babelfish-lounge

[covert garden]

But reading this message I wanted to ask you something:

Are you trying to speak with the accent of European Portuguese or Brazilian Portuguese?

Because at the moment, the way the voices sound in your mod is the Brazilian intonation and accent. It's still a good job.

And as @dry cradle said, you can talk to us about the language if you need to, whether it's PT-BR or PT-PT (see the people in his message above).

[thorn raven]

The Brazilian Portuguese

[dry cradle]

You can always refer to these people I pinged on #babelfish-lounge message

[covert garden]

If that accent is your final goal, you're on the right track. It just needs a few more intonation adjustments. European Portuguese is also a bit more difficult to "speak" than Brazilian intonation when you're from another language XD.

Good job, keep going!

[dry cradle]

And if by any chance you also want to help on textual translation, you can follow the description at #crowdin-accounts

[thorn raven]

Thank you guys!

[wind breach]

Good damn job, mate!

Man, now Id like to see mod with polish dubbing
Sadly I dont know a thing about UE and my voice wouldt fit to MC or dwarves (Im female) 😭

[dry cradle]

||*female dwarf fan horde alerted*|| i mean what

[wind breach]

||are you suggesting female dwarves mod? ||

[burnt basin]

hey that's pretty damn good!!

like these guys said, you can find the translated texts @ crowdin, you can ping us here if you have any questions

[burnt basin]

since normally in some fictional universes dwarves are similar in appearance no matter the gender, I have personal headcanons that some of the dwarves are in fact female :) so I'd say go for it

[covert garden]

Sincerely, I don't mind ear that

🤣

[stray surge]

Kamień i Skała

[wind breach]

Za Skałę i Kamień!

[rancid heath]

[twin cobalt]

How can we help to translate the game?

Turkish-English

What kind of level is required

[shell vine]

Simply make an account on crowdin, and report back to #crowdin-accounts (instructions are in the channel description).
And all levels are accepted, it's a team effort

[twin cobalt]

I cannot see the channel

I do not have access to it

Now I do

[shell vine]

It might take a minute or two to update

[twin cobalt]

Thx

[shell vine]

Did you join the drg project with your account ?

[twin cobalt]

Idk

How do we

[shell vine]

The link is in this channel's description

[twin cobalt]

İ couldn't find it

[twin cobalt]

I found DRG and I translated some text to Turkish, but I don't know how to use the site lol

So nnow am I in?

Then am gonna monkey wrench my way out

[shell vine]

I can't find you on the site...

[shell vine]

I also can't find any trace of your translations for Turkish...

Did you join using the link in the channel description ?

[twin cobalt]

No

I just checked the group

And hopped into a English text and started to translate it

[shell vine]

The group ?

[twin cobalt]

But I couldn't find how to send it and dropped it

[twin cobalt]

This: https://crowdin.com/project/deep-rock-galactic

Oh shi

Thx to google for doxxing me a little

[shell vine]

Everything goes through crowdin.
But you need to be logged in there, and join the project to submit translations

[twin cobalt]

How can I join

Where is the big green Join button

[shell vine]

If you are logged in on crowdin, you should see a button marked "join"

[twin cobalt]

In?

[shell vine]

When on the main page of https://crowdin.com/project/deep-rock-galactic

[twin cobalt]

Sorry for being annoying but can you please ss me?

*mobile btw

Nvm

Found it

Apply, right?

[shell vine]

Can't really, since I've already joined it, it doesn't show up anymore.
And I can't leave and re-join, it would mess up the admin perms

[twin cobalt]

Can you check me in the list

hold up do we get free shit for translation

[shell vine]

If you translate enough (with quality checks).
It's all on the main page

[twin cobalt]

We're rich

[twin cobalt]

BTW am I in the list now

[shell vine]

Hasn't updated yet for me

From the main page, if you click on Turkish, then on this, what do you see ?

Here, try this :
https://crowdin.com/project/deep-rock-galactic/invite?h=09e9a4bf712c2465102ff8daaa4b72602132283

[twin cobalt]

Hey bro

May I ask how this reward system works?

[chilly orbit]

Basically, translate enough words, with a semblance of quality (auto translators are out), get stuff, like dlc or something.
However, I should warn you, the ratio time to rewards isn't worth it.
If you're there only for the rewards, go do some chores in your neighboorhood for money, you'll get the money value of the dlc much faster.
It is a thank you, not a payment.

[twin cobalt]

Ik it is a thank you

BTW bro most of Turkish transitions are cooked

At least bro change some stuff

Do not copy and paste from translate

*but tbh it translates most of the paragraph good

But it needs some add ons from a real human

[twin cobalt]

+3500 words and 20 is not that bad for TR economy

20 dollars x 33

660tl

lol

[chilly orbit]

Feel free to jump on Crowdin, get in touch with your fellow Turkish translators and discuss whatever you feel isn't properly translated then

[twin cobalt]

You can see it just from using translator on translation and original text

*not all of them tho

[dry cradle]

the only turkish translator i am aware of is @small kernel, you can try and get in contact with them

[twin cobalt]

Btw how can I get Turkish role?

It left unfinished

[dry cradle]

you already have it

[twin cobalt]

Ok

[twin cobalt]

So how do this reward system work

[dry cradle]

it should give you access to the turkish translators channel

[dry cradle]

#babelfish-lounge message

[twin cobalt]

Like you check your profile then you see it reached to a milestone

Then mods check it etc?

[dry cradle]

yea

mods or devs, not sure on that step lol

[twin cobalt]

How do they understand if its a translator translation or normal translation

[dry cradle]

idk, dont ask me lol

not the expert about that lol

[twin cobalt]

Like how can they understand if its not a gramarrly translation

Or chat gpt

Maybe ai detectors for that ig

[dry cradle]

i do not know their ways

[twin cobalt]

BTW can I use translator for basic stuff and then fix it?

Because its faster and the result is going to be close

[shell vine]

I would, very heavily advise you to get in touch with the other Turkish translator in the dedicated channel.

And it would be better to not use any automated translations, since they will often miss the context or the tone of the original translations.

[twin cobalt]

And can I use popular words like "skins"

Since pure Turkish makes it longer

[shell vine]

Finally, if you DM me again, I will be very cross with you and take appropriate measures.
Especially if your DM acknowledges that I don't want to be DMed for translation stuff.

[twin cobalt]

Like skins=deriler(makes no sense) and silah kaplaması(which is too long)

[twin cobalt]

...

#turkish-drg

[shell vine]

#turkish-drg

[twin cobalt]

Btw

Am I translating the right stuff?

Because crowdin just shows me stuff from 1-2 years ago

Shouldn't I translate newer stuff

[shell vine]

You should focus on stuff that doesn't already have translations

Search for "Untranslated"

[twin cobalt]

And how can I find it

[twin cobalt]

OK thx

[twin cobalt]

And BTW sorry for tht

[shell vine]

Red strings are untranslated.
The filters are in the three lines icon

[twin cobalt]

So only %2 present left to translate

[shell vine]

That's still a lot of words.
But yes, Vasquez is pretty active

[twin cobalt]

How can I find them in mobile

[twin cobalt]

Ik

[shell vine]

click "translate"

[twin cobalt]

Its a good practice for my english

[chilly orbit]

Crowdin on mobile is pretty miserable tho, I'd advise doing it on pc if you can

[twin cobalt]

I am on a vacation rn

[twin cobalt]

And mobile is more flexable tbh

Is this a untranslated one?

[chilly orbit]

Open the left panel

And check the symbol

[chilly orbit]

Hold on two minutes

[twin cobalt]

Yep it is

[chilly orbit]

However, if it's translated, you could always check the translation is up to your standards

[small kernel]

@twin cobalt Hi, first of it all, I made efforts with translations for about 4 years. First translator was e.ray and he gave up translating but still some translations remain loyal to him. To say that the translations are cooked is obviously rude because everyone's opinion and point of view can be different here. I reported many typos and font issues for Turkish also tested translations for updates all this time. You say it was copy and pasted, but few people have tried to translate Turkish until today and believe me, they did it, they translated it like google translate and I corrected them one by one. In short, you need to make efforts and be patient, we don't do these things for rewards. We're always open to help and advice of course, welcome aboard 🙂

[twin cobalt]

Sorry for accusing translators with using translator.

[twin cobalt]

And no I do not accuse you or your friends

I already mentioned that not all transitions made by google translator.

[small kernel]

It's okay you can always help for translations for sure we open for help and advice

[twin cobalt]

Are we good?

[small kernel]

Sure, I'm little busy of these days and couldn't finish translations but I'll do in my free time

[twin cobalt]

Kaya ve Taş

[twin cobalt]

*akthually I do this to make my english better 🤓🤓🤓

[twin cobalt]

I made a mistake in my translation how can I edit it?

[vital marsh]

Delete the previous translation with the trashcan button and submit a new one

[twin cobalt]

No I mean is our relationship is good with eachother.

[twin cobalt]

How can I view my old transitions?

And how can I see how much translation did I make(and word number maybe)

[vital marsh]

For the second one, look here and click My Activity.

[vital marsh]

For this, open this page and filter to yourself

Actually, no

Open the translation view, click the Filter Strings button next to the search bar, go down to Advanced Filter, and scroll down to Translated by

And use that filter

[twin cobalt]

We did it

%100

Turkish

[small kernel]

You can check from Reports and Activity tabs

[small kernel]

As I said before, I don't translate only DRG and I definitely check when I am free 🙂

[shell vine]

About the rewards, those are not given immediately, but by batches from the devs. It often takes several months
There is often a quality check before awarding anything to new translators.

[slim verge]

several months ? more like years

[velvet parcel]

There's a lot of messages missing, huh?

[chilly orbit]

Yes

[ripe jolt]

how to access languages channels?

[rancid terrace]

Send your crowdin account name in #crowdin-accounts

Oh wait you need the 'translator for' role first. @shell vine

[ripe jolt]

yeah how do i get those stuff

i need somebody to role me?

