How to play CZ/GER version completely in English

[sickboy 13]

Its no problem, if they don't make a protection in future patches, you can just put back your original files, patch, and do the trick over. But in the mean time it might be possible that another way to change the language is found, when the game hits the mainstream

[deFiler 0]

seeing that makes me wonder what BIS thinks is "GOLD" ..

unfinished stringtables in gone "GOLD" product ?

Can "Buildversions" play together online or will the AC say nono

Is the Serverside AC an option ?

But finally i know why no language selection is supported ..

[sickboy 13]

Can "Buildversions" play together online or will the AC say nono

Is the Serverside AC an option ?

The Buildversions are probably the same, as you already pointed out, it's only the stringtable.

Who cares if the stringtable for languages that aren't officially supported (yet) are incomplete? Patches, Patches...

As long as they are complete when they get supported officialy

[deFiler 0]

Can "Buildversions" play together online or will the AC say nono

Is the Serverside AC an option ?

The Buildversions are probably the same, as you already pointed out, it's only the stringtable.

Who cares if the stringtable for languages that aren't officially supported (yet) are incomplete? Patches, Patches...

As long as they are complete when they get supported officialy

well it was pointed out that different stringtables may cause trouble with the AC of the a server ..

"Buidversions" refered to differnt builds of stringtables ..

Quote from above "You are using an unofficial way to change the language and you expect a good translation from the latest build of the game?"

if they still fiddle around with those the "Hash" for the localised versions will be different .. rendering AC useless or making it impossible for different localised version to play with each other ..

depends on the fact wheter AC is an option or not ..

if AC isnt there jet .. thanks for for that unfinished feature ..

[bluesteel 0]

Don't forget that the Polish version was not yet gold when the Czech version was released, so that text is true. Maybe the Polish translation in that version is still not yet finalized...

[My_Shortcoming 0]

Just to update, the translations on 6thsense are going smoothly we've been slowly rifting through it and are pretty much halfway (maybe past that) already maybe we can beat the German release?

[oxford 0]

Great news on the translation progress.

Would be great to have this in place for the German launch!

[Blazen 0]

Got my Czech copy of ArmA today! Don't know what the hell I'm doing because I can't speak Czech but it seems to play pretty much like OFP as far as key settings

[ODDDNAME 0]

Got my Czech copy of ArmA today! Don't know what the hell I'm doing because I can't speak Czech but it seems to play pretty much like OFP as far as key settings  

Where from and when did you order? =)

I ordered from Bontonland, but it hasnt arrived yet =) prolly soon though. sent 14/11 to sweden =)

[sickboy 13]

Got my Czech copy of ArmA today! Don't know what the hell I'm doing because I can't speak Czech but it seems to play pretty much like OFP as far as key settings  

Im sorry, lol..... Let me get this straight: you got a Czech copy, you dont know what ur doing because you can't speak Czech, you post this in the thread where there is an explaination on how to convert the game to English.... Now explain me the logic

[oxford 0]

There is no logic

[hoak 0]

Got my Czech copy of ArmA today! Don't know what the hell I'm doing because I can't speak Czech but it seems to play pretty much like OFP as far as key settings  

Im sorry, lol..... Let me get this straight: you got a Czech copy, you dont know what ur doing because you can't speak Czech, you post this in the thread where there is an explaination on how to convert the game to English.... Now explain me the logic

LOL, I think he is perhaps one of many that is too overwhelmed by modding/editin; or just to anxious and excited to play the game.

There are also many non-technical people, and people that would just rather leave even a simple mod like this up to someone more skilled and patient (you have after all sort of promised a patch).

[sickboy 13]

LOL, I think he is perhaps one of many that is too overwhelmed by modding/editin; or just to anxious and excited to play the game.

There are also many non-technical people, and people that would just rather leave even a simple mod like this up to someone more skilled and patient (you have after all sort of promised a patch).  

I can understand it partially, still seeying the easyness of the instructions and the whole, I can't really understand it, but let's just respect it

Yes, I sort-of-promised a patch... As soon as I get my hands on a unpbo/createpbo command line program for the elite/arma pbo format then i'm in business.

If I can not get such program... then my m8 needs to unravel the mysteries of the depbo.dll included in the EliteNess tool And that can take quite a lot of digging, so if I can't get such programs, and the digging takes probably too long, then I need to include the edited/recreated pbo files with the release.... so today I sent a pm to Placebo asking if it was against any copyright to post their edited pbo's etc. etc. ...  If this is not any problem, then I will release an auto-installer package which will unpack it to your arma folder and voila

As the translation seems to go pretty fast, I guess that it will be done by the weekend. From the moment that the files are ready... I will put everything on everything to either release a patcher, or if not problematic for copyright, release an auto-installer program.

UPDATE!:

I just received word back from Placebo.

Distributing edited pbo files is probably a big NO compared to the license.

Distributing html files in English maybe is a NO compared to the license.

I'm contacting ideagames, their publisher, for more info.

