchin go to https://crowdin.com/project/deep-rock-galactic setup your profile and you can start translating right away. If you have any problems translating, you can always @ me here or leave some comments there, since I'm quite active on both platform.

[shell vine]

It is not possible for the moment, since the game is sourced in english.
What you can do instead is check the Russian translation for the string you are looking at (under the suggestions for the selected string).

[crisp badge]

thanks

[slim verge]

keep in mind though that doing a translation from another translation might lose you some of context and playwords

[crisp badge]

the russian translation's pretty good and i know english good enough to notice

what's the context of "Brundle"?

[full whale]

@crisp badge another tip for you. find a similar language as a context when you do the translation alone, for me, Thai language has a very similarity of word structure as Korean and Chinese so when im struggling I always use those languages as a reference.

[shell vine]

It's the name of a Mactera, and a reference to the movie "The Fly"
https://deeprockgalactic.wiki.gg/wiki/Mactera_Brundle

[full whale]

transliterate it to brundle in ur language

[crisp badge]

is there a way to look up a word to see if it's already been translated to my language?

[full whale]

it's called TM(Translation Memories)

search tm for that word

[crisp badge]

yea

turns out no one's translated drilldozer to kazakh yet

it's gonna be tricky

[shell vine]

If the glossary is completed, it will show up as an underline in the source.
If not, you can see it in the TM if a similar string has been translated already.
And you can always do a search for that word and check the strings that pop up

If it hasn't been done already, I encourage you to try and complete the glossary.
||And I'll try to update it one of these days, promise||

[full whale]

@crisp badge how familiar are you with CAT tools?

[crisp badge]

what's that

[full whale]

Computer-assisted translation
it (usually) consists of TM(Translation Memories) and termbase
most translators(with tech-savvy) would use these tools to translate the big and file-based projects

[crisp badge]

automatic kazakh translation is kinda iffy

[full whale]

Crowdin is one of them(but online) so if u see some iffy translations it means some people already did it and u might need to ask or learn the context

[crisp badge]

???

[full whale]

please read the threads before translating

[shell vine]

Those are already included in the way crowdin works, but most of the submissions from those system in the past have been lacking in accuracy and in their ability to translate the jokes and underlying meaning of strings.
We'd rather have hand translated strings, but few of them, than a full language by machine - it happened before, and the result was having to scrap the entire translation and start it over again by hand.
So please don't suggest Machine Translations as a valid option. Not on a project like a game, anyway

[full whale]

this, use it as a tool not the final decision

[crisp badge]

i just use an online russian-kazakh dictionary

works better than translators imo

[shell vine]

From the project's home page

---- Technical guidelines for translations ----

- All the text from the game is one long list called "AllGameText"
- Due to mysterious reasons the order of the strings are pretty much random. Sorry about that!
- Check the Context to get an idea about where in the game the text is displayed.
- Text in UPPERCASE must also be in UPPERCASE in the translated version.
- Never translate text that is INSIDE brackets; both { } and [ ] counts for this. So, a text saying "Press [SPACE] to jump" must not have the "[SPACE]" part translated. In the danish translation, it would end up as "Tryk [SPACE] for at hoppe".
- Text with line breaks needs special care. Each line break needs the special code "\r". It should end up with the same structure as you see it in the original text. Example:

CHANGE\r
LOOKS

will in the danish translation become

SKIFT\r
UDSEENDE

[crisp badge]

on that

not a lot of people know some of the words i'm writing since most people here mix in russian in their kazakh speech

like i learnt maybe 10-15 new words while using the dictionary

[full whale]

I just give him a surface of the knowledge of the CAT tools not suggesting the TM or termbase as a valid of anything It should not and never be used as the final product of any kind of project, sorry if I made you think otherwise

[shell vine]

As I said, we had a couple of massive dumps of translations that were straight from automated processes, so I'm a bit touchy around those.
Especially since, for at least one language, the damage was so bad it had to be scraped and started over.

[full whale]

i got you, sorry to hear that

[crisp badge]

is it ok if i slightly change the meaning of strings to sound more correct?

for example with "rocket here, bosco" being changed to "shoot your rocket here, bosco"

[full whale]

if you think it's appropriate for the sentence, you can always do

no if you think the proof readers will approve it, then do

[shell vine]

Always !

The primary goal when translating is to convey the meaning in your language, then to make it sound natural, and finally to try and keep the humor.

[honest sun]

@shell vine By the way. Can you ask about some TM cleaning?
I see a lot of outdated TM suggestions.
I know, that TM can be cleaned by Project Owners.

[shell vine]

I'll check

[old forum]

Just wanna ask if anyone is currently working on the Vietnamese translation? I wanna lend a hand ^^

[shell vine]

I don't know if someone is active right now, but feel free to help, the link is in the pinned messages, after the translators list

[old forum]

Thanks! It would be nice to get in contact with the person responsible for the translation first to let them know. ^^

[shell vine]

We don't have people for this. The project is community driven, so anyone can participate when they feel like it, no need to warn anyone or something

[sage tangle]

I'm quite certain we don't have active viatnamese translators at the moment

Yep, we have a handful of people but only doing translations, but only here and there. Very minor activity, last was november 23.... 6 strings. then may 2022, 14 strings. That's nothing.

And nobody active on discord here.

[sage tangle]

You are very welcome to join the team and get going on the vietnamese translation 🙂

[wheat wraith]

Are any of the [langugage]-translators channels active? Or is it just that we as poles are incapable of communicating effectively (just look at our Sejm)?

[shell vine]

Not at the moment, but pretty active during update season (for the fr one)

[honest sun]

Doing Ukrainian by myself. And this is for good. 'cause other random helpers 99% need rewriting

[wheat wraith]

I just wish that we could get some cooperation, but oh well, it's a community project so nothing is organized

[slim verge]

it's kinda dependent on getting a solid team going for a while 😄

[wheat wraith]

Yeah, there's none of that here at the moment, and I don't feel like sparing the energy to try to contact people to make one, I have real life stuff to do

[slim verge]

which is understandable, real life comes first

[long dawn]

Yeah same, I started hard but I had some real life things and I haven't touched crowdin for 2 weeks, and I won't be able to lend time to that until at least the end of the week after this one

I wanted to be consistent and grind the allgametext slowly but surely to completion, but real life comes first :/

[thorny brook]

I think it would've be, if the crowdin page was set to private, but as it stands anyone with a smartphone or a pc can already go 'n translate to their hearts desire

[old forum]

Can I change/delete old strings? A lots of them are either wrongly translated or not translated at all. One prime example is "Rock and Stone", where it's translated into Vietnamese very easily but I noticed that the majority of them are kept the same.

[thorny brook]

You can delete your own strings and correct them slightly, but if you're talking about other people's strings, then you can submit your own string and downvote the ones with mistakes.

[old forum]

Thanks! I figured it would be very rude to just delete/change others work. Gonna try and translate them as much as possible:D

[vital marsh]

…Unless it's been approved, in that case only a proofreader can fix it

[old forum]

Nop, mostly just translated, not approved, but thanks for the info 😀

[wheat wraith]

HAHAHA, BUT WHAT IF ALL YOUR PROOFREADERS ARE GONE?!?!
that.. would be really bad... i hope.. this.. doesn't happen to.. to anyone.. wouldnt be me... help

[fresh wharf]

Then some new person gets assigned for proofreading. But in that case you may encounter issues when new proofreader starts to change and re-approve old strings that were completely fine before without contacting and consulting with previous proofreaders that could be still semi-active. The way a language can accumulate multiple proofreaders over time who try to implement their own vision into the file independently can be perceived both in good and bad lights. Thus, imo there better be no proofreaders, unless it's really necessary.

[shell vine]

The general policy is to only appoint a proofreader when there is griefing going on, or the need to change old, approved strings, and the original proofreader is no longer around...

[fresh wharf]

I've definitely seen that "no longer around" to be interpreted wrong in the past.

[shell vine]

As for Polish, I can see that one of the three PR is indeed gone (Mads, left GSG long ago), one has not been active in 7 months, so might be off project, the last one has in the last 4 weeks.

[fresh wharf]

In that case new proofreading can be perceived as sort of "legal griefing". Though it's not as blatant as a regular one and could be simply assessed as disagreement and ignorance.

[honest sun]

Half of the debt is paid, untranslated — translated. 12k left to proofread…
But i'm ready to meet another season ^)

Hard job, when new fellas flight in, making some suggestions and fly out. 90% should be rewritten…

[shell vine]

I agree on that part, but I believe this is less of a problem for languages that are not yet close to completion, as it is more important to finish the translation than to have it be perfect at first. Once it is complete though, the time can be used to review and clean up the suggestions - proofreading in a sense ;)

Having a completed language also helps by having it in game, and having people come in to signal wrong strings, or mistakes.

[honest sun]

Yup, when they came to me at first — i share my vision and tips regarding Crowdin and debug-mode = success. But ,main problem — poor game experience, poor native language level.
But, proofreading is my own chosen cross for this game ))

[broken path]

until recently, all pt-br proofreaders were gone
I mentioned that here and on the same day a new one was picked
what ensued was glorious to witness

[old forum]

greenbeard question: Does Crowdin has an app version? My browser is kinda iffy sometime xP

[shell vine]

Unfortunately not

[old forum]

dang. Would love to have one though. Thanks for the answer!

