babelfish-lounge

[short abyss]

it is ghost ship games

[small kernel]

[sage tangle]

Inb4 Jacob posting and deleting messages

[vital marsh]

Hey, I'll be joining as a Hungarian translator if that's alright.

[shell vine]

Sure !

Everyone is welcome to help

[slim verge]

Welcome !
All you need to do to start translating is make a Crowdin account (the link is in the pinned messages) and you can start right away.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask them here, we'll do our best to answer you.

Also if you need to coordinate with the other translators, we have the whole list of them for each language in the pinned message too. Don't hesitate to contact them.
good luck

[vital marsh]

Thank you!

[vital marsh]

Oh yeah, may I have one of these fancy roles?

[boreal quest]

I approve of this request.

[dry cradle]

#babelfish-lounge message

o wait

shet

u need community translator role

f

[vital marsh]

lol

[foggy steppe]

You don't, just a mod or Jacob to get you the hu role

[shell vine]

@solid bough Could you grant the @hu-translator role to @vital marsh please?

[weak hollow]

有台灣的朋友要一起打菁英深潛嗎?-1機槍或是鑽投.偵查!

[small kernel]

@weak hollow You can use #drg-chat for that. This is translation channel 🙂

[chilly orbit]

And if you want to find other people who play drg to speak chinese with, you can check #fan-communities :)

[shell vine]

Speed moderation ! Thanks

[dapper geode]

亲前看端详

[shell vine]

This channel is dedicated to the translation of the game. I would suggest using #drg-chat or #lfg-steam.
There are also local discords in #fan-communities

[dry cradle]

Ghost messages are

[limber yarrow]

👎

[rigid nebula]

how and where can i assist in the translations?

[shell vine]

You can join the effort on crowdin, which our community translation platform

The link should be in the pinned messages

Which language would you work on ?

[rigid nebula]

Hungarian. The current translation is rather just translated, and not really made hungarian.

using english words hungarianized rather than using the actual hungarian word for it

[shell vine]

Then you should see with @boreal quest and @twin falcon , they are the ones that have worked on the language so far. Feel free to contribute on crowdin nonetheless, priority should be to suggest translations for the strings that don't have one yet, and then to improve the ones that are already present.

[boreal quest]

"using english words hungarianized"

Please, explain.

[rigid nebula]

Radióaktív simán lehetne sugárzó pl.

elvégre az már magyar szó

[boreal quest]

Radioaktivitás is az.

Mivel az a régió az uránban gazdag, ezért is az a zóna neve.

[rigid nebula]

szerintem jobban hangzana

[boreal quest]

Radioaktív sugárzás van ott, nem csak sima sugárzás.

De ha van más ezen kívül, akkor meghallgatom.

[rigid nebula]

a grunt miért lett katona?

[boreal quest]

Mert a grunt az egy katonai kifejezés a sima katonákra.

[sage tangle]

Now you're just making up words.

[vital marsh]

All words are made-up, if you think about it.

[digital dawn]

and you can't stop me, either

[shell vine]

<@&296918282403840000>

[olive edge]

Hello, I'm new here, is the game going to be translated to Portuguese? And where is the crowdin link? I don't know where to find the pinned link

[shell vine]

The link is at the end of the third pinned message

Which portuguese are you going to work on ? The game is currently having work done on Brazillan portuguese and Portugal Portuguese

[olive edge]

Brazilian Portuguese

Is there still work to be done on it?

[shell vine]

Then @limber yarrow would be the one to ask

He's one of the proofreaders for the language.
As for work to be done, always, even when a language has been fully translated, we often try to improve it, and the devs regularly add new content that needs translating as well.

[olive edge]

I am looking at the crowdin page, and it's a little different than what i am used to from other projects, that plus and minus interface is the proof reading? On other projects there was a check mark, anyway, there are only like reddit posts to translate, so i guess i'll just double check stuff, got here late to the party lol

[slim verge]

the plus and minus are probably the vote system. The markings only appear for proofreaders, which are appointed by the dev team

It's okay to not have much to translate at the start. There's always a lot of work that goes into fixing mistakes and improving translations anyway. I would say it's half of the work.
Besides, we have a big update coming in the next months so there'll be plenty to translate 😄

[olive edge]

aight

i'll stay tuned

just realized it's a 3 year old game lmao

[slim verge]

Good luck on the translation
don't hesitate to take contact with the other translators/proofreaders of your language so you can discuss eventual fixes/changes with them

It is an "old" game now for sure but with the content that keeps on coming, we always need more people for the translation.

[olive edge]

Sure

[limber yarrow]

i'm Latin American Spanish

[shell vine]

Oh sorry !

[limber yarrow]

not portuguese

xD

[shell vine]

My mistake

[limber yarrow]

👍

[dry cradle]

dont forget its not me either lmao

[boreal quest]

Just kidding, it's me. Keeping you guys on your toes.

[sage tangle]

By the way, new strings dropped in Crowdin, if you missed it 🙂

[limber yarrow]

Thanks for letting us know

I'll start working on that when i get home 👍

[sage tangle]

Typo? (Missing .)

[small kernel]

I looked other shouts so no typo I guess

[boreal quest]

We have to take it as a typo and correct it when translating.

Punctuation problems? Automated grammar, mate.

[shell vine]

(Plus a nice little report in Jira, so Mark can stay busy when there are no bugs to hunt ^^)
#translation-spoilers message

[small kernel]

What about these?

[shell vine]

Same, there should be a period at the end (.)

[sage tangle]

@hard sky is that on purpose or do you need to do another 1300 strings? 😛

[shell vine]

(Maybe he's trying to boost his crowdin score...)

[small kernel]

This should be "groaning"?

[sharp dagger]

Yes definitely.

[fading mirage]

Hello, i want translate game to Slovak (Slovakia, not Slovenian) language, but on crowdin language is not...Can you add them? Im with my friend we can start and i try to find others Slovak translator with better skill

[small kernel]

@sage tangle Can you ask the dev for new language?

[sage tangle]

@shell horizon can you read two lines above please? Somebody wants 'Slovakia' (not Slovenian) 🙂

[rich vector]

le fishe

[hard sky]

oops

[hard sky]

I'm actually not sure. I read somewhere that there shouldn't be an end period in subtitles so I might have actually removed some while going through various voice lines. But I've since noticed that a lot of other games do have end periods in their subtitles, so 🤷

[sage tangle]

Yo dawg, I heard you like typos so while fixing some typos in your typos I added some new typos so you can check for typos while translating corrected typos with some new typos.

[foggy steppe]

akschually its just Slovak not Slovakia, that's a country

[fading mirage]

Slovak - Language
Slovakia - Country

Slovenia - Country
Slovenian - Language

but very often are these two countries mixed (mainly from non EU countries). I didn't want to make a mistake :)

[shell vine]

Don't worry, we passed the word along, Slovak should be added soon™️

[shell vine]

<@&296918282403840000>

[buoyant dagger]

ree

[shell vine]

Oops

You removed it between the post and it getting up...

[buoyant dagger]

[fading mirage]

Thanks bro ! we are ready !

[shell vine]

@fading mirage
Slovak has been added !
I wish you luck and tenacity on your translation journey !

Rock and Stone, until it is done !

[slim verge]

nice
good luck !

[fading mirage]

Thaaaanks

[half brook]

I don't know about the other languages, but the Disabled Inertia Inhibitor (LGP 40mm Deepcore upgrade) is not translated in French.

[fading mirage]

How often are added new languages to games? and how often are updated? Thanks

[shell vine]

New languages to translate are added when someone shows an interest in translating it, like you did.
The game is then updated with translated strings when it is updated (so soon, since the U34.5 is near)

But, languages need a certain amount of translated text before they are included at all.
There is a tool currently in development for enabling translators to see their work in-game without waiting for the next update.
We'll announce it here once it is ready.

It is generally better to focus on translating the strings that are tied to the gameplay first, as these are the most helpful for the players (weapons terminal, perks, mission description, etc.).
Feel free to ask if you ever have trouble with some strings, or questions on how the system works, we are happy to help.

[slim verge]

The string was bugged, it's why it wasn't translated ^^

[sage tangle]

For the new guy who just had a topic on the German Crowdin: You're right here 🙂

[chilly orbit]

While applying the translation to all the strings that were fixed recently, I found out some of them, maybe a dozen so far, are found thrice, for the same use. Is this intended ?

[shell vine]

^@hard sky

[mellow topaz]

What is this for?

[shell vine]

I think this is the pop-up when you get one of the skins locked by the mastery of a weapon

[mellow topaz]

From buying weapon mods?

[shell vine]

Yes

[boreal quest]

Oh yeah, I know what it is now.

Context~ ✨

[mellow topaz]

Thanks

[fading mirage]

I cant upload pic., so...

https://ibb.co/QkWx4rk

first two days, three men

FOR KARL!

[shell vine]

This channel is for the translation of the game, is this image tied to it ?

Oh wait, You are the guy working on SLovak !

Embed
https://ibb.co/QkWx4rk

[boreal quest]

We are so used to scam messages that this looked like one at first.

Excellent job!