[Yarrow 0]

nooo, dont say that the traslation perhaps wont be out?! its 505Games's own fault they delayed the game! we dont have to suffer.. I am getting a cz version and i am hoping there will be some translation. Its eighter that or I have to buy a cz-english dictionary.  

Anyone got something to translate the menue at least?

[hoak 0]

This is just silly...

[ODDDNAME 0]

How big of a difference is this compared to other mods?

Hope they think about those many customers that bought the game because of this, I for one wont buy another copy if that is true. I was planning to get the special edition too when it's available in English, but after this, if it's true, no.

So I hope they actually realize they might screw with future customers if they don't allow that. =)

As a lest resort, why not just release the translated text only and then post how to replace the czech with the english, then we all would be modifying out own copies.

[My_Shortcoming 0]

Would probably be hastly removed by Placebo with a tasty ban on the side. The ability to change the language came with the game and if they didnt want it i suspect they could have easily requested that it was to be removed, but saying that, it wouldnt suprise me if they turned around and said that we couldnt translate. If not ill just have to buy the english version as well ... setting me back another 40 pounds :\

[ODDDNAME 0]

Well, how could they be mad if the translations were released as plain text-files =)  Call it "aid to understand the version we all got just to play the game we love" Cant be that hard to see where the text goes? =)

And hey, placebo seems like a reasonable chap, he if anyone must understand that the BIS-community WILL buy a 2nd game in english too. =)

[sickboy 13]

Guys, there is no need to panic.

This thread is still here, and it means you can always still convert your game to English, with the push of a few buttons... So don't panic!

The single player missions & campaign briefings & overview are however still in Czech (or german if you buy that one)... But we are translating aswell... Let's await Ideagames answer and see, nothing is final yet, and we can always see what we can do about it, or how we can do it still in a legal way or at least an accepted way..

We are many & we will succeed, I have no doubt

[klavan 0]

@To all the people who are whining for this stop by 505

I hope you will not get surpise if BIS will find difficults to reach an agreement with publishers for Game 2 when this will be ready one day.......

[fubarno1 0]

@To all the people who are whining for this stop by 505

I hope you will not get surpise if BIS will find difficults to reach an agreement with publishers for Game 2 when this will be ready one day.......

Oh and they really did not see this happening when they planned such an arse about way of distribution.

What they should have done was got the distributors in the pipeline, then had a global release by all distributors at the same time, yes they would have got a bit of heat by delaying the release, but no more than the heat they are getting now with a staggered release.

Unless they planned this in the first place so the Czech distributors get double the sales than they would normally would that be a style of nation nepotism

But seriously, I don't think we will ever know what sort of problems BI have had in finding the distributors, maybe it was because they may have got shafted by Codemasters and BI have covered themselves too well to get shafted again that the normal distributors were reluctant to accept BI's T&C's?

What I do hope is that this is as successful as OFP was/is and BI reap a better reward for themselves than they did with Codemasters, then maybe they will think about sorting the distribution for Game2 a whole lot sooner and maybe they wont have a mishmash method the next time around.

or

Maybe the main distributors can't see this release being as big a hit as OFP was, maybe the novelty of it has gone and its now like Flight Sim's, only of interest to a small group within the gaming community so not worth the investment with the possibility of a smaller return.

Now if they had named it "U.S.Marines - Kick Ass" you can bet the distributors would be falling over themselves trying to get signed up for it

[My_Shortcoming 0]

What I do hope is that this is as successful as OFP was/is and BI reap a better reward for themselves than they did with Codemasters, then maybe they will think about sorting the distribution for Game2 a whole lot sooner and maybe they wont have a mishmash method the next time around.

Now if they had named it "U.S.Marines - Kick Ass" you can bet the distributors would be falling over themselves trying to get signed up for it

Firstly dam straight its gonna be as good a modding tool as OFP, more so, i cant wait for such richly textured Winter maps, i think this is going to become a greater game than any could have imagined, the problem is people look at what they have on the outside not that capabilities on the inside. Cant wait to see what the community brings us.

if they had named it US Marines Kick Ass, i would have gone to Czech and kicked their asses lol. I think OFP is one of the biggest known games and that ArmA has become very big already, alot of forums unrelated to ArmA .. or games for that matter are very excited by it already.

[Blazen 0]

No I did convert it to English that was the easy part. The part I was refering to were all of the missions and campains that arn't in English.

[Daniel 0]

Quote[/b] ]if they had named it US Marines Kick Ass, i would have gone to Czech and kicked their asses lol

I think a lot of us considered that when they called it "Armed Assault".

[charliereddog 9]

Can I point out no one forced anyone to go out and buy the unfinished czech version, even after its publically announced it wasn't and would need patching people were/are still clamouring over each other to get a copy. Why? Especially when reading all the negative feedback so far. Patience is a virtue. Most of us have spent the last 5 years playing OFP. What is another 2 months?

Sickboy, please don't think i'm aiming this at you. At least you're doing something constructive about the situation, rather than simply whining.