How will alien language barriers be handled in the PU? Will our characters automatically understand alien languages or will we need a translator (NPC or some sort of device that can be purchased in game)? Can languages be learned by the character?asked by MANTA78
TL;DRLanguage handling is still being worked out, but the current idea is a rough real-time translator in the Mobi-glass, with players who learn alien languages themselves rewarded.
So this is something that we've had initial talks on and as we're continuing to work with the linguists to develop the language, we still kind of sorting out exactly how it's going to work in game, we have a couple ideas so far. One of them is that your Mobi-glass will come with standard really rough translator that can translate stuff in real time for you, but it wouldn't be able to capture all the full nuances of a native speaker.So you would be getting the general idea of what an alien is saying in their language but you wouldn't be able to fully pick up on everything because we want to reward players who take the time, were going through all the effort of making these languages, real languages and speakable so we want to reward players who take the time to actually learn them because that's awesome.You asked if characters would be able to learn languages and kind of, I think the current direction might be that there won't be like a thing you can buy where your character speaks banu, if you want your character to speak banu, you're going to have to learn banu yourself and what you might be able to buy is an NPC who can translate for you or a better translator for your Mobi-glass or something like thats some kind of ingame mechanic but, by making there different layers of interactions with, but yeah if you want to learn that language, you're going to have to learn the language.
Yeah so if you're a trader who's going to Xi'an territory a lot, it'll definitely benefit you to get a little bit more in detail of that because you might be able to pick up on small handers, small phrasing things that might lead you in a different direction than someone who wanders in there for the first time who(?) will be able to get sale.
So orgs start drawing straws on who's going to have to learn those languages. But hopefully we'll have more information on that as we continue to develop.
Yeah, it's definitely something we're thinking about.