[shell vine]

(You need a role to be able to embed here, you should grab one from the #welcome-and-rules channel)

one of the classes role should suffice

That is indeed very impressive !
Great job from all of you, Rock and Stone Translators !

[latent wadi]

[slim verge]

[mellow topaz]

Hot damn!

[boreal quest]

It's all fun and games until you encounter the untranslatable puns and acronyms.

[shell vine]

Hey ! Don't scare them yet, leave them some hope

[latent wadi]

You called?

[shell vine]

No !
Locks him back in the pun box

[latent wadi]

• shit! *

[boreal quest]

I think it is more evil to let them loose in the wild without telling the rough truth.

[shell vine]

Sure, sure, but at least wait until they are far enough into the wilds turning around no longer seems like a possibility

[boreal quest]

That is even more evil. Wow.

[mossy egret]

No more Mr. Dice Guy!

[fading mirage]

Its the funniest parts 👍

[fading mirage]

When will be released update 34.5 (or 35)? its any chance for testing out SK translate? One thing is paper translate, but we must see them in real :) Thaaanks

[sage tangle]

U34.5 is probably be in experimental phase soonish, no news on U35 except Q3. Normally we have a way of testing ingame strings every day, but sadly not at the moment...

[sage tangle]

We can tell you as soon as GSG announces something, but seeing Q3 ends with September I'm sure we'll have news regarding that for you very soon.

[fading mirage]

Okay, thanks you, maybe at ends at september we will be have 100% "AllGameText", we will do correction at next phase

[sage tangle]

you have 10% already? You know you're crazy, right? 😄

I'm proud of you

[slim verge]

we all are

[slim verge]

👀

[sage tangle]

Yes but I didn't mean baguette-sharpening madman like you, but just normal good crazy

[slim verge]

fairly impressive

[slim verge]

sshhh

you're safe, the baguette can't hurt you

[sage tangle]

There's rumours French can only die if you stab them with a baguette through the heart.

[slim verge]

that's absolutely not true, what a silly idea

||👀 ||

[small kernel]

@fading mirage If you need any help or string context, you can leave comment on crowdin or write here

[fading mirage]

sure, no problem :) thanks

[magic umbra]

Hey, can i become a translator for czech language?

[slim verge]

Hey again Pelda
You just need hop on Crowdin (the link is in the pinned message, at the bottom of the translator list), make an account and you can start translating right away !

If you wanna coordinate with other Czech translators, you can also check the list of current translators in the pinned message as well

If you have any other questions about the translation, feel free to ask away in here ^^

[magic umbra]

Ahh great

[slim verge]

In all cases, good luck
we always need more translators ! ^^

[magic umbra]

Alright im in

[sage tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/homer-simpson-bart-simpson-join-us-sit-here-gif-15631014

[slim verge]

don't terrify him, scariyo

[magic umbra]

Christ

That homer's face tho

😄

i'm translating now

[sage tangle]

But talk with @foggy steppe , he's the main CZ translator. There are cases where you need to translate leeway

[magic umbra]

Wdym?

[sage tangle]

Each language has its special cases which already working translators try to work around. Joining as a new guy you join and think 'WTF is this crap?' until you understand why the translation is 'wrong' but makes sense ingame 🙂

[magic umbra]

Right. I'll DM him

[foggy steppe]

Yes, welcome another victim recruit

[honest sun]

Hi. Is it correct source string https://crowdin.com/translate/deep-rock-galactic/77/en-xx#212672 ?

[dry cradle]

clicked the link, gave me an error msg. what language was it supposed to be?

[shell vine]

The source string is correct

[steep crag]

Do you have/want an Afrikaans translator? I should be able to do most of it...

[dry cradle]

boutta check

prob not tho

[shell vine]

Some parts of it should not be translated though. I've underlined the one you should change.
Collect {amount} {amount}|plural(one=Alien Egg, other=Alien Eggs)

[dry cradle]

no afrikaans language on crowdin. who vouches to ask the devs for it?

[shell vine]

I'm not sure the language is already available, be if you want we can ask

[dry cradle]

its not

just checked

we have to msg the devs to put the lang there

[shell vine]

We are always happy to welcome new translators.

I'll pass the message along

I don't know, that would be something to ask Mark about

[steep crag]

Happy to look at it, if someone can ping me if they want it

cool\

[dry cradle]

we'll ping you as soon as your language's available

translating is as easy as creating an account on crowdin

just create one and start right away

[shell vine]

Thread for the Collect {amount} {amount}|plural(one=Alien Egg, other=Alien Eggs) string

[dry cradle]

translating is always welcome tho, feel free to start as soon as you can

lets just wait for the devs to put there the lang

[shell vine]

I asked, now we just need for it to pop up there

[steep crag]

Just signed up and added DRG

[small kernel]

Yes its correct, you can look turkish language for example

Also I leave comments these strings

[hard sky]

I think that's because some voice lines are reused for certain things. For instance, the grunting noises are used both when you press X in the Space Rig, and when you press X while carrying a heavy item.

[mellow topaz]

Or when you're in a praetorian's fart cloud

[chilly orbit]

Thanks for the answer ! :)

[dry cradle]

I sense anotHER GHOST MESSAGE

[sage tangle]

Can we stop commenting on the spammer alerts to not fill the chat further and making it easier to read up on actual translation stuff please? 🙂

[mossy egret]

German Translation in a nutshell ||atleast for me the Patchnote guy||

[shadow lodge]

any context for "Bugnappers!" ? no idea where it is used or what should it be.

[buoyant dagger]

It's a play on the word kidnapper

Or at least that's what it seems to be to me

[shell vine]

It's used when you get caught by a leech or a grabber, if you have the heightened senses perk active.

[digital dawn]

To this day, I can't tell whether the word "kidnap" is etymologically "kid+nap" or not because so much media swaps out "kid" with whatever else lol

I'm sure it's an easy Google search, now that I think about it…

[sage tangle]

late 17th century: back-formation from kidnapper, from kid + slang nap ‘nab, seize’.

[shell vine]

So it would be more accurate to have that string be Dwarfnapper than Bugnapper

[foggy steppe]

Bugsnabs

[sage tangle]

FYI, string from mod.io which is therefore untranslatable.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/418822472285028363/882583212226928660/unknown.png?width=1617&height=910

[boreal quest]

That's what I was missing. I thought there were strings for that on crowdin.

Yeah, I was not hallucinating. I remember translating those, but now those strings are gone from Crowdin.

[shell vine]

<@&296918282403840000>

[buoyant dagger]

Reeeee

[shell vine]

Sorry

I'm on a bad connection, it takes time to send a message

[buoyant dagger]

You're fine I'm just giving you shit :P

[shell vine]

(And you're getting to it before the message lands)

Still not nice for the other mods that got the ping (poor Pedro)

[mellow topaz]

I know that translator saves are synced with the main save, but can translator branch players play with main branch players?

[shell vine]

Soon

[mellow topaz]

so they don't just yet?

[shell vine]

It should be possible once the U34.5 is made live

[mellow topaz]

it's just the way it was worded implied that only the save files sync

but you still can't play with main branch players

[sage tangle]

Yeh, as azerty said. Once 34.5 (modding) is live we can just opt into translator branch permanently and still play (with) the normal stable build at the same time

[slim verge]

that's going to be pretty cool and useful

[gray arrow]

question to devs: what prevents you from editing source string to fix a typo instead of copying and pasting it over as a new one?

cuz shit's hella annoying

i've been crawling through "new" strings that accumulated since russian team's shriveling in march-april and it's all duplicates from the existing shouts

combined with actual new stuff, 24 pages
not copying and pasting coulda saved a lot of copying and pasting

[sage tangle]

Adjusting the thing in the game makes a new ID or smth and needs a new string. Short: It's a quirk of Unreal Engine if I remember correctly

[gray arrow]

work against the engine then idk

thousands of modders worldwide tear the fabric of reality on daily basis, no way a team of well paid professional coders couldn't make a proper label ID system

[sage tangle]

It's getting worked on in the background, something to show us better what it is ingame. But dunno if this also adresses this issue.

[gray arrow]

the workflow was garbage two years ago and it's still garbage and i'm almost surprised
does everyone just go "hmmm yes i will copy and paste 350 old strings this is so cool and awesome :)))"?

[sage tangle]

TM < Translation Memory

[gray arrow]

still shit

[chilly orbit]

Devs are working hard on every aspect of the game, and made improvement for translator this update too.
So yeah, the system isn't perfect, but they work on it.
If the whole point of this is to be agressive about the translation, maybe you should go easy on Crowdin, take a step down, and let other people apply the TM on those strings.

[gray arrow]

they work on it.
i took this excuse two years ago, not feeling like it anymore

like yeah i'm going to continue contributing little by little but also fuck you whoever on the dev team thought keeping localization in this state is a good idea lmao

help us help you

[chilly orbit]

I can understand your anger toward the system which is, I must admit, suboptimal, but insulting the devs is a big no.
And they actually created a special build for translators this update. If that ain't working to help us, welp, nothing will do.

