babelfish-lounge

[native scaffold]

but that is kinda sus

[mellow topaz]

not sure what even the point of that is

is it American English vs. British English?

[dry cradle]

It just states "English"

With the American flag iirc

[mellow topaz]

really, I never understood some of the translation choices for games

[slim verge]

It's just the strings of the games

[mellow topaz]

why are so many games translated to Italian?

I can understand Spanish and German as a lot of countries speak those

[dry cradle]

Because people speak Italian too...? Tf lmao

[mellow topaz]

but why Italian? I don't think too many countries speak it as a native language

[slim verge]

Italia does...?

[mellow topaz]

four countries it seems

two of those are also San Marino and the Vatican

I don't have an issue with games having Italian as a translation

[dry cradle]

Even if it was just a single country, it wouldn't still mean you couldn't put Italian into the game

[chilly orbit]

Well, why wouldn't you add an it translation in your game ?

[mellow topaz]

but it kinda feels the same as having Finnish translations in a AAA game, despite a very small fraction of the population speaking it

but then again, Italy has over 10 times Finland's population, so... I do start to see the reasoning behind it

[dry cradle]

Just because a language has few speakers, doesn't mean it shouldn't be added to a game because of it

[slim verge]

Ironically, some AAA game don't have that much translation because they are trying as much as possible to cut corners in their budget so they make maximum profit

[mellow topaz]

What my point is is that for AAA devs (or just devs in general), it feels logical to just translate the most commonly used languages, and Italian just didn't feel like a common enough language for games to be translated for

but then again, it's not like Hindi or Bengali get many translations either

so Italian does make sense, seeing as it's also from Europe

and what with translations being fairly euro-centric

anyway, ramblings over

[slim verge]

translations being fairly euro-centric is not very surprising though

[mellow topaz]

how so?

[sage tangle]

Europe has a very rich buyers market in general, even 'poorer' countries.

and is close to western / typical market behaviour, similar to US and canada

plus features 4 languages which are spoken world wide
EN, ESP, FR, DE

[slim verge]

Language easily spread around, thanks to the colonisation.
The whole market developed in Europe and in America, which are, well, euro-centric when you consider languages.

Japan developed his own thing on the side and not much of it is taking root in the rest of the world

[sage tangle]

Let's see if neoakira_ from twitch joins here 😄

[slim verge]

yeah

[brittle mango]

@sage tangle

[sage tangle]

There we go! 😄

[brittle mango]

😂

[slim verge]

Hey 😄

[brittle mango]

hi

[sage tangle]

Akira, there might be a limit to credits, we actually don't know.
How many words did you translate?
Also, the reward system might see some changes in the future

[brittle mango]

lemme see

[sage tangle]

IIRC the tier would be tier 2. - 20.000 words

[slim verge]

Indeed, I can confirm that

[brittle mango]

ah i see

[regal elk]

are swear words allowed?

:3

if not, can I put them in if I censor them?

[sage tangle]

If the string has them, yes

[sage tangle]

You don't censor the game.

[regal elk]

aight

then leaving it uncensored

literal translation of "izgledamo jebeno" would be "we look fucked" xd

[sage tangle]

When I went through all of the old stuff, some of the old translators did that for German. Not with me. Stay true to the game.
If it's a curse, it's a curse. If it's a flower, it stays a flower

[regal elk]

as in, "somebody just fucked us"

[sage tangle]

well, if you say it like that in your language

[regal elk]

but in croatian its like "we look hella dope"

[sage tangle]

then yes

[regal elk]

the thing is, croatian is full of swears xddd

[sage tangle]

that's a true translation imo

[native scaffold]

that is the problem of google translator, it will most of the time go to literal translations

and in many cases it might not be the correct answer

the cases that arent literal are because people went there are told google that the translation is wrong, but that is near impossible to do to all translations

[sage tangle]

SOB is SOB!

[limber yarrow]

There's also some cases where we didn't know what the word meant but we knew it was a curse word

Like whalepiper

Is the one that comes to my mind

So we translated it to idiot iirc

[native scaffold]

and some words can be cursed words in especific context

[sage tangle]

(We used 'Assface' because you say that)

[native scaffold]

there is another good example for that kinda of stuff,(ikd if it is on the game or not)

the string: "We fucked up"

[native scaffold]

the closest to it would be "we messes up"

in portuguese you can translate that to the literal word, or to the meaning you want it to have

and in portuguese they are 2 diferent words

idk if that works in other languages

[native scaffold]

yeah, stuff like that

[sage tangle]

Basically, this discord has a lower age rating / word tolerance than the game has.

Don't tone the game down, but don't make it more vulgar neithher

[native scaffold]

Rock And Stone

(talking about that, tbh, idk how to translate it without losing its meaning)

xd

[chilly orbit]

I suggest to go with Rock & Stone

[native scaffold]

it feels weird translating that

[chilly orbit]

That's kinda intranstlable, we kept it like this in French

[native scaffold]

because you have the music style Rock n roll

and i am guessing thats where that came from

and dwarfs actualy fit in that style

[sage tangle]

No

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/548430/view/2855799982653771560

[native scaffold]

but one of the shouts is "rock and roll"

[dry cradle]

Dayum, looks like pickle Rick is gonna take me from my eventual tier 2 and 3 crowdin rewards at this rate lmao

[digital dawn]

There's more systematic ways you could go about learning Esperanto 😉 But well... I'd just be happy if it becomes ready this year!

[native scaffold]

wdym?

[sage tangle]

he's giving you compliments

[native scaffold]

ok

[dry cradle]

if you read the project sidebar on crowdin, gsg gives you some tiers related to your word count

at the rate you are translating, you'll easily surpass my 10k word count lmao

[worthy inlet]

no? he yells "rock and roll and stone"

[native scaffold]

ik that

but never noticed that in the site

[dry cradle]

i've put an issue on https://crowdin.com/translate/deep-rock-galactic/248/en-pt?filter=basic&value=0#211412, but i might be wrong bc i wasnt there on the update day

can someone cover this?

[sage tangle]

can you quote the whole sentence?

and: nobody ready old patchnotes. I'd even go so far to say don't translate any except the most recent

priority wise

[digital dawn]

Old patch notes are simply bonus mode for languages that are already translated lol

[limber yarrow]

or you can just translate the beginning of the patch notes

and then leave all the bug fixes and other stuff untranslated

because who tf reads the bug fixes of old patch notes

[sage tangle]

Patchnotes don't exist, they can't hurt you

[dry cradle]

Patchnotes:

[sage tangle]

no

[dry cradle]

[chilly orbit]

@sage tangle

[sage tangle]

@mossy egret

[mossy egret]

alright alright it will be done

time to [De]stroy those patch notes

[regal elk]

today is a nice day

looks like ill be getting my first tier reward

when is the next patch expected to drop?

[slim verge]

no idea

[regal elk]

im kinda excited to see all my translated stuff ingame

[sage tangle]

34.5 Mod in between patch is the next one, though no date was given.

Except those faq links in twitter

[mellow topaz]

Crap, I missed it

if anyone has any uncrafted weapon paintjobs, can you check what the source location for the character strings it uses is?

The {skinname} skin set for all weapons of the {character} is the main string

[regal elk]

how should I check it

@mellow topaz

#. SourceLocation: /Game/UI/HUD_SpaceRig/Forge

this or?

[mellow topaz]

that is the one that uses {character}

I need the source for the strings that go in {character}

[regal elk]

how should that look like?

[mellow topaz]

The WARMONGER skin set for all weapons of the ENGINEER

problem is, there are multiple strings that are just ENGINEER

[regal elk]

Strange, cant find any

im sure ive translated some of them tho

[sand nebula]

Hi, I've just started translating the Brazilian Portuguese Files, and I have some questions

Some of these entries have the dotted line below

when I hover over it, the text indicates that the word is a "proper name" and clicking it shows the already translated names

Specially the drinks at the bar, I've seen many of the approved translations are the same as the English name (not the case with the Mactera Goo Bomber).

So, should I come up with my own drink names in this cases?

Also I'm curious about the context tab. I'm currently just checking it to see which file is the text getting in, that's all there is, right?

[mellow topaz]

Words with dotted lines are taking the name from the glossary, which is a separate word list that's only really used for standardization.

