Question about extremely low quality of Japanese localization for Japanese weapons

aizenns · March 20, 2024, 4:35am

I have question that names of Japanese weapons in Japanese language often have incorrect name, and it is not fixed very long time.

I can understand there are small typos (like confuse Spain and Saipan), but in-game localization errors seems very strange.

For example:

English name	Japanese name (in-game)
Type 100 rifle	一〇〇式機関短銃 (Type 100 submachine gun)
Type 1 Ho-Ha (=half track APC)	一式砲戦車「ホハ」 (Type 1 SPG Ho-Ha)
A5M4 (=Type 96 fighter)	九六式艦戦羽切搭乗機 (Hagiri’s Type 96 fighter)

I hope one day developers give them decent names

フラウ · March 20, 2024, 9:47am

The devs are either being lazy or just too unwilling to hire some proper Japanese speaker to do the translation.

I posted this a while ago. The Japanese character on the instrument cluster is entirely gibberish.