[rancid terrace]

Yeah, I pinged them. You'll have to wait a bit

[ripe jolt]

alrighty ty mate

[shell vine]

Please follow the directions in the #crowdin-accounts 's channel descritpion

[ripe jolt]

alight ty

alright*

i do not have permission

@shell vine

[shell vine]

Read the channel's description

Not seeing the messages in it is normal

[shell vine]

@ripe jolt What language are you working on ?

[ripe jolt]

I can translate from english to arabic

[shell vine]

I don't see you on the project...

Did you join it yet ?

[ripe jolt]

how do you join man 😭 ?

[shell vine]

On the project page (link in the channel desc), you have a button, once logged into crowdin, that offers you to "join project"

Should be green

[ripe jolt]

i am joining

[lavish fossil]

@shell vine I am sorry if I'm not supposed to ping you but the channel description says so.
I would love to help translate the game to Czech since I'm seeing a lot of text still untranslated or just the new stuff that wasn't translated. How can I start?

[shell vine]

Hello, no worries for the ping, this is what you are supposed to do.
For translating the game, all you need to do is to make an account on crowdin and to join the project there (link in channel desc).
Once you have an account, follow the instructions in the #crowdin-accounts channel description.

[lavish fossil]

Alright thanks

[hoary chasm]

@shell vine Hi i'm translating the game to Vietnamese, can I have the translator role? I already have crowdin account and joined the project but havent done this here on discord

[shell vine]

Please follow the directions in the #crowdin-accounts 's channel descritpion

[ocean viper]

@shell vine Hello sorry for the ping i'm translating all the new text from the update to spanish(modern)
i already have done some work in crowdin and everything but haven't done this in discord

[shell vine]

Please follow the directions in the #crowdin-accounts 's channel descritpion

[ocean viper]

Ok thanks

[somber raven]

The currently untranslated portuguese entry for the bha barnacles has 'cielings' instead of ceilings. Is it fixed in the current english version?

[vital marsh]

That is the current English version. The entry has not been localised for any languages yet.

[vital marsh]

<@&296918282403840000>

Oh, for the love of God, stop clicking links

😭

[velvet parcel]

Damn, that's a lot of them

[vital marsh]

A lot of idiots

[native bane]

How can I get translator role?

[naive sand]

Hi! I don't know if this is the right place to do this, but I found a forgotten translation into french:
Issue is on the Thermo-Conductivité overclock. The first line "Applies temporary buff to Fire, Frost, and Electric damage on hit" in english rather than french

[rancid terrace]

@shell vine

He'll give you the role. Afterwards you'll need to send your Crowdin username in #crowdin-accounts . But you can't see that channel yet. Also what language are you translating for?

[native bane]

estonian

[ocean viper]

hello, how can i claim my copy of the game?

i already translated 9000 words

[rancid terrace]

AFAIK the devs check every few months and will contact you theough crowdin once they do. So don't expect it soon

#babelfish-lounge message

[native bane]

@shell vine can I have translator role for estonian?

[shell vine]

Please follow the directions in the #crowdin-accounts 's channel descritpion

[near meadow]

@shell vine

[shell vine]

Please follow the directions in the #crowdin-accounts 's channel descritpion

[eager berry]

@shell vine

[fallen spade]

@shell vine Arabic please

[shell vine]

Please follow the directions in the #crowdin-accounts 's channel description

[thorn raven]

Hey, can I get the pt-br translator role?

[shell vine]

Please follow the directions in the #crowdin-accounts 's channel description

[round pivot]

how to get access to a Ukrainian translation channel? I have to report the typos

[vital marsh]

If it's just typos, you can report them in #1062710911367925780

[honest sun]

You can send it DM to me as well or mark them on Crowdin.

[velvet parcel]

Damn, Doomer updated his Russian dub with an alternative translation, which is actually more like adaptation, and added even more lines for different actions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gP0JYgOReo

[gray arrow]

He's not doomer, he's skuf (скуф)

[split latch]

Hi, can I get a Simplified Chinese translator role? My Crowdin username is Chuyi

[merry trout]

Greetin, proofreader for S_Chinese here
normally what you need to do is @shell vine to gain access to the #crowdin-accounts channel, follow the channel description and youll get the role in no time (or couple hours since time different exist)

[shell vine]

Might take longer than that, I'm on holiday, so my ability to crowdin is low

[merry trout]

*making edits and submitting new translaton on crowdin dont require translator role tho

[valid lotus]

Hello, I wanted to know that the translation from Latin American Spanish is not complete.

[dry cradle]

Regular spanish is complete, just needs some approvals. Modern spanish is missing some strings and approvals

If you want to help with modern spanish, you can create a crowdin account (if you dont have one), send your crowdin user to #crowdin-accounts and start translating :)

[slate fog]

кайф

[valid lotus]

What channel or user are you talking about? It tells me I don't have access.

[merry trout]

@shell vine

[merry trout]

@valid lotus

[valid lotus]

ok but how can I help with the translation? since I already have an obviously recently created crowdin account

[rancid terrace]

go to the link in the channel description

[shell vine]

I'm not available for a few days, no computer.

[valid lotus]

It keeps showing me that I don't have access

[merry trout]

@valid lotus

[tropic harbor]

Hi. In russian translation there's an untranslated message from mission control. The very first one where Bosco is introduced

[velvet parcel]

Thanks, but yeah, known issue. Nothing we can do right now

[sinful sparrow]

Welsh?

Could help with that a little

Be quite fitting for a mining simulator as well

[vital marsh]

It's not translated in any languages, because it's not available on the translation platform. There's nothing the translators can do, unfortunately.

[ebon forge]

Здесь есть русский чат?

[slim verge]

#fan-communities

[vale thicket]

I am interested in making a translation to Galizian of the game, can anyone tell me how to make it?(I'll go to sleep soon so if I dont answer that's why)

Mr melvin man thanks for pointing out my spelling mistake

[dry cradle]

You mean translation?

You can help by making an account on crowdin. Then you can start translating

The project link is in the channel description

[vale thicket]

I'll start tomorrow

Galizian doesnt appear tough

[dry cradle]

Yea i see that

@shell vine when you can, you got someone who needs the galician translation opened

[wind folio]

Man, I didn't know contributing was that easy. I got into the server yesterday and found this channel (love the hitchhiker ref).
Currently working on the greek translation.

[rancid terrace]

If you wanna talk with the other Greek translators in this Discord (dunno if there are any) you should ask for the translator role

[wind folio]

Thanks, will look into it 👍

@shell vine Hello, could I get a translator role for Greek please?
Thanks a lot

[shell vine]

Hello, please follow the directions in the #crowdin-accounts channel description.

[shell vine]

Hello,
I hear you would like to translate DRG to Galician ?

[vale thicket]

Yes

[shell vine]

Are you the only one willing to do this ? Or do you have a couple of friends that would like to help ?

[vale thicket]

I am the only one to my knowledge

[shell vine]

Alright. Before I open the language, I need to make you aware that this is a massive undertaking, with more than a novel's worth of text currently in the game.

If you still intend to try, I would recommend you to first familiarize yourself well with the game, and start with the Glossary file. Once you have a name for most of the unique elements of the game (creatures, biomes, gameplay elements, etc.), you should start on the game proper (the "AllGameText" file), with a focus on the miner's manual (because those are short sentences, but still long enough to let you get a taste of what translation is.

If you need help, or have difficulty with the platform, feel free to message in this channel, I'm sure a translator will be able to help you (I'm struggling a bit with my time these days, so I might be longer than most).

[vale thicket]

understood

[shell vine]

The new language should be available on crowdin.
please follow the instructions in #crowdin-accounts 'channel description

[vital marsh]

I don't know if you've used Crowdin before, but assuming your language doesn't do the ‘capitalising random names’ (e.g. Glyphid Grunt, Mactera Brundle, etc.) thing, I would encourage you not to capitalise them in the glossary either, because when you're translating other things, you can insert underlined glossary terms with a click and won't have to correct the casing each time.

[kindred remnant]

May I get to be a proofreader for RO for DRG as well? I'm getting some random suggestions here and there and it's hard to manage them sometimes by voting

I've been the only translator for more than a year now

[kindred remnant]

I see that our credits are hardcoded now. They appear in English and each of our languages don't appear first like before depending on the language chosen.

and the line Credit to our community as well as some others..

[shell vine]

Passed it along

[vital marsh]

There's half a dozen strings in the new credits page that aren't even uploaded to Crowdin, currently (mostly job titles)

[shell horizon]

Thanks @shell vine . Yeah, just checked with the team, the layout of the credits list was updated in-game. It was split over multiple pages before and became a lot of work to extend so we switched to this format.

What's missing from a translation perspective?

[vital marsh]

Here: https://canary.discord.com/channels/257785731072786435/1266060766046588979

[shell horizon]

Cool, thanks, forwarded it to the team

[vital marsh]

Thank you

[delicate imp]

Does deep rock already have an Indonesian translation

[vital marsh]

It's currently sitting at 32% completion with no activity since June. I'm sure they could use some help.

[delicate imp]

Oooh

I would love to help

Making some contributions

[delicate imp]

Uhh where can I help them

[vital marsh]

Please register to Crowdin, post your username in #crowdin-accounts, and you can head over to https://crowdin.com/project/deep-rock-galactic/id to translate

[delicate imp]

What is no acces

I don't have access

[delicate imp]

Who is crowdin

[vital marsh]

Crowdin is the website we use to manage translations

Sorry, you probably have to join the project at https://crowdin.com/project/deep-rock-galactic/ before you have access to the page I posted earlier

[delicate imp]

No

I don't have acces to the place to post my username

[vital marsh]

Ah, @shell vine can probably help you with that

[shell vine]

Now you have

[delicate imp]

Wooohoo

[velvet parcel]

Just found out that DRG Steam page still uses 3-years old Russian localization, where "dwarves" are translated as "gnomes", which is utterly wrong...
@shell vine Sorry for the ping, but can I ask you to notify GSG to update it? Also, Order of the Deep DLC page still doesn't have the translation applied

[shell horizon]

I can take a look at it, are the translations up-to-date in Crowdin?

