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Request for "Emergency Radio channel" Feature
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Description

I would like to suggest a added feature to the in game radios.

An emergency frequency that players cannot talk on but can listen to distress calls from crashing helis or maybe get a warning about a incoming gas zone or it could have other implementations with the other dynamic events (current and future.....).

For the Heli crashes if it is a NATO Heli an American or British voice would be heard (obviously adding voice lines might be a challenge) saying something like mayday we are going down near (insert town name)
Same for the Russian Heli variants but with Russian language making it harder for English speakers to find.

As for the gas zones maybe a couple warning beeps then followed by Morse code of the landing co-ordinates of the gas zone.
That would make pin pointing the gas landing a challenge that requires the knowledge of Morse code which would be pretty fun and if not just immersive.

As for other future additions to dynamic events for example if supply drops were a future feature we could maybe hear an AI sounding female voice saying "a supply drop has been deployed to …..(insert x and y co-ordinates).

you could also play a intermittent message in a AI mans voice (say every 3 minutes) that says "this is the emergency broadcast channel stand by for instructions" and then repeat it in Russian.
This would make leaving your radio on a risk/reward situation as players nearby would also hear this coming from your radio.

All in all I think this feature would do wonders for world building it would also draw players to dynamic events making interaction and pvp around these events much more common
finally I also think this would be a great reason to pick up and use a radio more as often players don't use radios if more players are using them to listen to the emergency channel then maybe more will also use the communication features as well.

Details

Severity
Feature
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
N/A
Operating System
Windows 7
Category
Feature Request
Additional Information

I would love to hear some response from the team and also from the community
if you like this idea
if you don't like it
what you would do different
or even reasons why it wouldn't work.

Thanks for reading and good luck with 1.23 i honestly cannot wait.

-Sweetchilli :)

Event Timeline

Geez changed the task status from New to Feedback.Oct 1 2023, 10:15 PM

This is a really cool idea. There is a mod I recently discovered that is very similar to what you are describing. It's called RadioNotifications created by antihax. Here's the Steam workshop link in case you are interested:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009596923

lemmac added a subscriber: lemmac.Jan 28 2024, 3:10 AM

That's a really cool idea. It is funny that the game intro revolves so heavily around the radio and yet it serves little purpose to most players in the base game.

'Risk vs Reward' https://youtu.be/wsNUDfKx2Lg?t=171

It would be cool if there was a reason for players to want to pick up the radio other than to steal it's battery.

Agreed. We need radio to be more involved. Right now on official servers it's a dead devide. And you also made a misstake, it is "russian", not "R"