City of Heroes Client Translation Project

[Michiyo]

City of Heroes Translation Project

We're working on translating the client-side text of City of Heroes — things like menus, powers / power descriptions, tooltips, and other interface elements.

This project does not include missions or NPC dialog, as those are stored on the server and cannot be modified.

Current Language Support

We currently have machine translations available for:

• Spanish – Download

• French – Download

• German – Download

 

These are also available in the City Mod Installer under the "Languages" category.

 

Spanish and French are already being reviewed and improved by volunteers, but there's still plenty of work to do. German hasn't had any human work yet — if you're fluent or comfortable with it, we’d appreciate the help.

 

Thanks to Archviste for working on the French translations, and Black Jaguar for working on Spanish.  But they can use more help, currently there are ~30k lines, and I've yet to load in powers data.

How to Contribute

If you'd like to help improve translations, you can sign up at https://cityofheroes.dev.
Once logged in, just click "Translation Project" from the main page to get started.

You can contribute as much or as little as you like — even small corrections are useful.

Thanks to everyone who's already contributed. The more eyes we have on these translations, the better the experience will be for players using them.

 

[Archiviste]

Yep, like Michiyo said, I agreed to volunteer (... me and my big mouth...) on this project. I am a native French speaker, but I only played sporadically on the old Vigilance French server, so if any former Vigilance player wants to give me a hand, it would be appreciated - especially when it comes to getting the names of characters (ex, Ghost Widow = "Veuve fantome"?) and concepts (Task Force = "Groupe de travail"? (Beurk on that one, I used "Force de Frappe") right.

[jkwak]

6 hours ago, Archiviste said:

Yep, like Michiyo said, I agreed to volunteer (... me and my big mouth...) on this project. I am a native French speaker, but I only played sporadically on the old Vigilance French server, so if any former Vigilance player wants to give me a hand, it would be appreciated - especially when it comes to getting the names of characters (ex, Ghost Widow = "Veuve fantome"?) and concepts (Task Force = "Groupe de travail"? (Beurk on that one, I used "Force de Frappe") right.

its just my humble opinion and i m a german player not a French one, but i would leave names and such like Ghost Widow and concepts like Task Force untranslated to avoid confusion

on another note, if you want to get even further the loading screens are still there even on the homecoming client



 

[Scarlet Shocker]

Yow ay ploid City of Eros until yow've ploid in thay original YamYam

[Snarky]

Thank you all! I have been studying German for a couple years using apps and YouTube.  I still pretty much am terrible at it lol.  German grammar is a hairy monster for an English native speaker.

 

I want to try this.  What are the procedures for reversing it when I find I cannot understand anything?  

[Michiyo]

Just now, Snarky said:

Thank you all! I have been studying German for a couple years using apps and YouTube.  I still pretty much am terrible at it lol.  German grammar is a hairy monster for an English native speaker.

 

I want to try this.  What are the procedures for reversing it when I find I cannot understand anything?  

Just uninstall the mod.  If you're using the mod installer select it in the installed mods list, and click uninstall.  If you're manually installing mods (but why?) Just delete the .pigg from assets\mods, or wherever you put it.  This makes no permanent changes to your game.  I will warn you the German version is 100% Machine translated, and anything NOT translated is still in English.

[Snarky]

24 minutes ago, Michiyo said:

Just uninstall the mod.  If you're using the mod installer select it in the installed mods list, and click uninstall.  If you're manually installing mods (but why?) Just delete the .pigg from assets\mods, or wherever you put it.  This makes no permanent changes to your game.  I will warn you the German version is 100% Machine translated, and anything NOT translated is still in English.

yeah, and machine translated German is....  well, better than me, but... lol 

 

Still, this will provide enjoyment and opportunity Thank You!

[Archiviste]

14 hours ago, jkwak said:

its just my humble opinion and i m a german player not a French one, but i would leave names and such like Ghost Widow and concepts like Task Force untranslated to avoid confusion

 

Noted. I've received similar feedback from other French players, and I tend to agree.

[-Kobi-]

 

Hi Michiyo,

This is a great initiative, which had previously been taken up by part of the French community but was eventually abandoned due to the sheer amount of work required.

Being able to translate the interface and some basic information will no doubt help retain both new and returning players, especially since,unfortunately, we live up to our reputation when it comes to foreign languages.

 

I’ve started revisiting some of the French translations, which were very literal, in order to make them more contextual.

 

As Archiviste sayed, I believe that proper names and place names shouldn’t be changed, especially since many were designed with English pronunciation in mind and rely on things like  patterns, syllabic repetition (like “Black Brawler”), or references rooted in English-speaking culture. Same goes for location names. The idea is to avoid ending up with a “WoW 2.0” situation, where the translation sometimes went a bit too far.

 

I'll quietly add my own little contribution to the project over time.

Edited 21 hours ago by -Kobi-

[High_Beam]

Me llamo es High Beam

 

...  I barely passed Spanish I in HS; its one of four regrets I have in life, two of which involve language.

[Michiyo]

14 hours ago, Archiviste said:

 

Noted. I've received similar feedback from other French players, and I tend to agree.

 

1 hour ago, -Kobi- said:

 

Hi Michiyo,

This is a great initiative, which had previously been taken up by part of the French community but was eventually abandoned due to the sheer amount of work required.

Being able to translate the interface and some basic information will no doubt help retain both new and returning players, especially since,unfortunately, we live up to our reputation when it comes to foreign languages.

 

I’ve started revisiting some of the French translations, which were very literal, in order to make them more contextual.

 

As Archiviste sayed, I believe that proper names and place names shouldn’t be changed, especially since many were designed with English pronunciation in mind and rely on things like  patterns, syllabic repetition (like “Black Brawler”), or references rooted in English-speaking culture. Same goes for location names. The idea is to avoid ending up with a “WoW 2.0” situation, where the translation sometimes went a bit too far.

 

I'll quietly add my own little contribution to the project over time.

Anything currently translated can be reverted to English by simply copy/pasting the English string over the Translated string.  This way it is still counted as "Translated", and indicates to others that it should be left as is.

[Darkneblade]

This project should be really in Crowdin, also can you include other languages? currently only have 3

[Ridiculous Girl]

to this i can contribute, if needed, as a non-native though fluent in french.

 

i concur that most of names of people and places probably should remain untranslated because those end up being details that can quickly get muddied and personally they get a bit silly and lost in translation. 🙂

[Michiyo]

2 hours ago, Darkneblade said:

This project should be really in Crowdin, also can you include other languages? currently only have 3

Crowdin is only free up to 60,000 words, the main UI file is double that alone.  I can add as many languages I want, I just started with the 3 I've seen the most requests for, and that I thought would be a good place to start.