[velvet parcel]

Rechecked just in case - yup, they are

[shell horizon]

Ok, thanks, I'll update them now. It's gonna take a little while, it's a pretty manual process

[velvet parcel]

Thanks a lot

[shell horizon]

Updated base game and some of the DLCs. For some of them, it's still the old translation that's the approved one

Dawn of the Dread as an example

Also saw that Order of the Deep doesn't have any translations, updating those now

[kindred remnant]

RO steam descriptions need updating as well, just like RU

And the Decontaminator Pack

[shell vine]

Remind me on Monday please

[delicate imp]

Hey uh

What should I translate miners to

Do I keep it miners

Or translate it

[vital marsh]

I don't see why not

From what I remember, the only things we didn't translate are brand names, e.g. DeepCore; but we did translate things that R&D made, like the litho-foamer since they are local to the Space Rig and can be assumed to speak the local language. We've also translated beer names.

There was also a special request from the Devs not to translate the season name Plaguefall, but we did translate the others.

(I'm speaking only for the Hungarian translators, for the record)

[wheat wraith]

We translated pretty much everything including brand names like DeepCore, beer names and R&D's inventions

I'm not sure if I agree entirely myself with translating brands but it is how it was done by other people who came before me so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[vital marsh]

DeepCore specifically was translated before I joined the team, but we eventually agreed not to do it

In other media, a translation for something like a brand name isn't usually forced unless it has a meaning in the story

[delicate imp]

what brands have meaning in the story

[vital marsh]

Not the best example, since it's not a brand but a name, but The Importance of Being Earnest comes to mind

[broken path]

could always do an overhaul, I'm not married to old translations myself, I always ask for the opinion of the current translators instead

idk what it's like in Polish, but in pt-br most of the old translations were bad, done by people who didn't understand english (or, sometimes, who didn't understand portuguese)

[vital marsh]

True

We also make huge changes sometimes

For example, the translation for overclocks was just changed like a month or two ago based on player feedback

[wheat wraith]

We made some big changes too, and we'll see if we'll change this too

[kindred remnant]

oh yeah almost forgot~

[shell vine]

I forgot to ask, is that all of them, or just a few ?

[kindred remnant]

The base game descriptions, small and big, and Decontaminator DLC

[shell vine]

Request sent, do make sure the correct strings are approved on crowdin.

[kindred remnant]

Thank uuu I just did

[vital marsh]

Reminder to check your job titles in the new credits screen, as some of them may be cut off on the left side now

[covert hazel]

Hi everyone. Is it possible to make a translation of a language that isn't officially supported by Crowdin? (which means one have to add custom language to the project setting or smth idk) I would like to translate DRG into Lingua Franca Nova, a constructed language that can be summarized as a "creole of all Romance languages with super simplified grammar".

[dry cradle]

there are currently 213394 words to translate in the entire drg project. we all recommend you proceed only if this does not intimidate you, and find enough commitment to apply here

[covert hazel]

Yes, I am willing to accept the challenge (set up by myself). I've done many other translation works before (including a 600-page book if I remember it correctly) so it's just a diligent dwarf's usual business /hj

[shell vine]

I'm gonna have to think on this one before activating the language.
Although the policy is to open new languages easily, a completely custom language is not something I can easily endorse, especially since crowdin bills per amount of translatable words.
I will get back to you on this.

If you don't hear from me in a week's time, feel free to ping me again.

[covert hazel]

Thanks for reaching out for me!

PS: Some information for language customization
Language name: Lingua Franca Nova
The dialect of: None
Crowdin code/Three letters code/Locale code: All "lfn"
Text direction: Left to right
Plural form: one, many (singular & plural)

[shell vine]

The answer is going to be "no" on this one.

[covert hazel]

Well... that sucks but anyway thank you guys

[knotty moth]

Hello! I saw that Dutch is one of the languages in progress and I was wondering if you're still looking for translators? I am a native speaker who's also fluent in English 🙂

[dry cradle]

youre always welcome to help. you just need to create an account on crowdin and start translating. the project link is in the channel description.

the only dutch person i think i know is @autumn musk, make sure to coordinate with them and the rest of the (possible) team

[autumn musk]

Hey @knotty moth, always happy to welcome new translators! I'm not actively translating missing translations myself, but do like to proofread submitted translations. Feel free to help out!

There's #dutch-drg and the translation itself is done on Crowdin. I'm not 100% sure what the onboarding is here, but @shell vine will be able to help you out with that I think

[knotty moth]

Thank you! I have made an account on Crowdin and will familiarize myself with it. I don't have access to that channel yet, but I assume that will be fixed once I am given the correct role

[shell vine]

Please follow the instructions in #crowdin-accounts 'channel description.

[knotty moth]

ah, missed that.. thanks! Done.

[broken path]

these lines where Mission Control scolds you for being noisy in the Memorial Hall, are they still in use?

[vital marsh]

They seem to be unused. I just tested shouting, saluting, and barrel-kicking in the Memorial Hall and Mission Control didn't say a word.

Maybe a bug?

[delicate imp]

Uh sorry people I haven't really translated stuff BCS I'm busy with irl and examns

But I will probably translate some stuff in the little free time I have

[vital marsh]

You have no obligations here. Take your time.

[valid lotus]

I have a question about how long it takes to implement the translations into the game because I was seeing the translations in Crodwin in modern Spanish, which for me is Latin Spanish because most of the English text is 98% translated into modern Spanish.

[shell vine]

It depends on the regular updates to the game.
The process is not automated (for reasons too long to explain tonight), so it is sometimes missed when doing small updates.

[valid lotus]

ok 👍

[delicate imp]

Uh I forgor again where is the link for crowdin

Oh nvm

[young ferry]

question, where do i find the description what this actually does for the drak
||"Fire, Frost, and Electric Damage Bonus Per Shot"
https://crowdin.com/editor/deep-rock-galactic/77/en-de?view=comfortable&filter=basic&value=0||
||i am unsure what this does, as far as i am concerned its bonus damage for each shot that can be one of the element types at random, but it could also mean that you get a damage bonus for the elements for each shot that connects, i.e. +5/10/15 damage from source fire frost and electric, like a debuff||

[slim verge]

you don't have to spoiler this, it's the description of one of the overclock in the game currently

[young ferry]

ok, i am a bit more liberal with the spoliers just to be sure
i didnt find the overclock in this list tho https://deeprockgalactic.fandom.com/wiki/DRAK-25_Plasma_Carbine

[slim verge]

don't use the fandom wiki

use the wiki.gg

https://deeprockgalactic.wiki.gg/wiki/Deep_Rock_Galactic_Wiki

the fandom wiki is deprecated and currently being griefed, the community has abandoned it and moved on to wiki.gg

[young ferry]

merci

[slim verge]

as to what the description means, I'm pretty sure that's not even used in the game currently. Probably the relic of an old description/old concept that turned into what is the overclock now.

actually, scratch that

it it used, it's just not in the place I was looking at

it's in the added lines on the stats column

basically, 5% extra damage from source of fire/frost/electric damage per stack

[young ferry]

yeah, i caught that, that was the reason i was confused aswell, as i seached for it in the description thinking it was a base mod instead of a part of the overclock description

and in the wiki its written slightly different so strg+f didnt return results 😄

[merry trout]

dont
use spoiler channel

[vital marsh]

Isn't that for Community Translators only?

[slim verge]

it is

we don't

[young ferry]

so im guessing, there is a hidden channel only for community tranlators (however you get this role?) and in there is the relevant information?

[vital marsh]

Not quite. The hidden channel is for discussing spoilers for upcoming content, since strings often become available to translate even before a public announcement.

But yeah, even in there, there isn't a picture of that cosmetic.

[shell vine]

And it is locked in access because some ~unreliable persons have, in the past, abused the devs trust with secret stuff.

[young ferry]

i mean, thats a no brainer, ofc something like that happened in the past...
there is always the one who is like "yo guys i let me tell you this secret i just was told in private" for cloud

[shell vine]

Which is why we now restrict the size of the crowd that learns of the secret. It doesn't prevent the leaks, but it certainly limits the potential for those.

[young ferry]

may i get an invite into the enigmatic secret society?

[shell vine]

The entry is not on request. And no, the criteria are not public.

[young ferry]

who to pester to get access?

[slim verge]

no one

[shell vine]

(Because yes, we had people that tried to game the translation system.
Several times.)

[young ferry]

wdym "game the translation game"? What kind of deranged Wile E. Coyote shit is that? xD
im guessing that you have some criteria linked to translation work and in the past ppl who tried to get access to the spoilers for personal gain gamed the system and did bogus translations? in all honesty, that kinda sounds ridicoulus

[shell vine]

Since I've been overseeing the translations for the game, I've personally had three in that many years that spammed crap at crowdin in an effort to get in the credits, keys, or other (often ridiculous) demands.

[young ferry]

for me personally, quite a lot of my translations have made it into the game, and i am really going for quality translations. as said earlier, it would help a lot, because sometimes you can translate a lot better if you know what it is for and can localize jokes, which cant be translated literally anyway (see sopwith camel for example, where the joke is obscure and the string does not tell anything about the headwear (which is Flight Commander))

[delicate imp]

Uh translator person
When can I get the community translator role

[burnt basin]

this role is awarded after some time and hard work translating :) there's no specific "when" to receive it

[delicate imp]

Oh ok

Well time to go translating stuff

[burnt basin]

[red niche]

Hi translators!

I have now deployed a new and automated tool for generating and sending out translator rewards! 🎉

If you are eligible for rewards they should be in your email or Crowdin inbox!
If you are expecting rewards and didn't receive any, or just partial rewards, feel free to dm me here with what you expected, what you got, and your crowdin username and I'll take a look.

Apologies for the long delay between batches, but now it should be sent out weekly 🙂

Thank you all for the time and effort invested into translating our game... oh, and rock and stone

[rancid terrace]

I got mine, thanks!

[hazy shell]

Thank you <3

[wheat wraith]

Thanks!

[wind breach]

got mine, thank you :3

[rare nymph]

what does babelfish mean?

[vital marsh]

It's a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's a species of fish in the book that can live in your ear and translate spoken languages for you.