[slim verge]

🤔

[gray arrow]

well yeah let's hope that doesn't come out modest expectations style

[shell vine]

At this point, you should address this rant against the devs at Epic that made the localisation work that way. GSG devs are not wizards, and they can't just completely rewrite the way UE handles strings, nor the way crowdin handles them.

[gray arrow]

idk man i've seen a lot of wizards in the past couple months and those didn't even ask to be paid for their magic

it just seems extremely stupid how months pass and nothing changes

[chilly orbit]

If you think about this, math sided, what's the best in matter of time:

• Reupload, even a hundred of strings, every update, which takes, let's say, a day of work for one employee
• Rewrite entirely the strings handling, which will take way much more time, and more workforce.

Sure, it ain't practical for us translators. But it's not worth at all for GSG to do that.

[sage tangle]

We got our own channel with info, translator build, soon with more features, a DRG testing language and a whole new build system along with other stuff to help translators.
I understand your frustration about some long-time-quirks of crowdin translation. But unless you want to be gone another time, keep it constructive and don't shit on the carpet.

You can take out your critique in a constructive manner without getting insulting.

[gray arrow]

i'd prefer getting those comments first hand

[chilly orbit]

Also, nothing changes is a lie. We got so much improvement the past months. Sure that particular point didn't move at all, but the whole translation has been easier and easier, thanks to gsg devs.

[gray arrow]

sadly my social credit score is too low

[shell vine]

I can't talk in their stead, for I am not employed at GSG, and I don't have a direct insight in what the devs can and cannot do. In the last year and a half, to help the ease the translation, the devs have added the debug language, they followed that by implementing a dedicated ticket on Jira for translation and typo issues, and lastly, they added the translation build, which is a wonderful tool to help translators see their work in only 24h, instead of having to wait for a full update to pass.

I can't agree with you when you say they don't work to help us.
I can understand the frustration that comes when you see an update that is mostly reuploads, but please take into account all the other things they have done to help us. And I sure can hope they might even find the time to change the way typos are handled - this was the first typo heavy update they ever did, let's hope it allowed them to see the problems that come with them, and that they can work to ease the process.

[gray arrow]

i don't care if i'm gone or not, this server has little value
i keep translating because there is no one else left

can't blame em for getting fed up with the slog

[slim verge]

What are you trying to achieve here exactly ?

[gray arrow]

idk

inertia, you know

[slim verge]

We get as much help as GSG can give us and we're doing the same thing in return. There never was any pressure to stick with it. So far, we've been doing it because we wanted to help and they helped us achieve that too.

It was never a priority for them, we made it possible, even if it's not their biggest focus (and it will likely never be).

[gray arrow]

well, personally i kinda wish the studio shrivels up and dies, so you could say my motivation differs

will see if the new translator build makes the whole thing any less terrible

[shell vine]

If translating the game makes you feel this bad, maybe you should take a break from it

[sage tangle]

With U34.5 the new translator build will be public which will allow us to see our translation ingame daily but play with everyone on stable build at the same time.

[gray arrow]

oh, so that's one ultra cursed detail gone, nice

[shell vine]

I mean, the main advice we give here is to focus on yourself first, and to consider the translation as a hobby. If it brings this much anger to you, maybe take some time for yourself...

[gray arrow]

i do it in breaks between making bits of work for people i actually like so it's tolerable

[shell vine]

Just, why do you work on it if you don't like the devs or the game ? Why are you inflicting this on yourself ?

[gray arrow]

citizen duty of sorts

been here for too long

too late to stop

also, again, there's basically no one else left, most russian translators quit and told GSG to fuck themselves, openly or not

[slim verge]

I genuinely do wonder why

[gray arrow]

modest expectations

mixed with magically synced personal burnouts

[slim verge]

I see

I see exactly where's the problem 🤣

thanks for the answer

[gray arrow]

you're gonna disregard the first half ain't you

[slim verge]

the first half ?

[latent wadi]

is this flagged as a faulty string : https://crowdin.com/translate/deep-rock-galactic/77/en-fr#294087 two spaces in a row between "newly" and "subscribed"

[slim verge]

probably a typo yeah

[sage tangle]

@small kernel didn't you write something about that?

[small kernel]

I report it in exp-bugreports

[latent wadi]

aye aye

[shell vine]

Can we help you ?

(If you have a question about the game's translation)

[slim verge]

<@&296918282403840000> we got someone here posting the same thing everywhere.

thank you

[shell vine]

A very, VERY, big ROCK AND STONE to @fading mirage for his amazing work on the translation these past days !
(Seriously, you rock ! 18k words in a week and a half is no small thing)

[digital dawn]

"I'll beat your record this time, just watch!"

[fading mirage]

Hehe, thanks, but its only "hard paper translate", 5-6h per day :)

[sage tangle]

Slovak - 24%
Esperanto - 1%
Not to give you a bad consciousness but...

[digital dawn]

I'm working on it now aaaaa

I'd taken a break from Deep Rock in general but I picked it back up two days ago, it's amazing how fresh it feels still

[sage tangle]

Would it help you to see the changes ingame?

Translations you did I meant

[fading mirage]

We need many many hours for testing :) but others teams members are very helpful

[sage tangle]

how many people are you in contact with? I saw it's about 7 translating?

[fading mirage]

i think yes, its important for context

[fading mirage]

we are 3 active (with me 4), we have our discord chat for brainstorming

[shell vine]

Are they also on this discord ?

[sage tangle]

Once 34.5 hits, we can give you the tool to see your translations ingame each day

[fading mirage]

He is one of them, i think hes only is here

[small kernel]

I'm still alone for Turkish language🥲

[fading mirage]

this tool, works on xbox? Because i dont have a PC(for gaming) :)

[mellow topaz]

holy shit

[sage tangle]

Oh? No, steam only

it's its own beta branch which only is possible on steam

[shell vine]

I'll ask if it's something that could be pushed to the insider branch, they had that a while back...

[fading mirage]

we will continue before update 35 will be released.

I hope v35 will be contain our language. We need feedback from others players too

[shell vine]

If you keep at it like this, it most certainly will

[sage tangle]

Azerty and I will make certain it does if you're high enough in %

[shell vine]

Let's say 50%

[sage tangle]

(We can't decide this, devs do)

but we can encourage them 😄

[shell vine]

||No bribes or blackmail involved, promise||

[fading mirage]

50%...nah...no problem :) give me week

Guys thanks for praise, hype is on maximum...but now its time for sleeping...one stone...two stones...three stones...four...ZZZZzzzzzz

[small kernel]

Hm... Some cannisters were changed to lowercase but some are uppercase?

[shell vine]

That sounds like a job for .... Mark !

[small kernel]

Well.. I guess you and fakiyo should update the testing language?

[shell vine]

Done

(I just spent my evening on it ;)

[sage tangle]

You're half an hour late

but the testing language won't get nightly builds either until 34.5 drops

[shell vine]

Well.... Since I was going to bother @hard sky for the canister thing anyway (Right above, with or without the capital C ?),
could you also make sure the next build of the experimental has a crowdin pull in it ? Pretty please ?

[digital dawn]

Do we have any idea when 35 is due?

It might kill me to do 50%+ of work by myself if it was going to be a month or two from now… but if it's going to be a couple months then dammit, I might try!

[shell vine]

Some time soon™️

(But I hardly imagine it being before the end of the month)

[dry cradle]

titus, the legend lol

i could only wish of doing similar task

[sage tangle]

35 is said to be in Q3. Experimental usually starts 5-7 days early, so you have at least that long when you know.

[dry cradle]

give the man their role

[small kernel]

Golden legendary role

[slim verge]

don't mind Meaniyo, he's just teasing.

[sage tangle]

I'm being productive in making him productive member of translation ❤️

I believe in him

[digital dawn]

Hahaha, and he's also right

What better way to assert my proficiency in the language, learn new words, and further its cause than translate this game

[sage tangle]

I want to put the game to silly made up language nobody speaks and enjoy, knowing somebody took the effort to translate that.
And then I switch away from French and try Esperanto.

[digital dawn]

👍

[slim verge]

At least our language sounds like something and not like angry people choking on a hotdog.

[sage tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/moe-me-french-man-garage-gif-12952670

[digital dawn]

Written French: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua"
Pronounced: /bɔ̃.ʒuʁ/

[chilly orbit]

Strong french accent in the background
"Fack iyo, Fackiyo !"

[obsidian nova]

Greetings👋
I'm one of the Chinese Traditional translators, and I have a question regarding meaning of the term Mods
In Valve's Left 4 Dead there is an option in main menu called Add-on Contents, which I believe functions nearly identical to game mods
So, is it okay if I translate related strings with "add-on contents" instead of "mods/game mods", since translation of the word "mod" has some ambiguity(e.g. weapon mods, character/weapon models) in zh-TW player base for a long time?

