Military style radio

[Alex (4) 0]

I saw that there's quite a bit of posts about activating radio towers and adding player carried FM/AM radios, but there's another idea I've been thinking about that I also saw that there were a couple of posts about, but I thought I'd add another post with some ideas.

Player carried radios, military style.

If you would add radios such as a Harris radio (Used by a lot of forces around the world) it would enable you to get in touch with people further away than the local communication that is in game.

- Frequencies, where you would have to scan the frequency-span to find someone to speak to. Maybe just add an option to jump to the next frequency, up and down.

You'd have to broadcast on one frequency and stay there for a little bit, and be patient to see if someone is on there.

- It would take up the backpack slot considering you'd have an antenna on your back. And if you don't have it on your back it would take up 4-6 slots in your inventory/backpack. Which also really would make it mostly useful in a group of others.

- Chargeable battery, you'd have to go into a house and find a socket, or maybe at a repaired vehicle and use the vehicle electricity socket.

- Rarity, make it a drop at helicopter crash sites or maybe at barracks with something like the same rarity as NVG's or the Range finder.

What do you think? It would make it a lot easier to find other players and maybe make them not shoot before they even think about talking to you.

[suspense 210]

Theres already a mod for ArmA which does this. Rocket did mention it at Rezzed, its something he wants to bring in, but not in the "near future"

[wazthatme 9]

so like the acer mod

[Alex (4) 0]

Ah ok! Cool! Hahaha, I just got to that part on rezzed as I read your post!

[Sentinal (DayZ) 20]

I made a similar post regarding this before, Rocket said that he wishes to implement these but it is difficult due to the ARMA 2 engine. He says if a standalone game is made then it will be implemented for sure.