Subtitles for foreign language environment text only??

[Skyperson375]

Hi all,

I am early in the game - I've just got to the small village. However I realised that there is dialogue going on around me in Spanish. Turning on subtitles shows the English translations for these conversations, and they're pretty interesting - but then has subtitles for everything else too, such as regular conversations in English and cutscenes. I'm not using immersive mode - it just seems some of the environmental dialogue is in Spanish, whether or not you use immersive mode. I just want subtitles for that environmental dialogue only, I don't need it for the English voice acting. is there any way to enable this? A workaround might be to just select subtitles for environmental dialogue only, but I can't do this (either they're on for critical text + environment, or just critical text, not at all).

Seems like an oversight if it's not possible.

Thanks

[Sam]

I think what you want is Environmental Sounds. turn that on.

[Skyperson375]

Hi, I'm not sure what option you mean, can you be more specific? If I turn subtitles ON, I get to also select environmental subtitles on/off too, which does cover those foreign language conversations. But At the same time, it means everything in the game is subtitled too. I can't turn environmental subtitles on without having subtitles for everything else too, unless I'm missing something?

[Thumper]

There is a brief discription of what each of the setting will do when on/off, play with them and find what works for you. thats the best way to hear all the background chit chat.

[Sam]

Originally posted by SkyandSun:

Hi, I'm not sure what option you mean, can you be more specific? If I turn subtitles ON, I get to also select environmental subtitles on/off too, which does cover those foreign language conversations. But At the same time, it means everything in the game is subtitled too. I can't turn environmental subtitles on without having subtitles for everything else too, unless I'm missing something?

Go into Options, Audio and Language. Turn the Environmental Sounds on.

[Skyperson375]

Originally posted by Sam:

Go into Options, Audio and Language. Turn the Environmental Sounds on.

There isn't an option for Environmental Sounds that I can see. There is 'Environmental Subtitles' which is greyed out unless I turn main subtitles on which makes the entire game subtitled - that's what I was talking about before. Could you double check what you're trying to describe, as I can't see it in my options->audio/language screen? If this option is what you're talking about - as I say, it's greyed out unless main subtitles are also on :/ I can't find a way to have main subtitles off, but environmental subtitles on.

I wonder if some people don't realise there is this additional story dialogue going on, because it only seems to be in Spanish - rather than thinking it's just kind of background chatter that's not fully fleshed out. For instance, in the first village, while most dialogue is in English (and about half the random conversations going on around you are also in English), there is a lot of foreign-language conversation going on in the town as you walk around that, with subtitles on, turns out to be fully recorded Spanish conversations. Stuff about the local drunk, where people sheltered during the storm, people having arguments, talking about Lara and the other characters, etc.

Basically I can't see a way to have this dialogue be subtitled without having the whole game subtitled, unfortunately :( Which sucks as I find subtitles distracting, but it's fine for foreign languages... just not the rest of the game... :/

[Sam]

Originally posted by SkyandSun:

Originally posted by Sam:

Go into Options, Audio and Language. Turn the Environmental Sounds on.

There isn't an option for Environmental Sounds that I can see. There is 'Environmental Subtitles' which is greyed out unless I turn main subtitles on which makes the entire game subtitled - that's what I was talking about before. Could you double check what you're trying to describe, as I can't see it in my options->audio/language screen? If this option is what you're talking about - as I say, it's greyed out unless main subtitles are also on :/ I can't find a way to have main subtitles off, but environmental subtitles on.

I wonder if some people don't realise there is this additional story dialogue going on, because it only seems to be in Spanish - rather than thinking it's just kind of background chatter that's not fully fleshed out. For instance, in the first village, while most dialogue is in English (and about half the random conversations going on around you are also in English), there is a lot of foreign-language conversation going on in the town as you walk around that, with subtitles on, turns out to be fully recorded Spanish conversations. Stuff about the local drunk, where people sheltered during the storm, people having arguments, talking about Lara and the other characters, etc.

Basically I can't see a way to have this dialogue be subtitled without having the whole game subtitled, unfortunately :( Which sucks as I find subtitles distracting, but it's fine for foreign languages... just not the rest of the game... :/

Your game says Environmental Subtitles, whereas my game says Environmental Sounds. I believe it might have to do with which region we are assigned to, i.e., US vs. England.
And yes, you are correct about having subtitles enabled.
BTW: Everyone gets Spanish unless you change what language subtitles are.
I'm attaching a pic here that shows what my language/audio is set to:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198017554510/screenshot/832512818117699317

[Skyperson375]

Our options are exactly the same, haha. I'm referring to 'environmental subtitles', which is the option just above the option that's highlighted in your screenshot. Anyway, as I say, unless I'm missing something, there's no way to have subtitles just appear for the foreign language conversations, right? That kind of sucks really for me :/

[Thumper]

Do you mean the sub-titles in a different language? No, but if you change the base language to something other then english, then sure I guess it will.

[Sam]

Originally posted by SkyandSun:

Our options are exactly the same, haha. I'm referring to 'environmental subtitles', which is the option just above the option that's highlighted in your screenshot. Anyway, as I say, unless I'm missing something, there's no way to have subtitles just appear for the foreign language conversations, right? That kind of sucks really for me :/

You are not missing a thing. I am so used to using subtitles I didn't realize it was on and also affects the sub-subtitles.
As for Spanish, I believe that is the language that the people in Peru would use (I'm not sure it's Spanish as it may be Brazilian...just don't know since it's South America).

[Skyperson375]

Originally posted by Thumper:

Do you mean the sub-titles in a different language? No, but if you change the base language to something other then english, then sure I guess it will.

Nope, as I said in my original post, it is the Spanish dialogue that you hear around the game (even if you have set everything to English, there is still dialogue in Spanish as you walk around town) - there is no way to see what the people are actually saying without turning on subtitles for everything. That kind of sucks, because a lot of the dialogue is interesting and adds character to the world, but you have to enable subtitles for everything (including all the English) to see it - and I generally find subtitles distracting. Try turning on subtitles, and walk around the first village in the game - you might see a lot of extra dialogue and conversations you didn't even realise were there!

It seems like an oversight to me on the part of the dev team and an easy thing to patch in if they wanted to... !