[digital dawn]

That should be fine, I would think

[obsidian nova]

Glad to know
Was looking for some viewpoint-backup out of zh-TW player base, since recently there were certain members (non-translator) in my server didn't agree with the idea
I've been translating "mods/modding/modded" with "add-on contents" since U34 first came out
Yet they~~ didn't oppose until now~~ weren't able to provide reasons strong enough to persuade me out of doing so (I did provide them my concerns though)🤔🤔

[light quest]

Well I would like to know if I could help with translating DRG when I got free time

Havent tried Crowdin yet

[shell vine]

There isn't really an obligatory term, the most important criteria is that it should make sense in your language. As such, you guys should aim for the most clear way to pass the meaning along, especially on technical terms like these, since they are not going to be voiced.

[shell vine]

Sure ! We are always happy when new people join the translation effort. Everything happens on crowdin though, so you'll have to create an account there.
What language do you want to work on ?

(and always feel free to ask here if you have questions on how crowdin work or if a specific string is giving you trouble...)

[light quest]

Simplied Chinese

[shell vine]

You should check with @lean ocean , they were working on it too. You guys might be able to coordinate the translation effort

[light quest]

Alright, will do that later, thx for replying btw

[hard sky]

I'll try! No promises, though.

[hard sky]

Hmm. Can't really decide on this one. I would argue Fuel Cannister in the first one makes sense because it's the "name" of the object. In the second one it's more general.

What do you guys think?

[shell vine]

I'm more inclined to think that even if it was it's name, it's only an object, so it doesn't get a capital...

[obsidian nova]

Well
Just want to make sure that whether "Add-on Contents" can be used to describe "Mods" or not in English first, then I can take another step without having a hard time to explain to other zh-TW players
Thanks for the heads up anyway👋

[shell vine]

(User-made content might be more precise than Add-on content, just to be sure people understand it's not from the devs....)

[mellow topaz]

Shouldn't it be "canister" anyway?

[shell vine]

True, I hadn't even noticed the extra n there...

[obsidian nova]

Ah another hiccup for me
For "User-made Content" can I translate it as "Third-party Contents"?

[light quest]

A suggestion here: How about translate that into "模组"?

Maybe that would be easier to understand

[obsidian nova]

Yes that is the main concern I'm having right now
"模组" is a popular term for Zh-TW players to describe weapon mods/modifications, and sometimes weapon overclocks

[hard sky]

🤔
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/cannister

[obsidian nova]

Also I have used "模组" to describe character/weapon models in various patchnotes before
That's why I want to use "Add-on Contents -> 附加元件" to describe "mods" in zh-TW, in order to avoid ambiguity

[mellow topaz]

I suppose both are valid then

Like color and colour

[light quest]

Maybe he wants to do that to avoid confusion?

[mellow topaz]

I was talking about the canistet

[shell vine]

Can -n- ister discussion

[light quest]

I think maybe any feed back would be helpful?

[obsidian nova]

I did discuss with my fellow server members (non-translators) before
However like I stated earlier
I've been translating "mods/modding/modded" with "add-on contents" since U34 first came out
Yet they~~ didn't oppose until now~~ weren't able to provide reasons strong enough to persuade me out of doing so (I did provide them my concerns though)🤔

[light quest]

Uh, I would like to know if there is anyone who wants to stick with the untranslated one"mods"

[shell vine]

French does. We went with mods as such since it is now part of the popular culture.

[obsidian nova]

Is planning to do so for strings where word-spacing/margin would be tight
Like tags after in-game name, mod.io list, etc.

[light quest]

Most of us(Chinese) do know what"Mods" means so leave it untranslated would work I think.

Well I think I'd better turn off the @ when replying to someone😅

[shell vine]

Don't worry about it, it doesn't bother me.

[light quest]

Copy that

[obsidian nova]

For now I just need to know whether "(User-made) Add-on Contents" is capable of describing "Mods" in English
To ensure that my understanding between the words is not wrong, to say the least

[hard sky]

I think you would at least need the (User-made) to convey that meaning as Add-on content is often used to describe DLC etc. as well.

[obsidian nova]

For DLC I specifically point out that they are “downloadable game updates” in zh-TW
In addition to this, zh-TW players have always assumed that a DLC is a package made/comes from developers, while Mods are user-made game contents in the first place
So I think there shouldn’t be much of confusion

[shell vine]

I mean, as long as it is clear that one are made by the devs, and paid for, and the others are user made and free, you'll be fine.

[sage tangle]

I bet Mark already regrets ever having touched typos and translation issues.

[slim verge]

IIRC color and colour is a UK/US difference, right ?

Cannister is the old world for canister IIRC and he's not in usage anymore, even though it can still be used. The problem is more that there's a consistency problem since we have both.

[shell vine]

A lot of words with the our/or difference are indeed between UK/US.
Goes back to the declaration of independence from the US, where, to affirm their differences with the old country, they changed the spelling of some words.

[slim verge]

like armor and armour

[shell vine]

yup (Or harbor/harbour)

[sage tangle]

Oh? I thought US started to abandon grammar and spelling first. Out of protest old Mother England severed bonds with its colonies. 'You grammar savage are no child of mine anymore'.

[light quest]

k.. Joined the DRG Crowdin project.

[trail gale]

may I get the de-translater role?
or which one do I need to get the translation builds?

[shell vine]

The translation builds are restricted for the community translators until the end of the experimental (they are currently broken).
They'll be made public when U34.5 hits live

[shell vine]

For the de-translator role, may I have your crowdin name ?

(I'll take a while, the German proofreader is on stream rn, he should be done in an hour or so.)

[trail gale]

nickname: rala72

[trail gale]

haven't checked the names yet 😄
cool 😎

[sharp dagger]

As mentioned, topic should be discussed with Fakiyo.

[light quest]

Guys, I am kinda confused about re-translating the "Weapon License" into another string, like" Weapon Operating License", is that okay to do so?

[shell vine]

Yeah, absolutely.
The only rules are for you to keep the meaning.

The clearer you can make it, the better

(If you can keep the humor and jokes, that's even better, but not the priority)

[light quest]

Alrighty

Gonna retranslate something here to make it feels better.

[light quest]

What is "Them" in "Stick 'them' into the MULE" ? Collected Items?

[shell vine]

I think so, could you send the full context so I can be sure ?

[light quest]

“Stick them in the M.U.L.E. until the required amount is collected.”

[slim verge]

yep, it's collected items

most likely eggs

[shell vine]

It's miner's manual stuff, probably eggs

You can check in-game if you have the time

[light quest]

K got it

[sage tangle]

I'll check it out 🙂

[light quest]

Rock-N-Stone

[small kernel]

@light quest

[light quest]

Thanks mate

[small kernel]

You're welcome

[light quest]

[shell vine]

Check the active thread

[light quest]

Checking now

Well I think... whatever as long as that word works.

[obsidian nova]

Greetings
Any additional context for this string?

[shell vine]

None yet, probably some future stuff

(Looks like it's the name of a cosmetic)

[obsidian nova]

Painful to see it stuck at 99%

[mellow topaz]

what's untranslated? Steam pages?

[obsidian nova]

The "Amazone" string mentioned above

2 of them

[mellow topaz]

right

I mean there's also strings like "Frontplatsx2"

[boreal quest]

From the looks of it, it might be a headwear item that is a portmanteau of "amazon" and "zone"

Just an idea.

[obsidian nova]

By the way will the store page be synced with SteamPages.csv?
I've done some refining to it a while ago, but the store page doesn't seem to be up-to-date

[sage tangle]

It can be but only manually after being approved by GSG.

Unlike the rest of the translations, the storepage is not autmatically pulled and pushed

[obsidian nova]

So I have to contact them right?

[small kernel]

Are these two abbreviations?

[slim verge]

probably just a typo for amazon

[hard sky]

Canister or Cannister?
Canister =
Cannister =

[small kernel]

These are located on the deep dive completion loading screen and character is blocking these so is need report for this?🤔 (I took from live)

[boreal quest]

Cannister and canister is the tomato or tomato problem. Both works.

[slim verge]

Never knew those could be translated

[boreal quest]

If there is one thing cannister related that I would like to see, then it would be the ||Doretta's fuel cannister removal and putting back promt should be more defined than just "Cannister"||

[hard sky]

Is that all it says?

[boreal quest]

Yeah. If you go to them it just says "Cannister," and there are two separate strings for them.

[light quest]

Donno if there will be anyone make memes about "Cannister or Canister"

[slim verge]

that could be done

After all I did make a meme for the "projecitles" typo

[mellow topaz]

projecticles are the besticles

[light quest]

Encountered a typo which that supposed to be "under attack" but it almost says "onder attack"(Reciving Attack)

Good Night mates

0121 at here

Or 01:21AM in here

[slim verge]

rest well 👋

[dry cradle]

how do i get a string key from crowdin again?

if theres another one besides the one on its context tab

i remember being a shorter one than those

[shell vine]

That would be the debug language

[dry cradle]

thx

[shell vine]

#babelfish-lounge message

[dry cradle]

now i can ask my question

can someone give me better context on string number #12745? is it a shout to teammates, or somewhat of a hint? also where does it appear?

[mellow topaz]

the mini mule tip?

[shell vine]

Check the debug language on crowdin, like that you can also jump to your language directly

[dry cradle]

yes

[mellow topaz]

the source location is a shout, which is odd

are any of the HUD tips in the same shout folder?