[mellow topaz]

There's no general consensus in this. Some translations translate it, others have kept them as is. It's just what the team considers to be the best option.

[sand nebula]

got it

[mellow topaz]

Also yes.

[sand nebula]

alright

thanks for answering

[sage tangle]

When you expand 'other languages' beneath the beer names, you'll see most translators chose to keep them as brand names in English. Though some translated them

[sage tangle]

Oh boy missed opportunity for GSG to put a proper name up

[ thanks to #fan-art / @opal acorn ]

[sage tangle]

Ingame it's exploding plant IIRC

[chilly orbit]

Exactly

[boreal quest]

Big hurty

[sage tangle]

🎵 Boom boom boom boom, let me explode that shroom! 🎵

[digital dawn]

Eksplodofloro 😄

[sage tangle]

I just wanted to say that's silly, you made that up. Then I remembered you're doing Esperanto

[mellow topaz]

What strings use HeroInfo.HeroName?

Because that's the string that is used in the weapon skin set string

and I'd need to inflect it

[sage tangle]

I think those don't get used. If you only search for HeroInfo you see the class selection has its own full string

and I remember endless strings where the class is part of the string itself without variable

[mellow topaz]

I got the HeroInfo.HeroName straight from the debug translations

ctrl + O and all

they're used for the weapon skin forging preview at least

Seems like pinging players also uses that string

[sage tangle]

Nice find. Can you add that to their descriptions as comment on the right side? 🙂

[mellow topaz]

done

[dry cradle]

so, i was translating a patch note, and i found something called a "stasis grenade". can someone tell me what was it renamed to?

[dry cradle]

also

i found "mixer praetorians"

are these praetorians spawned with facebook mixer's tools, or was it another thing?

one of the sources:

[sage tangle]

Yes, there was mixer integration in the past.

[dry cradle]

alright, thanks

[dry cradle]

do you know the answer to this too?

one thesis i got was, from its meaning, it could be something like the 1st scout grenade

was that it?

or the cryonade

i guess not, since the ifg is referred later on

[sand nebula]

Yeah, I noticed that most kept the English brand name. My doubt came up when I saw some examples where original translations came up.

[sage tangle]

Yeh German had them translated at first as well... We put it back to English 😄

[dry cradle]

yeah, can happen. i personally decided to leave untranslated because 1. names arent translatable; 2. i could absolutely try to be creative, but im lazy af lmao

and not so creative too

[sand nebula]

Haha, I thought about some fun Ideas for Portuguese names, but then I thought about the brand images and labels in English with the in-game text in Portuguese. So I just decided to let them be.

[dry cradle]

T E L L

[sage tangle]

@opal acorn guess again 😛

[opal acorn]

<squint> portugal?

[sage tangle]

@opal acorn [DE] stands for DErmany

||Deutschland||

[mellow topaz]

I like how Volatile Guts is classified as a warning in the string library, but as an anomaly in-game

[digital dawn]

I was always curious whether that should be an anomaly... The idea is that the explosions hurt nearby bugs, but doesn't that also hurt the players, or no?

[sage tangle]

||0% || 😦

[digital dawn]

😭

Hey I mean, Glossary is a little over half done, and I started on the Steam Achievements as well to get a sense of how the Glossary helps with the rest of the text

The Glossary is the hard part! Once those words are set in-stone I can't wait to get started on dialogue... especially Mission Control's hahaha

Maybe I could finish the glossary today 🤔

[merry storm]

Just wanted to say that im from Poland and i can help here and there, if I have time

I have seen enough absolutely horrible translations, and i would like to help avoid that for DRG

[mellow topaz]

Are you specifically referring to the Polish DRG translation?

Either way, you only need a Crowdin account to contribute

[merry storm]

Yes

Another time then

[chilly orbit]

If I'm not mistaken, GSG hired professional translators to review the majors languages of the game, and nothing came as a big issue, so I dunno if the Polish translation is worse than before. If you spot an error, you can report it here, where polish translator will fix it :)

[mellow topaz]

I have not heard of that one

[sage tangle]

That was waaaaaaaay back and I'm not sure which languages were affected.

Basically I would ignore that, everyone playing the game can do better than a hire. Plus Pol is not at 100%.
Blasphemy

[dry cradle]

Depends if the hire is also playing the game lmao

[sage tangle]

Any help is welcome, we did not reach 100% for Pol. :)

[merry storm]

Its just that direct translation can end very badly
Example of bad translation: Endless Legend
Example of good translation: Iron Harvest
Its all subjective of course

[sage tangle]

Join us. We have cookies

Must be around somewhere

[merry storm]

But if 1 word is forcefully translated into something lame, the entire translation can spiral into weirdness

[sage tangle]

I also heard polish is great to curse

[merry storm]

Its versatile in that way
There is one swedish youtuber (Food Emperor) that knows polish very well, i think he describes it best
You cant say "defuckify" in english, right? Its not a word that is used? Well, its common in polish, and that is one of many examples

[digital dawn]

You can in Esperanto, too 😉

"malfekigi"

[sage tangle]

We need people who can defuckify the polish translation

[sage tangle]

You made that up

[digital dawn]

Perhaps it helps that EO was invented by a Polish doctor

[digital dawn]

But it is correct

[sage tangle]

Thank god you can invent any word in German

[sage tangle]

To join you need to have a crowdin account , though you can use another login. Google and so on

[merry storm]

I will give it a try on the weekend, since i have work tomorrow, and its almost 1 AM my time

[sage tangle]

You can also see the polish translators in the pinned messages, I cant check how active pol is, am on the couch right now :)

Oh yeh, 1 am.... Darn couch 😄

[sand nebula]

hello, yesterday I've translated the patch notes for patch 34

and got these QA issues, should I do something?

[sage tangle]

That's 'autocorrect' of crowdin.
\r are line breaks, which start a new line. If you have one missing, that means you have a line sentence instead of a
new paragraph

Dunno about the words, he just says those words are unknown in your language (Spawn and NPCs makes sense because you just keep them english...)

you should look for the \r again where it's missing

best copy paste into word, and put a second word next to it to translate, where you can compare the layout

[dry cradle]

@sand nebula is that eu portuguese or Brazilian portuguese?

[sage tangle]

@dry cradle afaik aeri is brazport

[dry cradle]

ah aight

thx

[mossy egret]

ah yes the \r the bane of everyone who translates Patch Notes

[dry cradle]

Can confirm, many were the times I unconsciously skipped an \r or two lmao

[regal elk]

can anybody confirm if theres an app for the crowdin

[mellow topaz]

Website has a mobile mode

[sand nebula]

thats right thanks!

[sand nebula]

got it 👍

[sand nebula]

Hi, Today I believe all of the in-game and steam strings from Brazilian Portuguese got translated (every entry has at least a suggestion)

(yay /o/)

for now I will be doing the patch notes, but I have some questions

1. More entries will be added as patches roll in? In-game entries, not patch texts (just to be clear)

[sage tangle]

Yep, every patch pulls strings from crowdin to the game and the other way round

meaning new strings will drop

[sand nebula]

2. There is a voting system in the suggested translations, should I just use it along with giving more suggestions (since every string has a suggestion already), because that's kind of my plan for when I'm done translating the patch notes

[sand nebula]

nice

[sage tangle]

giving more than 1 translation doesn't really make sense, because new translations are prioritised like this:
no translation < translation < new translation < higher voted translation < approved translation (fixed, ignores everything else until proofreader changes it)

[sand nebula]

got it, but the ones I'm thinking about are not approved

[chilly orbit]

Well, do you have a proofreader in br. Portuguese ?

[sand nebula]

and the majority are okay, like 5% need some change, from what I've seen (I haven't looked much into it tho)

[sand nebula]

It's 21% proofread, but I don't know how recent was that

[chilly orbit]

I checked the pings, and saw no br pt translators, meaning that you probably don't have a proofreader
So, if you kept the same "spirit" translating all the strings, don't bother do "variations" of the strings, that won't be useful, and if someone joins you in the translation, and find a string badly worded, or which can be improved, that person will be able to notify the proofreader if there's one, or will be able to discuss it with you

[sand nebula]

Alright, so I will just wait for new entries to roll in

[chilly orbit]

I'd suggest you to do that, yes

[sand nebula]

At least I've still got the patch notes while they come lol

[digital dawn]

Is there any way to write a comment in Crowdin for just your own language?

or is it generally accepted if people write it in the project-wide comment bar?