[rare nymph]

Thank you!

[vital marsh]

You're welcome

[young ferry]

https://youtu.be/iuumnjJWFO4?t=126

[rare nymph]

so a translating fish caused wars?

[young ferry]

the implication is more that that they could communicate with each other and that caused the wars, cause they actually could understand each other

[young ferry]

https://crowdin.com/editor/deep-rock-galactic/77/en-de?view=comfortable&filter=basic&value=0#q=volatile bullets

where is this text used ingame?
as far as im guessing, it seems to be on the LOK-1 engi weapon, but i cant find it
#. SourceLocation: /Game/WeaponsNTools/LockOnRifle/Upgrades/FireDamageBonus.FireDamageBonus.Name
#: /Game/WeaponsNTools/LockOnRifle/Upgrades/FireDamageBonus.FireDamageBonus.Name
,BA0062774037862D34BE63BAA3B01E9C

[broken path]

it might not be in use anymore

says it's a pistol upgrade, but I don't see an upgrade with that name... but I do see an overclock

so maybe that's a retired upgrade

[fossil glen]

can i just chose a laguage i know and start working on it?

[dry cradle]

You need an account on crowdin

Quick question, is #crowdin-accounts visible to you?

As in, it does not show as unknown

Btw, what language are you planning to translate to

[fossil glen]

nope

[fossil glen]

dutch

[dry cradle]

We have to wait for a mod or a translation "overseer"

[fossil glen]

oh :(

[vital marsh]

You can still start translating on Crowdin, though

[fossil glen]

some names sound very strange in dutch so is it ok if i keep the english naming for some things (like the resonance crystals)

[vital marsh]

I would recommend translating them for accessibility, but it's your translation

[fossil glen]

crystals is easely translatable but resonance sounds realy strange and i think more people would understand the english word than the dutch word tbh

[vital marsh]

How about you translate the word ‘vibrating’, instead?

It's effectively the same

[dry cradle]

an exception we did for pt-pt is beer names, we chose against translating since we considered them brand names

[vital marsh]

We did translate beer names, but not the brand names of guns (e.g. DeepCore)

[dry cradle]

forgot about those

we didnt translate them either

[shell vine]

You should have access now.
Please follow the instructions in #crowdin-accounts 'channel description.

[fossil glen]

yeah ok

[rancid terrace]

Feel free to ask in #dutch-drg

Oh you don't have the role yet. Do so once you get it

[shell vine]

Role granted

[slim verge]

did you post in here just to insult the people dedicating their time to translate the game for free ?

[velvet parcel]

I mean... If it looks, swims and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck...
☑ We're on the internet
☑ Our data is owned by Google
☑ We do translate from/to different languages
☑ Doing job for free
Yup, welcome to the Google Translate department

[burnt basin]

so... we're ducks? 🦆

[slim verge]

https://tenor.com/view/duck-gif-21346917

[young ferry]

i know just the mod for you: "google translated dwarves" and "Google Translated Mission Control" aka Task Department

[young ferry]

peace was never an option

[rare nymph]

My sincerest apologies, I did not mean to offend or insult anyone. I will never say something like that again.

as for you translators, you’re doing amazing! Keep up the good work!

[young ferry]

i am honestly kind of interested in what you did say, was it really that bad?

[rare nymph]

I said “Lounge of human Google translate 🔥”

I didn’t mean it offensively, I’m sorry.

[shell vine]

Yeah, that would definitely be taken badly.

[young ferry]

i mean... ive read some translations that made me wish someone had used google translate 😅 ngl

[slim verge]

https://tenor.com/view/war-vietnam-ptsd-shell-shock-moment-gif-3022747568394546158

flashback to the french translation when I took over with Mist

[broken path]

maybe they did

I've sure seen plenty of those myself

[broken path]

what's the proper place again to report audio/text mismatch?

[shell vine]

PleaseFix

[gusty ferry]

rename this to "ohjaukset"

"ohjaimet" means "controllers"

this to "lunastettavia taitopisteitä"

(finnish translation)

[merry trout]

...or you can change it yourself
please read the channel description

[gusty ferry]

is that so

[merry trout]

creat a Crowdin account, then submit new translations in your language

[gusty ferry]

intriguing

[broken path]

thanks, done

would you guys be willing to hop over there and upvote it, so it doesn't get shelved?
https://drg.pleasefix.gg/projects/DEEP-ROCK-GALACTIC/issues/DRG-3044

[vital marsh]

👍

[broken path]

thanks!

[young ferry]

why is the title text in english, when the game is set to german, also the text does not exist in the crowdin file O_o

[slim verge]

the answer to your question is in your sentence : the text is in english because it's not in the files 😛

[young ferry]

yeah, so that begs the question: where is the text from, probably the website and secondly, why is it not in the files obv.

[slim verge]

Either there was an issue with it so the old file got pulled but they forgot to upload the new one

or they just forgot straight away

though patchnotes are also on their section in crowdin and I think the devs kinda always forget to also bring in the patchnotes when they pull in the rest of the translations for the "main files"

haven't checked if it was even in patchnotes section tbh, I'm just guessing from my experience

[shell vine]

Oh, right, gotta add that to the "to be fixed" pile...

[slim verge]

[vital marsh]

It's right there:

https://crowdin.com/editor/deep-rock-galactic/248/en-hu?view=comfortable#433836

And I know for a fact it's up to date, because I've started adding translations of patch changelogs from #patch-notes-steam to the bottom (ofc they'll always be one patch out of date since we don't get the logs before the updates are posted, but yeah)

[delicate imp]

Jesus how long since I made the promis to transtlate

I just remembered I once signed up as a translator for the Indonesia translation

[burnt basin]

it's never too late to start :)

[delicate imp]

Ok

We'll just see if I can have some free time

Today is PACKED with schoolwork

[drowsy comet]

@shell vine Can I be Hungarian translator??

[vital marsh]

Heyo, I'm the Hungarian proofreader. The transition is in a pretty good position right now. None of the text remains untranslated (as of the latest update – upcoming updates will add new text of course), but additional polishing and/or feedback is always welcome.

Please register an account on Crowdin and post your Crowdin username in #crowdin-accounts. After that, you can freely start contributing at the link in the channel description. You will have to wait for Azerty to give you access to the Hungarian translation channel, but until then, you're free to discuss here.

[drowsy comet]

I dont have permission to the channel, that you pinged, but my username is MakostesztaGM.

[shell vine]

Hello, you should have the required permissions now :)

[drowsy comet]

Yes, thanks. 🙂

[little tinsel]

Hello

[chilly orbit]

Hi

[dry cradle]

Hello, would you like to help us translate?

[delicate imp]

hey uh

I forgot my password and what email used for my crowdin account

so can I make a new crowdin account

[dry cradle]

you can always check your email accounts for crowdin emails to see which one you used

[delicate imp]

oh

nvm

found it

[north linden]

Hi everyone! Can I get a Belarusian translator role? I have the same username on Crowdin as here - Thrapis.

[velvet parcel]

@shell vine will give you the access to the hidden #crowdin-accounts channel - you'll need to post your Crowdin username there as well

[shell vine]

You should be able to see the #crowdin-accounts channel now. Please follow the instructions in the channel description.

[north linden]

I got it! Thank you!

[elfin wolf]

a to działa?

nie

jednak nie

[vital marsh]

@elfin wolf Hello, can we help you? This channel is about the game's localisations.

[elfin wolf]

Yeah no just thought this channel autotranslated stuff somehow because of the mamę.

Name*

[vital marsh]

Oh, no

I suppose you could say we are the babelfish

[burnt basin]

like a hive mind

[young ferry]

he doesnt mean that useful, but we carry a slight smell of earwax

[stable cedar]

yo

Serbians mostly use Latin than Cyrilic

https://tenor.com/view/if-you-dont-know-now-you-know-dwayne-johnson-the-rock-seven-bucks-you-understand-it-now-gif-25538419

[shell vine]

If you want to translate the game to Serbian (latin), feel free to do so, it is a community effort

[stable cedar]

i would actually love to

where do i sign

[shell vine]

On crowdin. The link is in the channel description

Before I open up the new language, you need to be made aware the game contains more than 100 000 words to translate (this is more than most novels)

Your work will also not be displayed in game before a sufficient % of it is translated.

This is not something you can just do over a weekend or two.

I would recommend having a friend to help

[shell vine]

If you still feel like you want to try, tell me here and I will open it.

[stable cedar]

i sure do

ill tell my friends about it too

[shell vine]

Please read the channel description in #crowdin-accounts and add your account name there.

[stable cedar]

will do, thanks 👌

[versed halo]

are there enough polish translators?

[shell vine]

Probably not

[thorny terrace]

why

what's wrong with these

[mellow topaz]

@knotty moth

[vital marsh]

I took a look and it seems Hidden Dwarf was changed from ‘Verstopte Dwerg’ to ‘Verbogen Dwerg’

[mellow topaz]

But why delete instead of rewrite?

[velvet parcel]

I mean, they did rewrite the strings, and probably deleted the old ones to not annoy the eyes

[vital marsh]

Yeah, I can understand that

Especially since old and unused strings can muck up search

[knotty moth]

Yeap that was me! Translated, then changed my mind. Would you prefer I kept both translations? Didn't know these would show up 😅

[shell vine]

It's always better to keep both, as it can inspire other translators to improve on your work. It also allows proofreaders more options when reviewing the suggestions.

[knotty moth]

Understood! I'll do that from now on

[wind breach]

You can undo the suggestion removals iirc, from Project activity panel

[daring mango]

How does one get there? Because that channel's locked for me. I have a Crowdin account, and can help with translating to Polish.
(Also the glossary needs entries for season 5 stuff.)

How is the "translator for <language>" role pair given exactly? Because I see that Danilo has that for Serbian.