[dry cradle]

thats why im doubtful lol

[dry cradle]

i checked other languages, but im still not sure where does it appear

[shell vine]

There is a language there, called Testing - do not translate. Look in there

[mellow topaz]

There's a chance that it might just be an unused voice line.

[dry cradle]

yes, thats where i got the key, like you said. now where specifically does it appear ingame?

that doesnt really tell me

sorry for dumbness

[mellow topaz]

like I said, it might be unused

[shell vine]

Ah, we don't have that kind of tool unfortunately

The debug language mostly work game to crowdin, not the other way around

[mellow topaz]

context-wise, it might probably pop up when you find a mini mule or something

[dry cradle]

ye thats for sure lol

[mellow topaz]

you can make a new save profile to see if the tutorial(s) have anything about it

[dry cradle]

now it sounds like a tip, but context returns shout

[mellow topaz]

I doubt it though, so best to just translate it and if it ever pops up in-game, re-translate it to fit better if needed

[dry cradle]

thats why idk if i should write in 3rd or 1st person

[dry cradle]

might try later tho

[mellow topaz]

all mission control lines are in the shout folder

[dry cradle]

or not, i can just play the tutorial w/o doing that lol

[mellow topaz]

so it's probably either talking to you specifically or the entire team. depends on what your translators have chosen.

[dry cradle]

the thing is

im the main(????????) translator

???????? = others arent active

and i just restarted translating lol

so this string is untranslated yet

[mellow topaz]

what are the other mission control commands translated to, if any?

it usually depends on the context. Most of the lines in the FI translation are talking in plural, as MC 99% of the time is either talking to a multiple-dwarf crew or one dwarf and Bosco

[dry cradle]

the other mc lines have some form of indicator on the context menu, this one hasnt

[mellow topaz]

indicator?

[dry cradle]

ye, it usually says its mc talking

at least i remember so

[mellow topaz]

dwarves don't really talk like in the string

A little tip for you: Scan the Mini M.U.L.E.s with your Terrain Scanner to update it with the location of the missing legs.

I'm pretty certain that it is MC, so probably go with that and if you eventually encounter it in-game and it doesn't match, you can just go and change it

[dry cradle]

usually i set mc lines to a plural setting, but the other langs show in a "singular" setting, thats why im tripping up

[mellow topaz]

different languages use different forms, they just use whatever the translator community has decided on

[shell vine]

I updated the debug language tutorial in the pinned messages, with the couple changes done to crowdin and the mod support soon to be live.

[light quest]

When do we update the active translators list?

[small kernel]

Fakiyo can update the list, @sage tangle can you look into the list?

[obsidian nova]

Also I noticed that I was being erroneously “flagged” as zh-CN translator
While I’m in fact a zh-TW translator🤔

[small kernel]

Is on the list? I checked it but can't see any fault

[obsidian nova]

Just a tiny mistake of :flag_cn: and :flag_tw: before the language

[small kernel]

🇨🇳 Chinese (simplified): dig dog galactic (P) FR0Z3.N3_Polaris
🇹🇼 Chinese (traditional 88%): johnnywu0000 (P)
🇸🇰 Slovak (31%): TitusSK . Fakiyo can you update like this?

[sage tangle]

I'm on it I'm on it 😄 Azerty kept bugging me for 4 days

Will do 🙂

[shell vine]

I didn't sk them to ask you, but I'll nag you a bit more (until it is done)

[dry cradle]

damn, slovak's at 32% rn. this titus guy is going h a r d

nice work man

straight up dedication

[shadow lodge]

he have lot of free time, unlike me, im on vaccation hiking and also i have only my phone :D

[dry cradle]

fair enough, can relate lol

[shell vine]

That's fine, the worst thing someone translating could do would be passing it before their own life.

[dry cradle]

100% everything but game text and patchnotes, 50% on game text and none on patches

hardcore

[shadow lodge]

we decided that patchnotes are not as important as ingame text so that will (maybe) be translanted last.

[dry cradle]

ur a slovak translator too?

[shell vine]

That's exactly it.

Old patchnotes are nice to have translated, but are the least priority thing to do

[shadow lodge]

ye

[shell vine]

I mean, you guys are already at the halfway mark on the game's content, that's enormous

[dry cradle]

i mean, im focusing on patches to take the harder work off my face, to then face the important shit

[shadow lodge]

question .. there is this "approved state" of translated strings. We dont know how it works yet and also if its mandatory to have them approved.

[shell vine]

It's not mandatory

Basically, when a language has sufficiently grown, a proofreader is appointed, and he has the permissions to approve strings.
When strings are approved, they bypass the voting system, and can not be replaced by a string added later

For now, there is no need for Slovak to be proofread

[shadow lodge]

ok thanks, one less thing to worry about

[small kernel]

Fakiyo you forget the change Chinese traditional flag to 🇹🇼

[sage tangle]

lies

[shell vine]

You also need to add Noobiq for Slovak

[sage tangle]

ffs stop changing staff all the time

https://tenor.com/view/starwars-frustration-yoda-r2d2-gif-4813352

there

[boreal quest]

Can you also add...

[sage tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/family-guy-stewie-griffin-prank-fail-mad-gif-8626126

[dry cradle]

I'm getting me mallet! >:((((((((((((

[meager arch]

We're working hard on it

[gray arrow]

is there a way to make crowdin not stutter horribly when a large string is open?

working with patchnotes is really fucking annoying to the point where i just paste the thing into np++ for actual editing

[shell vine]

Unfortunately no, that's a problem on crowdin's side, but they never showed any interest in fixing it.

[gray arrow]

awesome

[shell vine]

Same, been doing that since the start (sublime text though)

[gray arrow]

i heard crowdin has a standalone client somewhere, know if that makes it better?

[shell vine]

No idea, I never even heard of a client for translators...
(I know there is one for the dev side of it, to manage the uploads and building of the code, but I don't know about a client side of things...)

Do let me know if you find it though

[boreal quest]

At least with NP++ you can replace all line ends with \r

[sage tangle]

sadly no. copy paste to notepad++ and translate it there, paste it back.

Crowdin is not fit for translating long strings (lol). Same with Microsoft Word and long texts 😄

[gray arrow]

oh looks like you can download project as XLIFF if maintainers enable the option
https://support.crowdin.com/offline-translation/

and use any XLIFF editor available

but it's probably not the best option if there's more than one person working in the pile

[boreal quest]

Translating can be a pile, that's for sure.

Love the drive-by translators.

” Hey, here's 40 strings that are mostly one word and with no regards to context, bye!"

[sage tangle]

don't shame my two dozen alt accounts

[boreal quest]

So you admit you purposefully sabotage other languages like this.

[sage tangle]

that was a joke

[boreal quest]

I know

Mine was too

[digital dawn]

-lost in translation-

[dry cradle]

Sadly our pm disabled that for our project

[gray arrow]

ask em to enable?

[shell vine]

Will do.

We'll have to wait for an answer though, they are on week-end

[dry cradle]

That's what it tells me to do, sadly

[thorny coyote]

.

[shell vine]

Can we help you ? This place is for the translations of the game

[sage tangle]

Ah, look who's back 😄

He's the arabic translator, long forlorn and forgotten but he returned into the fold

apparently he has a thing called 'real life' which kept him from translating further, but now he came back

(I asked him to write here again so I can find him with @ to add him to the list)

[thorny coyote]

@shell vine well, for now I don't need help, but I don't know about the future 😆 thanks anyway

[limber yarrow]

welcome back 👍

[thorny coyote]

Thanks Lark

[slim verge]

Welcome back !

[gray arrow]

fucking hell
first half of the shouts are reset for typo fixes, then all this is listed as 130 lines in the patchnotes

[shell vine]

Don't bother on the patchnote, we just put a single line stating "numerous typo fixes in the original game text"

[gray arrow]

coulda just said "massive amount of typos eliminated"

same

i'm not that insane

[shell vine]

(I'm guessing when the dev that fixed these did it, he had to leave a comment on what was changed, and these end up in the patch note...)

[gray arrow]

looks like they just bulk export finished issues from jira maybe?

[shell vine]

I don't think so, they tried it once, but it just wasn't readable

[gray arrow]

ah

so someone actually sat there slaving away writing it manually

[shell vine]

More likely, it was done little by little, any time one of these was fixed (from my understanding, it's done when they have some downtimes, not all at once)

[gray arrow]

well the pile's been sifted through

gonna do something more enjoyable until u35 exp hits and brings hell unto all lands

[sage tangle]

Yeh Mark fixed a lot of typos and left us a few new ones to find ❤️

[gray arrow]

pain and suffering, nice

[limber yarrow]

Mark for employee of the month

👍

[sage tangle]

Employee of the Mark

[boreal quest]

That's my joke!

grr

[fading mirage]

i can do it?:

nah...wait a minute

text: #10394 (This language is a work-in-progress)

I can add for this line?:
If you encounter errors, you have comments, write to me on FB Milan Titko (in Slovak, of course)

? It is possible? Or somewhere else? Its only for feedback

I want to leave a link somewhere for people playing in Sk I think it will help with translation in the second phase (correction)

[shell vine]

I personally don't see a reason against it, but I'm going to ask a dev first to get approval for this

[fading mirage]

Thanks Azerty, great response time, im will waiting, for now i skip it

[honest sun]

Feel free, i say. No one from devs will check all languages, all translations.
And also it can be written in Credits, in translation section - that part can be translated per language. You can write just your names and info.

