German language planned?

[Knightmare]

Hey,
is there any information about a german version?
Thank you :)

[Ghost]

German is supported in the interface and subtitles, but if you're waiting on a full audio version, I don't think that's ever going to happen officially.

[Orion Invictus]

It already has German subtitles and menu stuff.

If you mean audio, then no. The game's dialogue will not be translated into any other language.

[Detective Costeau]

It sucks to not have the audio in your native language for sure, but it's just not practical to do multiple languages with this much dialog.
The game's already 150gb, I shudder to think what 5-6 extra copies of all the dialog audio would increase that to.

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Originally posted by Detective Costeau:

The game's already 150gb, I shudder to think what 5-6 extra copies of all the dialog audio would increase that to.

We know there's 176h of cutscenes...1h of mp3 at a moderate 128kbps are around 57MB.
So that'd be around 10 gigs...
However....That's not accounting for the narration and all the random banter etc...so probably more around 15 gigs per language...
If we now assume just maybe the 6 most popular languages...that'd be a modest 90 additional GB...
Though admittedly this is just a very, very rough calculation....probably has an error range of +/- 50% or something like that...

[belgix]

Originally posted by Detective Costeau:

The game's already 150gb, I shudder to think what 5-6 extra copies of all the dialog audio would increase that to.

Technically, the same. When done properly, the installer would have to ask which language you want to play, download and install just the files needed for that language.

Practically, a lot of games work almost that way by downloading extra language on-demand. Audio files are just assets. The Witcher 3 is voiced 9 languages, 50GB. Cyberpunk 2077 is voiced 11 languages, 70GB.

[TaKo]

Originally posted by 1337_h4x0r_xXx_deathlord666_xXx:

not accounting for file comrpession, but yes, if alternative languages were mandatory on download/install, it would balloon game size

optional audio packs could solve this but thats still a LOT of work if you want quality dubbing

idk who would even make the call to do this or not but whoever it is, they prolly just decided its not worth it, localized languages is enough to get most people they want to buy the game

[Яeplicant]

Last time any Larian title had german VO was Dragon Commander (2013).

[Stefan1200]

Another vote for german VO's :)

[Zeel Ara]

Originally posted by Stefan1200:

Another vote for german VO's :)

Votes aren't going to do anything. Pay them the millions of dollars it would cost to make and then they might listen.

[★REM★]

If you mean full voice acting. No.
Dozen of languages have only subtitles, imagine the amount of money, time and effort if they have to voice act each of them.

[| WasserRatte |]

Well, it's all your own fault if you always buy everything the developers present to you, if you would just keep your feet still and not buy, they would offer syncros all by themselves because they want us to buy their products

Today there are even German studios that don't even offer German as a language.

at the prices I can expect a German syncro, if it's not there I won't buy it. Think about it!

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Tja ihr habt doch alle selber schuld, wenn ihr immer alles kauft was euch die Entwickler vorlegen, würdet ihr einfach mal die Füße stillhallten und nicht kaufen, würden die von ganz allein syncros anbieten denn sie wollen ja das wir ihre produckte kaufen

Heute gibt sogar deutsche Studios die nicht mal deutsch als Sprache anbieten.

bei dem Preisen kann ich eine deutsch syncro erwarten, wenn es die nicht gibt kaufe ich es nicht. Denkt mal darüber nach !

[z__frog__z]

Originally posted by Detective Costeau:

It sucks to not have the audio in your native language for sure, but it's just not practical to do multiple languages with this much dialog.
The game's already 150gb, I shudder to think what 5-6 extra copies of all the dialog audio would increase that to.

dev if tthey want can make Pack language as extra dlc contents
this is an example , a full locazition voice , subtitles its just all about money and time to produce/records assets this not a "technical" issue ;)

[Яeplicant]

Originally posted by z__frog__z:

Originally posted by Detective Costeau:

It sucks to not have the audio in your native language for sure, but it's just not practical to do multiple languages with this much dialog.
The game's already 150gb, I shudder to think what 5-6 extra copies of all the dialog audio would increase that to.

dev if tthey want can make Pack language as extra dlc contents
this is an example , a full locazition voice , subtitles its just all about money and time to produce/records assets this not a "technical" issue ;)

That's an even worse idea than pricing games above 80.

It's basically the modern day horse armor dlc.