[broken path]

@shell vine @sage tangle may I have the pt-br translator role?

[fresh wharf]

you need to ask Jacob or mods for that

[broken path]

oh

well, uh.... sorry for the ping, then 😅

[shell vine]

Neither of us are devs or mods, so we can't really help you here.

[broken path]

again, sorry for the ping

so, may I just ping Jacob? is it fine?

[shell vine]

Try for a mod first. The better option would be to have someone from your language vouch for you before you ping a mod

[broken path]

there's @somber gulch , I was talking to him on Crowdin and he told me to use the pt-br channel to get more feedback than just his

[sage tangle]

@native token can you please bestow the ptbr translator role to @broken path ? 🙂

[broken path]

oh, thank you 😁

[sage tangle]

Thanks Tommy ❤️

[limber minnow]

Hello! I'd like to apply helping to translate the game into Dutch but I see it's around 95% done already

[slim verge]

All you need is to join the project on Crowdin https://crowdin.com/project/deep-rock-galactic
and start translating.

You can also ping a moderator to get the nl-translators role, so you can coordinate with other translators.

[limber minnow]

Oof there's more stuff than I anticipated, I can't do it in one sitting I'm afraid even though I want to haha

[fresh wharf]

No one anticipates you to do big from the get-go. Just tune in when you feel like it.

[slim verge]

you don't have to do it in one sitting at all, there's no expectation. Help in what ways you can, it's always a start.

[limber minnow]

I know, I'm just OCD like that, I usually write essays and stuff in 1 sitting like a habit

[fresh wharf]

Even if you do it in one sitting, there's gonna be thousands of strings added in following months as well. Although, you can just translate bit-by-bit, filtering topics by strings' context, so you will always have your end goal for one sitting.

[thorny brook]

Try 'n do it like I usually do when there's too much stuff to translate: Separate the strings and do a daily quota, it helps out a ton

Like in season's 3 release, I'd translate 185 strings per day till launch

[kindred urchin]

aight i'll look it up

seem like you already translate a bunch i think i could also revise your translate

[full whale]

ok have fun translating

[full whale]

feel free to add more translation when u think u could improve it

[rancid terrace]

What do you do when someone translated a variable? Does downvoting remove it or do I report it?

[long dawn]

Downvote and post correct translation would be my guess

But beware, sometimes Crowdin show things as variable when it's not

I'm not sure which one it was but something like [dry cough] was interpreted by crowdin as a variable where it was a subtitle

[rancid terrace]

It's {value}%

[long dawn]

yeah that's a variable x)

[rancid terrace]

I just wrote the same thing and downvoted the translation. Thanks for your help

[opal siren]

The Rock Cracker pods use "Stromkabel fortführt" when adding a new segment after the first.
It should be "Stromkabel fortführen" - fortführt is the wrong form of the verb

[sage tangle]

Woops that was my bad! According to the translation it was a tuesday 23:00 two months ago 😄
Fixed it. If you find any other errors in German, please report them here.
Thanks for your help!

(Translation fix will make it in on the next official patch from GSG)

Danke, AnkepocaFailed

[opal siren]

Found some more typos!
First sentence should be "Der Leaf Lover ist nur auf der Karte, um das Management zufriedenzustellen." - notice the comma. "Um" is used as a conjunction here.
Final sentence should be "Lass nur niemanden wissen, dass du einen getrunken hast." - "Wissen" is the knowledge, "wissen" is to know, and in situations like this, latter is used.

[gray arrow]

🇩🇪

[opal siren]

Also, it should be either "Strahlende Strata" (Strata is the plural of stratum, and as such uses the same articles/adjectives as a feminine word) or Strahlendes Stratum (Stratum is grammatically neutral)

[gray arrow]

👍

[rancid terrace]

If we find typo's in voicelines that are currently not in the game. (Future seasonal events) Is it still ok to put them in #1062710911367925780 ?

[shell vine]

Just reporting them on crowdin is enough

[rancid terrace]

How do I do that? I only started translating a few days ago

[shell vine]

In the comment bar on the side, check the "issue" box, and select "mistake in source string" in the drop down menu. Then just add a comment on where the typo is and submit the comment.

[rancid terrace]

Oh I see it now I had the terms menu open, thanks!

[opal siren]

The "No, that's no oil shale!" voiceline in German is missing an exclamation mark or any type of punctuation at the end.

The "Canister ready for re-fueling!" voiceline is untranslated when using subtitles in German.
"Kannister bereit zum Befüllen!" should be a decent translation.

Also, the Miner's Manual calls the Glyphid Grunt Guards "Wache" but the actual game calls them "Wächter". While those words are closely related, it is still jarring.

It even happens on the Miner's Manual - the entry is called Wache but the description calls it Wächter!

Update, it seems ALL the "fuel canister filled up" voicelines are not using German translations with subtitles on.
Also, prompts plugging in or removing a canister from Doretta still has the English "Canister" written on it. (Should be "Kannister")

The Glyphid Grunt suffers from a similar issue as the Grunt Guard, but this time it is "Krieger" (warrior) and "Kämpfer" (fighter)

Which makes the fact that the ebonite version is called Eboniten-Kämpfer quite jarring

[sage tangle]

Ahh, somebody not betriebsblind 🙂
Thanks for all the reports, we'll fix that asap.
If you're interested...

https://tenor.com/view/sit-here-homer-simpsons-couch-gif-10387695

[opal siren]

Well, I already aided in the translation of one game, what's another?

[sage tangle]

That's the spirit.
If you're interested in more, we can add you to the de_translator team

[opal siren]

Should probably be better that way.

I probably skim through the translations to see if I can spot a thing or two...

[rancid terrace]

Do you guys translate the DLC names? Some of the translations in Dutch kept the English version but others changed it to Dutch. I am more inclined to change it to Dutch but I am just wondering what others do.

[slim verge]

IIRC, they need to stay untranslated.
@shell vine can confirm maybe ?

[rancid terrace]

I looked through some other languages and it seems like most translate it. I did find one for the DARK FUTURE pack in French that wasn't translated but all the others were.

[shell vine]

It is not possible to translate the names of the DLCs on steam (not easily, anyway), so if you translate them, they will have a different name in the game than on steam.

[rancid terrace]

So I keep the English version?

[slim verge]

Pretty sure I reverted translation on those 🤔

I'll need to double check

[rancid terrace]

I checked it quickly and I am not that experienced with crowdin so I might have looked at the wrong things

[slim verge]

I could also have forgotten some stuff

happens

[opal siren]

I will likely sit down every other day or so and add my own ideas to some of the lines or add stuff like commas to them. Is that ok?

[sage tangle]

We would love that! Once you translate the game so much, you become blind to small errors and stuff. Betriebsblind. Any helping hand is very welcome

[opal siren]

Understandable! I don't think I will nail everything, but I should be able to help out regardless.
Also, I understand the whole Betriebsblindheit thing - I translated a game before, it is EXTREMELY easy to miss a line, some words etc...

[sage tangle]

Which one? 🙂
You read the stickies / know we're reading crowdin?

[opal siren]

I meant in general when translating, and I know you read it

[opal siren]

As for the game I translated... Epic Battle Fantasy 5. Wacky affectionate parody of JRPGs that started as silly flash game.
Anyway, back to translating.

[polar laurel]

How exactly do I become a translator

[chilly orbit]

Create a crowdin account, select a language you're proficient in, start typing stuff that makes sense
And voilà, translator achieved

[polar laurel]

time to do that now

[trail gale]

it's like that also in the source string; but therefore similar transaltions have an exclamation mark I opend an issue for the source string
will fix the German translation once this is resolved

[opal siren]

Ok, thanks for the info.

[trail gale]

according to crowdin it has been translated over one month ago

[opal siren]

Oh yeah, spotted another issue that I actually cannot find in crowdin rn.
The "Unknown Material" text (you can get it when pointing at a LURE, for example) is still that way in German.
"Unbekanntes Material" should work for translations.

[sharp dagger]

Thanks for bringing this up. The string should be fixed with the next update.

[sharp dagger]

Again, thanks for bringing this up. Should be fixed by the next game update.

[sharp dagger]

Since the original (source) string in EN also misses an exclamation mark, we did not add one for the translation. @trail gale raised an issue about this on Crowdin and I approved an new translation with an added exclamation mark. Therefore, this issue should be fixed by the next update.

Edit: Just saw that Rala basically explained all of this further above. 🙂

[opal siren]

No biggie. I just keep an eye out and either add my ideas on crowdin or put them here.

[sharp dagger]

"Guards" should be translated as "Wächter". We'll work on fixing it.

[sharp dagger]

"Grunt" should be translated as "Kämpfer". We'll be working on fixing it.

[sharp dagger]

Interesting, we'll have to take a look at this.

[sharp dagger]

@opal siren please do!

Thanks for raising all these issues. We'll try to improve them.

