Elden Ring: News about Fortnite unsettles many players in the community

Gaming News Elden Ring: News about Fortnite unsettles many players in the community

Language, another major obstacle in Elden Ring

We told you less than 24 hours ago, if From Softw are games are so loved, it’s thanks to their community. In addition to the exploits of some who decide to leave their controller to their Twitch chat, it is also thanks to the collaboration and mutual support of other players that browsing the titles of the Japanese studio is pleasant. An observation more than valid for Elden Ring, which revisits one of the systems of its predecessors: that of messages. Some will have noticed, it is possible to read messages left by other players. These messages are written using a defined word database, probably to avoid overflow.

Some therefore use stratagems to convey information, sometimes just to cause misunderstandings among other players. This is the case for some English speaking players who had fun putting the words together cont and night in their message to allude to the famous Battle Royale Fortnite. Except that it didn’t have the expected impact internationally in that the words are translated as they are without their context..

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And, inevitably, things are going less well in some countries around the world. This is the case, for example, in Japan, explains @DistantValhalla on Twitter, a translator specialized in video games (pitchers; goal), who tells many anecdotes about his job. And inevitably, he stumbles upon this “Fortnite” news story that doesn’t go down well in Japan:

It drives me crazy that Japanese Elden Ring players keep seeing 「砦、夜」(Strong, Night) messages and start seeing hints in them. They theorize that special events in keeps happen at night when it’s just Fortnite memes.

A similar case observed in Europe. However, Japan is also subject to an unfavorable translation. Say “lol‘ the Japanese use the letter w as a shortened version of the verb warau (Laugh). After all, resembling a rough drawing of grass, it is the kanji for grass (草) that became the Japanese lol. Of course, the translator sees nothing but fire and offers a literal translation. On the French side, it should therefore no longer be surprising to see reports with the words grass Where from Strong; night from now on…

Source : dual shocker