Wait, right, the channel description says further down that i'm supposed to ping you for those.
-# so that's done already

[shell vine]

You should have access to #crowdin-accounts now

[daring mango]

sent

-# also how is the Community Translator role given

[shell vine]

It is given, not requested, after enough time and involvement has been spent on the translation

[daring mango]

i figured, and i did say "given"

[vital marsh]

The specific criteria isn't public

[broken path]

so, I've had this on the backburner for a while:

what's a "unicord"?

can't find this word on any context outside of this game

[merry trout]

any example for that?
i assume its misspelled unicorn/unicode

[velvet parcel]

I think it's just a semi-pun. Unicorn + cord-looking beard

[broken path]

is that really all there is to it? 😩

[safe cobalt]

So semi related, but if I regularly play with both english and chinese speaking players, how do I change typing language so I can talk to Chinese players?

I normally input chinese on keyboard via pinyin, but when i try to use the windows pinyin keyboard I get it switching to english mode without any ability to change that

[merry trout]

ever tried win + space?

[valid lotus]

Hello, how do I have access to that discord channel if I have already done translation work in modern Spanish in crodwin?

[shell vine]

You should have access now

[valid lotus]

And what is the function of that channel, do I use the Crodwin username?

[vital marsh]

Please read the channel description

[swift pilot]

Debatir y dar opiniones

[winter jungle]

@shell vine Hello, I'd like to translate the game to bosnian

[shell vine]

Hi, glad to know you are interested.
Before I open up the new language, you need to be made aware the game contains more than 100 000 words to translate (this is more than most novels)
Your work will also not be displayed in game before a sufficient % of it is translated.
This is not something you can just do over a weekend or two.
I would recommend having a friend to help.

I am going to change my policy on new language request though. I'll open the language if you request it, but I will ask of you a regular contribution to keep it open.
Too often have we had people come by, ask for a language, understand how much work there is to do, and abandon the project soon after.

If you are still serious, please reply to this message

[winter jungle]

I understand everything and I'm still interested in translating, also in the meantime while I'm doing it I'll see if I can get more people to help (although if I end up doing it alone anyways I don't mind)

[shell vine]

Bosnian has been added. Please follow the instructions in the #crowdin-accounts channel description.

[winter jungle]

Alright sounds good!

[junior zodiac]

buona sera, ho letto che un ci sono dei traduttori per l'italiano

io sono madrelingua italiano ma so anche bene l'inglese

[manic lily]

Hi, i can correct some mistakes in polish language, if you are interested

[vital marsh]

Hello, please speak only English in this server

As for both you and @manic lily, if you're interested in translating, you can join the Crowdin project (link is in the channel description)

For the rest (access to the #crowdin-accounts channel for administrative purposes and your language-specific channels), we'll need @shell vine

[shell vine]

Hi, please follow the instructions in the #crowdin-accounts channel description.

[manic lily]

Damn Bro, i have to look at it on PC. Too big mess in links

[manic lily]

Expert dwarven action is meant as player level, or difficulty?

[slim verge]

neither

it's meant as "professional work from dwarves"

[manic lily]

Already get it, i've put it in translation 😅

I've noticed rn I'm translating patch from 2022 after 1k signs 🫤
But just a word, and i back into it

[clear socket]

Hi there, I am bored and have nothing to do atm so I wanted to check this out.
However, I am a little confused how this works.
I visited the site linked above but I think there is nothing left for me to translate. (?)
The progress bar on the German language states that there should be text left untranslated but I am very sure the mission briefing marked as "untranslated" on the website is translated in the German version of the game.

I would have checked out the channel mentioned above but I do not have access to it.
Am I missing something? Help. :D

[vital marsh]

There was a push a few days ago which deleted and reuploaded a lot of strings that were previously translated to fix typos in the English version. These strings need to have their translations restored, which seems to not have been done for German yet.

You can help out by going through these ‘untranslated’ strings, finding the closest match displayed at the bottom (see image) and pressing the Use and Save (floppy icon) button. For strings without suggestions, you can try and find a previous translation in the right sidebar, on the Search TM tab (should be the second from the top). Do note that this search will only work with full words.

Lmao I said a few years ago, I meant a few days ago

But yeah, this is pretty recent; you just happened to come around with perfect timing

I would suggest everyone to go through these strings, though, because I'm pretty sure that once they pull strings for the next update, those translations will be overriden with empty translations, i.e. the affected strings will return to being in English in-game.

[shell vine]

Hello, you should have access to the #crowdin-accounts channel now. Please follow the instrcutions in it's description

[young ferry]

that explains the de ja vu

[vital marsh]

Lol

[broken path]

For strings without suggestions, you can try and find a previous translation in the right sidebar, on the Search TM tab (should be the second from the top).
dude, you're a lifesaver

[young ferry]

a lot of times some unique names of glyphids like "stalker" are translated the same everytime, its very benefical to check wether your translation is according to other strings - just search for keywords (i.e.) "glyphid stalker" - then you can use that translation, and if not, it usually helps to ask how to proceed in the language channel on discord (i.e. Stalker is translated as XYZ but i want to translate it as XZY is this fine do we want to alter this?)

and (in general) for the love of god: if you use google translate, check the translation after you copied it, if it fits the meaning and match it to the other translations

there is a reason "google translated mission control mod" is a fun mod meant to be goofy

[broken path]

?????

[young ferry]

the last thing was more of a general thing, im currently checking older translation ^^
a lot of them are words translated, but make no logic sense

[broken path]

I'd hope all of it was a general thing, I don't understand why I was pinged for that

[vital marsh]

Wrong server?

Someone in the DRG:S server was talking about translating the game to a language that isn't supported yet, but does have some progress in DRG

[young ferry]

potential spoiler for upcoming content:
is that a MGS refecence? is how to check the model?
https://crowdin.com/editor/deep-rock-galactic/77/en-de?view=comfortable#434338

[vital marsh]

Next time, use this button (see image) – you've only sent the full list of strings.
I know which string you're talking about and…maybe? I don't actually know whether the description is a reference. Sharing images of the cosmetic here is not allowed, however.

[obsidian nova]

Eh
What should we do with these english strings🤔
Translate with our own languages' API language code found within context link I guess❔🤔

[velvet parcel]

Ye, I think it's just a language code (not the web one) from the table in the said link

[shell vine]

Yeah, I think that's the right thing to do.

I'll ask for details tomorrow

[boreal cobalt]

#1308475209325477962 message Why is it locked? Definitely not ushanka. The closest russki thing might be murmolka

[shell vine]

It has been brought up to the attention of the devs, and we don't want to have an ongoing debate down there.

[young ferry]

whoops. didnt catch that the link was wrong, edited it, now it works

[fossil glen]

i need to translate more😭

but i got a lot of other things

[golden rampart]

hello, i was interested in helping but, the italian language seems to be fullly translated, is there anything i can do? i dont really understand how crowdin works ^^'

[chilly orbit]

You can always review older translations, look for mistakes, or way to improve consistency and wording

[golden rampart]

how do i do that? im sorry i tried googling but i couldn't find anything

[lunar bone]

Hi there! The fact that all and any Cyrillic letters use the default font really hurts my eyes, sooo I decided to volunteer to just make Cyrillic fonts myself. Does anyone know how I can download the fonts the game uses?

[vital marsh]

AFAIK several of them are licenced fonts from Adobe, so I can't give you download links, but I can direct you to this graphic that lists most of them (a common one that isn't listed here is Rift Soft).

Oh, and also Bungee (that one is free on Google Fonts)

[lunar bone]

Thanks a lot!

[mellow topaz]

God tier

[wheat wraith]

what is the approximate word limit for short descriptions on steam?

what I mean by that is this

[vital marsh]

After a quick search, I believe the cutoff should be at around 290 characters.

[plain fractal]

@shell vine Hello, I've been working on the Belarusian translation under an alias, SpadarAndrus, for a while, so I decided to join the community translators here if it's okay

[shell vine]

Hello and welcome!
Please follow the instructions in #crowdin-accounts 's channel description

[plain fractal]

Got it, thanks

[shell vine]

You should have access to the channel now

[dawn schooner]

[red niche]

Just to add some clarifications for those of you who may have noticed it takes a little bit longer than the "every week" that I promised for your milestones to be acknowledged, we are running the automated tools on 1 month old data due to some people trying to game the system by spamming a bunch of garbage AI translations, so that gives us time to remove those 🙂

[vital marsh]

omg

Thank you for taking care to weed those out

[red niche]

Thank @shell vine + friends, it's them doing the hard work and are qualified enough to know what proper translations vs garbage 🙂

But yes, you guys who are kind enough to put in the work and talented enough to do it deserve the rewards and recognition for it, and we don't want that to be muddied together with low effort and low quality AI stuff

[wind breach]

even here people will try to exploit the system, unbelievable 🤦
thanks for taking care of quality check - credits is place for people who did spend plenty of time and effort to translate

[crude surge]

DRG is such a good game that's all you need to know. Mabye throw in a rock and stone at the end

[plucky flame]

It's the kind of reality we're diving deep into sadly, peoples spot an easy way to earn a credit not due to them in the first place by using this AI bullshit for everything.

[merry trout]

trust me you haven't seen worse

[red niche]

(also I don't think they are doing it for credits but rather to get steam keys to sell, which somehow feels scummier)

[wind breach]

True, "free money"
For me, it's a nice way to say thank you for contributing. I'm just glad to translate the game to my native language and see my work in game, it's fun.
And I just give away the keys to my friends. I've recently got key to Roughneck DLC and so happened one friendo really liked the tattoos when they saw them on my dwarf. I was really happy to give them that drip

[vital marsh]

Hey, you can find the Crowdin project here. Once you register and join the project, all the script of the game will be available for translation.

I assume your language isn't in the game yet, so you'll have to ask @shell vine about adding it.

Generally, once the translation reaches a certain amount of completion, it gets added.

[shell vine]

Hello,
If you are conscious of the amount of work there is (the game is longer than most novels by this point), and you still want to try, I can add the language on crowdin.

Please be aware that since this language has a small talking population, you will probably be alone unless you specifically try to build a team.

You will also be asked to provide a real effort in the first couple months (say about 10% in three months), as we had quite a few people ask for a new language, and then abandon it once they understood how big the project is.

If you still wish for me to add the language, please ping me here.