[sage tangle]

Dear @nova walrus can you bestow the ancient and noble role of de_translator to @opal siren ? 🙂

[nova walrus]

there ya go 😁

[sage tangle]

Thank you! ❤️

[eager rivet]

Hi, i found that there is a missing polish translation for the tuned cooler overclock

The same is with electricity in the miners guide

[long dawn]

Hi, the translations are done by the community, so not every translation is 100% complete. Everyone is welcome to help with the Polish translation at https://crowdin.com/project/deep-rock-galactic/pl

[eager rivet]

Oh ok, thanks

Didin't know

[rancid terrace]

Is this something I should translate? I noticed most languages kept the English version but some didn't.

[kindred remnant]

Getting ahead of myself here, but curious at what point does a community translator get to be included in the credits? I see they've updated the list with more people over time

[rancid terrace]

30.000 words: Mentioned in in-game credits

[slim verge]

it hasn't been updated in a while now

[kindred remnant]

and what if the language you're working on has less than 30k words left untranslated

that ship has sailed I assume? xd

[rancid terrace]

Wait for the next season

[slim verge]

the game is continuously expanding

there's always more to do

[kindred remnant]

interesting, thanks you guys!

[thorny brook]

Didn't know we could be credited lol

I have yet to translate 30k words however

[rancid terrace]

Is there a Dutch translators groupchat?

[shell vine]

I'm not sure...
We don't get a lot of Dutch translators at the same time, so I don't know if the role and chat was ever created...

Just checked, seeing the past activity, there has definitely been some.

[rancid terrace]

Yeah, it does seem like the Dutch translation isn't very active anymore. Was just wondering, since sometimes it's hard making a decision on what a word that gets used a lot should be translated to.

Probably mostly me haha

[rancid terrace]

And having some other people to discuss it with would help

[shell vine]

@lusty root Are you still around ? A translator for Dutch is looking for colleagues...

[buoyant dagger]

[shell vine]

Hello @buoyant dagger , could you grant the nl-translator role to Repper ?

sneaky last second switch of ping ^^

[buoyant dagger]

Hmmmmmm

perhaps

[shell vine]

Thanks

[rancid terrace]

Thank you!

[swift pilot]

They should give you the role of community translator.

[thorny brook]

In due time, I'm in no rush

[long dawn]

Yay I can finally come back to translate for a few weeks

[kindred remnant]

how can we see how many words we've translated so far in Crowdin?

[long dawn]

https://crowdin.com/project/deep-rock-galactic/reports/top-members search your name here

[kindred remnant]

thank you!

[shell vine]

What is your crowdin tag ?

[thorny brook]

My tag? Let me see

[thorny brook]

May I send a link of my profile in here?

[shell vine]

Sure.
But just the account name is enough

[thorny brook]

Ah alright, my name there is VeronicaGomes

[swift pilot]

Congrats!

[gusty urchin]

why is the bullet hell overclock text in russian literally "hellish bullets"

its stayed like that for 3 years already

[shell vine]

@fresh wharf Might have an answer.

[gusty urchin]

i submitted a proofread request

[shell vine]

Then you should wait for a proofreader to accept or deny the revision.

[gusty urchin]

okay

[fresh wharf]

I find the current version appropriate tho
I added another option, but that's all I can do

[gusty urchin]

there isnt really anything "hellish" about the bullets

[fresh wharf]

well they can shoot through walls and they auto-aim towards creatures

but I get that it's not the original meaning

[shell vine]

Bullet hell is a reference to the type of game "Bullet hell", named as such because the screen is often filled to the brim with projectiles.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BulletHell

[gusty urchin]

yes that's what i mean

the minigun fills the room with projectiles that are near impossible to dodge

i think they would be hellish if they ignited stuff

[fresh wharf]

alright, I checked - it's literally a genre called "bullet hell" and I added its used translation as another option, which is simply literal translation of the string

thanks, Azerty

@dense valley can change the translation, however most players have likely got used to the current one

[dense valley]

There is no conventional translation for "bullet hell" in russian, so I think "ад из пуль" is the best sounding one. I'll approve it

[gusty urchin]

thanks

[thorny brook]

Is it just me or someone's elses game is messing up the languages?

I put the game in english and its mixing both english and spanish

[broken path]

did you change back and forth between the two languages?

I went in to check, and it seems some strings don't change languages when I do that

in my case, I switched from english to pt-br and back to english, and now both languages show up

it seems to be newer strings that are having this issue

[shell vine]

That is a known bug. Let's just hope it gets fixed with the next patch...

[broken path]

"slap" when looking at the fireworks has this problem, but "slap" when looking at the springy dwarf figure on the bar counter doesn't

[broken path]

ahh, I see, good to know

[thorny brook]

Yeah, good to know, I was getting a meltdown seeing some major pt spelling mistakes, and then realizing it wasn't pt

[muted valley]

so much overheat translations text

[vital marsh]

There's a lot of returning strings this round; I assume they're typo-fixes.

[gusty urchin]

when do translations get added?

[broken path]

afaik every patch updates the translations

[muted valley]

and i also see many 5th anniversary text

when exactly it is

[wheat wraith]

What is this translation debug mode for? The one where you press Ctrl+O and everything becomes a string of numbers with a hashtag

[broken path]

sometimes there are multiple strings with the same text, those numbers however are unique

with them you can find the exact string you want in Crowdin by using the "testing language"

[gusty urchin]

the 5th anniversary obviously

isnt it gonna be a cosmetic dlc

[slim verge]

at the end of February

[slim verge]

so you can pinpoint the exact string by user its specific code

you see something misspelled/mistranslated ? Just control+o and use the string number to jump directly to it in Crowdin

[wheat wraith]

How, when I type one into the search in file function nothing shows up

[wheat wraith]

oh, the testing language

Is there a way to check a specific crowdin user's activity?

[broken path]

you can filter by user here https://crowdin.com/project/deep-rock-galactic/activity-stream

[wheat wraith]

Oh yeah, I didn't notice there were filters there

Kay... because it was written up there that we are to report missing and/or inactive member, and 2 of the people there have been inactive since 2021

Is that list ever updated?

[broken path]

not really 😛

[wheat wraith]

Right

@sage tangle Do you ever plan on updating it?

[muted valley]

also why still i don't have a pol-translator role

[wheat wraith]

Because you have to ask for it

You don't get it automatically

[kindred remnant]

Just passed 1000 words translated in Romanian 🥹

moved the percentage from 12% to 13%

I wonder if there's anyone to vote for my suggestions tho xd

[muted valley]

[wheat wraith]

quantity over quality

[kindred remnant]

is that a diss? 👀

[wheat wraith]

You would not believe

[kindred remnant]

Can someone give me the ro translator role pls? I wanna talk to other translators 🇷🇴

[shell vine]

@shy pivot You got a brand new colleague ^^
@frozen inlet Could you give the ro-translator role to @kindred remnant please ?

[shy pivot]

Bet

[shell vine]

C ?

[shy pivot]

U know it

[rancid terrace]

What's the community tester role for?

[frozen inlet]

ro ?

i'll give him the english translator role since his profile isays hes an expert in that

[shy pivot]

Iirc for people helping with identifying bugs and stuff?

[frozen inlet]

(also i think any of the roles give the same permissions and we dont have a romanian one so i have to use a filler)

[frozen inlet]

its for people who test the community

[shell vine]

Trying out experimental builds that the devs release privately, to test out new features/bug fixes/other.
Most are full of bugs, crashes, and spoilers.
Testers are handpicked by the devs, so asking for it would serve no purpose.

[shy pivot]

Close enough.

[shell vine]

There is no Romanian translator role ?

[frozen inlet]

what does M.U.L.E stand for ?

[frozen inlet]

did not see it in the list

[rancid terrace]

oh, cool

[rancid terrace]

It stands for mule

[frozen inlet]

: \

[shy pivot]

I am/was pretty much the only consistent ro translator so there was no point in having a role just for 1 member.

I wouldn't have had anyone to talk to in the ro-translator room at least until I went insane with the first/last mission names.

[kindred remnant]

oh thanks for the en role, that's what I do for work, but for DRG I'm translating Romanian, so I guess a role should be created for that 🥹

[shell vine]

Mobile Utility Lift Engine

[rancid terrace]

Wiki copy paste

[shell vine]

@solid bough Good evening Jacob, since we now have a bit more Romanian translators, could they get the role and channel please?

[shell vine]

I remembered it. Had to search it when I wrote the glossary

[rancid terrace]

I only said that because I was gonna copy paste it from the wiki but you were first haha

[kindred remnant]

Would love to contact them about doing this for money 👀 but I'm once again getting ahead of myself here

[rancid terrace]

IIRC I think you need to contact coffestain

[kindred remnant]

Their welcoming message on Crowdin is very inviting in that aspect

[thorny cove]

What about bribes tho?

[frozen inlet]

ok i made the role and added t

[kindred remnant]

got the role yay

[shell vine]

Probably going to end as an example of this.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BribeBackfire

[kindred remnant]

thank you

[shell vine]

I would invite you to contact Jacob in DMs, and see where it goes from there.

[kindred remnant]

Again, how can I refuse an invitation 👀 thank you, will do!

[shy pivot]

Are language specific channels still a thing?

Could we get one of those as well if so?

