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SBZ_Tobias

26 Nov, 2019 @ 7:55am

Looking for Translators!

Hello Heisters!

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We are not currently looking for more translators. If that would change in the future we will go out with the new thread.

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We have already collected and started testing and reaching out to the would-be translators. You can still use the application to show interest in translating a language. Doing so would potentially be an application for the future if the need would arise again.

It would also show you interest in a language that might not have been selected for translation at this time.

Thank you to all applicants.

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The news about our return has hopefully reached you (you know, the phoenix rising from the ashes and whatnot). If it didn’t, here’s the scoop: PAYDAY 2 is back in active development. This means that we are now looking for more volunteer translators from the community to help us make the game more accessible to heisters from around the globe.

We’re primarily hoping to find translators for the following languages:

Dutch
Korean
Polish
Turkish
Simplified Chinese

We are also interested in other languages so please reach out if you want to join our brave translators and see the game getting localized to your language as well.

If you think you have what it takes and are interested in helping us translate any of the above languages, send us an application at https://ovk.af/TranslatorApplication. If you have any questions, you can also send this to us via email or leave a comment in this thread.

Let's keep those strings translated!

OVERKILL_Tobias

Last edited by SBZ_Tobias; 19 Nov, 2020 @ 6:44am

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Kitab Langit has PAYDAY 2

26 Nov, 2019 @ 8:09am

Indonesia when?

gabsF

26 Nov, 2019 @ 8:40am

Portuguese Brazilian when

RezZu

26 Nov, 2019 @ 8:57am

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/PD_PL

Marić

26 Nov, 2019 @ 9:01am

croatian, take it or leave it

Fish

26 Nov, 2019 @ 11:52am

Originally posted by OVERKILL_Tobias:
Hello Heisters!

The news about our return has hopefully reached you (you know, the phoenix rising from the ashes and whatnot). If it didn’t, here’s the scoop: PAYDAY 2 is back in active development. This means that we are now looking for more volunteer translators from the community to help us make the game more accessible to heisters from around the globe.

We’re primarily hoping to find translators for the following languages:
Dutch
Korean
Polish
Turkish
Simplified Chinese

We are also interested in other languages so please reach out if you want to join our brave translators and see the game getting localized to your language as well.

If you think you have what it takes and are interested in helping us translate any of the above languages, send us an application at https://ovk.af/TranslatorApplication. If you have any questions, you can also send this to us via email or leave a comment in this thread.

Let's keep those strings translated!

OVERKILL_Tobias

Polish
German
Romanian

Could also do Latin if thats needed x)

Last edited by Fish; 26 Nov, 2019 @ 11:53am

gia

26 Nov, 2019 @ 2:42pm

I can translate to english :) and spanish, can probably tag translator friends as well but only if I/we get a piece of paper that I can use on my resume.

Bender

26 Nov, 2019 @ 4:14pm

Turkish my main language

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 has PAYDAY 2

26 Nov, 2019 @ 4:22pm

What about Australian.

Y'know knowing overkill they'd bite

Rico.Se7en has PAYDAY 2

27 Nov, 2019 @ 4:44am

Originally posted by OVERKILL_Tobias:
Hello Heisters!

The news about our return has hopefully reached you (you know, the phoenix rising from the ashes and whatnot). If it didn’t, here’s the scoop: PAYDAY 2 is back in active development. This means that we are now looking for more volunteer translators from the community to help us make the game more accessible to heisters from around the globe.

We’re primarily hoping to find translators for the following languages:
Dutch
Korean
Polish
Turkish
Simplified Chinese

We are also interested in other languages so please reach out if you want to join our brave translators and see the game getting localized to your language as well.

If you think you have what it takes and are interested in helping us translate any of the above languages, send us an application at https://ovk.af/TranslatorApplication. If you have any questions, you can also send this to us via email or leave a comment in this thread.

Let's keep those strings translated!

OVERKILL_Tobias

Hi there! I'm a professional translator and I've submitted the application for Simplified Chinese L10N work!
Actually we have made one Chinese localization mod with all localized strings and an open-sourced font from long time ago, and have kept updating it for more than 4 years by now.
You can check the following link for my community guide of this mod (including multiple actual screenshots)
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1909036934

I'd be much appreciated if we can get official support so we might do proofreading with better efficiency and provide every Chinese player with perfect reading experience!

Jelly Moose has PAYDAY 2

27 Nov, 2019 @ 6:14am

Can Vietnamese be allowed, cause I'm from Vietnam

#10

豬肉佬

27 Nov, 2019 @ 9:27am

thank you

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Schrodinger_Sig has PAYDAY 2

27 Nov, 2019 @ 2:30pm

Originally posted by OVERKILL_Tobias:
Hello Heisters!

The news about our return has hopefully reached you (you know, the phoenix rising from the ashes and whatnot). If it didn’t, here’s the scoop: PAYDAY 2 is back in active development. This means that we are now looking for more volunteer translators from the community to help us make the game more accessible to heisters from around the globe.

We’re primarily hoping to find translators for the following languages:
Dutch
Korean
Polish
Turkish
Simplified Chinese

We are also interested in other languages so please reach out if you want to join our brave translators and see the game getting localized to your language as well.

If you think you have what it takes and are interested in helping us translate any of the above languages, send us an application at https://ovk.af/TranslatorApplication. If you have any questions, you can also send this to us via email or leave a comment in this thread.

Let's keep those strings translated!

OVERKILL_Tobias

some informations about the two Translation team in China:
There are 2 Chinese Localization mod in Chinese Community: PDLG and 联合(United)
联合 is fan-base translation group, the early translation is kind chaotic, untill about mid 2016 they decided to letting one translator become major translator, and maintain the overall quality of translation. Chinese payday2 community are more prefer 联合's translation (before they recent update), due to its common language uses and fast update
PDLG is more professional, least their translations really looks like some serious sh*t, except about 10% of their translations are wrong. (I used be a translator for 联合 translation group, and being the major translator for 2018 the whole year, and im pretty sure there are amount number of story-related lines are miss-translated (least in 2018) ) Due to some technical issue (?), only few amount of people are using PDLG

#12

Hoxi

27 Nov, 2019 @ 3:59pm

Originally posted by gia:
I can translate to english :) and spanish, can probably tag translator friends as well but only if I/we get a piece of paper that I can use on my resume.

No need, for now at least. I'm still handling the Spanish translation, I just didn't make any progress lately as I'm prioritizing bug fixes to pass on to the devs.

https://github.com/hoxiwoopboop/payday-2-luajit/commits/master

I have plenty more of them than the ones shown in there (and MANY of them are huge ones), I've been mostly implementing them into Crackdown before the game got revived, so I'm going slowly with all of them to make sure there are no issues with vanilla PD2 code.

After I'm done with most of them, I'll start translating again.

#13

SBZ_Tobias

28 Nov, 2019 @ 5:30am

@Rico.Se7en

@Schrodinger_Sig

We know there are extensive chinese mods and we would be very happy to work with people from those mods. When we review the applications later anyone that worked on the mods would be interesting.

We are hopping to expand the number of translators and prehaps even add more then one to some languages, if needed. It all depends on how many applications we get.

#14