Language

[Zahyyy (the one who spent 4 hours writing a single post)]

We’ve been discussing languages in another thread already, so here’s just a little quote o’mine regarding the translation of alien languages. It’s basically the same concept as seen in No man’s sky. The alien language itself (in this case in my quote German) can be utter randomly-mashed-keyboard-gibberish and the translation is gonna be word-for-word, meaning it might not be always grammatically correct, which is alright, as it’s gonna remind you that you are in fact talking to an alien.

@Zahyyy

At first you wouldn’t understand anything they say, but the more you interact with them, the more and more words get ’’unlocked’’, thus automatically translated. Let’s say we have an alien race that speaks German.

Alien: ’’Mein Hund ist hässlich.’’
And you, if you’ve unlocked the word Hund already, would get
’’Mein dog ist hässlich.’’

Meaning that at first you wouldn’t be able to understand them at all, but the more you’d discover about them and the more effort you’d put in it, the more legible would the conversation be. It’s a nice way of simulating learning a language without the player actually having to learn the language.