I'd like to write down what my translation of "IFG" and "EPC" etc stand for

[sage tangle]

Everyone sees it, but the language stands beneath. As long as you don't mark it an issue, that's fine

[digital dawn]

Cool, thanks!

[sage tangle]

Strings get a bubble on the left side, and right side shows <Codeweaver> <language> bla bla

[digital dawn]

Geez, I love when wordplay can be replicated between languages

There's an Overclock called "Hoverclock"; I translated the former as "Superbonigo" (super-improvement, essentially), and the latter is now "Suprebonigo" (above-improvement, like hovering above)

I don't know if this name is even still in use; it's in the Glossary so it could be old/unused, but I still think it's clever hahaha

[slim verge]

hoverclock is in use

[digital dawn]

Excellent 🙏

[digital dawn]

And with that, the Glossary is 100% translated to Esperanto 👍 👍

1% down, about 102% to go, accounting for updates that will come out before this is done 😩

[chilly orbit]

Congratulations ! You did some impressive work, and in quite a short period of time

[digital dawn]

Cheers! Hoping to do more, but, I'm really hoping that once a good chunk of AllGameText is translated, I can convince some other folks in my community to help... 😱

One of them is translating 7 Days to Die so he's not terribly free

[slim verge]

well done 😄

[mellow topaz]

Oh geez, you're doing some good work

Does Steam even have esperanto available as one of the language options for the store page?

[slim verge]

not that I know of, why ?

[mellow topaz]

Outta curiosity

[sage tangle]

Nobody is playing that. Dwarves is all you need

You're doing well :)

[mellow topaz]

7 days to die is pretty active though?

[sage tangle]

That's an illusion. The game doesn't exist, can't hurt you.

https://tenor.com/view/snake-snakes-jungle-book-eyes-gif-16899322

Translate DRG

[boreal quest]

no

[regal elk]

hm

[slim verge]

Can we help you ? 😄

[regal elk]

nah some dude posted something and it got auto deleted

so I was like "hmm, strange"

[slim verge]

Yeah, someone posted a scam link in multiple channel, including this one and he got banned

[regal elk]

ah

[dry cradle]

+- 2k words until i get my translator role

patch notes are very profitable

[digital dawn]

How many words are needed for that? 😮

[dry cradle]

20k

i ended up getting my 10k on patch notes, and ill get tese other 10k entirely from those notes

[sage tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-baby-goal-funny-face-gif-13347383

Finally, those morons. After that darn change that kept logging you off every 10 minutes

hate subsides
a little

[sage tangle]

Actually you just need to be very active and regularly active.

There is no hard criteria

(Yet?)

[chilly orbit]

Behold, the almighty french translator is writing

[sage tangle]

Drako, stop talking in third person about yourself.

[shell vine]

Translator role was never tied to a word count. It's given based on involvement following a set of secret guidelines by a comity made of random people that never knew the guidelines in the first place

[sage tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-democracy-i-love-democracy-gif-13935227

[dry cradle]

The page on crowdin states tier 2 gives you a discord role, but ok then lmao

[shell vine]

That's new then

[dry cradle]

It was there since I started translating iirc

[digital dawn]

ohh, yeah okay that's what I thought lol

I knew there were perks for translating words but I didn't think Discord roles were tied to that at all

Well, I've got a long way to go before I'm worthy anyway, not too concerned about it yet.

Is there any convenient way to see how many words have been translated, through Crowdin? Or just strings?

[slim verge]

You can see it through your profile IIRC
nvm that, just what Fakiyo said.

[sage tangle]

Tab 'Reports' and 'Activity'

[digital dawn]

Ve! Already up to 2000 words...

Time to get serious lol

[mossy egret]

You where not serious in the first place? smh translating should be everything for you

[digital dawn]

Serious-er 😉

I don't think there would be much a better game to translate at the moment (although if I could get audience with Sea of Thieves, that would be incredible, but they would never, lol), so this has my full translating attention

but in Esperanto alone I'm also planning an intro course, working on some YouTube videos, writing a short fable, and lending my voice to a dub at the moment... lots going on 😅

I was also just modded at r/Esperanto and need to figure out how modding a subreddit works lol, never done it before

[mossy egret]

nice

[mellow topaz]

about damn time

I swear, the "stay logged in" button in the login menu is just placebo

it does nothing

[slim verge]

never had problem staying logged. I guess crowdin is biased toward the french because of their superiority

[sage tangle]

Crowdin knows if they log you out you don't get anything done.

[slim verge]

I haven't done anything in weeks now

but I don't need to

[mossy egret]

[sage tangle]

@gusty brook this is not the place.
<@&296918282403840000>

[slim verge]

let me guess : someone posted the steam scam again "I give my items blablabla" in all channels again ?

[signal prism]

"Steancommunity.ru"

No joke

[slim verge]

lmao

[signal prism]

It's exactly the link he wrote

[slim verge]

nice

[digital dawn]

Yikes, that's not good. Those sites aren't just scams, they install malware to your computer if you follow through whatever instructions the scammer has in place.

[sage tangle]

Quick mods

Just wanted to ping them

[dry cradle]

question

wasnt there a tier on crowdin for the game soundtrack?

[limber yarrow]

Not that I remember, no

[sage tangle]

No. I'll PM you

[bronze ginkgo]

I'd really love to try and help with translating some stuff into my laguage but I don't know what the whole ordeal entails, i.e. what's everything I'll have to do..

If someone wants to fill me on that then feel free to hit my dms :).

[mellow topaz]

donezo

[bronze ginkgo]

@solid bough do you have a CZ translation channel and can I get access to it?

[slim verge]

better ask a mod for that rather than Jacob at this hour 😄

[mellow topaz]

My fault, I told them to ask Jacob about it

[slim verge]

yeah I figured, it's not a critic, more like a better way to go at it

[sage tangle]

@foggy steppe you have some new helping hands @bronze ginkgo

[foggy steppe]

Hello fellow upcoming translator @bronze ginkgo we indeed do have a channel, which is unfortunately pretty dead now because I am way to busy for translation at the moment. You can start translating right away by creating account on crowdin

[mellow topaz]

Already told them the basics

[foggy steppe]

Try translating for some time and if you stick around I'd try to get you into cz translators channel which although not active atm has some good info

[mellow topaz]

it's always great to get more translators for an idle translation

[bronze ginkgo]

Thanks for the help lads

[half brook]

The exploder infestation is not translated in French, in the miner's manual

[slim verge]

Thanks for reporting it ! 🙂

[chilly orbit]

Oh, the string must have been lost somewhere.
Like Pounce said, merci énormément

[slim verge]

either that or it's one of those we've already re-translated and it's not back in the game yet 😄
or a new broken one

[proud locust]

有臺灣群嗎

[sage tangle]

This chat is English only. While we have translators of many languages, not all are actively monitoring this discord.
How can I help you? :)

[buoyant dagger]

They were asking if there was a taiwanese group

[sage tangle]

We have those languages available with active teams. Is Taiwan covered with Chinese or Chinese simplified?

You can check the Pinned Messages at the top right for who's the main contact of these.

[proud locust]

Taiwan

[mellow topaz]

Why does traditional chinese have the Taiwanese flag then?

[foggy pawn]

cuz only Taiwanese uses traditional characters iirc

[mellow topaz]

Forgive my ignorance, then, but how much difference is there between Taiwanese and traditional Chinese?

[sage tangle]

Yeh I just had to google as well, hence my question above. Google says mandarin / Chinese

[foggy pawn]

the most difference is character between both i think?

