Using the Translator in Echoes of the Eye (spoilers)

[Superabbit]

A kind soul suggested to me that I should go talk to Hal about programming the translator to read the Strangerians' language. I has already done that, but did it again, and have done so a few more times as I've progressed. Right now I'm island hopping in the Pirates of the Caribbean part, so you know I've gotten around.

Hal always has the same response. Is the point of going to talk to Hal to find out that it's not going to work? Or do I leave the game on for the 6 months he says it's going to take for him to figure it out? Or what?

I'm probably at a point where I need to put in some codes and open some locks, and I have none to enter except for one near the dam that I found using my scout. It worked, I found out that The Stranger's tugboat is broken or something like that, but there are I think 4 more similar locks I've seen and I've no clue how to open them. I've been thinking the translator might help, but maybe not?

[Sammun Mak]

No, you can't translate their language.

[Bobywan]

Originally posted by Sammun Mak:

No, you can't translate their language.

+1
Maybe someone trolled you.
You cant read there language

[Goblin]

There's a mod that adds translations to the language, but for vanilla yeah you got trolled. You never need to read their text though, all the signs are stuff like location names and "do not enter"

[Superabbit]

Originally posted by Bobywan:

Maybe someone trolled you.

To be fair, what they said was "maybe you should go talk to Hal." And of course, when you talk to Hal, s/he tells you that it would take a lot of samples and 6 months. Which is as good as saying s/he can't do it in an amount of time that would be useful to you (after all, s/he only really has 22 minutes).

So you're basically being told "just watch the slide shows and brain projections, Hatch.".

I'm just getting to a point where I need some lock combos and as far as I can tell, have collected only one. I don't think I've exhausted everything in the Pirates of the Caribbean islands yet. I've been killed by Invisible Space Kraken a few times, and lost a fight with a pissed off horned owl person once, but I haven't walked every inch of every island.

In the base game, the ship's computer would tell you in the log if there were "more to explore" in a given location, marked with an orange asterisk.

Is the ship's computer to be as trusted in EotE to tell you when you need to revisit a place? I believe I'm down to one card with an asterisk, yet I feel as if I'm lacking the endgame cues. So either they're all in that one area or I'm just not putting them together (highly possible) OR, I'm missing a card entirely (seems unlikely at this late stage).

[ReverendTed]

I didn't mean to troll you! I just loved that they thought to have that little bit of dialogue from Hal about it.

[Superabbit]

Originally posted by ReverendTed:

I didn't mean to troll you! I just loved that they thought to have that little bit of dialogue from Hal about it.

I get it, and it was a good hint that I was just double-checking. There's not a lot of dialogue from EotE that makes it to the NPC's, as far as I know, and that's a nice tidbit.

Now I just need to remember to turn off automatic translator deployment!

[Goblin]

Originally posted by cruciblefuzz:

In the base game, the ship's computer would tell you in the log if there were "more to explore" in a given location, marked with an orange asterisk.

Is the ship's computer to be as trusted in EotE to tell you when you need to revisit a place? I believe I'm down to one card with an asterisk, yet I feel as if I'm lacking the endgame cues. So either they're all in that one area or I'm just not putting them together (highly possible) OR, I'm missing a card entirely (seems unlikely at this late stage).

I don't exactly remember since it's been ages since I played, but I think there may be cards attached to a few areas that don't show up until you get to them? Rather hard to say without knowing how much you know, anyway.

Heck, if you count the number of blue cards you have in your log I can tell you if you're missing enough that you're seriously missing an entire area. That might be the most spoiler-safe method imaginable.