So, the Milky Way galaxy has its Universal Translators. But how are the Milkywayans are going to communicate with the Andromedan civilizations?
Unless the Ark dwellers have somehow harnessed the Prothean technology of learning languages at a touch, I foresee some kind of translation-related quest upon the first contact with the Andromedan races.
Well they might just stumble upon a cache of information containing most of the languages.
Who says we will understand the aliens we meet? Maybe all we will hear on first contact is a bunch of clicks and whistles we can't understand. Maybe part of the game will be to establish communications with aliens we can't understand.
Who says we will understand the aliens we meet? Maybe all we will hear on first contact is a bunch of clicks and whistles we can't understand. Maybe part of the game will be to establish communications with aliens we can't understand.
That's exactly what I meant.
Well they might just stumble upon a cache of information containing most of the languages.
Stumbling on caches of information through serendipity solves everything 
Stumbling on caches of information through serendipity solves everything
They'll probably use Remnant tech as a bridge if the rumored leak is legit.
Hmmm..........Could also explain how we got to Andromeda!
Forget A Wizard Did It.
An Archaeologist Did It!
Idk if this could be a thing, but if you are in charge of a sort of colony or whatever, maybe the PC can choose what technologies to research, and one of them could be deciphering or trying to understand alien languages, idk maybe in the "alien symbiosis" branch (where these technologies are focused on understanding and living with the Andromedans)?
Forget A Wizard Did It.
An Archaeologist Did It!
A Shepard did it.
I think it would be better that there were some communication issues than that we just can magically have conversation of aliens from different galaxy like they are speaking english.
Their languages are no match for our bullets.
Logically it would make sense of course. But in the original trilogy the translator thing was poorly explored. I mean most of the conversations don't really seem like they're run through a translator, with all those references etc. And I totally get why they did it, I mean it feels a lot more immersive this way.
Logically it would make sense of course. But in the original trilogy the translator thing was poorly explored. I mean most of the conversations don't really seem like they're run through a translator, with all those references etc. And I totally get why they did it, I mean it feels a lot more immersive this way.
It's preferable to going the Star Wars route as well, where the aliens speak gibberish.
In SWTOR listening to different NPCs repeat the same Hutteese dialogue snippet got tiring fairly quickly.
It's preferable to going the Star Wars route as well, where the aliens speak gibberish.
In SWTOR listening to different NPCs repeat the same Hutteese dialogue snippet repeatedly got tiring fairly quickly.
So true. I think I would prefer a serendipity solution to Kotor or Swtor diolog gibberish the entire game.
I recently played Kashyyyk in Kotor. Yup!
A Shepard did it.
Implying the prologue of ME:A could be a Shepard mission? Mass Effect Keep being Liara's Record, perhaps?
It's preferable to going the Star Wars route as well, where the aliens speak gibberish.
In SWTOR listening to different NPCs repeat the same Hutteese dialogue snippet got tiring fairly quickly.
Yea I don't know man, with that much dialog? But really I have no real opinion on this topic to be honest.
Universal Translator or one single trade language spoken by everyone is something I accept in almost every sci-fi setting. Otherwise it just would't work.
However language in ME1-3 worked, the moment you take a closer look it all falls apart. But that's okay, this is one of the few things where space magic handwaves are fine.
Universal Translator or one single trade language spoken by everyone is something I accept in almost every sci-fi setting. Otherwise it just would't work.
However language in ME1-3 worked, the moment you take a closer look it all falls apart. But that's okay, this is one of the few things where space magic handwaves are fine.
I'd rather have one single trade language than a translator (but agreed space magic is okay in this case), and I'm pretending in my ignorance that it's english
So, the Milky Way galaxy has its Universal Translators. But how are the Milkywayans are going to communicate with the Andromedan civilizations?
Uhhhhh, you answered your own question. They're universal translators. They're not hard drives with speakers attached, they decode and interpret languages.
I'd rather have one single trade language than a translator (but agreed space magic is okay in this case), and I'm pretending in my ignorance that it's english
Well, for ME1-3 to work like it did, everyone had to speak English. Perhaps the other species liked how easy it was to learn and adopted it as trade language.
Of course, even that falls apart the moment you realize that several species are physically unable to speak English at all.
Well, for ME1-3 to work like it did, everyone had to speak English. Perhaps the other species liked how easy it was to learn and adopted it as trade language.
Of course, even that falls apart the moment you realize that several species are physically unable to speak English at all.
Yes, but that all gets filed under the category "necessary to make the game relatable and fun" along side with "you can't use increasing and decreasing gravity to make shields like they do" and "that's really not how space ships could fly (you know basic orbital dynamics)"
Uhhhhh, you answered your own question. They're universal translators. They're not hard drives with speakers attached, they decode and interpret languages.
It's said in the lore that all races (even batarians) provide regular language updates to the translation services. The translators aren't hard drives with speakers, they seem to be like cloud extranet services.
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