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Edited by Shuyahh:
5/2/2024 8:33:19 AM
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German Translation is awful
I am a native German and pretty decent non native English speaker. I perfectly understand all terms and phrases I have come across in the English version of Destiny (which I am playing because I prefer the voice acting over the German one). The German translations quite frequently are bad or plain wrong.
This is e.g. true for perks, weapon names and vendor descriptions.
One example. There was/is a perk reducing flinch when you're under fire. The German translation amounted to "reduces flinch when you are shooting", which is completely wrong, pretty much the opposite of what the perk does and the original (English) description says and so grossly misleading that it makes people either apply it for the wrong reason or not at all.
I am asking myself who is doing these amateurish German translations for Bungie. They are awful and the people doing them do not seem know the proper (sometimes technical or military) terms, and obviously cannot be bothered looking them up, e.g. with Deepl, which usually does a very good English - German translation job.
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7 RepliesIts not just german. All languages are translated poorly aside from English. And yes, as a Dutch citizen I know all about german dub culture. And frankly I think it’s hilarious. If its so important to you, then perhaps play with Germans only, and only speak German ingame. And make a German D2 wiki. I play with an Italian gamer often who has the game set in Italian and has the exact same issues. He is learning English but has to translate everything I type regarding guns and perks. Why not kill 2 flies in one hit, set the game to English and learn some english and not be confused the whole -blam!- time about perks and descriptions right? But why do what everyone else does when you can be stubborn and elite and want everything in your own language, a language by the way is completely different from English grammar wise, so yes there are differences in translation Hell, there are differences in translations between languages EVERYWHERE. Brazil players have the same issue, hell I would if I set my game to Dutch. But everything surrounding Destiny is in english. A universal, easy language that anyone could learn flawlessly in just 1-2 years by setting their tv shows, movies , games , pc and phones to ENGLISH Its not hard really, and I dont know how you guys can stomach dubs of movies, where the actors mouths make english word formations and you hear some german voice actor speak over it. -blam!- hi-la-ri-ous.
