Air Dominance Fighter is now available in Spanish, French, and German!
How to
Steam should automatically switch to your language of choice. To manually select it, right-click ADF in your library > Properties… > General > Language:
Translations include:
- the graphical interface and briefings
- MFD buttons and labels
- some HUD indicators, e.g. during air refueling
Radio comms and cockpit effects are still in English for immersion, but fully subtitled.
Dev note: ADF was designed before Unicode was a thing, so it was quite a challenge to update the technology to support characters beyond the standard alphabet …
We also provide translated help files. The help received a major overhaul, in all languages, to restore its 1997 charm:
Other improvements over the 1997 translations include:
- fixed weapon loadouts in briefings
- fixed overflowing text in medal windows
- converted German translation to modern German orthography
We are working on more translations and assets, but that’s not always trivial. Some manuals seem genuinely lost; in other cases it’s hard to track down the current rights holders.
Still, our German translation comes with fully digital copies (non-scanned) of the 1997 manual and key card:
For Modders
Good news for modders: All briefing files are now UTF-8-encoded. No more codepage hassles!
If you’d like to localize your mods:
- Ship English files by default. If you don’t translate, your mods remain fully functional but display in English, regardless of the game language.
- Place translations into sub-directories called Spanish, French, German – e.g. MDL/French/mymission.mdl. The localized builds will pick them up from there.
More Improvements
Other gameplay fixes we recently rolled out:
- fixed radar detection range in AWACS missions
- fixed hat switch sensitivity at high frame rates
- added support for multiple sliders in controller mapping
- increased HUD/MFD line thickness
- various multiplayer fixes
Use the preview branch if you’d like to test the latest changes. Read our news from May and March if you missed it!