[slim verge]

They're muted and gonna stay this way

[shell vine]

Huh, they left already

[slim verge]

imma go ahead and ban them then

[shell vine]

Yeah okay, I saw their message history, good ridance

[vital marsh]

Rip

[slim verge]

they could have been unmuted but decided to throw a tantrum before moderation discussion about their case was over

so goodbye

[shell vine]

<@&296918282403840000>

669724094941626368

[broken path]

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-fine-its-fine-everything-is-fine-burning-house-happy-dog-gif-21646319

[broken path]

"communuty" 🤣

[wind breach]

Why is this channel frequently lighten up as if someone has just written something in here? This channel is quiet for a week now (besides Mcl_Blue's single post)

[slim verge]

people who got scams posting more scams

[wind breach]

Yikes

[broken path]

yeah, it's a bunch of scambots posting links, then they get deleted

but because Discord is a big dummy, you still get the notification even though the message is gone 🙃

that's what I was laughing about earlier, the url said "communuty" instead of "community"

[wind breach]

Ye, this is annoying. It's not so noticeable on active channels like #fan-art or #drg-chat which I check frequently, but the babelfish is the most noticeable to have such fake notifs, lol

sadly, the bigger the server, the more often the scambots show up

[wind breach]

I want to consult it here before reposting reporting it on #1079683089405591582

everything is translated on Crowdin for polish, but here we are, english still

[broken path]

just checked pt-br and the translation is working fine, so at the very least it's not a global issue

[vital marsh]

When was the Polish translation submitted on Crowdin?

[wind breach]

since forever, and I was very active on Crowdin past few weeks

[red niche]

Is this issue also present on the translation build?

[wind breach]

do you mean CTRL + O command?

[red niche]

I mean the translator branch on steam which has the nightly updated crowdin build 🙂

You can access it by Going to Steam->DRG->Properties->Betas-> and add the code JEJDWrTQ23ZNe which should give access to the latest_translations branch

[wind breach]

good to know, I'll check it out

[red niche]

Because if it's there and not on live it just means it didn't make it into the current build but will be on the next

[wind breach]

ye, they show up here

(btw the polish letters look bad in that green font :I )

[red niche]

Perfect, then its just the live crowdin build being older than the strings, so should be updated on the next build

[wind breach]

when can we expect the update to live then?

[red niche]

Yeah, that's unfortunate, we are/have been looking at improvements for non-english characters for the fonts, im unsure of the state of that

[wind breach]

sure thing, for me it's more important to have the the translations up to date

[red niche]

I don't know the exact date but should not be too long

[wind breach]

Especially now when we have Lunar Festive and its theme changes each year. These lines will be used just for this year's event

thanks for help tho! I adore your work!

[red niche]

@undone slate you smart, do you happen to know the next time a crowdin build hits live?

[wind breach]

[undone slate]

🙂 no clue sadly but my personal plan was to force update some stuff next week.

[valid lotus]

Hi, I help translate into modern Spanish but today's update I noticed that there are some things that because they are already translated are not implemented even if they were already there last year.

[swift pilot]

Spanishmodernmatters

😔

[shell vine]

Spam message counter : 1

[slim verge]

you've missed 10 bots this morning apparently

[shell vine]

I'll only count the times I see a phantom unread 😛

Unread counter : 1

[wind breach]

I just imagined the "X hours since last accident in work" type of poster DRG would plaster around the Space Rigs
but instead the minutes since last spam incidents

[shell vine]

That one ain't gonna go high...

[wind breach]

at least will budge, unlike hours or days

[shell vine]

Unread counter : 1

[maiden cedar]

@shell vine Hello, I've been working on the Belarusian translation on Crowdin a bit, can I become community translator?

[shell vine]

Please follow the instructions in the #crowdin-accounts channel description.

[grim hull]

I have a question If there is a language I might be able to help translate how would I be able to translate

[vital marsh]

If it's an existing language, you can go to https://crowdin.com/project/deep-rock-galactic and contribute.

[wind breach]

Im looking for a way to easily compile the voicelines into spreadsheet.
Im in Project for fan dubbing and I take care of prepping the voicelines for voice actors to play. Writing down lines from Crowdin would be a tedious work, so I wonder if there's easier way to extract lines, in English, in polish, in testing language. Would be helpful with updating the spreadsheet too

[shell vine]

I can do some database extracts. Please head over to my DMs.

I probably won't have the time before this weekend though

[wind breach]

There's no rush, I appreciate you can do that

[velvet parcel]

I'd also suggest you looking into the Shout Framework and their Discord
https://mod.io/g/drg/m/shout-framework

[wind breach]

Oh ye, I have it, but I May join their DC

[wind breach]

To test added voicelines, or do you mean something else?

[velvet parcel]

For easier integration, and I'd bet the guys in their Discord may help with managing the lines.

Russian dub uses this mod to work
https://mod.io/g/drg/m/russian-dub-for-mcdwarves

[wind breach]

Oh true, I might check it out. Thank you!

[silk echo]

Hello, I have a question. Where can I apply for a community translation?

[vital marsh]

Here. What language would you like to contribute to?

If it's an existing one, you can open the Crowdin project and start translating

For the administrative stuff, we need @shell vine

[silk echo]

Indonesian

[vital marsh]

You can open the Crowdin project and contribute right away

[silk echo]

Alright, on my way to check it

[shell vine]

Ping me here if you decide to get involved please, I sort out the roles for you

[silk echo]

Sure, can I get the roles please?

[shell vine]

Please follow the instructions in the #crowdin-accounts 's channel description

[kindred remnant]

Hey, just a reminder if we can update the Steam short and long descriptions for the game for RO. Updated lines have been suggested in Crowdin 1 year ago since the old translation was not what it should be. Thanks!

[wind breach]

that's. lot of untranslated lines o_o

[wheat wraith]

Yep, we got new stuff

[wind breach]

I see some lines have "notinuse" part, so I guess they don't need translating. Shouldn't they be hidden?

[velvet parcel]

I guess those are left Just In Case™, Azerty asked to translate those. Most of those are just being moved from their previous contexts, so Crowdin should have a memory of previous translations

[obsidian nova]

Curious
Will there be another AllGameText push before anniversary❔
Just got time to work on the latest batch recently

[wheat wraith]

Does WM (used for skins like WM5.3 Dragon Scale) stand for Weapon Maintenance?

[vital marsh]

Yes

[wheat wraith]

alright

[wind breach]

would be amazing if the lines were sorted in any way, put in folders or something. It gets tedious to comb through everything

[vital marsh]

You can kinda filter them yourself based on the context

As in, you can see the string's location in the game files and use that

If you copy this part into the search bar and hit Enter, you can view every drarf shout for when Doretta takes damage

[wind breach]

Thats what I do, but I still wish for base to be more organized

[vital marsh]

That would be nice

Honestly, with the way the context already includes the SourceLocation field, I wonder how difficult it would be to just alphabetically sort strings based on that

[molten pewter]

Hi @shell vine, I want to join belarusian localisation team

[shell vine]

Sure, do you already have a crowdin account?

[molten pewter]

Yes, I have

[shell vine]

Please follow the instructions in the #crowdin-accounts channel description

[nimble trellis]

hello people, new here, im one of the translators for Belarusian language, and the guy who got me in said to type smthn in here

i never worked with Crowdin before couple days ago, so if there are some tips, im all ears

[small kernel]

Hey and welcome! You can follow the instructions in the #crowdin-accounts channel description. You need to crreate new Crowdin account for translate and you can start there. Also you can check this channel description for Crowdin link. At first you can translate basic things in the game (Weapon, interface, enemies, etc.)

[nimble trellis]

i already made an account and done a page of translations, but that channel you link me to shows up as No Access

[vital marsh]

We'll have to have @shell vine grant you access

[nimble trellis]

oh, thanks!

[shell vine]

You should be able to see it now

[finite snow]

I was super excited to learn that I could contribute to translations, but crowdin doesn't have toki pona support :(
Esperanto's there, and I can also contribute to Chinese, but dang

[merry trout]

ok im pretty sure someone asked bout adding non-crowdin supported language before

[merry trout]

@finite snow here
||TLDR: the devs said no||

[finite snow]

That's fair

[trail gale]

whats the translation key for "event ends" which is shown next to the assignment board?
because I somehow don't find the phrase in crowdin...

[vital marsh]

It's currently untranslatable, unfortunately

[wheat wraith]

anyone knows whether it's possible to find the dwarves' voicelines somewhere in the game files? or use shout framework to get them off the game somehow?

[vital marsh]

You'll have to extract them with UE Viewer. The location within the game files is /content/Audio/Voices/Dwarves

[wheat wraith]

Thanks

wait but where is /content

[slim verge]

FSD=>content

[wheat wraith]

it only has movies paks and splash

no other folders

[slim verge]

you chose the platform and checked "sound only" for export?

[wheat wraith]

no

[slim verge]

you need to do that then

[wheat wraith]

k

[velvet parcel]

Haven't notice this line before. Damn, AI was taking dwarves' jobs since 2021...

[steel kelp]

Hi, wanna join belarusian translation team. im newbie, so any instructions or help will be appreciated

[shell vine]

Head over to crowdin and create an account (link in description), and then follow the instructions in #crowdin-accounts ' channel description.

[steel kelp]

Thanks

[shell vine]

<@&296918282403840000>

[slim verge]

https://tenor.com/view/green-mile-im-tired-boss-michael-clarke-duncan-gif-2375696290766999196

[shell vine]

https://tenor.com/view/keep-that-same-energy-you-need-to-keep-that-same-energy-energy-up-keep-up-your-energy-flag-it-gif-12677777

[vital marsh]

Good news: This will be fixed soon

[shell vine]

<@&296918282403840000>

[slim verge]

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[shell vine]

┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)

[cerulean tiger]

rock and stone!

[fallen storm]

I’ve made a crowdin account, but I don’t have access to the channel you mentioned.

[shell vine]

You should have access now.
What language are you working on ?

[fallen storm]

May work on Thai in the future, though I might just stick to approving translations.