[sage tangle]

Well we do have @lean ocean , can you help out here please? 🙂

[lean ocean]

well i don't know much about Taiwanese communities

but i'll try to help

@proud locusthttps://forum.gamer.com.tw/A.php?bsn=32374

去巴哈姆特問問吧

[sage tangle]

What's this? 😮

[lean ocean]

a Taiwanese DRG forum

he's asking for Taiwanese group(Discord server?)

but i don't know any, so i told him to ask there

[signal prism]

The chinese writing system is much more simplified (still hard though), and there must be some big differences in vocabulary too, since Taiwan was more influenced by the west than mainland chinese (kinda like south and north korean language compared)

It isnt as harsh of a difference though, as the koreas, since mainland china joined the world economy in the '80s, and relatively opened up, unlike NK

[lean ocean]

Traditional Chinese/Simlified Chinese are writing systems, the difference between the two is mostly on the characters' level

Taiwanese is more specific, it uses Traditional Chinese writing system

[lean ocean]

so basically Taiwanese = Traditional Chinese + regional vocabulary

[sage tangle]

<@&296918282403840000>

[glacial maple]

I don't see anything about the local channels in pinned

Then again I am on mobile and discord recently updated so it's very possible I can't see them all

You it was mobile

Oh Turkish one is deleted?

[sage tangle]

Not every language has its own translation channel, only if the team is big enough. At the moment the only active turk translator is @small kernel

[glacial maple]

Ah I see some errors in the translation

If I can get enough time that number might become 2

[sage tangle]

We always need eager people with sharp eyes. @small kernel get in here, we have some keen eyed player

[glacial maple]

It's pass midnight he might be asleep

Also wait Turkish translation is currently available in game?

[sage tangle]

where have you seen errors if not ingame?

You coming from crowdin?

[glacial maple]

I checked in the crowdin yes

[sage tangle]

Yes it's in the game

[glacial maple]

I try to consume media in the original language granted I speak the language

Translation without localisation removes some joy for me

[sage tangle]

Same, I never play in german if I can do it in english. Unless some vile individual hooks me by showing me the lack of quality and gets me invested in translating @shell vine

But yes, turk is in

[glacial maple]

Now that complicates things

How am I supposed to sleep knowing it's not spotless

[sage tangle]

Haha

https://tenor.com/view/austin-powers-dr-evil-mike-myers-come-join-us-come-here-gif-4627161

[glacial maple]

I'll switch my in game language for the experience first hand I guess

[sage tangle]

Please do

[glacial maple]

I blame you and developers German man

[sage tangle]

if you have any question or need help just ask here, and @small kernel can help you answering special questions. There are occasions where you actually don't translate 'correctly' because there might be special cases in the game which need you to work around them

I mean Ghostship games is from denmark, but developed in english.

[glacial maple]

I am guessing possessiveness will be one of those cases

Then again Turkish is agglutinative I am curious to see how it plays

[mossy egret]

https://tenor.com/view/memes-spongebob-spongebob-meme-patrick-star-imagination-gif-12988323

[sage tangle]

agglutinative
Gesundheit!

Are you gluten intolerant?

[glacial maple]

Danke

[small kernel]

I'm here, what's the problem? are there some error on the translations?

@glacial maple You can ask me question and you can join to turkish if you want

[glacial maple]

I'll try to make time for it

[small kernel]

Sure, the priority is always your life

[sage tangle]

abandon life, embrace translation

[boreal quest]

Still need to either wait or do translation myself

Need to know so I could continue

[sage tangle]

what?

[small kernel]

I already abandoned life 😄

[grand storm]

Hello fellas!

How's life treating you all?

[sage tangle]

This is the translation channel, so depending on where we are in the translation, we're either the gods of our language or damned in the hell of our tongues.

[grand storm]

There is a funny thing in DRG european spanish translation

That otherwise is pretty accurate altogether

[sage tangle]

If you find a hitch or error, feel free to report it here, you're in the right place 🙂

[grand storm]

But it's funny when i get some red sugar and the message that appears is "Salud completo"

[sage tangle]

spanish, or spanish modern?

[grand storm]

Should be "Salud completa"

I'm playing european spanish, but would apply in both

[sage tangle]

not sure which one that is in the game.
So the person you wanna talk to is either @leaden sapphire for spanish, or @limber yarrow for spanish modern.
They'll report in once they're online I'm sure, as I just pinged them 😄

[grand storm]

Thank you!

[sage tangle]

I'm not entirely sure from the top of my head, but if it's what I think it is: this instance is made up of 2 words (strings). and 'completo' might be getting used with other strings, so changing it to one 'sex' is always wrong for the other case where it pops up.
Though one of the guys might correct me if I'm wrong.

completo and completa are different cases depending on sex of the object, no?

[grand storm]

Yes

Health would be neutral in english but femenine in spanish, but maybe the sentence is implying the "state", for example

[leaden sapphire]

About to go to bed, just saw it. Yes,you are right, fakiyo, this is a discussion we had some time ago, and it is indeed a composed string. For the time being, I believe we could change it to "al máximo" to avoid gender issues, and would perhaps fit in all other cases where the word is used. Would that suit you, wartanga? Hopefully it fits into the corresponding textbox as well...

[grand storm]

I think it would be a great replacement, yes!

[leaden sapphire]

Perfect. Change has been included and will be pushed in as soon as a new string batch is uploaded. Thanks for reporting it!

[limber yarrow]

I think i'll change it too. "Al máximo" sounds better really xD

[turbid goblet]

would it be rude of me to ask if there's an ETA on the completion of the Romanian language? I'm sorry if the question is impolite, i mean no rush

[shell vine]

It's not impolite in itself, but the languages of the game are translated by the community, as volunteer work. So the ETA is "when the translators have the time".

BUT, you can help too ! Simply head over to crowdin, and you can start helping the translation right away

[sage tangle]

@shy pivot is currently the only romanian translator. This work is done by the community on a voluntary basis as Azerty said. The game alone is quite a lot of work 🙂
Though we love to have new and more translators for all languages.

[gray arrow]

you are always free to join in if you are feeling free and capable

[shy pivot]

Oh hey, that's me.

[gray arrow]

though if you join, expect frequent string resets and overall messy environment with all ingame strings being stuffed into a single project

[sage tangle]

If you join, expect a nice and friendly community helping out and having fun while going through the game strings and being very satisfied by seeing your work ingame.

Go to sleep with the feeling of a job well done.

[gray arrow]

oh also can't forget the skill issue font issue

[restive star]

I've seen some errors in the portuguese translation, should I address them here or elsewhere?

[slim verge]

this is the perfect place for that ^^

[restive star]

good to know!

In the bestiary, the weakness of some enemies is translated as "voltar", which means back as in "go back" and not the actual back of the enemy
the proper translation should be "costas"

in the shop, when you have a paintjob equiped, the notification that states that an item uses said paintjob is still in english: "uses equipped paintjob"

[sage tangle]

@dry cradle is the right guy for you 🙂

[dry cradle]

ZA PINGO!

Can you pass me the exact strings? I'll sort them out ass soon as I can

Please and thank you

@restive star

[restive star]

I'm fairly new to either discord and game, I don't know how to look for strings mate :/

[dry cradle]

Just a question, are you reporting string errors in-game or in the translation platform?

Forgot to ask lmao

[chilly orbit]

You have to launch the game, find where you spot the error, and then press ctrl+O, and type here the numbers shown in place of the words (if in game)

[dry cradle]

Are you asking for text errors that are already inside the game?

[restive star]

ohh alrigth! will do that later !

[restive star]

in-game

[dry cradle]

Then that's not with me, that's with the brazillian portuguese team. European portuguese isn't implemented into the game yet

[restive star]

sorry, I forgot to specify it was brazilian portuguese

[dry cradle]

Translator teams are on this channel's pinned messages; should appear upon clicking on a wall pin-like figure

[dry cradle]

@sage tangle I believe this is for you lmao

My man apologizes tho

's fine by me lmao

[restive star]

❤️ ty

[shell vine]

Unfortunately, we don't have brazillian portuguese translators around in discord anymore :(

[shell vine]

But, if you have a bit of time, you can head to crowdin (our translation platform), and fix it yourself (since you know what to search for, and the language).
https://crowdin.com/project/deep-rock-galactic

[restive star]

I will try, I enjoy a bit of translation

[shell vine]

Don't hesitate to ask here if you have any question, we are happy to help

[restive star]

I was able to put in a suggestion, how does it work now?

