Germans reporting in

ns_insiderns_insider Join Date: 2007-09-30 Member: 62484Members, Reinforced - Shadow
hello, first, im from germany, pre orderd ns2 special edition and DL the spark editor.

now some questions:

1. i can write and understand english good, but sometimes your language f*cks me up :D
now my question. will be there a german translation or something? a german support would be great.

2. the spark editor is great, but there are a bunch of things i dont understand. cause its written in english. is there already a german translation?

greetings from germany

Comments

  • FredDurschtFredDurscht Join Date: 2009-12-18 Member: 69704Members
    whats the problem? i can help you, if you want..but if just the unknown words ###### you up, use dict.leo.org. but if you have some difficulties with level design itself, you should get familiar with these things first

    joa..an wörtern sollte es also nich liegen, aber wenns nen generelles problem mit leveldesign und den dort verwendeten begriffen is, solltest du dir die irgendwo anders erstmal aneignen
  • PhiXXPhiXX Join Date: 2008-10-22 Member: 65274Members
    Ãœbung macht den Meister, von nichts kommt nichts xD
    Wie gesagt, Wörterbuch benutzen und du wirst dich schnell dran gewöhnen.
  • Chris0132Chris0132 Join Date: 2009-07-25 Member: 68262Members
    There'll probably be a german translation for the game at some point, given the way it's coded you could probably do it yourself, or someone else could do it and release it.
  • QuovatisQuovatis Team Inversion Join Date: 2010-01-26 Member: 70321Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    Seems like you have a good grasp of English to me. While English is a hard language to learn, German is pretty close. Whose idea was it to have an almost random plural form of every noun? Just add "s"....
  • SlycasterSlycaster Limited Edition Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 24Members, NS1 Playtester
    Welcome!

    Just the heads up, the forum is english only for moderation purposes, so please do not communicate in posts using any other language than english. It's not because we don't love you, it's because Comprox hates babelfishing. :D
  • PhiXXPhiXX Join Date: 2008-10-22 Member: 65274Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1768408:date=Apr 23 2010, 05:04 PM:name=Cyanide)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Cyanide @ Apr 23 2010, 05:04 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1768408"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Welcome!

    Just the heads up, the forum is english only for moderation purposes, so please do not communicate in posts using any other language than english. It's not because we don't love you, it's because Comprox hates babelfishing. :D<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Just wanted to feel special for once :(

    :D
  • ReisistReisist Join Date: 2010-03-26 Member: 71086Members
    Well, why not break down language barriers and open ns2 to new customers, who don't speak english. Can't be that difficult to translate the game into german and maybe french. As for myself, I would help with the german translation.
  • ns_insiderns_insider Join Date: 2007-09-30 Member: 62484Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    So, yes. I know there will be many german players who would play NS 2.
    To translate the game into german or into many other languages would be good. not only for the players, cause not everybody can speak english.

    thousands of people in other countrys will be able to play NS 2 in their language.
  • 'roken'roken Join Date: 2010-04-23 Member: 71506Members
    English is a very nice language, it will be difficult to find the proper german words for a translation - just think about movies and the jokes in it!


    Anyway i offer my help to translate english or german into <b>binary</b>.


    Maybe Googlebot or any other bot is interessted in playin' NS :D



    10100101010001001010101001001010100101010011110000
  • WunschkindWunschkind Join Date: 2010-02-20 Member: 70658Members
    I think the idea of a translated version (in any language, not just german) is good, but: I want to have the option to play in any language (like in Valve-games) that is available. Sometimes the translation is horrible, text strings are too lang and don't fit the available space in the UI etc. - and maybe I have a german Windows, bought the original (english) version of NS2, but my first language is egyptian. Manual language selection is a must, if there will be localized versions.

    Also: I'd also like to help out with a german translation of the game. I don't know if the devs already load all strings from an external resource file (INI, CSV or XML..), let's hope they're not hardcoded into the LUA files.
  • slayer20slayer20 Killed a man once. Join Date: 2007-12-13 Member: 63157Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    I believe it was said that upon release there would only be English. More languages would be supported afterwords.
  • Renegade.Renegade. Join Date: 2003-01-15 Member: 12313Members, Constellation
    There was a thread a while ago asking for Korean localization, Max responded that localization will be made possible, but I'm sure the onus will be on the community needing the localization. I don't expect UWE to translate their game for you.

    Also, English is one of the easiest languages in the world to learn and less complex than German (word order is more standard, less inflections, no gender forms). If you're on the internet and playing games, it's reasonable to expect that you have a working knowledge of English (which you do). Simply translating text isn't going to help much since many game/application interfaces rely heavily on paradigms, idioms, and idiosyncrasies native to the language.
  • ns_insiderns_insider Join Date: 2007-09-30 Member: 62484Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--quoteo(post=1768467:date=Apr 23 2010, 11:52 PM:name=Wunschkind)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Wunschkind @ Apr 23 2010, 11:52 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1768467"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I think the idea of a translated version (in any language, not just german) is good, but: I want to have the option to play in any language (like in Valve-games) that is available. Sometimes the translation is horrible, text strings are too lang and don't fit the available space in the UI etc. - and maybe I have a german Windows, bought the original (english) version of NS2, but my first language is egyptian. Manual language selection is a must, if there will be localized versions.

    Also: I'd also like to help out with a german translation of the game. I don't know if the devs already load all strings from an external resource file (INI, CSV or XML..), let's hope they're not hardcoded into the LUA files.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Yes, thats what i thought. The players all over the world should have the option to chose between the languages. That would be nice.

    im not a english pro :D i understand most of the english but not all. So there will be a lot of people which cant understand something in-game, like commands from the commander or upgrade things.

    if somebody would help us or are able to translate english/german or maybe more languages would be very nice. not only for me :)
  • yimmasabiyimmasabi Join Date: 2006-11-03 Member: 58318Members
    use translate.google.com
    just put your url whatever language is then read in German :)
    Not so bad
  • ns_insiderns_insider Join Date: 2007-09-30 Member: 62484Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    hihi, thank you.

    but this is just a transition. im not doing this for myself, im doing this for all the other people that would play NS2 in their langauge ;)
Sign In or Register to comment.