Handheld Transceivers & Field Transceivers have been in the game for a long time now but have seen little changes done to them, DayZ is a game about making your own story and whilst a lot of people use 3rd party voice chat options it feels the ways of talking long distance on the game has gone obsolete expect for RP servers.

Meeting someone on the radio is always a gem when it happens but its so rare to the point where a lot of players will just avoid it plus it eats up battery usage. The voice of another player is always offering choices on if they can be trusted, will they help you out or if they wanna go on an adventure and so on, that's the beauty of DayZ but it feels gone now, absent from the game for years.

Especially with the release of Sakhal, players will be in need of other survivors a lot more, maybe it could create some more engaging gameplay.

I will list some ideas that I think will benefit communication a lot in DayZ.

• Reduce the batter usage on the handheld transceiver & field transceiver.
• Reduce the weight of the field transceiver, it is too heavy along with the weight of a car battery.
• Keep the field transceiver as being server-wide but maybe make the handheld transceiver have an increased distance but more static is heard. This can be boosted by being couple hundred metre range of a radio tower.
• Make the Public Address System send out signals to nearby handheld transceivers in the area but also field transceivers can pick up the signal anywhere on the map.
• Handheld transceivers and even field transceivers can pick up possible nearby helicopter crashes.
• Being near a radio tower can increase the range of the communication but also offer less static.