How to bring back Side chat - A pda

[gibonez 3633]

Side chat was wonderful at times in the mod sure it was not realistic at all and because of it you were plagued with people singing their own rendition of Baby got back across the server.

 

But despite that Side chat brought forth lots of funny and unique gameplay elements.

 

It was used to bait people to certain towns, it was used to taunt or harass the possibilities were endless.

 

Since stand alone is taking a far more realistic approach to the game side chat would make no sense unless it made sense for these players to talk to each other across the map.

 

Easy way to do this is start people off with a PDA or something like the MILO adhoc, wifi communicator.

 

 

For games purposes it could allow you to chat to people within 1 or 2 square miles near the player.

 

If you dont want chatting you can simply drop it when you spawn this gives players the choice of talking in side chat without being forced to read what is displayed there.

 

It also eliminates the problem of voice over side chat.

 

 

[Max Planck 7174]

2770 posts and you haven't found the suggestion forum yet?

 

Moved.

[plexico 386]

I don't like the idea of spawning with it, but finding it sure. I'm for the idea that survivors spawn with the bare minimum and have to scavenge for anything. But, isn't this what the radios will be for? 

[odin_lowe 3686]

I don't like the idea of spawning with it, but finding it sure. I'm for the idea that survivors spawn with the bare minimum and have to scavenge for anything. But, isn't this what the radios will be for? 

Well, the radios already work. I used them and quite frankly it's pretty fun, but very limited compared to side chat. They have a range of about 1000M, and between 800-900 M you lose signal. It's nice to be able to you chat also, but like voice, exceeding the range will make messages hard to read with some letters missing.

 

Anyway I like the radios and would like to avoid any real side chat if possible.

Edited May 17, 2014 by Odin Lowe