In this game, East Asian Fonts still have some problems.
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Messy
Asian fonts are made by DDS file instead of TTF file, so small texts tend to be messy. I wonder why don’t use TTF files for Asian fonts. -
Wrong font
About Japanese, default fonts in this game aren’t good; one is chinese font and another one is ugly, moreover, these don’t line up clearly.
Some Japanese players use a font mod made by FB_shokai, but it became imperfect since devs have adopted Smooth serif font and made disable sansserif font for Asian fonts. Default smooth font appears in some text even with the mod, unless I play in English (changing into Japanese with a text mod). It’s annoying espesially when the game get updates.
So I want Japanese TTF font; eg Yu-Mincho, Yu-Gothic (bold is better) and UD-Digi-Kyokasho-NP-B. I use Yu-Mincho on Menu texts and UD-Digi-Kyokasho-N-B on normal texts.
- lack of a character
A first or last character in a word on the gamestarting screen often go missing since last year; eg “4つの湖”(four lakes) to “つの湖”.
I also heard there are lack of some characters in chinese or korean.
These are the east asian font problems I’ve found.
These pictures are my play screen (with font mod).
Default smooth font appears in command panel and tooltip.
(smooth font lines up in these pictures because of the font mod)
Default smooth font appears more when playing with window mode. look the command panel and score.
Techtree is very hard to see.
FB_shokai said that is limit to improve. In English, the mod can be adopted completely but make more tasks that we should bring Japanese text file to english strings folder in local mod.
I can presume devs have many works to do. However I want devs to fix these problems for our comfortable play.