All Other Strings

The string table page can be used to edit all of the strings used by a gametype's script. Each entry consists of several translations into different languages.

You can edit an entry, create new entries, or delete entries that aren't in use by the gametype script. You can also copy the English-language content of the entry as either normal text, a string literal suitable for use in gametype code, or an index in the string table.

Internally, the string table is serialized as a buffer — a blob of data consisting of all localizations, back to back, separated with null terminators. Each localization stores the offset of the start of its string content; the game loads localizations by copying data from that offset to the next null terminator.

The string table is subject to the following limits:

• There can be no more than 112 entries.
• The total size of the buffer, including null terminators at the ends of strings, cannot be more than 19456 bytes (whether compressed or uncompressed).

Compared to Bungie's own development tools, ReachVariantTool applies a minor optimization: if any two localizations are exactly identical, even across different entries, then they are only written into the buffer once, and the two localizations share string content. Bungie only applies this optimization in the case of all localizations in a single entry being exactly identical; in practice this only occurs for Forge labels and team name overrides (the latter of which are stored in a different string table anyway).