In Patchnotes, it can be as remark after greetings line from GhostShipCrew.

Anyway, developers very friendly to community and those ideas not brings any harm.

More valuable info from developers will be number in % (better in numbers but it's a closed financial info) per languages, used in games. And users per countries.
For example, France - 30% of overal users, and 25% French language, Germany - 30% / 30%

[shell vine]

We asked for these data a while back, but if I remember correctly, they cannot share it because of privacy concern

[honest sun]

Hrm… Maybe something changes and some minimal info can be shared now… @shell vine Please, try again. No harm in questioning, is it?

[shell vine]

Sure, I'll ask again

[sage tangle]

Yeh I asked for that a few months back. The real information is
% of German players play in German

how many % of players total are German is not really helpful and may be business interna

[shell vine]

Get that in the memes channel

[solid bough]

in German, it should be glyvid

[mellow topaz]

@sage tangle remove your drillchamp, let the trio of kicks congregate

Yeeees

[sage tangle]

[sage tangle]

Boy I see it's most popular trash in #drg-memes-no-talk . Thanks for suggesting

[short abyss]

day 624 - still thinking whether to remove the y in glyphid for my lang

since y isnt in the 🇸🇮 alphabet

but it is a species name

[shell vine]

Do you have a way to spell it with your alphabet that would sound good ?

[sage tangle]

remove all the vowels.
glfd

[short abyss]

yea

i like that

but otherwise I could just do "Glifid" (Y->I, PH->F)

[boreal quest]

That is what we did.

Non-English speakers would then have an easier time to pronounce it.

[mellow topaz]

"ph" isn't really a thing in Finnish either, because it's pretty much always shortened to "f"
so "glyphid" was changed to "glyfidi"

on that note

"Arachnophobia" in Finnish is "Araknofobia"

which is just kinda stupid

[short abyss]

lol

[dry cradle]

did any of the devs answer the question about this?

[sage tangle]

Azerties gonna ask, but devs are heavily busy with those two updates back to back, so don't expect an early definite answer except 'We'll look into it'

[shell vine]

Latest answer we had from Alex about translation related inquiries was "after the updates"

[sage tangle]

I can assure you they do ||and we poke them 🙂 ||

[digital dawn]

Abugida time

In Esperanto it becomes "Glifido"; some languages are more concerned with preserving the sound by changing the letters, especially Slavic langs in my experience, and that's all right in my eyes

[shell vine]

@fading mirage
Good news for your team and yourself, Slovak will be added to the game with the live version of U34.5 !
Rock and Stone

[fading mirage]

Ou Jeeeah

Thaaanks

How much time do we have? We want to do as much as possible. We current have over 60%

[shell vine]

That's not determined yet, as they are not sure when the update will be ready.

But don't worry, we have the U35 update that's going to follow very soon afterwards, and they also update the main branch of the game with every hotfix

[fading mirage]

But its very good news, before release v.35 we will make repairs (correction)

[sage tangle]

When U34.5 Modding gets released, the whole crowdin project will be pulled in the morning hours and put into the game. Your game will then have the WIP tag when picking it. Soon afterwards the U35 experimental will come anyways, and each experimental hotfix will bring its own crowdin pulls. So you can see your progress and work ingame during U35 experimental each day.

[shadow lodge]

sounds good

[sage tangle]

How many of you are there currently in this discord?

[fading mirage]

Totally amazing

@meager arch
@shadow lodge

one last remain, wait a minute.He must acc. invite

[fading mirage]

For now game needs only PS release and full crossplay (yes, with you! Steam!), Game of the year (every year)

[shell vine]

Also, @solid bough , could you create the role and channel for the Slovak team ? They have been hard at work and managed to push their language to 60% in less than three weeks.
Currently composed of @fading mirage , @shadow lodge, @meager arch and @sick sail

[sage tangle]

Ehh, I'm not that hot on crossplay TBH.

[sage tangle]

Jacob explains some things about difficulties with crossplay here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepRockGalactic/comments/pihxbx/anyone_know_when_update_35_is_coming_to_console/
(and imo reasons against it)

Crossplay consoles sure, crossplay with PC (Steam) eh.

[fading mirage]

Its sad, because Steam had majority proportion of all players (i think)....but PS4/5 will be good if crossplay will be too...we can hope, and we are praying for Karl and...Rock and Stone!

[shell vine]

They mostly want to, but cant because of technical considerations.
(Mainly that console lack memory compared to PC, so the big caves can't be generated, you have harder limits on the amount of entity you can have at the same time, and peer to peer is harder to achieve without a match-up server)

[fading mirage]

@shadow lodge good to know

[fading mirage]

I think nextgen Series X and PS5 are perform well enought for this game...(but im not proggramer)

but thanks for respond and talk...now i will continue on work :) (38% left)

[dry cradle]

Wait

Slovak's at fucking 60% total?

THE BALLS

[shell vine]

No, main game file is at 60%

[sage tangle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/822452078085406740/884766915329921044/2021-09-07_13_47_40-Translating_Deep_Rock_Galactic_to_Slovak_language_-_Brave.png

[shell vine]

Patch notes are still left (for later)

[dry cradle]

Still steel balls lol

[limber yarrow]

Now that's dedication

[dry cradle]

👍

[limber yarrow]

Hey that's my emoji combo 🖕

Jk

[fading mirage]

@sick sail this is our last man

[sick sail]

Howdy. Edit: I mean ... Rock And Stone, To The Bone!

[mellow topaz]

oh god

I have to resubmit like eight more pages of translations before u34.5 drops

[sharp dagger]

god damn, you're a bunch of f***** machines. really impressed.

[slim verge]

Talking about experience for rushing through the translation : you should have more than enough time to finish before U35 hits

[shell vine]

<@&296918282403840000>

[solid bough]

Done 🇸🇰

[gray arrow]

coulda just made a separate server

[shell vine]

Sure, but this server is boosted to the max level, allowing for big file exchanges. In addition, this also allows the channel to be used for futur translators if the current ones leave the project.

[sage tangle]

Plus documentation

I wouldn't remember a damn if I didn't write it down in our language channel

This discord is incredibly useful for translation

[dry cradle]

THE KING

NO

THE LORD

[fading mirage]

Okay thanks

[dry cradle]

Also, you get dawn of the dread and roughneck with the other DLCs, no swap needed. It comes as a 4 dlc pack

[sage tangle]

PM

[light quest]

Seems like I may running out of time 😦

[mellow topaz]

Don't worry, there's still the daily translation branch

Hey, did they re-add the string list for {Person2}?

[shell vine]

As far as I know, it's still the same as {person}

[mellow topaz]

Alex pls

[mild willow]

Petition to translate "Corrosive Sludge Pump" to Le Cacanon in French

[boreal quest]

Make it cacanonical

[mild willow]

OMG I love you

[sage tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/huh-what-confused-clueless-side-eye-gif-15789775

[slim verge]

we're not doing that.

[mild willow]

Tch, rabat-joie

[shell vine]

https://tenor.com/view/julien-lepers-c-est-non-gif-11504168

[mild willow]

Oh come on! It's so obvious! It's perfect!

[shell vine]

And yet, the answer is still *NON *

[mild willow]

CacaNON ?

[limber yarrow]

El Cacañón for Spanish

👍

[sage tangle]

Kackanone

[dry cradle]

Cacanhão

[chilly orbit]

I saw that on the french discord, and let's be honest, it's perfect. But we can't make a silly joke out of a weapon which isn't one in the original language. This will be the greatest non-official name tho

[small kernel]

Hey @honest sun sorry for ping. Your "Last Modified" translation so "Останньо модифіковане" doesn't fit, can you make it shorter?

Also in the forge, this area is empty:

[honest sun]

Done. Thanks. First time i see that screen)

[honest sun]

What is English words in forge? Can't find it in crowdin

https://crowdin.com/translate/deep-rock-galactic/77/en-xx?filter=basic&value=0#q=Forge screen
Probably fonts not supported if i found right lines?

[mellow topaz]

Do you know about the debug translation

[small kernel]

In english "INSERT MATRIX CORE NOW"

[shell vine]

<@&296918282403840000>

[small kernel]

In Japanese, this translation doesn't fit:

Looks like font doesn't support

[shell vine]

Quite a lot of special characters have trouble with the fonts, can you make a Jira on this ?

[small kernel]

Done

[dry cradle]

sorry for bothering once more about this, but do we still have no news on offline translation?

[shell vine]

The question was asked, but no answer yet

[dry cradle]

sadge

[light quest]

Got a question here: What does the "to the bones" from "Rock-N-Stone to the bones" means? "Forever Friendship" or maybe "None Can Stand Before us"?

[mellow topaz]

"Rock and stone" in general means nothing. It's just a motto to keep up morale.

