German port of LW Enemy Within

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LouisdeFuines
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German port of LW Enemy Within

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Hi,

since LW 2.0 is already available with german language:

Will there be a german LW 1.0 some day?
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johnnylump
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Re: German port of LW Enemy Within

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LW2 was translated by 2K's pro team.

LW1 was a volunteer project, and no German translator ever finished one. I'll happily upload one if it ever happens.
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I understand.

Couldn`t the pro team of 2K do the same thing with LW 1?
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LouisdeFuines wrote:I understand.

Couldn`t the pro team of 2K do the same thing with LW 1?
Well, they don't get paid for it, so why should they do it? :) It is not simply translating but often interpreting also: "How to translate quasi-idioms like: 'Fire in the Hole', 'Light'em Up' or 'Shock and Awe'?".
As for me, it took me some 40+ hours to translate LW to Polish of which 10 hours only for nicknames - you can't translate word-to-word as "it does not sound", you just need new ones :) And I still find some minor spelling mistakes in my translation :)
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The translating job of Long War has a great prestige, wether it's actually paid or not. I could easily get a job as a translator right now, cuz i've added that LW translating job to my curriculum vitae. And it also becomes pretty handy in my current college career as a translator.
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Re: German port of LW Enemy Within

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I found this on nexus - it says it is for LW 1.0. I do not know German well enough to tell if it is complete

http://www.nexusmods.com/xcom/mods/613/?
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Re: German port of LW Enemy Within

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Sadly that doesn`t work well.

I is only a run-by-google-translater-translation.... :-(
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