[LowIntelligence]

Hello,

I require help with this frustrating issue, frustrating enough to be willing to pay for some help.
As some of you may know, in Left 4 Dead 2 you are simply unable to reliably detect what language a Player is playing in.

- cvar "cl_language" will always return the language the player has set their Steam to, meaning the game can be in a different language. (Thus, making GetClientLanguage useless as well)
- cvar "english" is of no use either.



I'm hoping this will be possible with the use of an extension.
I'll pay $200 to whoever can reliably detect this.

[iluvit9887]

can't be done. move along.

[LowIntelligence]

How about a possibility to ensure Soundscripts are playing sounds from a specific folder?
As I currently understand it, soundscripts will play the files relative to the rootdir -> sounds folder, which changes as soon as the game detects a different language.

I realize this is all done client-sided, which is why my hope to detect or even set this is rather low.

[Spirit_12]

What exactly are you trying to accomplish by detecting the player's language?

[LowIntelligence]

Originally Posted by Spirit_12 What exactly are you trying to accomplish by detecting the player's language?

To prevent clients from modifying soundfiles in other languages.
Considering whitelist + sv_consistency can't do this (in L4D2) without blocking out legit players that simply don't play in that language.

Being able to pick up a player's language reliably would allow me to either detect if that specific client is actually using unmodified soundfiles from their select language or to either block non-English clients entirely.

[Bacardi]

...player maybe want play game in english, even he/she is non-english ?

You could check player country by IP address, then do what you like.

*edit
really hard task