"To the bone" usually means that something is taken to heart, or otherwise very deep and very seriously.

A stab would will obviously be more serious and important if it reached the bone compared to a flesh wound.

Also "none can stand before us" is already a separate salute.

Hope that helps!

[light quest]

Thanks, that would help a bit.

[light quest]

@sage tangle I think I saw a member that not been included at the active translater list for Simplifed Chinese? That guy's Crowdin ID is @cobalt herald if I am not mistaken.

[sage tangle]

I'll add them the next time I'm on pc :)

[honest sun]

I'm can't play DRG on my laptop. But my guess was correct. Fonts not supported. 2021 year… pity. Cyrillic should be supported.

Thanks anyway. Maybe developers fix that someday.

[small kernel]

You're welcome, I reported in jira and I hope it will be fixed

[honest sun]

I see that in Japanese more lines not supported than in Ukrainian. And it's a more dangerous. And can be more broken places in Japanese…

[small kernel]

I'll look into that later, if there's an issue I'll add it to the report

[sage tangle]

Done

[light quest]

I'm wondering if the strings problem(?) related to the forge's monitor would be fixed in the later patch

[small kernel]

I guess the problem will be fixed in the U35 most probably

[obsidian nova]

Question
If I use the \r variable at desired location will it force translations to be separate to next line?

Like when translations couldn't be fit in the same line (i.e. Approval Category shown in the left column)

[mellow topaz]

It should, but I'm not sure if it works on strings that do not already have it

[mellow topaz]

It doesn't hurt to try, the strings are pulled daily

Although it might be a bit late now

Seeing as u34.5 is right around the corner

[shell vine]

It will work, even if the string did not have it before

[vagrant olive]

When will the translation of Wiki into Russian or it (rus language) is not popular in this game? 🙂

[mellow topaz]

what?

[fresh wharf]

it's just to individual people to translate what and when they want, personally I never saw anyone there saying smth about translating wiki into russian though I know there are pages that has been already translated

[sharp dagger]

I think the question was whether the DRG Wiki website will be translated into russian. Or if it won't happen because Russian is not popular enough to warrant it's own DRG Wiki.

If that was the question it's more a case for #wiki-related-chatroom

But I might be mistaken.

[fresh wharf]

nevertheless, there's a lot of russian steam guides and they do take info from wiki pages

[vagrant olive]

yes, you understood correctly

[vagrant olive]

oh, thanks.

[humble phoenix]

Hey I was wondering could anyone give me access to the repository that has all the games voicelines in it, I was just over in main looking for some quotes for an essay and Yoshkin directed me here.

[short abyss]

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

it would be wise for you to filter by /Game/Character/Shouts/ since it would only show you dialogue

just choose a language, allgametext, then put that in the search bar

u can add more than 1 search query by spacing them out

[humble phoenix]

Awesome, thanks

[light quest]

dang the translator branch is finally getting fixed

or...maybe?

[sage tangle]

I'm just trying it.
Switching to translator downloads another 1,01 GB...

[tawdry ore]

The translator build is still on the old build

Currently building a new one with the same version number as the live version

after that we will validate interoperability internally (we have not been able to do this before now due to having to have the build on main first)

[sage tangle]

ah so no need for me to stay in translator branch until you report back? 🙂

[tawdry ore]

It will just download the version from 2 weeks ago or so

until the latest commits get pushed today and daily going forward

[sage tangle]

no I meant you test it first, you don't push it before you tried it anyways,?

[tawdry ore]

It gets pushed directly to translators and we will test it there

[sage tangle]

Sounds great! Do you have an ETA for this?

[light quest]

Well. just checked sChinese strings ingame, looks like current one on Crowdin has been shipped?

[sage tangle]

The build of this morning is in the modding update.
We're talking if the translator branch of the game with daily updates is working with the stable branch.

The translator branch is important in between updates, say when the first hotfix should drop in 2 days, we could still use the translator branch tomorrow to see our translations from today

[light quest]

Got it

[sage tangle]

Currently we're testing the translator branch internally, we'll ask for it to be made public after it works 🙂

(You need a code to access it until then)

[light quest]

[tawdry ore]

Yeah sorry for the confusion, had forgotten that we have it passworded 😛

[light quest]

Welp.😋

[astral vortex]

how is it going

[shell vine]

We asked the devs to add it, but I believe they have been a bit overwhelmed with the release lately.

I'll ask for an update on that

[astral vortex]

thanks for informing

[nova veldt]

Hi guys, I want to help out the translation part for Simplified Chinese. Is there a work sheet/ online document that I can work with?

[slim verge]

everything you need is on Crowdin, you can find the link in the pinned messages (should be at the end of the translators list)
you just need to make an account and you can start helping right away

if you got any questions, don't hesitate

[nova veldt]

Thanks so much. I'll look into it!

[lean ocean]

@nova veldt Welcome! You can find other Simplified Chinese translators in the pinned message. Feel free to ask any questions!

[light quest]

Hooray we got a new member!

[honest sun]

@shell vineHi, how do you think: was a string with modding support update description as draft. now it CAMES back as new string but no TM applied. https://crowdin.com/translate/deep-rock-galactic/248/en-xx#323449 Is it possible to roll back translation ? work was done but why we should do it again?

[shell vine]

Unfortunately, if a string is not in crowdin TM, it's not possible to get it back from crowdin. If that string is still in one out the built versions of the game, one of the devs should be able to find out again by looking into that version's .po file for the concerned language. Mostly, that would be Mark or Christoffer (hope I spelt that right).

[sage tangle]

I talked to motherdear yesterday, for some reason not all strings were pushed into the game yesterday, which should be done (today?)

@tawdry ore please correct me if I misunderstood / something changed 🙂

[honest sun]

@shell vineSolve problem by choosing part of text for concordance search. Should work for all languages!

Sorry that bothered earlier

it needs some corrections but will be much easier than start from 0.

[thorny coyote]

Hey guys

Do you know if I can edit crowdin discussions?

I mean, If I started a new topic, can I modify it every now and then

or once I post it then I'm stuck with the option of making new replays only?

[sage tangle]

<@&296918282403840000>

[light quest]

Dang, is that a scam message?

[limber yarrow]

Of course it is, don't click the link

[light quest]

I wont click on that. too obivous.

[limber yarrow]

👍

[small kernel]

Not sure but you can open your discuss and maybe add comments below if you can't modify discuss

[shell vine]

Unfortunately, crowdin discussions can't be edited.
If your goal is to store translations for names and such, I recommend using the glossary on crowdin.
If you are working with other translators, bring them here, we can have private channels for translation teams.

[sage tangle]

• Added localizability to the pop-up that appears when the player is asked to change to a Sandbox Save Game
• Added localizability to the ‘Modded’ tag in the ESC menu
• Added localizability to ‘Active Save’ on the Saves Menu
  

[obsidian nova]

Um guys
Does the [modded] tag showed after player name appear if the player is using mod, no matter which category of mod is being used
Or does it appear when the player is using converted save?

[light quest]

Using Approved and Sandbox mods(this requires using a sperated save) would tag you as using mods

[obsidian nova]

🤔

Using Approved tagged you too then
Strange how using Verified doesn’t tagged you as [modded], despite the fact those are mods too though

[light quest]

Cuz that only changes the visual or audio of the game so it wont.

also it doesnt impact the gameplay

[obsidian nova]

Yes I know
Just feels like this tag doesn’t treat verified mods as mods
More brainstorming for translation, hooray

🤯

[thorny coyote]

@shell vine very disappointing

actually, since I started translating the game

I had to make so many decisions along the way

and I am trying to document my thoughts and the reasons behind them in a central place

so that future translators / proofreaders can have access to them

[sage tangle]

write them down for the time being. At the moment, bigger languages have their own translation channels, though that needs a team to be created to not make the list of discord channels endless...
You can just create a thread for your language and keep adding to it on crowdin in the meantime 🙂 Or make comments next to the translations (right side)

[shell vine]

Hello,
Kazakh has been added to crowdin, and is now available for translation !
I wish you the best in your endeavours, feel free to ask us if you need some help.

[sage tangle]

On a side note, congratulations to the madmen of the Slovak translation...
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/702905651684180019/888400096876720148/2021-09-17_14_24_39-Window.png
26.08. to 16.09.
Do you need new translators yet because some of you need a break on an isolated island? 😉

[boreal quest]

I can tell you their secret

[limber yarrow]

Omg whoever is translating Slovak should take a break, you deserve it 😂

👍

[sage tangle]

Seeing how efficient they seem to be, I suggest they learn another language and help out to translating that.

[mellow topaz]

what the fuck

[dry cradle]

Brazillian portuguese seems abandoned lol

[chilly orbit]

Oh nvm Tater reversed me from bridge robber to fridge robber
I have exited the Brazil

[buoyant dagger]

[astral vortex]

Great! Thanks for help

[shadow lodge]

patch notes are at 43% now 😄 its kinda fun.. and that would be cool to have my own island 🙂
i hope to learn russia one day but that wont be anytime soon :/

[small kernel]

You can leave very old patch notes as they are, I don't think players will read them

[slim verge]

I'm not even sure you can access those

[runic verge]

Didn't seem like Much Norwegian Translation was done so i took a Peek at it and already stuck at "Brundle" 🤔

[sage tangle]

You can skip such things and do obvious ones. Enemy names, wordplays and some stuff are quite hard to do alone

[runic verge]

Yeah no joke about that, Ive moved on from it and plan to go through the rather simpler ones to translate directing into proper grammatical sense for Norwegian

[sage tangle]

oh god everything has a symbol according to roles now

[runic verge]

So thats what that is, New discord thing?