[dry cradle]

iirc it needs to be checked and approved by the proofreaders

idk if the br-pt translation has proofreaders, but since its on an advanced state of translation, i'd figure so

i mean, 21% of it has peen proofread and approved, so its kind of a giveaway lmao

also, only now i noticed theres a role message for channels

dont you guys wanna change the portuguese flag for the correct one, or would it cause too much of an issue?never mind me, i dont think theres a brazil flag lmao(there is lmao, under :flag_br:)(dont mind any of this, its a very inactive channel, no f's given i suppose lmao)

[restive star]

I noticed that aswell hahaha

[shell vine]

I just checked, that string was not approved yet, meaning that the next time the devs update the in-game text your translation will be included in the game.

[dry cradle]

Is it just me or do messages keep being posted and deleted here?

[mellow topaz]

probably if that happens then it's usually a spam bot

[dry cradle]

Spam bot confirmed then. Just got another unread notification lol

[chilly orbit]

Ngl, that infuriates me. When I see a notif in here, I'm happy, because it means something to improve, or maybe a new translator to greet, but no, spam. >:(

[buoyant dagger]

greet the spammers with a mod ping

[dry cradle]

O look, another deleted message

Perfect

[short abyss]

https://tenor.com/view/disappointed-fridge-empty-gif-15623425

basically us

[mellow topaz]

Bitch really did post the same phishing link in every single channel

[atomic burrow]

<@&296918282403840000> , scam alert btw

[digital dawn]

<@&296918282403840000> We got another one

[warped whale]

What a day 😕

[slim verge]

yeah

those are pretty frequent lately

[mellow palm]

is there a way to join the czech translation team ?

[slim verge]

Welcome.
and indeed there is !

@foggy steppe we got someone wanting to work on czech

So @mellow palm, all you need to do to start working on the translation is to head over Crowdin, make an account and you can start translating right away.

The link for the Crowdin project is in the pinned messages

In the same pinned message, you also have a list of all the translators for every available language at the moment so don't hesitate to contact them through this channel if you want to work in tandem with them, as it will make things easier obviously.

And for any general question regarding translation, you can just ask anything in here and we'll try our best to answer to you

[mellow palm]

ok thanks

[boreal quest]

<@&296918282403840000>

[foggy steppe]

@mellow palm welcome fresh blood pick a beer and start translating 🙂 I'll PM you some info

[boreal quest]

Kozel is a good choice 🐐

[hard sky]

Hey guys. If I remember correctly, you guys have requested that we label our typo fixes with something that makes it easier for you guys to locate the particular text string. Which label or tag do you want it to have?

[hard sky]

I just fixed all typos currently reported on Jira. For the future, feel free to notify me of all typos, capitalisation errors, or text inconsistencies moving forward. I have put it upon myself to eliminate them all once and for all! 😈

[shell vine]

And during your holidays, to boot ! ||If we ever needed any more proof that you guys were the best, we have one more !||
What would be your prefered method for us to bring these up to you ? Jira ? Discord? Other ?

[small kernel]

For the tag, maybe it could be "Typo"? Or is this too classic? 😄

[hard sky]

Hmm. Do you guys have permission to assign people on Jira? 🤔

[small kernel]

Probably no

[hard sky]

I think I would prefer if you create a Jira issue on it with the context (key and source location) and send me the link in a private message on Discord 🙂

Also, let me know if you notice minor text inconsistencies too. For instance, if a word is titlecase in 8/10 cases, I'll gladly go in and clean up the last two for consistency.

[slim verge]

dully noted

someone should pin those btw :
#babelfish-lounge message
#babelfish-lounge message

[hard sky]

got u fam

[slim verge]

Oh well, thanks Mark 😄

[shell vine]

Neat, Thanks Mark !

[sage tangle]

We do have a collective Jira Issue list already, I'll PM you

[shell vine]

Small note : All typo issues should be added on Jira as subtasks of https://ghostshipgames.atlassian.net/browse/DRG-3278
And all missing translation content as subtasks of https://ghostshipgames.atlassian.net/browse/DRG-3279

[sage tangle]

^ Thats the one (from Stickies)

[hard sky]

All the typos on that list are fixed. I noticed that many other typos were reported, but not added to that list either. Those are also fixed.

[mellow topaz]

Speaking of inconsistencies: random extra space characters at the end of strings

I've seen strings with two and even three whitespace characters

[hard sky]

That too 👆

[hard sky]

I've been through all News_Headlines and fixed all cases of excess space characters at the end. So no need to report those if you stumble upon any prior to Update 34.5.

[sage tangle]

Mark, did anybody ever tell you how beautiful and smart you are?

[hard sky]

❤️

[limber yarrow]

I vote Mark for eotm

👍

[chilly orbit]

I vote Mark for EotM in Gsg's team, go get that man a raise

[foggy steppe]

Today marks a great day for Mark

[dry cradle]

Mark do be feeling the ayy lmao todae

[boreal quest]

Employee of the Mark

[mossy egret]

Mark of the Month

[sage tangle]

Wrong month. Should have been Mark of the Month Markch

[mellow topaz]

Did you push the updated strings to Crowdin? Because there is no notification about new strings, and the old typo strings are still there

[hard sky]

Not yet. They will probably be pushed with the new update.

[mellow topaz]

👍

[hard sky]

Would adding a plural form to all resources (although many resource names wouldn't change in plural, at least in English) solve this?
https://ghostshipgames.atlassian.net/browse/DRG-2162

[mellow topaz]

It probably would, at least with the more quantitative resources

Like boolo caps, gunk seeds and so on

[shell vine]

Yes but no. Having a plural form available would solve a *minor grammar issue in the inventory contents displayed at the bottom of the screen when only holding 1 of any item (also, health is considered a resource too). The real problem with that string is the gender issues, and forms dependant of the language :

French, for example, would need to change the translation for full depending on the resource used (plein or pleine), and if possible, we would benefit from being able to use a different word for health.

German, if I remember correctly, would have been better off if they could merge the words together ( @sage tangle did I remember that right ?)

I'm fairly certain that other languages have their own way of changing a sentence's phrasing depending on context...

[dense valley]

I second this for Russian, gender of the noun changes the form of the adjective, and i believe they will be different for other languages, so no easy way to solve this, unfortunately

[shell vine]

(Apart from making each combination a unique string, of course)

[dry cradle]

can third for portuguese

[mellow topaz]

Is the best option then to just have separate strings for each of the inventory full messages?

[hard sky]

Hmm. Yeah, not sure what the best option would be then. A gender form of all resources wouldn't resolve it either, I suppose? Then we'd need a plural form of the gender form as well, right? 😂

[mellow topaz]

I mean... I don't think there need to be multiple forms of the inventory full message per material.

So having a separate "nitra full" "gunk seeds full" "morkite full" messages would work (or at least I think it would).

[hard sky]

Well, prepare yourselves for a pretty big Crowdin update for Update 34.5. I'm cleaning up a lot of stuff!

[shell vine]

That's neat, thanks Mark !

Btw, if you can have a look at the weapons stats in the equipment terminal, that would be awesome : they suffer from the same problem, but worse. The stats are all derived from a single string (Not displayed), that invoques one or two other and displays them.
The problems come from the fact that we therefore can't change the order of theses 'secondary' strings of needed, and quite a lot of them are reused from one weapon to an other, leading to some pretty big inconsistencies in translation.

(I'll be around if more details are needed, if you have the time to tackle theses)

[hard sky]

We'll need a designer for a task like that. But I'll pass the word along! Can you please create a Jira issue on it with all the details needed?

[shell vine]

Sure

I'll send you the link once it's done, might be a while, I'm not at my computer right now.

[chilly orbit]

@gray arrow
Sorry for this ping, but this the right place for asking a new language to be added to Crowdin, and therefore, in the game
Thing is, Bulgarian currently have 1 translator working on it (if the pin is right) but you can contribute just by creating a crowdin account ! 🙂
(A new message that ain't a scam, rejoice, translators of DRG ! o/ )

[digital dawn]

Rejoice!

Not that anyone was keeping tabs of course, but I feel bad I haven't been translating lately lol. Last weekend I taught a course about Esperanto and this weekend it looks like I'm having a serious fever. Maybe next weekend I'll get back to the grind!

