@elite-dangerous-almanac/core / i18n / getExperimentalEffectDescription

getExperimentalEffectDescription(experimentalEffectSymbol, locale): string | null

Defined in: src/i18n/experimental-effect-descriptions.ts:43

Look up an experimental effect's display description — the prose the game shows a player, in all six stored locales.

string

Frontier's experimental-effect id. Matching ignores case and surrounding whitespace.

string

A BCP 47 locale. All six stored locales are complete for this dataset.

string | null

The localized description, or null when the effect is unknown or the requested locale is not one this catalogue stores.

This is display text, not a statement of the effect's mechanics. An effect's description in the ships/experimental-effects catalogue answers the other question — it names the damage split or behaviour the modifiers list cannot express — and the two are deliberately not the same string.

This is a heavy i18n dataset: six locales of prose for every effect is ~129 KiB minified (~25 KiB gzipped), more than module names cost. It has its own module so an application that never shows an effect description does not pay for it — import it from core/i18n/experimental-effect-descriptions rather than the core/i18n barrel if you want that boundary to be explicit.

If a present experimentalEffectSymbol or locale is not a string.

import { getExperimentalEffectDescription } from '@elite-dangerous-almanac/core/i18n/experimental-effect-descriptions';

getExperimentalEffectDescription('special_auto_loader', 'en');
// -> 'An experimental upgrade that automatically reloads the weapon, even when firing.'
getExperimentalEffectDescription('special_auto_loader', 'it'); // -> null