[sage tangle]

apparently.
So you wanna help with norwegian? 🙂

[runic verge]

Certainly so. i happened to peek into this channel for once and i saw there was No Norwegian in the Pins and when i checked one of the links it was only 2% complete

and so i ended up just doing some until i reached the word "Brundle" i couldn't even recall seein' it in game

[shell vine]

It's the name for the mactera brundle

[runic verge]

mhhh... saying it in Norwegian makes it sound so English, and i don't think something has been done to its name in Norwegian either...

[shell vine]

I would recommend doing the mob's names latter on in the translation process

They are part of the worst thing to translate, along with puns

[runic verge]

Yeah, ive skipped over a few unique names and might have to go back on some of the "M.U.L.E" Ones

However even saying that in Norwegian should stay as M.U.L.E just way better for the feel of it all 😆 recalling what it was in full would make it sound weird as it becomes what is 4 words in English to become 2 words in Norwegian

[sage tangle]

it's totally viable to keep names (enemies, entities, beernames etc) as they are

[runic verge]

Some are just so good that even trying to come up with a fitting translation would just ruin its "feel"

[buoyant dagger]

a lot of them could be considered brand names

[runic verge]

So it would seem yeah.

[foggy steppe]

Fakiyo is just teasing me for translating beernames 😅

[gray arrow]

Is there a need for a Polish translation

[shell vine]

It was started, but there is still work to do on it.

[gray arrow]

I can help

[shell vine]

Sure, you just need to head over to crowdin (https://crowdin.com/project/deep-rock-galactic) and you can start helping on it.

[gray arrow]

what do the bars mean

[shell vine]

It's the total completed, blue for translated and green for approved

I would recommend focusing on the "all_game_text" file at the start

You'll also find the other Polish translators in the pinned messages

[gray arrow]

I don't need to translate literally everything do i

Like bug names

There's some out of context words too

so i'm confused

[shell vine]

You should ask the other translators for the specifics (like bug names, weapon names, etc. as they probably already have standards for these).

If a string is confusing, you can just skip it for the moment, once you get a better feel for the translation you can come back to them.

[gray arrow]

All of them have blocked DMs .-.

Do i just leave "Mactera Brundle" as it is

[shell vine]

@heady ermine @tawdry creek Would one of you have the time to help a new translator for Polish ?

[sage tangle]

Enemy names, mission names and beer brands are the iffiest to translate and at the same time one of the unimportant things.
Mission control, Equipment Terminal and options menu are priorities imo and easier to translate

Apparently someone in my city gets his driveway blocked by other cars...

Picture taken an hour ago. Find your language

[digital dawn]

One of those looks like Klingon 👀

[boreal quest]

I too speak Windings

"It's forbidden to keep the entrance cost free" in 🇭🇺

That's some hard Google translate for ya

I can't get over that translation

It's glorious

[short abyss]

zomg badge

[runic verge]

Top right 😄

[dry cradle]

Fellow top right text enjoyer

[sage tangle]

yes but is it correct? Stiny already noticed an iffy hungarian translation

[dry cradle]

There are 3 different texts there. Mine is, but idk about the other 2

[small kernel]

Third from left is turkish

[runic verge]

Oh, not at all. There's a whole extra letter there which could be replaced with a punctuation or comma to properly make it work 😂

[hot surge]

third from top right is portuguese

[sage tangle]

Only two languages with errors? Huh

I was expecting to read every second line is false and then I have to pin a page under each sign for the guy to correct it

[shell vine]

French is the middle one in the bottom right, it should read like this Stationnement interdit. Laissez l'entrée libre (missing the accent on entrée)

<@&296918282403840000>

[lavish sphinx]

Czech - middle of 6th window (from left to right, top to bottom order) is not correct because of last word "zdarma" - its only used for price - means something is for free.

[foggy steppe]

It's also pretty broken Czech, only the first part is okay

[digital dawn]

If I was correct about there being Klingon, it's certainly incorrect; while I don't know much about Klingon, I know it's not an especially dense language, and I'm pretty sure one of the first "translators" that Google will find, will simply (and quietly) discard words that it doesn't have in its dictionary

It definitely looks too short lol

[foggy steppe]

lol why is polish in comic sans 😀

[shell vine]

Have you seen what they used for french ?

[mellow topaz]

What?

[foggy steppe]

The font is comic sans

[mellow topaz]

why

[slim verge]

For the glory of Satan of course

[chilly orbit]

Satan is displeased, even him consider Comic Sans as a sin

[mellow topaz]

Where in the game is it in comic sans

oh never mind I'm just stupid

[boreal quest]

Comic Papyrus is the best.

[dry cradle]

I am getting intense undertale vibes

[gray arrow]

since i'm back to working in here, i'd like my translator role back on

[stiff canyon]

I vaguely recall a page that listed all Mission Control lines (or just all lines, possibly). Can somebody link it?

[sage tangle]

Just searching

Missioncontrol should list all

Beware to pick filter 'everything'

Which language are you translating btw?

[stiff canyon]

Oh, it's not for a translation, a different project

But if I were translating, I'd only be qualified for the Russian translation 😄

It's on Crowdin, right?

[chilly orbit]

Yes, on crowdin

[obsidian nova]

Wondering what Halloween Party Special string stands for
Is it assignment, discount, or something like free stuff

[boreal quest]

Considering that is has a HPS.Horror2021 string to it, which sounds like an assignment terminal thing, it might be a string of missions.

[light quest]

Donno if there will be any discount, I think thats a maybe.

[short abyss]

that sure is some overlap

[kind shale]

Good morning guys, I'm translating DRG in PT-BR, so I wanted to get the role for this language on the server

I'm new here, so I need some help

[shell vine]

The roles for the languages are most of the time create when a team for that language is present (as it's a way to give them a private channel).
If such a role does not exist, @solid bough is the guy that can create it, but he probably won't until there are several people here working on that language.

[shell vine]

On that part though, we'll be happy to help you ! Do you need help with crowdin, or more on the discord ?

[kind shale]

I've seen 2 or 3 other people working in PT-BR too, but I didn't contact them yet
Maybe we could form a channel here on Discord to better organize our translations

[shell vine]

That's the way most of the translation team work, just have them introduce themselves like you did, and I'm sure Jacob will be happy to make a channel for you guys.

[kind shale]

Ok, je vais le faire (au moins essayer)

[sage tangle]

Deutsche Verwirrung nimmt zu

[shell vine]

Fakiyo is jealous because translator for other languages are not using german ^^

[sage tangle]

No I'm quite happy if only able people actually speak it, I have a hard time enough already with Germans unable to speak proper German.

[kind shale]

Ich kann ein bisschen verstehen

[kind shale]

also, I wanted to be a proofreader, how do I do it?

Because there's 95% of translations done, but only 17% approved

[shell vine]

We'll have to keep to english in the public chats (for the moderators) once the joke is over.
The proofreader status is given by the devs when there is a need for it (that being, when a language is attacked by trolls) as it is not needed to have the translations added to the game.
Most of the time, it has been given to translators that were present on the translation effort for a long time before.

[kind shale]

So... you mean they don't really need a translation to be proofread and approved?

[shell vine]

It's better, but translations are added to the game even if they haven't been proofread

[kind shale]

Welp, it's just that I saw many poorly translated strings all around the folders, and nobody corrected them
This means the game is using very low quality translations

If devs aren't bothered though, then let it be

[shell vine]

If that is the case, feel free to vote them down and submit better ones in their stead, the new ones will take precedence

[kind shale]

Ok, I think I'll be doing that once I reach 100%, thanks for remiding

[shell vine]

It's not that they don't care, but more that they chose to let the community make the translations as best as they wanted to, and with a minimium of meddling from the devs.

[kind shale]

Yes, it's understandable

[sage tangle]

Congratulations! This is your life job now.
Word of experience from my POV: If you stumble across some odd translation, either write it down, make a screenshot or do it directly if you're on crowdin. You'll lose track 🙂

[kind shale]

What you mean with "do it directly"?

[shell vine]

Fixing the odd stuff

He generally has crowdin open in the background when playing so he can fix stuff as he plays

[kind shale]

Ahh, yes

Unfortunately, I still don't have the game

But, I'm almost at 10000, so who knows

[sage tangle]

you translate but don't play / have the game? How did that happen? 😄

[kind shale]

Hmm, I was looking for public projects on Crowdin, and found DRG

It was very active, with very recent translations, so I thought it was worth a try
Then I read the info and got really invested

I don't play videogames a lot, even though I really like 'em

[sage tangle]

How come? 😮

[kind shale]

I grew up with videogames