I still check in every time a scammer / legitimate user messages lol

[gray arrow]

Whats that

[chilly orbit]

Crowdin is a website where DRG devs put the in-game strings, and where us translators can submit translations for those strings (for multiple languages, including Bulgarian, the one you're interested in). You'll need an account, but it's totally free

[gray arrow]

Nice

[small kernel]

Is there a Portuguese translator here?

[fresh wharf]

@dry cradle I guess

[small kernel]

For Portuguese, can you make a shorter translation? This long translation will probably not fit on the screen

[mellow topaz]

Oh jesus

Someone didn't pay much attention to the string length

[dry cradle]

Is that brazillian portuguese or European portuguese?

[small kernel]

Brazillian portuguese

[dry cradle]

Yeah no I'm from euro-pt lol

Sry about that

Am not of much help in that dialect

Unless...

I think I have a translation idea doe

[small kernel]

Oh well its okay

[dry cradle]

I'll suggest the idea I have, the proofreaders shall choose lol

[small kernel]

What about "O processo da forja..."?

[dry cradle]

As far as I see it, I read "forge spooling..." as "preparing the forge..."

With the string you suggested, the string would be "forge process..."

Which isnt what the original string really conveys

So, in my eyes, I'd translate the string to br-pt as "ACELERANDO A FORJA..."

Effectively reducing translation length, like you advised

Or "ACELER. FORJA..." in case it still doesn't fit

[small kernel]

I opened a report in jira because there was a problem such as not fitting, maybe they can reduce the font size

[dry cradle]

I'll put my suggestion on the brazillian page as soon as I arrive from my scouts activity. Let's see if that helps with the faulty string

[dry cradle]

i suggested my idea now

lets wait for an answer

[lapis siren]

Translating is weird tbh

Since its hard to 1:1 translate

[chilly orbit]

That's for sure, but we try to keep it the closest to the game's spirit
That's the major challenge in translation !

[obtuse mica]

@hard sky are you fixing typos everywhere? Did you see the one for the EDD this week?

[short abyss]

big big fungus big fungus big fungus

[humble cairn]

What did he say in English?

[calm sparrow]

"Kill the menace!"

The thing is, the game has subtitles. Do you have access to the game files? You could probably find them

I know theres a modding community, they could help you gain access to all the subtitle files ez pz

[humble cairn]

I have no access to files that have subtitles. I found all the phrase on YouTube and downloaded

[calm sparrow]

ahh ok

[mystic sierra]

hey, just got into the discord and saw the message while going through the channels. I'm from Brazil, if u still need help, it would be a pleasure

[small kernel]

Hi. You can add your own suggestion here, if there is a proofreader will check it out someday. https://crowdin.com/translate/deep-rock-galactic/77/en-ptbr#120906

[chilly orbit]

No need to have a proofreader to get a translation in the game :)

[mystic sierra]

Ok!

I'll check it out

just posted a comment there, if you need any more help with pt-br, you can ping/dm me! @small kernel

[small kernel]

Alright, thank you! If you want to get into the translation, we can help you

[mystic sierra]

Sure! How can I get started?

[dry cradle]

you can get started by creating a crowdin account if you already haven't

after that, its just translating lol

[small kernel]

@mystic sierra You can access it via Crowdin. You can find the texts for the game by searching on crowdin. You can vote for translations so that the highest and approved translation can in the game. If you see an incorrect translation, you can suggest your own translation. If you translate like 5K words, you can be given proofreading for this language. If you have any questions, feel free to ask

[dry cradle]

5k words you say

[small kernel]

Or maybe 2-3K words I'm not sure 😄

[dry cradle]

[mystic sierra]

I saw a little and most of it is already translated

[dry cradle]

ive gone past 25k and i got no pr role on eu-pt

[mystic sierra]

I'll see if there's something

[dry cradle]

/s

[small kernel]

Maybe there's another proofreader? I have no idea about this

You can ask jacob for this proofreader topic

[shell vine]

The proofreader roles are not given only on the discount basis, but following more factors, such as regularity in translation, accuracy, and there being the need for a proofreader.

[mystic sierra]

@small kernel when I change a string, shoul I mark it as a problem and explain?

[small kernel]

No you don't have to

[mystic sierra]

ko

ok

[mystic sierra]

Just looked out the first page, later I'll check out the other 243.

[small kernel]

Good luck with them. But first your life is important remember that

You can also look at the source location to understand what the string is about

[slim verge]

Good luck @mystic sierra

[mystic sierra]

Thank you all!

[sage tangle]

Yeh I just wanted to tune in on Proofreader. No hard criteria, but overall impression. But Azerty was quicker || instead of working ||

[dry cradle]

i made the devs create that language on crowdin, and i think i translated the most there lol

[gray arrow]

"heating the forge"

"aquecendo a forja" I think it should be, I can understand portugese but talking it is another thing

[foggy steppe]

So, are the news crazy compound strings safe to be translated or are there expected changes?

[dense valley]

I hope these strings won't make it in the game at all

[gray arrow]

GAMEBREAKING: In the Italian translation, when the scout says "Let there be light", he says "Che sia fatta la luce", but the original biblical quote is "Sia la luce".

[slim verge]

sounds like a job for @glossy relic 😄

[mellow topaz]

you mean stuff like "BREAKING: {Person} {Verb} {Person2} and saves the day"?

[foggy steppe]

yup

[mellow topaz]

most that would happen is {Person2} would become its own string anyway, I think

[foggy steppe]

I suppose that would help a little bit? Still a nightmare🤣

[modern gate]

Should "The Ghost Ship Crew" be translated in the patch notes? I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be, but I'm a raw beginner.

Looking at the few Other Languages translations, they mostly keep the name intact.

[slim verge]

what language ?

[modern gate]

Russian

[slim verge]

then that's a question for @echo storm

[echo storm]

Hi

Ok

I'll check this

[modern gate]

Mega cool

[echo storm]

can you send a screenshot?

[echo storm]

I cant find this string

[modern gate]

It's in "All Strings"

[echo storm]

press pls copy url

[modern gate]

https://crowdin.com/translate/deep-rock-galactic/248/en-ru#224242

[echo storm]

and??

it is not translated

u want this string translated?

[modern gate]

I'm in the process :hollow:
I was asking about "The Ghost Ship Crew", should it be in any way altered or not?

[echo storm]

it shouldnt

[modern gate]

All I needed, thank you

[echo storm]

before entering translation

send it to me

I'll check

[modern gate]

Before submitting you mean?

I guess it's what you meant

[echo storm]

yep

[sage tangle]

Personally I wouldnt, plus at last in German 'Crew' is a fixed term for the members of a ship.... or... the ships crew 😄

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/779353215527419914/851402646366584862/Thinking_Foot_Driller.png

[mossy egret]

Personally i did not translate it

[dry cradle]

@modern gate the way I do it for European portuguese usually is to NOT translate "Ghost Ship" and patch the rest around; for my language I do "The Ghost Ship Crew" -> "A Tripulação da Ghost Ship"

[modern gate]

Very smart tbh

I thought of that too

[dry cradle]

As I see it, it's generally a rule of thumb not to translate names; and since Ghost Ship is a corporation(?) (kinda, it's a small team but whatever lol) it should be applied like so

[modern gate]

Yup. Just double-checking. Thanks, guys!

[mossy egret]

Well i translated the "the" to German so it reads "Die Ghost Ship Crew"

[slim verge]

Y U so mean ? 😢

[mossy egret]

Simple reason ||I work for fakiyo||

[slim verge]

time to ban Fakiyo then

[dry cradle]

[sage tangle]

Ser Mean

Plus German translators are mean nice on their own and not on my behalf

[slim verge]

x to doubt

[mossy egret]

||There is one rule: What happens in #german-drg stays in #german-drg!||

[slim verge]

you know we can join this anytime and leak all your secrets

[mossy egret]

[dry cradle]

Dew it

[sage tangle]

stop screwing around others channels

[mossy egret]

Yessir

[slim verge]

say the guy who posted in the french translation channel

[dry cradle]

That guy has access to all channels

Lol

[slim verge]

only the devs have access to all channels

[sage tangle]

I play with you guys half the time, I learn french by just listening to drakos and silaises french accent when they speak english.