[shell vine]

Those should be as well, but IIrc, only devs have the perms for making them

[frozen inlet]

i looked through the permissions of the the translator roles and nothing really stood out

[shy pivot]

Oh right, you would need "manage channels" permissions and that would apply to all/most of them which would be risky the more people have access.

[shy pivot]

It was mostly for cataloguing purposes and for the translator rooms.

[rancid terrace]

there is a nl-translators channel

[kindred remnant]

I mean I'll just DM Delgado at this point, I'm already between the top 3 translators for RO and I started yesterday 🥶 it doesn't look like we'd have more colleagues to talk to

[shell vine]

The language specific translator roles only have the access to the dedicated channels, nothing more normally...

[sage tangle]

No, because mods changed the rules so when I edit the posts I get automatically timed out for too many @mentions and the message won't save...

[wheat wraith]

Well you can tell them to exempt you from that or something

[shell vine]

Tbf, we should probably ask a dev to upload it...

[sage tangle]

I need to harass a dev for it but they never have time

[wheat wraith]

Or something like that

[sage tangle]

||Yes best ping Soren about this||

[wheat wraith]

I'm guessing that you can't even remove people from that or it will think you want to ping 50 people again?

[sage tangle]

Yes editing is currently not possible

I'll find a way around it

[wheat wraith]

Maybe some kind of list outside discord with links to crowdin profiles and discord names with a tag (as in CoolGuy420#1337)

[rancid terrace]

"Consider this...legally speaking...rocking is more legal than stoning. Eh? Eh?"
Weed joke or stoning somebody joke? I translated it as a weed joke, but I just want to double check lol

[vital marsh]

Pretty sure it's the former, yeah

[boreal quest]

Stoning, as in throwing a stone at someone, as in physical assault.

At least that is how I thought of it.

[vital marsh]

I translated it as that, because the weed joke doesn't make sense in our language

But I'm pretty sure the original intent is a weed joke

[long dawn]

I didn't notice the joke and I thought it was fun as is (like just the absurd of making a distinction) so I did not translate a reference either

[rancid terrace]

I am able to translate to either meaning so I opted for the weed joke.

[kindred remnant]

Can someone tell me what are Target Words in Crowdin?

pretty pls

[vital marsh]

https://support.crowdin.com/project-reports/

[kindred remnant]

but who decides what is target content

[broken path]

that answer left me with more questions lmao

[sage tangle]

Iirc. It means into how many words you translated.

[vital marsh]

Yes

The target language is what you're translating to

[sage tangle]

For instance
spiritual satisfaction you get when you’re alone in nature
Translate to German
Waldeinsamkeit.
Target words = 1

Some languages due to their grammar or singularities tend to create more target words than their source, others less.
F.i. English to German usually results in more words, because English has simplifying grammar which German has not without going overboard with more sentences.

Depending on the media it can be an objective to stay within a certain amount of words

[kindred remnant]

I see... Should we aim to have less target words than translated?

or it doesn't really matter

[sage tangle]

Target words don't matter on deep rock. Nearly all strings automatically fit the space where they pop up. Terminals and the like

[kindred remnant]

that's good 😅

[steel sluice]

I might actually get involved with helping translation because I love this game

[shell vine]

Hello,
Feel free to join the project ! The link to the translation platform is in the pinned messages.
Just to know, what language do you plan to work on ?

[sage tangle]

Profile says Croatian

[steel sluice]

Ye, Croatian

[kindred remnant]

I remember the community translations credits used to have the language those people translated in parantheses next to their name. Do I remember that correctly? Anyone knows why they stopped doing that?

[slim verge]

don't remember it ever being a thing but every credit page is different depending on the language it's translated on so maybe it was a personal choice from the translators of said language ?

[vital marsh]

To be honest, the translation credits page could use some improvement, in my opinion.
For example, people could be sorted into their languages, and also note whether they're still active (that way, people who don't translate anymore would still get credit, but people know they aren't active anymore).

[slim verge]

I think it needs to be entirely reworked because with how many translators there are, it's just chaotic 😄

[kindred remnant]

Idk if the page should say if they're active.. but I agree in sorting them by language

[vital marsh]

There's already a scrolling names page in the game, in the memorial hall, so that could be copied to the translation credits screen.

[vital marsh]

There have been some arguments on whether inactive people should be removed completely. IMO they should still receive credit, but it should clearly be stated that they aren't really helping shape the translation anymore.

It would be a good compromise.

[kindred remnant]

ah... I don't see why people who worked on them and deserved credit at one point would need to be taken out of that list later..

their contribution is still in the game

[vital marsh]

To be fair, a lot of those older translations have been reworked/reworded since then, so what they wrote then may not even be in the game anymore

But at the same time, we shouldn't ignore the time and effort they put into translation

[kindred remnant]

Speaking of, I reached 10k+ words translated in RO 🥳 who do I poke for those goodies?

[boreal quest]

There are people who are in the credits with less contribution than the ones who have significantly more than those people.

And the latter are not present.

[slim verge]

congrats 🎉

[sage tangle]

It's a bug about to get fixed

[vital marsh]

No need; the developers check on a regular basis. You'll be contacted eventually.

[kindred remnant]

That's nice! I contacted Jacob in the DMs about getting paid for this, since I do it professionally and all.. No answer so far 😅

[slim verge]

I think they can't, because of how working laws are in Denmark

but I guess he'll answer himself eventually

[vital marsh]

Q: What if I want to get paid?
A: Then you'll have to have a professional setup and get in contact with our publisher, Coffee Stain Publishing. We'll have a much higher requirement here and you'll be competing for a spot with other professional translators.

From the project page

[slim verge]

oh yeah I forgot you have to get through Coffee Stain

[kindred remnant]

Was advised to DM Jacob, I thought he's with Coffee Stain

[shell vine]

I don't think it is probable that will happen, as most of the time, when they need to get some professional translation, it is for a very specific task and with very short deadlines...

Was advised to DM Jacob, I thought he's with Coffee Stain
That was me, sorry, I misremembered the procedure for getting professional 😅.
Jacob is the Community Manager, so he's kind of a general go to guy for out of the norm demands...

[kindred remnant]

Welp, thanks for the help anyway

I'll see if he gets back to me

I'll probably have more than 30k words translated by then xd

[boreal quest]

I thought it was just a string that needs to be updated.

[honest sun]

DeepRock never be with paid translators.

[shell vine]

There were some instances in which paid translators were used (for example, for the emergency translation to Japanese when the release on PS was coming), but it is not the norm.

[vital marsh]

Isn't the Chinese translation made by professionals?

[rancid terrace]

Is +1 party hats a mistake?

[slim verge]

yeah

[rancid terrace]

ok, thanks

[shell vine]

Where was that confirmed?
Probably a discussion for the other channel

[slim verge]

not sure what you mean ?

[south scroll]

ok

im the name adont no

[slim verge]

can I help you ? This is the translation channel

[south scroll]

yes

[chilly orbit]

And how could we help you ?

[south scroll]

game dep rok can u jone my game

[slim verge]

This is the translation channel.
what you're looking for is #lfg-steam

[south scroll]

a nam in deep roke calld cracics

iwos wrog

[slim verge]

What's your native language ? You seem to have trouble with English, so I can only suggest looking into fan communities

#fan-communities

[south scroll]

?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? icant tipe tath is rit

[swift pilot]

Hablas español?

[main depot]

no

[swift pilot]

So

[broken path]

[signal verge]

Are there still people looking for French translators?

[chilly orbit]

As a whole, us translators don't refuse anyone who wants to contribute.
For the French team, we don't have much to translate at the moment, given that the last update has been around for quite the time now, but feel free to create a crowdin account if you didn't already, and join the project.
You'll get notifications when new strings will drop, and your help will be appreciated !

[signal verge]

Are the translation even available for the game currently? I checked the options and couldn't find one for changing the game's language. Would be hilarious to hear the dwarves scream in French, lol.

[shell vine]

The translations are only for the text of the game, there are none available for the voices (except with some mods)

[signal verge]

Aw sad, but fair.

[mental folio]

.

[swift pilot]

.

[thorny cove]

There’s Morse Code translation now?

[vital marsh]

.-. --- -.-. -.- / .- -. -.. / ... - --- -. . -.-.--

[kindred remnant]

does anybody know if patch notes stay in-game forever or do they remove them?

[slim verge]

they stay in game but I doubt anyone read them

[kindred remnant]

ah ok, well, at least the latest one has the most chances to be read I imagine

[slim verge]

yeah

[kindred remnant]

I'll translate that, thanks!

[sage tangle]

if you just started out I highly recommend

• translating everything in the game first (crowdin folder "allgametext")
• translating patchnoted only with the NEXT patch. Nobody reads the current one anymore.

[kindred remnant]

hey, yeah I wanted to do at least one patch anyway. What's the name of the next patch? 5 year anniversary?

[sage tangle]

Yes

[kindred remnant]

can't find it .-.

[slim verge]

don't think it's been put in just yet

not even sure we'll get a patch notes either

events like that usually don't

we don't even get patch notes for hotfixes

[kindred remnant]

ah, I'll take my time then

[honest sun]

Yeah. And patchnotes in some languages even not included in game.

