Language Error Code PART 2
Hey all. I've had this issue with Apex Legends for almost a year and at this point its almost making the game unplayable. I will literally do anything at this point, and any help is appreciated. I have a previous thread with more details, so if you want to see that go ahead and check my profile to find it, but i'll summarize the issue here as best as I can:
Basically, I tried a trick CaptainTypho showed in a video once where you can mess with the language files and launch options in steam and get the game to display all English text in the UI and menus, but have all the voice lines and audio in a different language. I chose Japanese as, at the time, I was about to take my Japanese exam for school and figured it may be a decent way to help study. Of course, the exam happens, all is well, except I get PERAMBANNED a few days later for tampering with files I assume. It took over a month to get unbanned, and after all that hassle with EA support I just stopped playing, as it basically ruined any drive I had to play the game. A while later I tried to play again, but I went to try to change it back to english. When I go to change it to English, it doesn't work properly; it gives me this error:
ENGINE ERROR
CSOM_MilesAsync_OpenOrFindFile("audio\ship\general_japanese.mstr") failed to open file; try resyncing
The only solution is to change the game back to Japanese via Steam, or do the same trick again to get the English text back, but I can never get the English voice and audio back. So far, I've done the following:
-Clear launch options
-Double clear files
-Use Steam's "repair files" tool (it doesnt detect any issues)
-Uninstall/reinstall the game
-Uninstall/reinstall steam
-Clear steam's download cache
Literally I feel like my only option at this point in the process is to wipe my entire computer in a factory reset, but I really really really don't want to do that. I would try playing the game on another computer to see if its an account issue or a system issue, but I don't have any other computer to even try to run it on. Any and all help would appreciate it: this is a final call for aid.
OH MY GOD I FIXED IT
Ok for anyone who tries this trick in the future and gets the same error: first you can't just delete the launch option: its now a permanant emplacement. Instead, you have to replace said launch option with +miles_language english (or whatever the primary language you want it in), then re-verify the game files, then clear your download cache. Then, it should hopefully work. Once you've done that, be sure to delete the unused language files you changed to begin with to save disc space.
