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German Skill UI translations are not usable
dwolfgheist
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The german version of the game always had sets with wrong descriptions and skill description's that weren't completlely accurate.
Now however they are so bad, I don't even need to do a print screen to make my case, just ask any german speaker to take a look at the DK line for instances.
In general games tend to have issues in UI translations, since they require ingame knowledge that isn't always presented to the translators or is lost in middle management, even so it should never reach this state live. This had to go wrong on several fronts, it has issues that are purely linguistic. Please let me know if you wish for me to expand on the subject.
Edited by dwolfgheist on December 10, 2025 1:46PM Now however they are so bad, I don't even need to do a print screen to make my case, just ask any german speaker to take a look at the DK line for instances.
In general games tend to have issues in UI translations, since they require ingame knowledge that isn't always presented to the translators or is lost in middle management, even so it should never reach this state live. This had to go wrong on several fronts, it has issues that are purely linguistic. Please let me know if you wish for me to expand on the subject.
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The first sentence's variables are completly nonsensical in the context of what is written here. This is just one example.Edited by dwolfgheist on December 11, 2025 3:55AM1 -
dwolfgheist✭✭Gotta highlight this ones, please ask what happened. The text makes no sense at all.
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dwolfgheist✭✭And as a bonus, missing variables again in a sneak peak I found in the threads, not sure what you mean by "10 stacks of 38". Is 38 a placeholder? I imagine this is still in early works, since even "seconds" is missing in english.
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imPDA✭✭✭✭It is a bug and german version is unusable right now
These are descriptions of future "reworked" DK skills, so there is no chance for it to be accurate. Somebody *** up and leaked this, and tbh, I wonder how in the world it is not hotfixed yet . Your Friendly Neighborhood PvP Enjoyer (prior to U48)1 -
dwolfgheist✭✭Thanks for the info! I also want to note that the lack of accuracy can even be seen in dual wield passives. "Rüpel" the passive that gives you 15% extra damage against enemies under CC states in german that the buff is only applied to weapon skills, when in english it states the buff is for all your skills. Same for sets, their errors predate this by a lot, if I would delve into those ...Edited by dwolfgheist on December 11, 2025 10:19AM0
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✭✭✭dwolfgheist wrote: »And as a bonus, missing variables again in a sneak peak I found in the threads, not sure what you mean by "10 stacks of 38". Is 38 a placeholder? I imagine this is still in early works, since even "seconds" is missing in english.
Yes, the 37 and 38 are placeholders. As the numbers can change depending on skill levels, ZOS utilize string formats that look like this: "Once every <<1>>, do damage of <<2>>". Where <<2>> is the damge and <<1>> is either 1 second, or 5 seconds.
The <<1>> and <<2>> themselves are global references to numbers that then match to text.
I'm guessing they don't know what the precise damage will be yet or the timings. It's a way to save on coding space.PC EU
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dwolfgheist✭✭So, it appears after this patch the issues persist, I'm going to switch to english, there is no real support for the language anymore it seems, which is a shame0
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Tobyja✭✭✭✭✭dwolfgheist wrote: »So, it appears after this patch the issues persist, I'm going to switch to english, there is no real support for the language anymore it seems, which is a shame
Are you talking about the pts version?
On live PCEU the issues from December are gone, as far as i can see. Were fixed somewhat in January, iirc."Am Beginn einer jeden Katastrophe steht eine Vermutung."0 -
dwolfgheist✭✭No, I saw it live, you are right in the sense that they changed the skill texts, I didn't look in detail all skill lines, but I saw grammar errors and wrong keywords on the DK line at least.0
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dwolfgheist✭✭Others are issues you can only see by comparing both EN Version and DE since what is written there isn't exactly wrong from a linguistic perspective, but it's describing the mechanic wrong.
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dwolfgheist✭✭I didn't do a print screen for all skill line issues in this post either, I should note. Those were just a few examples.0
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Tobyja✭✭✭✭✭Ah, ok. Thanks for clarification!
But sorry, then i don't think that there's no support for german language anymore. There is even a thread on the german forum, to support the support, so to say. Some players are posting mistakes there regulary, more or less. And i notice the corrections everytime. So they are still working on it, thankfully. "Am Beginn einer jeden Katastrophe steht eine Vermutung."0
