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Will we have to wear universal language translator to understand the alien languages (lets say we hit that stretch goal) or will we have to decipher their stuff like Sumerian tablets, Egyptian hieroglyphs, or how will this work in the PU?asked by Sheppard22

TL;DRAliens would speak their own language, with subtitles in cinematic scenes, and the assumption is that both sides use translators built into the MobiGlas, so players wouldn't need to learn the languages.

So I think we'll definitely have the aliens potentially... uhh... we'll hear them speak in their language. In sort of the cinematic-y stuff like we were doing in Squadron 42 you'd probably have some subtitles like you would in a movie. But what we would assume is that both parties, if they're advanced anyway, would have some sort of language translator, which is all part of your MobiGlas. And so you would get a translation of what they were saying to you, and they would get a translation of what you were saying to them, is kind of the idea. Not so much that you'd have to learn the foreign language, because I think in the future you would have those issues, right? I mean, already right now on the web, Google is translating for you and doing all the rest of the stuff, and we're not very far away from live vocal translations. So I think it will be more along those lines.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 33 (2014.08.11)·
Published on this date.11 Aug 2014
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