[deep linden]

Hi, I did some translations for the Polish translation of DRG

[deep linden]

@shell vine hope I am not disturbing. Wanted to finally check the server for any tips for translation or some more info that might not be on crowdin

[shell vine]

Hello and welcome!
Please follow the instructions in the #crowdin-accounts channel description.

[north linden]

Me, when S05.09 and latest_translation brunch are still in the state of update S05.08 (which itself is out of date by 4 days from the day of the update) for Belarusian localisation strings

[red niche]

Fixed 🙏 We had a minor steam update 4 days ago

it should be live on steam now in ~ 1 hour

[north linden]

It's awesome! Thank you!

[waxen wren]

Hey guys, quick question: does the font you use for mineral trading terminal and prop hunt info not have a lowercase cyrillic "і"?

That's how it looks in Ukrainian:

[north linden]

Same. Unfortunately, this font only has a set of letters from the Russian alphabet

[red niche]

is this the only character missing from this font or are there more that you know of?

[north linden]

Hmmm, for the Belarusian localisation this is the only letter needed to correctly display current mineral names and "SAVINGS!" label. For Ukrainian the situation looks the same

I guess this font is only used for the Daily Deal Terminal?

[north linden]

Oh and we need not only lowercase variant "і", but uppercase "І" too (for "SAVINGS!" string)!

[waxen wren]

As I mentioned, this can also be seen during a prop hunt game after you drink Hidden Dwarf beer

[waxen wren]

Other characters in Ukrainian language never really came up because they are in different text boxes with a different font (dwarves and command lines, weapon descriptions in the weapon terminal etc.)

[waxen wren]

You also just straight up don't have "SELL" and "GET" strings. Something to add in Crowdin, I guess

Since I have you here: this might be a nitpick, but Bosco's serial number looks different from his name

[velvet parcel]

That's the unfortunate part - all Cyrillic characters use the backup fonts, since practically none of the standard DRG fonts have Cyrillic

[waxen wren]

Could those fonts be extended, theoretically?

[velvet parcel]

Theoretically, yes, but consider this "to be researched" for now. It was discussed recently, but nothing concrete yet

[waxen wren]

Fair enough. Fonts are very difficult to make

[north linden]

We have them, but strings for Belarusian localisation are still outdated. Even in latest_translation branch they are in the state of S05.08 update (but should be updated every morning by the rule of branch)

[waxen wren]

I see

[honest sun]

@waxen wren Thanks for playing with Ukrainian localisation. Devs already have a full list of our letters and symbols which should to be checked across pool of fonts in game

[waxen wren]

It's pretty refreshing to see a game translated to Ukrainian, especially when I can personally suggest changes to something

also hello fellow ukrainian

[red niche]

Is this unique to Belarusian? I.e other languages are updated

[velvet parcel]

No - actually, the build is still outdated. 113250 on the live build vs 112929 on the localization. No recent Crowdin changes either

[red niche]

Alright, I'll look into this. I updated the build ID last week so it should have been building

[red niche]

Should be building now, was an issue with a build machine

[red niche]

It's still not deployed? I'm on my commute atm but I can look at the nightly deploy when I get in

[velvet parcel]

Yeah, still nothing updated

[red niche]

the update that hanged the machine in the first place also broke some access, NOW its fixed and I kept track on the build that it actually finished now

[shell vine]

• Jenny banging head on server case *

[velvet parcel]

If this doesn't start it, whack it with a pickaxe!

Russian seems fine, but can't say for sure - the changes from 4 days ago are applied for sure, but we didn't have a change that can be easily tested since then

[red niche]

Me going back to the server room like:

It's probably a crowdin config change and I'm not the best informed with that setup but I'll take a look

[north linden]

So, do we have any progress? Or... are we doomed?

[red niche]

It seems that the crowdin config is set up correctly from what I know

Is it only belarusian that is not being updated on the translator branch?

But it exists there?

[velvet parcel]

Can't say for all the languages, but Russian got updated properly

[red niche]

from what I can see their settings should be identical. Ill check tomorrows build since I can see there are changes from tonight and if they are missing ill check with Alex on Monday

[wind breach]

Should we care about translating "not in use" lines?

[chilly orbit]

In my opinion, yes, but it's the lowest priority

[red niche]

This is fixed now, and live on the translation_branch

Several languages had "Skip untranslated files" marked instead of "Skip untranslated lines" in the settings and because we only have AllGameText as a single file, meaning those languages without 100% translation were being skipped for the last we don't know how long

Thanks for being persistent and patient with us

[slim verge]

god damn

at least it's fixed now

[north linden]

We are very happy to hear this. I just checked and can confirm that we got our translated strings 🥳

[shell vine]

Yay, one less bug to fix !

Could someone with the build installed check if all languages are available, and not only the ones in the main game ?

[red niche]

It does not contain all the languages available on crowdin, but I think that is a list on the build machine where it filters per folder. I can go and add that tho, for example Bosnian and Cornish are missing

[shell vine]

Yes please !

[leaden gust]

Will there be a scottish language or will it be too much work for a meme?

[velvet parcel]

Unfortunately, yeah, too much work, especially without a dedicated team

[waxen wren]

You've got a whole community in on it lmao (I'm not volunteering because I don't know scots and gaelic)

[velvet parcel]

Yeah, but there aren’t many people who want to translate the stuff. Then, there’s just a handful of languages that achieve 100% translation, and (atm) none that have reached 100% proofreading. Basically, there just isn’t enough manpower

[waxen wren]

Fair enough

[leaden gust]

Well... Could i help with the polish translation? (I literally have no idea how the system works)

[velvet parcel]

Just create an account on Crowdin, then you can start translating. @shell vine will ask you to post your Crowdin name on the hidden channel #crowdin-accounts and add you to Polish translators channel

[leaden gust]

thanks

[leaden gust]

Oh god the glossary is pain.

It is all technicaly all right but at the same time... everything feels so off...

I will try to look at that when i will have time, but now i see how hard can it be

[shell vine]

As Danix said, please follow the instructions in #crowdin-accounts 's channel instruction.

[north linden]

I guess the letters "ў" and "Ў" are also needed...

[jolly heart]

What are the skillsets needed for a proofreader, as opposed to a "simple" translator? No me hace gracia que las traducciones al español no estén en 100% en ambas categorías, if you know what I mean...

[velvet parcel]

I'd say the first thing to do would be to actually join the translation teams here. If you're interested - ping Azerty and follow the instructions above. I'm pretty sure both Spanish localizations have proofreaders, so you might want to talk with them afterward.
As for becoming a proofreader, I think you'd need to be an active part of a team for some time to build credibility.

Regarding the required skillset for proofreading... Well, I dunno, I'm not a proofreader myself, but I'd bet there isn't anything special compared to just translating stuff, but some more patience would be required to check the translation consistency

[vital marsh]

‘Proofreader’ in Crowdin lingo is kind of a misnomer. Logically, I would think it's just a second pair of eyes to read over things to make sure everything sounds okay and provide feedback (which I encourage for everyone to do regardless of their rank).

But for Crowdin, I think a better name for proofreader would be ‘coordinator,’ as they are the person to actually finalise things, decide what gets in and what doesn't, and even have the ability to straight-up delete other people's translations.

[swift pilot]

Buenas, soy uno de los correctores para la rama del español latino. Actualmente estoy por día revisando el 1% de todas las traducciones. Voy corrigiendo y aprobando al mismo tiempo. Lleva tiempo, pero estimaria que para la próxima update ya estaría todo al 100%

Y si te referis a que hay lineas en ingles, eso es porque se traducieron tarde y tdv no fueron incorporadas.

[jolly heart]

Gracias por la respuesta (y no necesitas disculparte).

[north linden]

Can someone explain what the "WE" part means in "WE.HAZ5"?

[obsidian nova]

-# Working Environment
-# Maybe🙈

[covert garden]

I think this is the kind of string that doesn't need a translation, because it probably will never appear in the game

It's more like a keyword or code word for something more technical

[rancid terrace]

It does, in the assignemt terminal

[covert garden]

It says in the context?

🤔

Or you saw it?

[rancid terrace]

random screenshot I found online

above 'beyond lethal'

[nimble trellis]

this pic is so weird looking not being crushed to 32 bits

[covert garden]

its a 4K image from here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeRestoration/comments/hqcalf/shaquille_oneal_in_a_lamborghini_understandable/

[nimble trellis]

treachery of god

[covert garden]

🤌

[potent owl]

Hi there 🙂 I could start translating the game into Finnish, I just finished the previous project on Crowdin where I translated and proofread the translations. I can send more information about my previous translations via private message 🙂 it would be extremely helpful if you could prioritize the translations, so I would know where to start first.

[mellow topaz]

you don't need to apply to start translating, you just open up Crowdin and start translating

not sure who you mean by "you", and what you mean by prioritization

the most recent translations are prioritized, unless the older translations have a higher voting score or have been approved by the proofreader

[nimble trellis]

what possibly can cause that slash to appear? its there just fot belarusian and ukranian translations

[dry cradle]

On those lines, does your translation contain "\\\\r" or just "\r"?

Or "\\r"

[velvet parcel]

Both Belarusian and Ukrainian got spaces after the \r sequence - that's might be the reason.
@honest sun Pinging just in case

[plain fractal]

Well then, let's see if removing them does anything

[plain fractal]

Seems to have worked @honest sun FYI

[strange thistle]

I dont remember asking this, but will Rogue Core allow community translations like DRG and DRG survivor? Obviously i want to contribute

[swift pilot]

@shell vine greetings. Could you give me access to spanish traslators role? Please

[shell vine]

Sure, gimme a sec.

[swift pilot]

Those damn Rival Tech hackers almost usurped me

[willow narwhal]

any easy way to see a translation in the game? just started translating a 0% language and would love to see some of the strings in the actual UI

[shell vine]

Theoretically, yes ?

There is a "secret" build of the game with all languages in it, but I don't remember if they had managed to activated it for all languages or only some supported...

Which language ?

[willow narwhal]

"Serbian (Latin)" (on crowdin)

since Croatian works in the game and we share the alphabet 1-on-1, i guess font won't be an issue

also crowdin doesn't allow downloading anything so i wasn't even trying to see in game files if it's some gigajsonchad or whatnot

i hoped i could overwrite croatian with my current progress or something

[shell vine]

Overwrite ?

