Crashlands 2 is a sci-fi game that takes place on an alien planet, where every character except for Flux (the main character) is an alien or a robot. So the names of nearly everything are fully made up and have no direct translations. And pretty much every piece of text in Crashlands is a joke of some kind, usually a pun, which almost never translates easily across languages.
Take that complexity and multiply it by the 150,000 words in Crashlands 2 and, well, translation is a VERY difficult (and expensive) problem!
Given our limited time and budget we could only manage a few languages for the initial release, with the hope that the game does well enough that we can add more later. We chose the languages we thought would be most popular among people interested in Crashlands 2, but since the original Crashlands had so few languages we couldn't base that on past interest. Ultimately, we just had to guess.
As we've gotten closer to launch we've seen more and more people asking whether or not the game would be in their language. Fortunately, our guesses about player interest were mostly good: we were able to say ""Yep 😄"" more often than ""Nope 😔"". The big exception to that was Russian; it was the most-commonly asked for language that we weren't supporting at launch.
Whoops!
So that brings us to the big news: we'll now be supporting Russian at launch!
Our translation team has a LOT of work to do to get it all done before the April 10 release. So it'll be a close thing, but we're confident we can make it happen.