[kindred remnant]

well, RO had 0% of patch notes translated, it looked too sad. Now at least it has a 3% xd

[sage tangle]

You can just ignore those until the game text is at 100%.
Patch notes is wasted effort if it's not the most recent one

[vital marsh]

Nor do they get in by release 🥲

[kindred remnant]

Soo now that I'm about 17k translated words in, who gets the Community Translator role and who gets to approve these lines? I localize games professionally already, if that's what it's required..

[dry cradle]

text gets approved by proofreaders. a community translator can be a proofreader, but not every community translator is a proofreader

and being a professional translator isnt a piece of the criteria to be a ct, no

[kindred remnant]

I see, who do I have to poke for the proofreader permissions?

and the translator role

[slim verge]

it's up to GSG to hand out both roles

[sage tangle]

Both have no hard criteria but are given if needed and trusted.

[obsidian nova]

I'd say being the only active translator in respective language for a while helps with getting the proofreader perm
That's how I got mine, to prevent strangers from messing around that is
And a troubling amount of untranslated text

[kindred remnant]

Nobody has translated a word of Romanian since early 2020.. Soo I guess I'll stick around long enough to get these privileges

[shell vine]

As was stated, the CT role is given at the devs discretion, generally to translators that have been around for a while, with a significant contribution - you have that part already - and a good quality (this is mostly determined by the feedback from the players, believe me when I tell you that a google translated localization does not fly silently).
There is already a proofreader for Romanian (@shy pivot), so it is unlikely that a second one will be appointed, apart if he comes forward and asks for it, or there is vandalism on the translation and an emergency measure is needed. As it stands, Delgado is not translating at the moment, but he is still involved and responsive, so there is no need for a second proofreader.

Side note, why are you translating to english ?

[slim verge]

Side note, why are you translating to english ?

@kindred remnant For typo in the source string, those issues are talked about through #1062710911367925780 😄

[shell vine]

That part was implied in my head, but I forgot to write it ^^' sorry

[broken path]

(this is mostly determined by the feedback from the players, believe me when I tell you that a google translated localization does not fly silently)
where do you guys get feedback on the localizations? here on discord, somewhere else? I'd be interested in seeing what people are saying of the pt-br translations

[slim verge]

mostly from fan communities, or by people directly contacting us through different means

[rancid terrace]

Why do a lot of miners manual translations need to be translated multiple times?

[slim verge]

you mean they keep showing up ?

[rancid terrace]

yeah

Wait no they only show up once

but there's already a translations in the suggestions

oh wait I think the suggestions are for slightly different versions of the same text nvm

[kindred remnant]

oop, I figured the English was there to suggest corrections for typos and such. Why is there an English section, if I may ask?

that's what I did for those 3-4 lines in English

I can revert them

should I? 👀

[shell vine]

They'll make themselves known, by any means possible ^^

[shell vine]

Those are called "Translation Memory", and are automatically generated suggestions, based on similar translations. The % indicates how much the base string is similar to the current one, and the colors show the added/missing words.

[shell vine]

It is a default of crowdin, from what I understood.
The correct way to signal typos, grammar, etc. is to make an issue in crowdin (Make a new comment, check the box marked "issue", select "Mistake in source string" in the drop down menu, and type a quick description of what is wrong/should be changed) so that the devs can get it automatically added to their to-do list.

[final hamlet]

Good day! I've been watching videos of Deep Rock Galactic and I really liked how the game looks. Me and friends from Belarus would like to volunteer in translating game to Belarusian language

[shell vine]

Hello and welcome !
The translation project happens on crowdin (see link in the pinned messages, you'll need to create an account there), but as of this day, this language has not yet been tackled. If you two are motivated, we can ask the devs to enable it for translation.

I must warn you though, the game currently counts more than 100 000 words (not counting patchnotes), so this will be a very long endeavour. I also recommend owning the game, as you will need to familiarise yourselves with it to be able to translate it accurately.

Feel free to mention me if you have more questions, I am waiting on your answer to put in the demand for the language to be added.

[final hamlet]

There're more than two of us and we're ready for it! :)

[shell vine]

Very well, I'll put in the demand.
Since it is the evening for the devs right now, don't expect an answer before at least 12 hours, at best - they are often overworked, and it may take a bit of time before they can do it.

[final hamlet]

It's alright! I'll be waiting

Also there's a moment that we'd need to be sure that the font you use in game will support this letter - ў

[shell vine]

We currently have a couple of letter trouble with fonts, and a dedicated place to discuss those with the devs. That is still quite a long way ahead, since the language will probably not be added to the game before about half of it is translated. When that happens, and if the letter is not supported, we will push in the corresponding bug-report.

[final hamlet]

Thanks for letting me know about it!

[latent juniper]

/info

[boreal quest]

Good job

[swift pilot]

/give Sr.J500 admin_role

[sage tangle]

/votekick [1] Sr.J500 - 4/10 [2] SteffeN - 1/10 [3] Azerty11235 - 9/10

[thorny cove]

/spawn Karl

[dry cradle]

/save-all

/stop

[buoyant dagger]

[amber talon]

Hi everyone! Ready to help with the translation of DRG into Belarusian

[final hamlet]

This guy's with me

[shell vine]

Hello to you as well !

The demand for Belarussian to be added to crowdin is still being treated, so you'll have to wait a bit more before you can start.
You can still make an account there though.

[shell vine]

I figured ^^

[final hamlet]

I invited some of our guys in case if they have any other questions about that translation program

[amber talon]

Already done, sir!🫡

[final hamlet]

I just realised one possible problem - Achievements' translation

Since there's no Belarusian language for Steam interface

[vital marsh]

Surely, there's a Belarusian equivalent.

[final hamlet]

Aha, got it

[kindred remnant]

22k words translated 🥵 I'll hit 30k before they answer my email for sure

[final hamlet]

I'm still waiting for Belarusian module

But hey, that's an awesome job

[sage tangle]

Have you started playing? 🙂

[final hamlet]

Not able to purchase it yet, but we're just enthusiastic to translate games in Belarusian

[sage tangle]

I highly recommend giving it a spin before starting translation.

[final hamlet]

I'll try

It's just very expensive haha

[sage tangle]

? it was on sale for 10 bucks last week

[final hamlet]

We only discovered about open requests about translations several days ago

[sage tangle]

what is the currency you pay on steam when buying from belarus?

[final hamlet]

USD

[sage tangle]

What's the current price in your region?

[final hamlet]

But pointed as:
US Dollar (CIS)

Lemme see

$14.49

[sage tangle]

Google claims average pay is about 450 USD per month in Belarus? (Always find this steam pricing and actual worth highly interesting)

Anyways I highly discourage translating a medium you haven't tried yet.

[slim verge]

I side with Fakiyo on this. A lot of the context will be lost if you translate without having played the game.

It will make translating a lot harder.

[final hamlet]

Lies

[sage tangle]

Plus you will be forced to go over it a second time.

[final hamlet]

I'm not alone

We already gathered up

[shell vine]

I too recommend trying the game before translating.
And it will be much easier and smoother to translate if you have the game as a reference.

I'll ask again for the activation of Belarus.

[final hamlet]

I'll try to purchase game later, but it'll be difficult because of high price

But still, there're some of simple phrases which can be translated without knowing much

And it'd be nice for other belarusians to see our native language in game, then we'll do it

@shell vine I have my friends with me

They have DRG

[amber talon]

Guys, it's ok. We have a team of several people who have played and streamed DRG extensively. After the Belarusian language is added, we will announce it to the community, and I'm sure that after that a few more volunteers will want to join the project.

I'll buy a copy of DRG for @final hamlet myself once the project starts)

[final hamlet]

Thanks, but there's no need, I'll try to get it by myself)

[amber talon]

Pssst! That was a trick)

[final hamlet]

Duuude, I'll be fine, I tell you xD

[pseudo hull]

Hey guys! i was wondering if you guys needed someone to help with french translation 👀 im guessing you guys already have someone for that tho...

[muted valley]

It's always good to have more people to help

[pseudo hull]

:D maybe I have a chance after all then

[slim verge]

We're like 8-9 people but sure, we can always get more help 😛

[sage tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/gilet-jaune-gif-13107984

8-9 people feels like half of translator team and this discord is french, including my steam friendslist now.

[dry cradle]

This discord is WHAT

[sage tangle]

Maybe it's just me? Maybe I'm just attractive to the French, they gather around me like some sort of leader...

[slim verge]

🤢

[sage tangle]

||Maybe it's because of my french maid outfit?||

[dry cradle]

||congration, now its even more cursed ||

[sage tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/otho-beetlejuice-glenn-shadix-shadix-funny-gif-19233218

[swift pilot]

https://tenor.com/view/tobey-maguire-tobey-maguire-spider-man-spierman3-spidermanraimi-sam-raimi-gif-24378776

[pseudo hull]

I would be more than happy to help, even if just ever so slightly :)

[slim verge]

@twilit mica Hey, sorry for the ping but could you give the fr-translator role to @pseudo hull please ? Thank you in advance !

[slim verge]

mind you, at the moment we don't have a lot to do (the last season has been translated a little while ago now) but we'll have plenty of work when S4 arrives 😄

In the meantime, create your account on Crowdin (link is found in the pinned message, at the end of the translator list) and get familiar with it.