[willow narwhal]

yeah like paste another text file over it 😄

but judging by your response, i assume this is all bundled in some binary

[shell vine]

Why would you want to overwrite the croatian effort with your own ?

You are working on Serbian, right ?

[willow narwhal]

to test it quickly on my local machine

[shell vine]

In the game!

[willow narwhal]

i dont mean to destroy croatian language in the game lol

[shell vine]

I was thinking in crowdin

[willow narwhal]

nah nah

crowdin is safe

i thought, if adding a language is a problem, maybe it's easier to swap it with a similar one

[shell vine]

And yeah, no, it's all compiled at the source, so no easy fix to see it.

[willow narwhal]

sadge :<

[shell vine]

There are mods that add joke languages, so maybe that way ?

And I'll push (again) for the devs to enable all languages in the translation build.

It will take a bit though, since they are on vacation right now

[willow narwhal]

alright

thanks for the help

i'll keep translating blindly

[shell vine]

Also, please follow the instructions in the #crowdin-accounts 's channel description.

[willow narwhal]

oh i didnt even see the channel

[shell vine]

That's normal, I just gave you the role

[willow narwhal]

i just type it as the message?

[shell vine]

yes

[willow narwhal]

if it was supposed to activate some bot, it didn't work 😄

[shell vine]

There's no bot, I just added you the serbian role

[willow narwhal]

oh

[red niche]

The current issue here is that we don't have a separate crowdin config for the translation build, but we intend to set up its own build descriptor with a separate config soon(tm) and THEN the translation build will have all languages

We are reworking some of our build machine flows, once that is done this should be easier, so waiting for that

[shell vine]

push

[tiny canopy]

Hello am I at the right place for feedback about the languages in game?
I would like Norwegian to be added to the game. I mean Danish and Swedish are there. Why isn't Norwegian?

I mean Coffee Stain is a swedish publisher but thats still no reason to discriminate

[slim verge]

it's not here because nobody proposed to translate it yet

[tiny canopy]

Ahh alright and how do I properly propose it?

[shell vine]

Hello,

All translations happen on crowdin (link and info in the channel description).
I believe Norwegian is already available for translation, but if it is not the case, please ping me here and I'll add it once I'm home.

[tiny canopy]

Wow okay thanks for your answer. It actually is there.

[tiny canopy]

Can someone give me tips on how to efficiently do those translations. Maybe from experience. Does anyone use tools to help you with grammar?

[vital marsh]

I can't speak for Norwegian, but Hungarian has a website with all grammar rules in one page, which can be good to reference.

[tiny canopy]

Im tempted to just use Deepl because it has a feature which lets you replace words that are more fitting in the context and is easier than typing it all out again

[vital marsh]

For tips with the translation itself, I would recommend you pay attention to the context under the string. It often has a path to the string's location which can be used to find other strings in the same context.

For example, in this string (see image), you can see the second line of the context block has a path. This tells you that this is a ‘shout’ (voiced character dialogue), that it appears when your character slaps a palm tree, and that it is the 4th (actually 5th because it's zero-indexed) in the group of strings for that action. If you then take Game/Art/Environments/Holiday_BeachParty/Shout_Slap_PalmTree.Shout_Slap_PalmTree.Entries and paste it into the search box, you can find the other shouts for this action.

[tiny canopy]

Okay thank you

Im kinda questioning if its appropriate to use Deepl tho, so im looking for input from others

[vital marsh]

I don't know what you mean by ‘typing it all out again,’ but generally I would discourage the use of machine translation, unless you're just looking up single words or phrases because you can't remember them off the top of your head. One of the reasons for ‘proper’ community translation is not to put in automatic translations that can be strangely-worded and/or incorrect.

[tiny canopy]

I meant that its more convenient to use machine translation and then correct it instead of typing all of it from zero

But yeah that's why I'm asking because I had a gut feeling that its discouraged

[vital marsh]

Personally, I find that doing that kills my creativity and results in lower-quality translations overall. If I see a machine translation of a string, I'm tempted to go ‘yeah, that's good enough’ and submit it with some or no corrections, without thinking about the translation proper.

That might just be me, though

[tiny canopy]

Okay well Norwegian is my native language but I still make a lot of mistakes and I want to take this as an opportunity to get more confident in writing. So also because of this I should type it manually, even if it's harder for me

[tiny canopy]

Just out of curiosity: Is there any incentive for translation (besides having what you typed in this excellent videogame)?
Like a mention in the credits or something after a certain amount of time has been put into translating.

[velvet parcel]

There is, actually. You can read about that on DRG's Crowdin page description

[red niche]

Ye there is a bunch of dlc keys and in game credits after certain thresholds, you can find the details on the crowdin description as Dani said

Also due to there being keys involved machine translation is heavily discouraged, since we have had instances of people (trying to) submit fully automated translation with the goal of presumably sell those keys

[shell vine]

The other thing being, if you want to progress in Norwegian proper, it's the part where you think on how to properly express the idea from English to another language that will help you.
The coating from a website will not...

[tiny canopy]

Nice thx

[tiny canopy]

Yeah alright it makes sense thanks for the detailed answer

[tiny canopy]

You're right. Btw in case I really want to get involved more what is the process of being a Community Translator for Norwegian?

[shell vine]

Sticking around, and translating a bunch ^^

And following the instructions in the #crowdin-accounts channel description

[tiny canopy]

Fair enough, thx

[tiny canopy]

@shell vine Sorry to bother you again but I wanted to ask you about the approval process.
For example I have finished the translation for the Steam store description when will someone approve and upload it? Because apparently no one is working on approving Norwegian translation yet

[rancid terrace]

Nothing has to be approved to get added to the game. The most upvoted version gets added.

Ingame text should get added in the next patch. I don't know how often they update the steam page translations.

[shell vine]

Hello again, and no worries for the ping.

The steam store pages should not have been available (that's my mistake, sorry) as the Norwegian translation is not far advanced enough to advertise the game in that language.

As for approval, you don't need it yet. It will become more relevant when the translation is close to completion, or if more translators join you in your efforts.
There is a sort of FAQ in the pinned messages (one of the messages I wrote there) that has more details on this.

Feel free to ask more questions here, as most translators are watching this channel and can answer. If you need specific acces or have some issues with crowdin, ping me.

[tiny canopy]

Ahh alright. Yeah but doesn't hurt to basically almost have it setup in case the translation progresses far enough. So I read about a significant progress. Is that the point where the approval process starts and the translations are going to be added to the game?

[shell vine]

The translations will be added to the game indepently from approval

[tiny canopy]

Well apparently no one really goes out to give Upvotes. I began doing it for the 39% that were already completed

[shell vine]

Approval only serves as a proofreading tool, meaning that a proofreader has chosen a single string as "the correct/best one" and decides to force regardless of votes.

Up/down voting string would only serve for the moment if you believe the currently chosen string (the one at the top of the list) is not the one that should be used.
By default, the latest submitted one will be at the top

[tiny canopy]

Okay alright thanks for the swift responses. I appreciate it. I've got some work ahead of me then. I just hope I'll be able to keep it up for a while because I'd love to see Norwegian to be added to the game

[merry trout]

but-
heres the translation channel😰

[mellow topaz]

It's a bot itself

[opaque gale]

For some reason (boredom while I wait for friends to log in or not having time to do a proper dive and overall kind of being a sad individual with nothing better to do) I've started contributing to the Esperanto project on CrowdIn.

[opaque gale]

I'm not sure if I count as part of a team or not, but I can't do this. 😛

[vital marsh]

Yes, for that we'll need @shell vine

[shell vine]

Try again

[abstract dove]

Greetings @shell vine, I had PM'd you on Crowdin... I've been working a lot recently on fixing the Italian version of the game that really could use some improvement, and I was wondering if you could check the message I sent you on Crowdin

[shell vine]

I saw your message, but it requires more time than I have right now to make a comprehensive answer.

In the mean time, please follow the instructions in the #crowdin-accounts channel description

[abstract dove]

Done, thanks. Also, I've read something here but I'm not sure I got it right... is there a downloadable translation build that is automatically updated with the most up-to-date strings, or do we have to wait until the next patch is out? I could use it to live test strings that have a limited space to fit into (e.g. text of in-game terminals and the likes) to make sure they're displayed properly. Having to wait a patch would make this a bit unpractical

[shell vine]

Yesn't...
There is one, but it's currently bugged

Fix for it is not planned during the initial two or three sprints of RC, so not before a couple more months

[red niche]

Wait its broken again ? 🥺 I thought it was working for daily translation updates, but still only includes languages shown in the regular version

it should be doing daily updates of all supported curently in game languages, of which italian is one

[shell vine]

Wasn't there an issue with it?
I remember Pounce saying something was broken

[red niche]

IIrc I think he said that but he was lying

[shell vine]

Are you sure you are not lying to yourself?

[red niche]

afaik it works gameplay wise 1:1 with the base game and should have nightly language updates

[red niche]

never, but I did fix the build server not that long ago

[shell vine]

Maybe it's fixed then...
On that issue at least

[slim verge]

[vital marsh]

[velvet parcel]

Checked just in case - the translation build does indeed work and seems up-to-date

[red niche]

Notorious little shit stirrer... Oh hi pounce 👋

[red niche]

https://tenor.com/view/captain-holt-brooklyn-nine-nine-brooklyn99-captain-raymond-holt-andre-braugher-gif-13945912

[shell vine]

Access code has been added to the channel description

[slim verge]

😭

[obtuse umbra]

I wanna do translation work for DRG but my language (Toki Pona) isn't supported. Is there anything I can do?

[rancid terrace]

@shell vine , but I don't think they're gonna add that language

[obtuse umbra]

I'll see if I can suggest Crowdin to add the language

[burnt basin]

toki pona is really cool, wish I had the focus to learn it

[obtuse umbra]

I mean, it's 140 words at most, I think anyone can learn that

[burnt basin]

oh i'm aware, I just lack the attention span

but who knows? maybe someday