A player from Chinese Community

[Hogan_Dou]

Hi, every one. I'm Hogan from Chinese Community of Star Citizen.
We are working on a Chinese translation project to get more players get interested in this game.
I'll have lots of question on some tricky words in the game that we can't get the meaning or hard to translate.
If you can help me with these words I'll be appreciate.
Thanks!

 

[Aramsolari]

你好, 欢迎!

 

[AntiSqueaker]

Welcome! That's a really cool project to do- I know from experience that good localization can make or break a game.

On the opposite end I have played several Chinese games that are horribly translated and it completely ruined the experience for me. Best of luck and I am happy to help if I can!

 

[CosmicTrader]

Welcome to TEST.

 

[StdDev]

Welcome to Test

 

[marcsand2]

Welcome to TEST Hogan

 

[Vavrik]

Welcome to TEST! That sounds like a worthy task, I'm sorry I can't really help! The only Chinese word I can say at all is the name of a brand of beer that I like.

 

[Montoya]

This guy is not here to join TEST, he is here to get some translations made. Stop welcoming him! :D

 

[Aramsolari]

This guy is not here to join TEST, he is here to get some translations made. Stop welcoming him! :D

Good call. We'll probably be shooting him in the future!

 

[Hogan_Dou]

Good call. We'll probably be shooting him in the future!

I guess I'll need a plan B for it...

 

[Radegast74]

I'll have lots of question on some tricky words in the game that we can't get the meaning or hard to translate.
If you can help me with these words I'll be appreciate.
Thanks!

do you have a list somewhere?

 

[vahadar]

Hope you"ll get the help you are looking for here ;)

 

[marcsand2]

I'll have lots of question on some tricky words in the game that we can't get the meaning or hard to translate.

Some words are English. There isn't always a direct same translated word in another language. I do this all the time between Dutch, English and German. If I translate a word from Dutch to German, it sometimes sounds silly, it doesn't sounds right. Then I translate it from Dutch to English, from English to German and check what the result is. I luckily have a cross reference between 3 languages. 4 actually, my dialect is somewhere between Dutch and German, but it isn't a language because it is not uniform and no translate program understands it.

 

[Hogan_Dou]

do you have a list somewhere?

We are still working on it. Some of the words we can solve by ourselves, but there are some we can't.
I'll send the words if we can't figure out. However, I still don't know that should I just ask here or start a new thread?

 

[Hogan_Dou]

Some words are English. There isn't always a direct same translated word in another language. I do this all the time between Dutch, English and German. If I translate a word from Dutch to German, it sometimes sounds silly, it doesn't sounds right. Then I translate it from Dutch to English, from English to German and check what the result is. I luckily have a cross reference between 3 languages. 4 actually, my dialect is somewhere between Dutch and German, but it isn't a language because it is not uniform and no translate program understands it.

The thing is that we need to figure out what are the words mean so that we could probably find/create a word which suit in the game. It won't be so hard, though.

 

[August]

Let us know where you get stuck, happy to try and contextualise.

 

[Aramsolari]

The thing is that we need to figure out what are the words mean so that we could probably find/create a word which suit in the game. It won't be so hard, though.

Yeah the problem with Star Citizen is that it is such a technical game. You're looking basically looking at technical translations. Feels like you're translating an aircraft manual haha!

 

[Hogan_Dou]

Hi, every one. I've got a question.
I'm translating the part of BlacJac missions. What does "Mercenaries with Demo Experience" means?
Some one said that is Mercenaries with Experience of demolish, is that correct?

 

[Aramsolari]

I would say Experience in Demolition. So explosive experts.

 

[August]

Hi, every one. I've got a question.
I'm translating the part of BlacJac missions. What does "Mercenaries with Demo Experience" means?
Some one said that is Mercenaries with Experience of demolish, is that correct?

Experience with demolitions.

Demo is short for demolition (or demonstration) but in this context you would use the plural form of the word.