[pseudo hull]

I’ll get on it as soon as possible! Thank you for your help :D

Also I’m not actually French, I’m Canadian French so the time zone are quite far appart, so if I don’t answer right away I will as soon as I can 😁

[slim verge]

alright 👍
Speaking of this, do you think it would be useful to have a different translation for Canadian French ?

[pseudo hull]

I dont thinks it’s necessary since tbh, Canadian French is a mix of English and French, it’s like the wish version of French hahaha

[slim verge]

alright, thanks for the feedback

[twilit mica]

Done

[long dawn]

It seems to me that some of the vetted Community translators here could use the permission to give language specific roles x)

It's not like it's a security concern and it would ease the moderation team

[slim verge]

thank you !

[slim verge]

I don't think it's possible for one role to only be able to distribute one other role, it's either all or none

[long dawn]

When you have the possibility to manage roles, you can add/remove roles that are below your highest role

In the role hierarchy

[slim verge]

Yeah and I don't think the moderation team would be comfortable with us being able to distribute half of the other roles 😄

[long dawn]

Maybe I'm too trustful but if it's only a couple of you all, I wouldn't mind in their position

like azerty and you seems to do a lot daily (and others it's just the 2 first names I had in mind)

and be generally trusted by the devs

[slim verge]

there's more than a couple community translators and a few of them proved to be untrustworthy in the past

[long dawn]

I never meant to say that all community translators should have this power, only a few of them

[slim verge]

Azerty and I are also community tester, we're handpicked by the devs. Doesn't mean we should be untrusted with distributing roles.

I think it's fine to keep it into the moderator role. It's only a few pings here and there, hardly anything that overwhelm them.

[random mist]

hi I'm available for fr translation if y'all need, poptart's friend

[pseudo hull]

i have no idea who this is

oh you

nvm i know him

[slim verge]

lmao

[pseudo hull]

:)

[random mist]

lmao

[slim verge]

Alright, I'll give you the same introductory info !

At the moment we don't have a lot to do (the last season has been translated a little while ago now) but we'll have plenty of work when S4 arrives
In the meantime, create your account on Crowdin (link is found in the pinned message, at the end of the translator list) and get familiar with it.

@native token sorry (again) for the ping but could you give the fr-translator role to @random mist ? Thank you in advance !

[random mist]

Alright, I'll check that out when I'm not in class

[native token]

https://tenor.com/view/thomas-gore-balloonshop-you-tube-youtuber-cookie-gif-4772478

[slim verge]

thank you 😄

[swift pilot]

TomásArmas

[shell vine]

Please update the count, we now have two more ;)

[sage tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/abell46s-matrix-reface-the-matrix-neo-vs-smith-clones-gif-18606226

[pseudo hull]

https://tenor.com/view/black-car-black-clothes-squad-aew-wrestling-gif-21321400

french translator be like

[sage tangle]

more like

https://tenor.com/view/duh-billie-eilish-bad-guy-mood-reaction-gif-13993891

[pseudo hull]

:0 i like me a tricycle

[slim verge]

https://tenor.com/view/babylons-babi-token-nft-marketplace-gif-22705334

just ignore that thing on their chest okay ?

it was the only gif I could find from this movie

[sage tangle]

What movie? Smurfs?

[slim verge]

"The Right Stuff"

https://tenor.com/view/stupid-pixar-toy-story-uncultured-swine-mad-gif-7572630

[kindred remnant]

Are there any other year 5 lines in crowdin apart from the anniversary ones? I wanna focus on those

[slim verge]

if you check the notifications, you'll be able to track everything that's been added recently

should help you locate every strings relating to that

[kindred remnant]

grand, thank you!

[slim verge]

no problem

[kindred remnant]

my notifications menu is empty tho, I probably turned them off somehow

[shell vine]

You can also use the advanced filter options in the editor to sort strings by their add date

[signal knot]

huh

[shell vine]

Yes ?

[pseudo hull]

Indeed

[kindred remnant]

🥹

[slim verge]

congrats on the 30k

[pseudo hull]

how many words do you have to translate before becoming a community translator ?

[buoyant dagger]

There is no set amount

[slim verge]

this is a matter of trust and work, not a matter of translated words

[kindred remnant]

is it a good idea to contact anyone in particular out of the list of admins on Crowdin to ask about those rewards they advertise? 👀

[slim verge]

The rewards are not given as soon as you reach them, but when Alex, the dev in charge of those, has the time to do a rewards pass, and send a batch of those all at once

[pseudo hull]

i mean tbh i pinged a mod that talked in chat earlier and didnt get punish so why not take your chances 👀

[slim verge]

the moderators don't handle the reward donation, it's the devs job

[pseudo hull]

oh ye dev are above mod

sorry i had forgor

[slim verge]

it's to their discretion (and specifically to their spare time 😄 )

[kindred remnant]

maybe I get lucky and they'll do it when the year 5 update comes out in early March

[final hamlet]

We're still awaiting about our request

[shell vine]

It took the time, but it is now done. Translate away

[final hamlet]

Thank you so much!!! ^^

[final hamlet]

Need little help. As far as I understood from context, quote "Sorry, but you were not responding" means AFK, right?

[sage tangle]

yes, it's a kick reason

[dry cradle]

It can mean that, yes

[final hamlet]

Aha, got it! Thanks!

[kindred remnant]

Is there a way to check the lines we translated that have the biggest difference of target words from the source?

[shell vine]

I think the advanced filters have something like that...

[short abyss]

I've been here since 2018, so it took me 5 years to go from 0 to 100% all by myself
During that time I've: Went to uni, graduated from uni, bought a car, got an internship, first paycheck, and a full-time job
You can remove my "This language is a work in progress" now ty

[slim verge]

congrats !! That's a big achievement, especially on top of everything else ! 😄

[short abyss]

Thank you

[final hamlet]

That's just amazing mate! Congrats on achieving that!!!

And we got our first 2.5k words in Belarusian

[short abyss]

sweet

[shell vine]

Congratulations! That is one very big achievement to add to your record here!

I'll pass the word along for the work in progress tag to be removed.

[shell vine]

Nice, keep it going guys

[final hamlet]

[final hamlet]

We just talked over and decided to appoint @amber talon as Belarusian Proofreader

He helped us most to get correct translations

[shell vine]

As a general matter, proofreaders are only appointed when there is a need for one (ie, in case of griefing, or once the language is completely translated).
But it is noted that, should the need arise, they will be it.

[final hamlet]

We just appointed one due to fact that we have pretty lot of words which can be having same meaning.

May I write example here?

[shell vine]

Sure

[final hamlet]

So, there's word Warden.
In Belarusian it can be: Вартавы, Вартаўнік, Наглядчык

And because of that, we have to discuss about best variant and fill in Glossary.

(with this word, there're 4 different variations from 4 different people)

[shell vine]

Isn't the voting system enough for you to decide which suggestion is the best ?

[final hamlet]

It's good, but we need to confirm, because not all people might be online by the time we have decided

[thorny brook]

First and foremost: Congratulations on your hard work

And about the work in progress watermark

There's a tag under some languages saying "this language isn't complete" it's hard to see but, is it the same tag as the one that was in Slovenian?

[shell vine]

Yes, that's the tag he is talking about

[final hamlet]

I need 500-1500 more words to translate to do own daily plan

[thorny brook]

Well I checked here, and there's other languages that are 100% translated (incluiding my own) and there's still the same tag on them

It's been there for a while now

[shell vine]

Yeah, we asked for the update, but the dev running that part is overwhelmed at this time

[thorny brook]

I see, hopefully they'll have some time to change it

[kindred remnant]

I'd also push for Romanian special characters to be integrated in the game, there are many like this currently

Ăă Îî Ââ Șș Țț

[final hamlet]

Another 2.5k plan done

(got exactly 5k, but as I saw patch notes, I realised that it's better to translate those later lol)

[shell vine]

I passed the word along

[kindred remnant]

Thank you!

The ones that are integrated already look like they use a different font from the rest of the letters usually

but that just might be caused by other things

[wheat wraith]

I'm guessing that the normal font doesn't have those characters

So they have to use a different one instead

[vital marsh]

Or edit the fonts to include those characters

[wicked scroll]

editing a font is not a small task. Not even sure you can do it without breaking the copyright.

[half moth]

Hey, all.
I'd be glad to join the Russian translation team in case you guys need more people

[fresh wharf]

Feel free to translate strings on Crowdin (find the link in pinned msgs). There's a lot to translate mostly prior to releases of seasonal updates, just be there when it happens. Discussions take place mostly on DRG RU server.

[half moth]

yea from what i've seen everything has already been translated. i assume its fine to propose new variants of existing translated strings till a new update drops?

[fresh wharf]

Sure, first comes:

1. Approved.
2. Highest amount of votes.
3. Latest addition.
   I think you can beat #2 and #3 for most strings, for approved ones you either report via Crowdin or contact a proofreader directly about your suggestion (@dense valley, for instance).

I suggest you to pay attention to other similar strings and how they've been translated before, to use Translation Memory and to take a preference of translating text close to original meaning if possible.

[half moth]

appreciated!

