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From what I've read, the guys who made the English patch are working on updating it so it'll be compatible with Open Beta, but it's not ready yet. I hope it won't take too long, because like the OP said, it was a lot less tolerable than I thought it'd be. Trying to navigate menus from memory of CB was not fun. People were accidentally blacklisting me when trying to invite me and whatnot.
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I got around okay in the pre-open despite having not played the other betas/alphas. There were plenty of things I didn't quite grasp though, I didn't figure out how to grind something until the last hour today.
Knowing what the shops, items, and menus say would be incredible. Story/NPC convos I don't care about and would probably take forever to translate anyway.