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Post by Shaftell on Mar 29, 2017 22:17:53 GMT
I just landed on the planet and started to talk to the Angara and we can fully understand each other. It started off well when they were speaking a foreign language but then they land and it's English.
There's no explanation as to how they understand each other. I know there's mention that they may have had contact with other milky way species but there's not even a sentence regarding the language. Didn't the devs say they would explain the whole language thing? So far there's been nothing and it's just standard fare that the omni-tool/SAM is fully translating an alien language that no one has any experience with.
Will there be any explanation of this as the game goes on? I don't want any spoilers so I would appreciate just a simple yes/no. Thanks
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Post by alihou on Mar 29, 2017 22:21:03 GMT
I haven't got that far so I can't really help you there. But I'm curious as well.
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Post by armass81 on Mar 29, 2017 22:23:56 GMT
Angara had some contacts with the milky wayans before we come to Aya, like the exiles, so the language might have been picked up.
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Post by cobalt72 on Mar 29, 2017 22:26:25 GMT
In the first "meeting" aboard The Tempest after Jaal joins, someone,Vetra, I think says something like "translators not working?" when Jaal doesn't say anythinh
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Post by alihou on Mar 29, 2017 22:30:38 GMT
But how are we understanding a foreign species? We're not in the milky way. In Andromeda translators shouldn't be working for a language we don't comprehend. There's no knowledge of it. |
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Post by Fogg on Mar 29, 2017 22:31:16 GMT
SAM of course. SAM does everything.
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Post by Shaftell on Mar 29, 2017 22:31:51 GMT
I know the omni tool has a universal translator but this is a language that no one has any experience with so how does that work. |
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Post by Shaftell on Mar 29, 2017 22:32:56 GMT
SAM of course. SAM does everything. I guess that's the answer. Looks like I'll have to come up with some head cannon. A little disappointed that Ryder doesn't even question it once. |
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Post by Link"Guess"ski on Mar 29, 2017 22:34:23 GMT
"It just works"  It's in the codex. Psssh, why would the game need to make this clear to us? It's not like discovering a new alien language as a player for the first time is that important, psssh :yara: |
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Post by Fogg on Mar 29, 2017 22:35:14 GMT
SAM of course. SAM does everything. I guess that's the answer. Looks like I'll have to come up with some head cannon. A little disappointed that Ryder doesn't even question it once. I think Sam figures it out real quick, like Virgil on Ilos in ME1. |
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Post by Doctor Fumbles on Mar 29, 2017 22:36:46 GMT
Well, when you are an AI, I think figuring out a language would be easy.
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Post by Shaftell on Mar 29, 2017 22:37:22 GMT
"It just works" It's in the codex. Psssh, why would the game need to make this clear to us? It's not like discovering a new alien language as a player for the first time is that important, psssh :yara: Haha, right? It was something I was looking forward to. Discovering a new language that no one has ever heard of is a big deal but the game doesn't think it is. The mutual hate towards the Kett is more important I guess. |
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Post by Shaftell on Mar 29, 2017 22:38:56 GMT
I guess that's the answer. Looks like I'll have to come up with some head cannon. A little disappointed that Ryder doesn't even question it once. I think Sam figures it out real quick, like Virgil on Ilos in ME1. Yup, that seems to be the case. I would've liked Ryder mentioning how nice it is to fully understand an Andromeda species but I guess it's not that important to them. |
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Post by Doctor Fumbles on Mar 29, 2017 22:38:58 GMT
"It just works" It's in the codex. Psssh, why would the game need to make this clear to us? It's not like discovering a new alien language as a player for the first time is that important, psssh :yara: Haha, right? It was something I was looking forward to. Discovering a new language that no one has ever heard of is a big deal but the game doesn't think it is. The mutual hate towards the Kett is more important I guess. So basically you would want to go through that horrific stole away child experience again like in Kotor? |
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Post by Otter on Mar 29, 2017 22:40:48 GMT
Angara had some contacts with the milky wayans before we come to Aya, like the exiles, so the language might have been picked up. This. Later in the plotline, Evfra explains that they'd already made contact with the exiles and made their own translators to talk to them. No one mentioned it because the angara assumed they were working for the initiative. |
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Post by Shaftell on Mar 29, 2017 22:43:06 GMT
Angara had some contacts with the milky wayans before we come to Aya, like the exiles, so the language might have been picked up. This. Later in the plotline, Evfra explains that they'd already made contact with the exiles and made their own translators to talk to them. No one mentioned it because the angara assumed they were working for the initiative. Oh really? Nice! That's all I wanted. |
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Post by Link"Guess"ski on Mar 29, 2017 22:45:19 GMT
"It just works" It's in the codex. Psssh, why would the game need to make this clear to us? It's not like discovering a new alien language as a player for the first time is that important, psssh :yara: Haha, right? It was something I was looking forward to. Discovering a new language that no one has ever heard of is a big deal but the game doesn't think it is. The mutual hate towards the Kett is more important I guess. Gotta remove that Paragon/Renegade to make it more "grey" right? But let's still make the plot completely one-sided because that's BioWare-like right?  |
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Post by hellcat0420 on Mar 29, 2017 23:21:49 GMT
Why do all of the aliens in this new galaxy speak English?
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Post by shechinah on Mar 29, 2017 23:27:46 GMT
They don't. It's translators, well, translating. The alien words that slip through are things the translators don't catch or can't translate. It noted a few times in the dialogue. The aliens can presumably translate milky language because of their encounters with the exiles.
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Post by tjmitchem on Mar 29, 2017 23:28:30 GMT
Why do all of the aliens in this new galaxy speak English? They don't. Translators. |
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Post by Natashina on Mar 29, 2017 23:32:33 GMT
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Post by derrame on Mar 29, 2017 23:56:49 GMT
everyone has a translator device included in the outfit or armor or omnitool,
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Post by maximusarael020 on Mar 30, 2017 1:05:35 GMT
Haha, right? It was something I was looking forward to. Discovering a new language that no one has ever heard of is a big deal but the game doesn't think it is. The mutual hate towards the Kett is more important I guess. So basically you would want to go through that horrific stole away child experience again like in Kotor? I'm thinking they should have had us go around like in No Man's Sky and find glyphs on ancient sites that would give us the Angaran language on word at a time. That's fun, right? Learning the language like that, yeah? Everyone loves a good fetch quest!  |
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