[final hamlet]

Guys, we finished up the Glossary, we need a Proofreader

[shell vine]

Finishing the glossary is great !

But I'm not sure why you are so desperate for a proofreader.
As I said, not all languages have some, and most were only appointed by necessity.

[final hamlet]

Wait, so how we are supposed to confirm it completely after voting?

[shell vine]

As I can see it, there are about 13 people working on Belarusian (and you are, by far, the most active).
Why would you need to have a proofreader appointed ?
Don't get me wrong, I do remember our conversation of a couple days past, where you explained that you would like to have someone to choose in-between similar suggestions. What I do not understand is why said person would need proofreading rights, when there is already the voting system for what you are asking.

[fresh wharf]

the top one makes into the game

no need to vote or to approve

[shell vine]

You don't. The strings will be pulled into the game (once the language is added, ofc) anyway.

[final hamlet]

Wait

Seems we all got confused

We meant to approve the translation

[broken path]

the translation doesn't need to be approved to get into the game

[shell vine]

As it is, the platform works by integrating into the game, when the devs make a build, one chosen suggestion for each string, according to these criteria :
1- Approved string - the proofreader's decision by-passes all others.
2- Most upvoted (or least downvoted), can be changed for the next build if the votes change in the mean time.
3- Most recent one. Can change anytime someone create a new suggestion.

Having a proofreader approve suggestions is good because it removes the possibility of discussion, and "protects" a language against griefers, but it also complicates things, as only the proofreader will be able to make changes to already approved strings, meaning that it makes the language way less flexible in case of new choices made for mob names, for example.

[broken path]

just upvote the one you want

the one with the most votes (or more recent, in case of tie) gets into the game

[final hamlet]

Aha, not I got it, thanks

Cause I was sooo confused about this system 😅

Never worked translating before on this website, especially for popular game this instant

[shell vine]

No problem, feel free to ask here when in doubt 🙂

[fresh wharf]

French is the only one 100% approved.

[shell vine]

I would also (personally) recommend not burning yourself out on translation, this is a stamina effort, not a race ^^

[final hamlet]

Ukrainian is already 96% haha

Would be second totally confirmed I think

[fresh wharf]

That's because it's one man work basically.

[shell vine]

And yes, French is 100% approved, but we unfortunately suffered a couple of raids from automated accounts, and several rashes of very bad translations™️ (read, google translations, copy pasted to crowdin).
So we now have 2 proofreaders for this.

[thorny cove]

I have a question regarding translation

[final hamlet]

I'm alright! I put myself a plan and I'm working, according to it

[shell vine]

Ukrainian is supported by a single member rn, and since he has the proofreading rights as well, he spent some time going back over everything to check stuff up.

In short, we will probably appoint a proofreader once your language is either :

• at 100%
• Under attack

[shell vine]

Sure, fire away

[thorny cove]

Where are all of the english translators?

[final hamlet]

We sometimes might have cases when some of Belarusians might type in Tarashkevitsa))

It's Belarusian (Traditional)

[amber talon]

Am I understanding correctly that if, say, a translation is 50% complete and 20% approved, that means only 20% of the words and phrases have voices?

[shell vine]

For Registrum : There is only Tommygun and Pirtylo for the moment, why ?

[final hamlet]

We just need to keep translating

[shell vine]

No, 50%

[final hamlet]

Approving is needed in rare cases to "defend" our translations

When it comes up to, for example, spam attack or badly brought translation

[fresh wharf]

approving is, in other words, "locking" a translation

[thorny cove]

Just wondering if there were any at all

[shell vine]

No real need, really, since the game is originally written in english

[final hamlet]

220 words left before today's plan

it'd be 7500 words overall

(Basically I'm used to working with text a lot, so, I'll be alright)

[broken path]

no, the game is not getting voiced in other languages, the translation effort is just for the text, and approval doesn't affect that

[shell vine]

Word of advice though, for when you will stumble upon strings related either to the mission naming system, or the mineral ticker sytem, to skip those entirely for the moment. They are both used in randomly assembled sentences, and thus need to be tackled as a single entity, and not when you first get to them.

[final hamlet]

I do that

I firstly translate what I'm able to translate

And when I need help, we just discuss how to correctly translate that so Belarusian players would understand

[shell vine]

I don't doubt that. I just meant that those specific strings can be hard to identify as what they are, but will need to be ignored for the moment (despite seeming simple when taken individually).
You can see what they look like by searching for either of those in crowidn :
MissionNaming/Mission_NameBank
News_WordLists
News_Headlines

[final hamlet]

Aha, got it

[kindred remnant]

wait what do you mean?

[shell vine]

You have the (joke) en-translator role ;)

[kindred remnant]

ah it was to answer the other person

I guess they were asking what's the purpose of the English language being there

[final hamlet]

Got it! 7500 words done

Now I can rest well hahaha

[sage tangle]

🐓

[mellow topaz]

I really want to know what the motive for those things are

just for griefing? hoping for rewards?

[final hamlet]

Can be different reasons though

[sage tangle]

it had to do with chickens. French Translators will love to tell you the story

[mellow topaz]

uhm

[sage tangle]

the chickening

[slim verge]

to add to this : we were appointed because at the time, it was only two of us translating and voting wasn't enough to outdo bad translations that accumulated for 2 years prior.
And Mist couldn't do all the approval by himself.

[slim verge]

less malicious : training a translating bot or simply wanting the game in french but not knowing anything about english.

[honest citrus]

BABEL FISH?, how did i not know this was here(sorry unrelated)

[sage tangle]

You can redeem yourself by translating a language to 100%

[dry cradle]

Do not miss out! This is a time-limited offer!

[wheat wraith]

Yeah, just translate 0 to 100 in two weeks

Ubisoft translators be like

[slim verge]

cough

definitely didn't do that at all.

nope, never.

https://tenor.com/view/sweating-nervous-paranoid-gif-4974019

[wheat wraith]

okay, cheese pounce

[slim verge]

To be fair, it would still be possible without too much hassle, if the number of words had not been tripled since

Let's give them 2 months to make it more fair

[kindred remnant]

Wait, another diss already? 👀

[wheat wraith]

Yes, I played Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Valhalla and disliked the polish translation

[kindred remnant]

Uu translators are external, not ubi ppl, but employed by ubi

That's the best I could defend sry

[wheat wraith]

Okay, interesting

[kindred remnant]

Localization specialists are in-house

That's what I do

So still, typos and grammar issues are our fault I'd say

[wheat wraith]

Makes sense, you would have nothing to work on at times if you were employed by one company

[kindred remnant]

Eh yes and no, depends

[wheat wraith]

Can you say how do you get context clues?

[kindred remnant]

But anyway I don't wanna spam the chat with this. Yes I translated 36k in 2 weeks for drg, come at me xd

[wheat wraith]

Oh no, it's not spam I think it's very insightful

[kindred remnant]

Idk if translators have the game when they work on them, just spreadsheets

Loc specialists do play the games

[wheat wraith]

Right, I hate that kind of approach. You see it with a lotta AAA games, I guess they don't want to have leaks

[kindred remnant]

My words are my own and not affiliated with ubisoft tyvm

Don't sue

[wheat wraith]

Ubisoft can't see this... I think

[kindred remnant]

My polish colleague plays drg actually

[wheat wraith]

Then again who knows if Discord doesn't sell them user data

[wheat wraith]

My main problem was with a few translations being completely senseless in context, but I guess that if they just received the line only then it was probably hard to tell for them what it meant

[kindred remnant]

Yeah.. imagine translating DRG without ever seeing it

Again, idk id that's the case, don't destroy me

[wheat wraith]

Even then at least crowdin lets you see the source directory

[slim verge]

context is important, only a fool would deny that

[wheat wraith]

Of course, I'm not blaming you, I'm blaming whoever took the executive decision

[wheat wraith]

which means you can at least tell when a dwarf saying "we did it" means "we completed the mission, yay!" or "we managed to get the beer mug in the bio tank, hahaha get trolled management"

[sage tangle]

hah nerd

[kindred remnant]

[sage tangle]

That was a joke 😉 Good work man

[kindred remnant]

I knoow, thank you 🥹

[kindred remnant]

Do devs announce when they're about to import the new translations, or do they always happen when a new patch is released?

Yes I'm impatient

Or excited to see my translations in game I should say

[fresh wharf]

mb there will be a patch before the anniversary, otherwise it looks to happen in the next season

[slim verge]

every new patch, and for some things, they give us info on what's important to translate but those infos are "spoiler"-ish so they're hidden within the translator-spoiler channel

which you do not have access to yet

[kindred remnant]

I'm squeezing as many important lines as I can, I wish I could know what the deadline is

Cause I imagine there'll be a longer waiting time between the next patch notes and the following one

[slim verge]

there's no deadline atm

unless you could next season as a deadline

[fresh wharf]

1-2 weeks prior to next season would be your imaginary deadline

[slim verge]

the last week before the season is usually reserved to translating content related to the season itself

[dusk gyro]

we will likely pull translations friday or monday for a patch

[kindred remnant]

Woaah nice!

