Radio
Radio
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| A model 2043B Radio communicator, from the fine people at Wattz Electronic. Dependable, rugged, and camouflaged with the optional RS-121 interface. | |
| Effect | Allows to in-game communicate |
| Weight | 2721 grams |
| Base Price | 350 |
| Exp for Crafting | 75 |
| Requirments to craft | 1x 1x Repair: 30% |
| Notes | Even though video(flare) killed it, its still a Star. Especially considering that you can use it to make distress signal. |
Radios allow in-game text communication between characters tuned to the same channel.
Uses
Radios are the only in-game way to communicate with other players that are not in the same location as yours. An unlimited number of players can share one radio channel. Radios are now used rarely due to popularization on outside ways of communications, such as Team Speak or Mumble. Also many newbie factions that used to sometimes use radios now relay on faction chat instead.
Radio settings
You can adjust a radio's settings via the "Use" action on it, or by using science skill on Radio.
In the radio settings menu, you can change the channel, and adjust the range at which your radio is able to transmit and receive messages. You can also disable transmitting and receiving functions independently.
The channels numbers can be set between 0 and 65535. They are not secured, so if you know the channel number used by another player you can tune in and listen easily, though the chances of that happening randomly are extremely low. When you die with a radio, the player who loots you will see the channel you last used. Be careful to change channels when this happens.
Radios found in encounters will have their frequencies set to 0. The 0 channel is used as some form of general chat for entire serwer. If you want to buy or sell something Radio might help.
Speaking with a radio
Once you and your friends are tuned to the same channel, you can talk to them by writing in the chat bar and holding down Shift when you press Enter. Or you can use a prefix /r (/r message to radio) and press Enter. Your sentence will be redirected to radio and not displayed in the general chat. However, speaking in the radio will make you whisper while sending your message in the radio channel. You won't whisper if you only receive a radio message.
To be able to speak on a radio, you must have it in turned on and in your inventory or one of your hands.
Radio messages are not signed, which means their authors have to say who they are, if they want to be clearly understood. This means that you can also perform an identity theft by saying you are someone that you are not really. By then, some gangs will use codenames or identity password, which means you can only trust a radio message if it is followed by a specific number sequence.
Distress signal
While a radio is in one of your hands, you can use /h (help, works on Latin keyboard layouts) or /p (privet/pomoshch, works on Russian keyboard layouts) prefix for your messages (.h and .p works as well) to send a distress signal.
All the players connected to your radio channel with the radio in their hand will be able to move to your location on the world map if you are in a random encounter (A red circle will appear on their world map).
Player can send distress calls only for limited amount of time after encounter started. Every player who dies on visible encounter forgets the location.
Note: In order to send/receive distress signal, you need to have radio in one of your hand slots
Obtaining
Radios are commons item that can be crafted, bought in NPC's shops or farmed from NPC's since its among pool of random loot.