Announcement on Steam.
Hello, this is Project Moon.
Currently, Limbus Company supports a total of three languages: Korean, English, and Japanese.
Unfortunately, as this is a live service game, it is difficult for us to add official support for additional languages while simultaneously working on constant updates.
Therefore, in order to ensure that players can access the game with better convenience, we intend to add support for custom unofficial translation mods.
Please view the steps below for a guide on how to install custom translation mods; we intend to apply gradual improvements to this function as well.
If future updates or improvements for this function are deployed, we will inform you via an additional update.
We wish to express our most sincere gratitude to everyone playing Limbus Company, and we will try our best so that you can have a better experience enjoying our game.
Thank you.
- Install the newest version of Limbus Company and find the installation folder. (starting from Version 1.73.0)
- Find "LimbusCompany_Data/Assets/Resources_moved/Localize/" folder.
- Verify the original folders and files(kr, en, jp), copy the aforementioned files, and apply your translations.
- Find the "LimbusCompany_Data/Lang" directory. If the 'Lang' folder doesn't exist, make one.
- Make a new folder and designate a name.
- Add your translated files to the folder.
- The structure of the folder must be identical to the original files.
- Please remove the prefixes in the json file names.
- (X) KR_MainUIText.json, EN_MainUIText.json, JP_MainUIText.json
- (O) MainUIText.json
- Within the same folder, create a "Font" folder, and add your prepared fold files into the said folder.
- Find the "Lang" folder again, and adjust the contents of 'config.json'. If the file does not exist, make one and fill the contents as seen in this screenshot.
- This file looks for the folder with its name written in the file and runs the game with your language of choice.
- The contents of the config file must match the top folder name of your translation files.
- Run the game and verify that the translations have been applied properly.
- e.g.) Try changing the text in the button at the bottom left corner of the screen.
- Original: Clear all caches
- Changed: Custom Translation
Note) If you have applied 2 or more languages, use the "Select Custom Language" button to choose the language you would like to play the game with.
In the case of Timothy Zahn, it's a bit special because /gestures wildly/ Star Wars novels. Feel free to ignore if you're already aware of this mess, but for those not knowing the topic, an explanation =)
(Beginning of Star Wars rant)
Putting aside the fact that what's canon for Star Wars was changed by Disney, Star Wars is a canon that began with movies but very soon began expanding to novels, comics, and then video games. It's been from the very beginning A Glorious Mess because there isn't one author, nor even one specific group of authors working together, no, it's always been tons of persons basically being commissioned to write their own Star Wars fanfic to be published as Official Material. Which meant that after the first handful of novels it very quickly became impossible to keep track of every single thing introduced by other authors, which automatically led to plot holes/worldbuilding holes. So even if an author was very careful with their own creation, they had relatively high chances of contradicting something somewhere.
And then, Timothy Zahn, who had been writing for Star Wars from basically the start, apparently decided that his higher calling was to keep the universe together? This man has become known for taking several points introduced by different authors that appeared utterly incompatible and not only crafting an explanation for how it actually works that looks like it was planned from the beginning, which is totally not the case because different authors, but also tell an interesting story while he's doing narrative patchwork.
So yeah, Star Wars canon probably has more plot holes than black holes, but Timothy Zahn is the king of fix-it fic ='D
(End of Star Wars rant)
Planned "fake plot holes" are a super interesting narrative tool! I've mostly had a negative experience with it alas, because I used it when I was Storyteller for a Live Action RolePlaying game (LARP) and you wouldn't believe the number of times my co-Storytellers and I ended up metaphorically hitting our heads on our tables because the players just could not imagine for a second that we were trying to lead them somewhere. Anything "weird" was automatically treated as a mistake we made... and we were copiously mocked for it, to add insult to injury. While we were just wanting the characters to go "uh, this is weird, why is this weird?" because THE PLOT WAS THERE, follow the hints please! But nope, the players would rather complain about not having anything interesting to do and laugh at us for being so silly we'd forget how our own world was working. Grrrr...
That being said, I'm still firmly convinced that this narrative device is super neat and can be super satisfying. (Just don't use it anywhere near my former players x'D)