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Ahoy, I tried to play the game in Russian with the translation from Steam, but it has untranslated parts and various bugs, which can totally break game mechanics.
I decided that I want to fix that problems, but modding the current translation is hard task, because, how I understand this, it's made for earlier version of the game, which is causing these problems.
So I decided to make translation of the game by myself from the scratch based on Eng version with partial proofreading on Deutsch version, it's been an easy task, with my 4 years of experience with translating literature. I translated around 50% of game in just a week, working in TES Construction Set, but problems started when I unpacked "L - Misc.bsa" and started working with "strings.xml", I successfully changed the fonts, and them work in game, but not in the parts that I translated in "strings" file (It uses Cyrillic symbols, but not the right one, mostly it "Р" and "С") and some parts still untranslated, I suppose that it's due to newer versions of the game uses heavily modded Darnified UI and have complex structure with many xml files in the "N - Misc.bsa", so I want to cooperate with devs, to understand which files may contain code that need to be changed and which files may contain text that needed to be translated in all this xml files hell.

And I have lore questions, most parts of the game I translated using names from Enderal, where it was applicable, but I have some moments, that I want to discuss with devs.
"Spectral Being" ("Астральное существо") is pretty similar to "Aura Thief" ("Вор ауры") from Enderal, is it the same beings?
Should I translate the undead monsters like they wrote in Enderal? In example, translate "Reaper" ("Жнец") to a "Reaper Lost One" / "Reaper Fleshless Lost One" ("Бесплотный заблудший-жнец") or something like that?
In Enderal potion quality gradation ends with "(Exclusive)", but in Russian more correct be to use "(Исключительное)", not the current translation "(Эксклюзивное)", so I want to change it in at least Nehrim.
I suppose that "Dwarf" is "Star people", and the difference in namings is due to mistakes in work while developing a game. Is it correct? Can I write "Star people" ("Звёздники") instead of "Dwarfs" ("Дворфы")?
I suppose that using month names from Enderal isn't correct, but in the same time using real world ones is feeling even more incorrect, how i should name the months?

Alright, it took something around 3-6 days, but text from strings now correctly displayed in Russian. Problem was in the strings file himself, I changed encoding of file, and now it displays Russian text correctly. And untranslated parts of menu found on "Gameplay - Settings" in Construction Set, which I don't edit before.
So many technical problems when working with games, haven't been prepared to that, after literature. But gladly found answers to my questions.
But I still need help with lore questions. And also wanted to translate credits and launcher, but idk how.

hi, welcome to the forum

first, thank you for this effort, that's a huge task!
we (the support team) will gladly help with any lore questions!
they're not the same.
I'd keep the Nehrim label.
the creatures are mostly different, the ones that are the same were alredy named accordingly (would be my guess )
the Lost Ones are a religious .. "thing/label" in Enderal, it would make more sense to restrict it to that continent / game
makes sense
yeah, Star People is correct
the german version does indeed use german month.
we had to check because you barely notice it. you start a run in June and if you take your time you go one until maybe August.
(to me it also always feels off, and then i forget about it )

as additional info, days of the week
Mondim
Tyrsdag
Wodnesdag
Donarg
Frenag
Sonnabend
Sonnstand

- "-dag" is used intead of "-tag" which translated to "-day"
- Tyrsdag named (presumably) after Tyr, the Lightborn
- Sonnabend / Sonnstand is german, translating roughly to Sun's Evening / Sun's Standing (Saturday/Sunday)
I can't find the English translation of Sonnabend right now, but it uses "Sundas" for Sunday,
the same Enderal uses, so it might be "Lordas"?
Enderal translates the days to Morndas/Tirdas/Moddas/Turdas/Fredas/Lordas/Sundas
- the other days would be either references to nordic gods (like "Wodnesdag") or.. vibes?

sadly the devs are super busy and can't assist :/

No problem, our team (Hades Army) anyway needs some works for portfolio, to start working in games translations on paid basis.
And Nehrim one of my favorite games, from the time when I played it around 8 years ago. So I decided to combine business with pleasure, and work on Nehrim translation
Thanks, very appreciate your help!
Well, it took around an hour, but I renamed all undead and corresponding spells/runes to its original version.
Thanks, I'll keep in mind, that creatures are mostly different.
Ah, alright, so I'll leave real world month names. Thanks!

And a couple of additional questions.
I edited credits a little. Some Deutsch symbols aren't displayed properly on Russian system, so I changed them to English equivalents, so developers names will be shown properly + added our team near end of credits as additional category (Don't know how many of us will work on game in the end), to list there translators, proofreaders, play testers and graphics editors. Is it okay with you?

And I localized game logo to Russian, is it okay with you? (I'll send how it looks in game, but note that thats WIP and translation and logo can look diffferent in future)

Oh, and can I somehow cooperate with you to translate achievements, description and other things in Steam to Russian, so Russian users can also view all this things without needing to translate it?

very reasonable, go ahead
we'd rather have the logo stay
maybe have it as "Nehrim" and the translation a bit smaller diagonal below it? (or something like that)
we will ask about that, but yeah, the one being responsible for Steam (and GOG) connection is super busy,
and may very likely not have the time for anything Nehrim related.
sorry