Fellow officers,
so many of you have started patrolling through the streets of Brighton already, while others continue to enjoy the amazing gameplay videos of our beloved content creators. Work as a police officer isn't always easy, and the knowledge about all the technical details in order to act lawfully isn't always easy to grasp.
If you are not a native English speaker (and can not understand German or Chinese either), some things might therefore be difficult to understand. We've listened to your feedback carefully and have therefore begun working on additional languages, making the game more accessible in the process!
Which languages are coming?
We've looked at the most frequently asked languages and have therefore selected the following ones as our initial batch:
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
- Turkish
- Polish
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Russian
- Korean
- Japanese
Awesome! When will they release?
We are currently aiming to speedrun the process and hope to introduce them to the game with THE NIGHTSHIFT WITH FRIENDS UPDATE, currently scheduled for Early Q3 2021. Of course, this is all subject to change (we're in Early Access, after all!) so that it might take longer - but we will tell you should that be the case. Right now, we're pretty optimistic!
Press F for other languages?
While the languages listed above are the ones we plan to localize officially, others are currently not part of our evaluation. However, we do plan to offer community translations - meaning, that we put up the original text on a platform and letting you, the community, take part in the translation process. This approach makes it possible - if the demand is high enough - to localize the game into less frequently spoken languages as well!
PSA: Voiceovers will stay in German and English. Only written text will be localized to the new languages.
Why can you offer these languages now? Why not from the start?
In Early Access, we plan to update the game quite with a high frequency which means that with every update, new stuff plus changes on existing texts would have to be localized into all languages.
Initially, we thought that this would incredibly hinder our rapid development process. However, we have started to reshuffle it a bit so that hopefully all works out in the end. Let's pray together!
What else are you working on?
At the moment, we are in the process of preparing the beta of THE BACKGROUND CHECK UPDATE, coming to the game (most likely) next week with a full release in early July. It will introduce a new district, a new car, and the board computer!
In addition, we are highly focused on minimizing the number of crashes and improve the overall stability of the game. Also, we are currently evaluating ways to adjust the balancing - meaning that you might be able to unlock stuff earlier. Of course, bug and localization fixes are also high up on our list.
You can follow our development process on our official Trello board which we update regularly. In addition, you can chat with the community on all our socials:
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