[slim verge]

Don't count me in

I'm never there lol

[foggy steppe]

I'm tempted to translate Dreadnought Hivemind Hiveguard as influencer because I really can't think of anything good 😅

[chilly orbit]

Isn't it Hiveguard ? Plus I'd say, if you don't have any idea for the moment, you could keep it in english, and maybe have some notes on your phone or computer to write down ideas when they pass through your mind

[boreal quest]

strážce úlu?

Or is that too on the nose for ya?

[short abyss]

when in doubt

check what others used

I ended up using something along the lines of what stiny said

because i essentially ran out of synonyms for a person who guards or protects something

😳

it's one thing to just not know what to translate it into

it's another where there literally just isn't a word for a thing in a different language

[boreal quest]

We went with "úlový zobák"

I know it's not the same, since you have different words for hives for bees, and other issues.

"Hayward" is the English word for it.

Hive hayward.

[mossy egret]

We translated it to "Schwarmhüter" which basically means Hiveguard
laughs in German language

[chilly orbit]

The french translation, in which I didn't participate, is Rochegarde.
I do believe there's a pun intended with "Roche", as it's Rock, but it's one letter from "Ruche", which is Hive.

[sage tangle]

Oh god ping in babelfish and it's not a scam alert.

[slim verge]

gloria !!

[slim verge]

No pun intended, honest

It's just that " Gardien de la ruche" was a bit too long and didn't really worked well anyway

And "ruchegarde" and other stuff like that were not sounding terribly exciting either

sometimes, stuff rolling off the tongue naturally is more important

[sage tangle]

Rochegarde
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71p-lDeOxnL._SL1500_.jpg
?

[slim verge]

that's a ferrero...

[sage tangle]

... Rocher

[dry cradle]

ferrero rocherrochegarde

[chilly orbit]

Now we need a silly edit where a Hiveguard open his shell and that's a ferrero in place of its abdomen

[slim verge]

get to modding and do it then

[dry cradle]

hiveguard milk chocolate covered in little sentinel shell pieces

[slim verge]

👌

sounds tasty

[dry cradle]

might try to do it on photoshop

totally no

might only need a photo of a hg with his back slightly shown

anyone got a specimen?

do you think the trailer vids will do?

cant remember if they show a sliver of their abdomen

[slim verge]

no idea

[mossy kraken]

it shows the shell slamming shut at the end if I do recall correctly

[dry cradle]

cant find trailer on youtube

sadge

i think ill need to resort to the u33 trailer

[dry cradle]

is this a nice shitpost lol

[sage tangle]

I love this discord

[slim verge]

lmao

nice

[mellow topaz]

On that note, I can't help but think Magnite looks like salty licorice flavored chocolate

[dry cradle]

[short abyss]

Broke: Ferrero Rocher
Woke: Ferrero Rondnoir

[dry cradle]

So

My brain couldn't let the Ferrero rochegarde joke go

And now I'm imagining how would a Ferrero rocher Hoxxes edition be

[mellow topaz]

Ferrero rocher specifically or just Ferrero

[sage tangle]

I demand pictures of spiderman Ferreroguard

[boreal quest]

Raffaello is better than Ferrero Rocher, anyway.

[sage tangle]

Cocos candy? You monster

[dry cradle]

Tbf the innards of Raffaello are really fucking good

[dry cradle]

What's a Ferrero rocher?

Only heard of Ferrero rochegarde

[mellow topaz]

Not sure what rochegarde is either

[chilly orbit]

French name of the hiveguard

[mellow topaz]

Ah

What is it a portmanteau of?

Because from what I've seen, rochegarde isn't a word

[dry cradle]

#babelfish-lounge message might slightly answer idk

[mellow topaz]

Ah

[slim verge]

neither is hiveguard

[mellow topaz]

Hive guard is a compound word

[slim verge]

"roche" and "garde" are also two words

we just slapped them together

[mellow topaz]

Fair enough

[mellow topaz]

Whoo, more phantom pings

[limber yarrow]

👍

[short abyss]

so whats up with this

i see people translating it like so

but when i do it it's

[boreal quest]

Translator batch?

[short abyss]

wuh

[lean ocean]

keep plural one and other in English and it will work

[short abyss]

alrighty

thank you

[small kernel]

Don't translate like this, you can look for turkish as example

[short abyss]

okay

[small kernel]

After the count(amount), use singular if your language is singular, and plural if it is plural. Example: Kill 1 Dreadnought or Kill 1 Dreadnoughts

[shell vine]

Basic idea is that anything after the | is code, so you should only translate the words between the = and , symbols. Also, don't add a space before the | or it will break add well.
It's an attempt from the devs to allow for plural forms, but it hasn't been generalised yet.

[short abyss]

I see

Well, I have dual in grammatical number terms so it doesn't fit me 100%

;))

[dry cradle]

Once again, a ghost ping

Well shite

[slim verge]

yeah, another scam link

[elfin marten]

Hi

[slim verge]

hey

Sooo, to be a translator, you just need to head to Crowdin (the link is in the pinned message) and you can start translating right away !

[elfin marten]

How can I be a translater? I am from hungary, and I want to help in it

[slim verge]

Also, you'll probably want to coordonate with the hungarian team

@boreal quest

[elfin marten]

okay, thanks

[slim verge]

If you any questions regarding general translation, it's the place to ask !

For anything specific related to the hungarian one, you can ask Stiny or ArcSten

(the full list of translators is also in the pinned messages)

[elfin marten]

yeah I saw that

Thanks very much

[digital dawn]

Is this a new thing that the devs were discussing the other week? Looks very cool!

[shell vine]

It has been around for a couple months now, but there is no new development done on it at this time, as this solution only allows for the plural forms similar to that of english (quite a bunch of languages have more complicated plural forms, or simply more than two options to add)

[sage tangle]

Yesn't. As Azerty said it's been around for a few months now, but has been added due to our requests. Sadly some languages have different word forms / endings not only for singular and plural, but for
0, 1, 2-10 and 10 and up
Or 1,2,3 and more
And so on 😄

[short abyss]

i feel sorry for the devs

[sage tangle]

I highly recommend this short 10 minute video which shows the difficulties of localising text for DEVS / coders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j74jcxSunY

I also recommend the comments, many users added their special local language oddities in the youtube comments.

[short abyss]

classic tom scott

and brady haran

[jovial violet]

looks like the arabic translator listed is a deleted account? 🤨

[dry cradle]

Looks like it

Wake up samurai @sage tangle, we got an account to burn

[jovial violet]

if there's anyone else here that knows arabic there's a weird sentence i managed to translate but i feel needs a little brushing up

[dry cradle]

Bring it to the attention of other translators on crowdin, as a last resort maybe

[jovial violet]

okay!

Ill post it here too,

English: Wait a minute...If all truths are knowable, then all truths must in fact be known.....but by whom? ...Karl would know!
Arabic:
لو كان بالامكان معرفة كل الحقائق، لكانت جميع الحقائق معلومة.. ولاكن ممن؟ كارل يعرف!

I feel like its as close as I can get it to be to the original, without taking the translation too literally and keeping it dialectually(?) ambiguous, if that makes sense, but something about it still feels wrong, does anyone have better phrasing?

[sage tangle]

Yeh the guy translated quite a heavy chunk in may, then left. Sadly didn't stick around. After 13.500 words translated

Weird

[sage tangle]

With the guy from the sticky leaving, we don't have an active Arabic translator online in Discord anymore. The activity in Arabic since he left in May is minuscule.
If you enjoy it, we're glad for any help 🙂

[sage tangle]

Done 😦

[dry cradle]

[jovial violet]

yeah sure! wouldnt mind taking his place

i already did a whole bunch of stuff today

[astral vortex]

How could I get my language added to the Crowdin project?

[slim verge]

what language ?

[astral vortex]

Kazakh

[slim verge]

We'll need to ask the devs to create the crowdin language for that and then you can start translating

@sage tangle I know you'll know who to ask for creating a new language

[small kernel]

@astral vortex I'm glad you came from Crowdin discuss and welcome to board

[mellow topaz]

At this rate GSG should add the amount of languages as a bullet point

[shell vine]

Languages available for translation != game translated into theses languages

But I agree, they definitely should advertise it more.