[slim verge]

there you go, deadline

[kindred remnant]

Now I'm just waiting for the rewards 🥵

Always waiting, I am

[slim verge]

aren't we all

[fresh wharf]

it happens when it happens

[kindred remnant]

I wanna surprise my colleague that plays drg by showing him my name in the credits soon (hopefully) 🥹

[slim verge]

you can actually do that yourself

since you got the 30k words, you just have to add yourself to the list

[kindred remnant]

Show me that list, Pounce

[slim verge]

speaking of list, we should really update the wiki editor and community tester lists

don't have access to those though

[dusk gyro]

you can ask alex

[slim verge]

I think we did ? I'll need to check

[slim verge]

search for "UA2" in Crowdin

hmm, actually you might not be able to see that now that I think of it

[kindred remnant]

Yess, I'm a bit confused

[slim verge]

yeah sorry, I forgot it was a hidden string

[kindred remnant]

I could talk you into putting my name in for me?

[slim verge]

who's the proofreader of your language ?

[kindred remnant]

The last romanian that touched crowdin was in early 2020

Delgado Kenway, he was the main guy back then

He's not translating anymore

[slim verge]

you'll have to ask them, I won't be touching another language. Delgado is still around, even though he's not very active.

he's been busy IRL

He was still talking to us in January this year

[kindred remnant]

Yess, I know he's busy, I'll try to nag him a bit

[slim verge]

Eventually, we do a pass and update every list at once, once in a while

maybe we'll do a pass before S4

well, it's more like pinging every community translator and telling them to update those lists 😄

[kindred remnant]

If I don't get an answer I'll move my nagging somewhere else, maybe I can get access to the list 🤣

[slim verge]

Eventually, we'll need to update the translator list in the pinned message too.

That's gonna be a lot pings 😄

[shell vine]

The lists in the game should not be edited by either translators or proofreaders.
The names present in it are the sole decision of the devs.
The string is available on crowdin as a courtesy, so that different languages can re-organize it to showcase their translators.

[slim verge]

they're no longer available, so I supposed it reflect that change

they used to be but not anymore

[shell vine]

https://crowdin.com/translate/deep-rock-galactic/77/en-drg#386621

[slim verge]

yeah, I can't see that

[shell vine]

Ah...

[slim verge]

🤣

[shell vine]

That's weird, since it's only regular hidding (there isn't even an option to have several levels of hidding...)

[slim verge]

I only see one list, and it's hidden, and not the one you linked

[shell vine]

But crowdin did change how proofreading roles were given a while back, might be it...

[slim verge]

there used to be a non-hidden one

within each language, edited with the translators of said language coming first

all of that is gone now so I suppose it reflect that change, as I said earlier 😄

[shell vine]

I'm looking at it, I'll see if I can make it proofreader only again

[slim verge]

bah, it's not extremely important, is it ?

we touch it like what, once every two years ? 😂

[shell vine]

Are you able to see other hiiden strings ?

[slim verge]

hold on

I can see hidden strings yes

[kindred remnant]

Seems to me you guys don't have the process figured out 👀

Jk jk

[slim verge]

I got 7 pages of them, dunno how many are hidden to admin only

[shell vine]

Thing is, I wasn't even aware that some were manager only...

[slim verge]

now you are

[shell vine]

And I don't see an option to set that 🤷

[slim verge]

I'm not sure why it matters anyway

if it's hidden, there's nothing to proofread or translate

so whether or not it is available, it doesn't matter

[timber lake]

Does anyone know when the next sale will be on steam?

[dry cradle]

this is the chat for game translation, i recommend maybe going to #drg-chat instead

[shell vine]

New strings dropped miners !

[broken path]

https://tenor.com/view/cinema-zoolander-ben-stiller-gif-4151126

[old forum]

I need help from other translators @@
In DRG there are lots of word plays. How do you guys translate it? I've been scratching my head lately to no avail @@ Any help is appreciated!

[thorny brook]

You just need to get creative and come up with your own puns in your language. It's kinda hard

[broken path]

for stuff like this you definitely have the freedom to change it as you see fit, as long as you manage to convey the overall feeling of the original

my advice is just "make a new joke"

[chilly orbit]

That's why we have a translator dedicated to puns only

Honestly, I'd say go for a joke related to this one if you can, and if you cannot, go with another one.
Also, reminder that keeping the spirit of the game is the important part, don't try to hard if you can't keep a joke

[broken path]

on a separate note, does anyone know what this string is?
https://crowdin.com/translate/deep-rock-galactic/all/en-drg?filter=basic&value=17#119454

I'm 99% sure the current translation for it is wrong, but I have no idea where to find it

[chilly orbit]

When we click the link you gave, it redirects us to the testing language.
So, my guess is that you wrongfully set crowding into the testing language and not yours (which seems to be pt-br)
As for the name itself, I don't recall anything called this way in the game, but it's a synonym to the breach cutter

[broken path]

When we click the link you gave, it redirects us to the testing language.
that was intentional

[chilly orbit]

Oh, I'm sorry then

But that doesn't change that it's a synonym for the breach cutter, which isn't used in a visible manner in the game

[broken path]

if it doesn't appear anywhere, I suppose it doesn't matter

[swift pilot]

Time to work

[pseudo hull]

[old forum]

If only I have someone else to translate too 🥲

thanks for the advices!

[broken path]

you could ask ChatGPT for help

you could directly ask how to translate that pun, or to formulate a pun following certain parameters for you

[old forum]

chatgpt is not available in my country, sadly 😦

[broken path]

D:

I could ask for you if you'd like, what's your language?

[old forum]

It's Vietnamese

[broken path]

ok, so first I asked to translate the phrase directly, and it said this:

In Vietnamese, the pun "sham-boo" would not be directly translatable since there is no similar pun between "shampoo" and "boo" in Vietnamese. However, you could translate the phrase to convey the same idea of cleaning a ghost prop made from a sheet. One possible translation could be: "Tờ này cần được làm sạch! Ai đó lấy cái bàn chải lên và quét cho sạch sẽ!" which translates to "This sheet needs to be cleaned! Someone grab a brush and sweep it clean!"

it got rid of the "spooky" part of the pun, so then I asked it to formulate a pun that played on the concepts of "cleaning" and "scaring", which gave me this:

"Cần phải lau chuồng bị, ma giật chân"
(Translation: "Need to clean the haunted house, ghost scared to lose its feet")

In this pun, the phrase "lau chuồng bị" (clean the haunted house) sounds similar to "lau chỗ bị" (clean the dirty spot), while "ma giật chân" (ghost scared to lose its feet) plays on the idea of a ghost being scared or spooky.

[pseudo hull]

Damn this is dedication

Respect

[broken path]

I have no idea how good this one is for you, so I tried one more asking it to stay close to the original phrase, but replacing "shampoo" with a different cleaning product, and it gave me this:

"Trang này cần phải lau sạch! Ai đó lấy cái chai sữa đánh răng đen đủi đi!"

This translation replaces "sham-boo" with "a bottle of black toothpaste," which sounds similar to "đen đủi" meaning "unlucky" or "ominous" in Vietnamese. The wordplay here is that the phrase sounds like "đánh răng đen đủi" meaning "brushing teeth with black toothpaste," which is a cleaning product that could be associated with the color black, often used to depict scary things.

[old forum]

WHOA

[broken path]

hopefully one of those is useful for you, and if you have any ideas for different prompts to generate better results, don't hesitate to ping me

[old forum]

I didn't think you would go this far, can't thank you enough for the help 🥹

mad respect

[broken path]

no problem! 😁

[rancid terrace]

If there are languages similair to yours you could also snoop around in there. Dutch and German are sorta similair so I'll sometimes look how they translated a pun and see if it works in Dutch too.

[old forum]

Good idea! I'll try it, thanks!

[rancid terrace]

You can easily see how other languages translated it when you click 'Other Languages' at the bottom.

So you don't have to open another language (I totally didn't do this when I started translating)

[pseudo hull]

Ma man feeling good now

[broken path]

also, let me know what translation you decided on when you figure it out, I'm curious! 😄

[old forum]

honesty I'm still figuring it out D: I have come up with a variety of translation and none of them have meet my criteria yet. Translating these pun jokes surely are difficult

It's always great to have a helping hand 😄 Please do!

dang I love this community

Will do. There are some words that in my opinion should be changed, and I wanted to gain experience, sort of knowing what the context are, etc.. When I'm more confident, I'll try to finish the Glossary part 😄

[sage tangle]

I would just skip those until I'm done with the rest, they're normally voice lines and only seen for a second with subtitles enabled

they take quite some time and effort

[rancid terrace]

What's the origin of the 'gniffer' part of hexawing gniffer? Does it reference something or is it a completely made up word?

[buoyant dagger]

Oh boy new strings

[shell vine]

A completely new thing, invented for the game.

[rancid terrace]

Thanks!

[kindred remnant]

40k words lessgoo

[final hamlet]

[kindred remnant]

Oh and Romanian AllGameText is at 50%

Feels so satisfying to do this haha

[shell vine]

Great work man !

[pseudo hull]

that ought to be worth a

[kindred remnant]

Thank you thank you

[slim verge]

niiiice

[dapper moss]

What am I doing here

[pseudo hull]

Yes

[rancid terrace]

You're here now, better start translating.

[final hamlet]

"or you'll be sent to Birmingham"