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Wiedźma Danaien has Subnautica

13 Mar, 2019 @ 3:14pm

Radio Gibberish - can it be translated?

So, at some point of the game you receive a radio communicate from aliens. It sounds like a gibberish, but I wonder if those can be translated or if this is some kind of "sound-designer-toying-with-us". I tried to find answers via search tool, but failed. Anyone?

Edit:
I think the message is coded (not the audio but the glyph text). At least four phrases (4 obvious dots). 13 letters (probably starting with an A), 13 letters, 7 letters and 30+ letters. I only wish we could just copy paste it somewhere and make it more readable.

Last edited by Wiedźma Danaien; 13 Mar, 2019 @ 3:30pm

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Amazing Mezmer has Subnautica

13 Mar, 2019 @ 4:50pm

I would love to see what it says, you could probably find it on the wiki to copy-paste it.

Wiedźma Danaien has Subnautica

14 Mar, 2019 @ 6:09am

Great idea! I will surely check it later today :-)

Lil Puppy

16 Mar, 2019 @ 10:43pm

It's from the Warpers, they're communicating with each other and your PDA is picking up their signal, it happens several times, sometimes it has it in a communicable language (English in my case, dunno what other languages this game has audio files for).

As for what it says, it's probably just nonsense. It takes quite a bit to make a new language and then try to encode that into an audio format as well as glyphs.

Also, this message you're referring to is just ascii extended characters (we used them back in the 80's and 90's for graphical purposes on BBS's).
http://www.asciitable.com
https://www.alt-codes.net

https://subnautica.fandom.com/wiki/Warper

"RADIO: ▀▖┗▛▄▖▜▚┣ ▜▚┗┣┗┫┓┏┓ ▛▄▖┅┗▖. ┣┗┏▛▄▖▜┏┣ ▚ ▖▞┣┗▖┗┣. ┣┗▖┃▀▚▗┏┏┓. ▖┛▀┗▞┃┏▄ ▛┏┗▄▖▜▚┣ ┅▖┗━▖ ▖┓┫▞┣ ▚ ▛▄┅┗▖ ▚ ▖▞┣┗▖┗┣ ▚┛▘▞━▖┅."

So starting with character 1, the ASCII character codes are:
223 (this is ascii), 9622 (this is unicode). So, they're purely for fun, once you get off the main ascii code page there's no encoding system they could use to make it into a language. They're all just graphical from here:
https://altcodeunicode.com/alt-codes-box-form-drawing-block-element-symbols/

I was going to see if there was a character shift cypher being used, but they used ascii, ansi, and unicode so that's not a possibility.

Last edited by Lil Puppy; 16 Mar, 2019 @ 11:23pm