[mellow topaz]

How on earth did some of the bigger languages manage to translate all the patch notes too

[shell vine]

Very dedicated people ||or me being bored out of my mind while at work||

[mossy egret]

Dedication and much torture support from fakiyo

[fluid briar]

👀

https://steamcommunity.com/app/548430/discussions/2/3062996277994118919/

[slim verge]

thanks for sharing it

[burnt ravine]

Except this guy just misunderstand what you mean.
"Habituellement courte vie" make totaly sens.

[chilly orbit]

Don't worry, Pounce is a very good translator, and will fix the issue if there's one (I reviewed it, and share your opinion on that)

[slim verge]

I do agree partly with the topic as I wasn't totally satisfied with the work done on that translation

But it was less about "habituellement courte vie" and more about another part of it

Also, thanks for the kind words

And thank you for sharing your insight @burnt ravine

[burnt ravine]

I'm a french native speaker and I love this game so eh

[slim verge]

A love we all share 😛

[dry cradle]

finally no ghost messages lol

[digital dawn]

goats messages

[dry cradle]

🐐 ✉️

[digital dawn]

<@&296918282403840000>

I wonder if the invite link to this server needs to be expired and replaced, or something, lol… I'm not sure why so many scammers come here

This server definitely seems to be on a hit-list, for lack of a better term

[shell vine]

Not really an option, since the server has a custom invite to it

[sage tangle]

This Server has user invites to it, a custom public link (discord.gg/DRG) as well as being shown on the Discord Discover Page, being one of the biggest Discords around. Changing that is not really an option. Plus those guys make it systematically.

Public advertisement comes with that. IMO it's rather Discord needing to fix people being able to spam so many channels that quickly. That shouldn't be possible in the first place.

Plus copy paste to more than two channels should also autodunce or ban

[boreal quest]

There are ways to filter out bots with verification and capcha-like stuff. I've been subjected to a few of those.

[mellow topaz]

gonna need more moderators soon if the bot situation is going to get this bad

[mellow topaz]

One thing started bothering me a lot

in the weapon upgrades, there's no telling which mod description has punctuation and what doesn't

lots of them don't even have a period, while others do.

That issue has spread into the translations as well.

[sage tangle]

I know exactly what you mean. The solution is to decide on your own IMO.

[mellow topaz]

There was that one big typo fix string dump coming eventually, I hope that resolves some issues

Though right now I'm just waiting for the devs to show anything

[sage tangle]

Show? You mean new content?

[mellow topaz]

I suppose

[shell vine]

Mark had offered to fix inconsistencies a little while back, I think this would be in that scope as well. Thing is, what form is the right one ? With or without punctuation ? (You decide Mark, we'll link the strings that are not following the rules)

[mellow topaz]

Yup

[limber yarrow]

Alright who's the one who keeps talking in here and gets his message deleted?

[mellow topaz]

meanie

[mossy egret]

Thanks for reporting!

[small kernel]

It will be fixed next update I hope

[sage tangle]

Full of use

[boreal quest]

Use it fully.

[mossy egret]

Use, fully it!

[dry cradle]

fullfill its destiny!

[hard sky]

That is fixed!

Also hi, I'm back from vacation!

[buoyant dagger]

Hi back from vacation, I'm Tater

[slim verge]

Welcome back

[hard sky]

When I saw "1Tater is typing..." I knew exactly what you were gonna type

[chilly orbit]

1Tater more like 1Dad-er

[slim verge]

Still nowhere near Jacob's level in terms of dad puns. Big J. is unmatched

<@&296918282403840000>

[chilly orbit]

Pinging mods to make them read my joke ? I am touched Kappa

[slim verge]

not exactly 👀

but maybe you'll get a round of applause, who knows ?

[mellow topaz]

Does this mean you'll push the typo string fix now?

[shell vine]

I dont think the typo fixes can be uploaded to crowdin without an update, and that would be risky because of all the new content.

[mellow topaz]

How would it be risky? U35 leaks?

[boreal quest]

I don't recall what happened before, but half of the mission names are not translated any more in 🇭🇺
It might be something similar, I am not sure.

[sage tangle]

that was because GSG By accident 'removed' the mission name strings and had to reimplement them

they're still translated, just not 'in' again

[fallen swallow]

i got pushed here

hello

i know german and russian

can translate if you need help

[sage tangle]

oh boy here we go again

[fallen swallow]

uh oh

[boreal quest]

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-where-the-fun-begins-star-wars-anakin-sassy-excited-gif-4830492

[fallen swallow]

i feel like i should be concerned

[sage tangle]

Sooo the game is not translated by the devs, instead they post all game strings (words...) on a site calles crowdin. Everyone can participate and submit translations for their language or vote for existing translations.
Each patch the new / best voted / approved translations get into the game

[fallen swallow]

i see

that's pretty neat

send link

ah no link found

[limber yarrow]

👍

[fallen swallow]

i love the emotes here

there is also a surprising amount of german translators here

[slim verge]

the french supremacy is threatened !

quick @chilly orbit, find us some new translators

[boreal quest]

At least we're hung...arians. 🇭🇺

[sage tangle]

How do you mean?

[shell vine]

Don't mind them...

[mossy egret]

||Flee|| Yes lot of Germans here!

[fallen swallow]

you know you're not filling me with a lot of confidence here

Is this some sort of slave camp disguised as a tourist attraction?

I know what i'm gonna do!

ignore all the yelps for help and join the fun!

[chilly orbit]

This isn't a slave camp, I swear, you work hard like 15 hours a day before every update, for nothing but personnal satisfaction. It's some sort of Artist Simulator, simulating the experience and exposure payment !

(Note: Pay the artists for their work, dammit.)

[shell vine]

*Exposure

Best currency ever

[hard sky]

If you have a list of the faulty descriptions, feel free to forward them to me and I'll try to make punctuation more consistent when I have some free time.

[mellow topaz]

We'll try to make a list, but we need your call on which one should be correct, no period or yes period.

Though I suppose a spreadsheet that has both of them marked isn't too difficult

[hard sky]

I would say yes period.

I just glanced over a few and it seems like the majority have punctuation at the end. So let's go with that.

What do you guys think?

[mellow topaz]

I'm fine with that.

[buoyant dagger]

Periods are good

[boreal quest]

Grammar bless 🙏

Since grammar is on the menu, is there a way to find strings with a quotation on crowdin? Just the ones that have it.

[hard sky]

Hmm. Quotation? How do you mean?

[boreal quest]

Like the strings that have the "quotation marks" in them.

[hard sky]

Ah, not sure, sorry.

[boreal quest]

No worries.

It's just that I have to replace all of them.

Because we do quotations „like this‟

[hard sky]

If you do make a list, please include the Source Location of the description as that will make it so much easier for me to find the game file 💪

[hard sky]

Ah, I see how that would be nice to search for! 😄

[mellow topaz]

Will do!

[hard sky]

Thanks! 🙏

[mellow topaz]

oh, it's gonna be trickier to get these ones than I thought

[shell vine]

Search and destroy replace

[limber yarrow]

<@&296918282403840000>

Another scammer

[late folio]

Where do I apply to become community translator?

[buoyant dagger]

This would be the place to get in contact with the other people currently translating the language you wish to help with the localization of.

There's information that will be useful to you in the pinned messages of this channel.

[slim verge]

Hello 👋

All you need to do to start translating is make a crowdin account (the link is in the pinned messages) and you can go working on the translation right away. If you have any question, don't hesitate to ask away ! (Also you might want to get a role in #welcome-and-rules in case you want to post screenshots of specific strings)
Which language would you like to help translating out of curiosity ? ^^

[mellow topaz]

I don't think it's possible to specifically apply for the community translator role itself. You'll get offered it when you've done enough work.

[late folio]

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it. I'm interested in Croatian as I see no one is translating it and in game there is a lot of grammar mistakes and some text isn't translated.

[slim verge]

Good luck then !

[slim verge]

He didn't ask for the role though

[late folio]

Thanks mate, I'll be on it tonight

[dry cradle]

they did ask where do they apply to become a community translator, so i can see some of the doubt

[slim verge]

yeah, i can definitely see why some people thought he asked for the role

[dry cradle]

wow, 2 ghost messages here

perfect >:((((((((((((((((((((((((((((