The Radio

[Zombie Jesus 723]

Just a quick question on gear, the radio is always hacked right?

Now for the story behind the question (if interested). Killed a guy on Lingor last night and his entire crew had hacked items in their inventory (their story was a santa hacker had given them all gifts) and I picked up the radio and a hacked in .50 cal that I am going to destroy once I enter the game again. This group sucked so much that they walk up on my group pointing flashlights and lighting fires (we were bored waiting for a friend who was AFK) and were unable to be the first ones to shoot. I happened to do a scan with my L85 (legit heli crash) and saw one of them looking right back at me. It was night and we did not have NVG, but I dropped the guy and went to loot the body. As I was looting I was hit by a sniper rifle with a very strange sound, it was instant death and I figured AS50 but it just sounded wrong. Once again this team with L85, NVG, range finders, Makarov SD (I will say why, if you are going to take hacked gear at least take good gear), and hacked in sniper rifles was unable to contain the three other players in my group (two of my group are terrible at this game) and they took another death and the last one was able to make it to his SUV and drive off. My group loots the two bodies and mine and finds radios (hacked), all tools, PDW SD, Makarov SD, hacked M4 variant, and the topper the L115 sniper rifle which I had no idea even existed. Over side chat I laughed at the guys for sucking and asked if they had shot me with that hacked 50 cal, at this point they all started to whine that we had a map hack on due to seeing them (do not stand in the open, even at night you never know who has thermal). Then my group all sets a town to meet up at so I could gear up off the items from the dead players and we run into one of them in the town who then claims we teleported. I was able to get my L85 back and while I took the L115 out of curiosity (wanted to see the optics and how it performed) I will end up destroying it on login and will not use it against any players. We destroyed the bodies (which they did not appreciate) and stole all legitimate gear from them, but I am wondering what to do with the radios.

Long story short what the hell is wrong with people, we did not even bitch about these idiots obviously cheating and they turn around and call hacker. Picked up obviously hacked gear and I am going to destroy the weapons that do not belong, but since the radio has no function I almost want to keep it as a badge of honor, what would you do with the radio?

[Kra 151]

Some people are saying lately that the radio is a very rare spawn. I still don't know about this.

I know radios as a tool for script cheaters to trigger functions. So IMO, if your server admin says no to hacked items, I wouldn't want to hold onto this one.

Otherwise, if it truly does turn out to be a legit item, then it definitely is one of the rarest spawns.

[Banicks 55]

First, paragraphs, learn to love them please!

Next, do what you want, keep the hack guns even. I'd say 90% of players running around have hacked gear in their inventory. It's not like you guys will live any longer for it. You'll either be killed by a hacker or another player who spots you.

Radios are apparently legit. But the only thing they do is spam communication frequencies prior to the 'event' and then morse code deer stands. It really holds no value other than taking up a slot. As far as I know they hold no 'hack' function or meta game ability.

Edited September 7, 2012 by Banicks

[Zombie Jesus 723]

First, paragraphs, learn to love them please!

Next, do what you want, keep the hack guns even. I'd say 90% of players running around have hacked gear in their inventory. It's not like you guys will live any longer for it. You'll either be killed by a hacker or another player who spots you.

Radios are apparently legit. But the only thing they do is spam communication frequencies prior to the 'event' and then morse code deer stands. It really holds no value other than taking up a slot. As far as I know they hold no 'hack' function or meta game ability.

I will never love paragraphs.

I could care less how other players play this game, that should not influence my decision and I have a personal objective to play this game in a fairly legit fashion. I do not rage on others (I did actually laugh with the cheaters on side chat and never once whined about dying from a hacked gun) about these issues because it does no good. The reason I am even considering holding onto the radio is it takes up the last tool slot (so no wasted inventory space) and can not be used against other players. I am not saying I am perfect because I will be keeping the NVG and rangefinder, but I do not like keeping hacked weapons (especially the super cheap AS50 TWS) so I will be destroying every weapon, once again just personal preference.

Mainly I found it funny to be called a cheater by a group full of cheaters.

[Kra 151]

Can't say I've recently seen any footage of scripters using the radio as I have seen months ago. They probably figured out the pattern and filtered it out in scripts.txt or w/e

And the only place I've seen people claiming they are legit are on the forums, and I trust everyone here about as much as I could throw them. So until I see some form of acknowledgement from the dev, or links to source, I don't believe it.

[Zombie Jesus 723]

Yea like I said I am fairly sure it is hacked, I think I am leaning toward dropping it over being called a hacker when I am not.