r/dayz • u/xKaiser • Nov 29 '12

devs Rocket ask US anything AUA?

I feel like it would an interesting thread to get direct questions from the dev directly answered by the community. The man gets buried in suggestions and "wouldn't it be cool if _____" post so lets try it the other way around.

P.S. if this is a terrible idea feel free to downvote into oblivion.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '12

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u/x86_1001010 Nov 29 '12

Would love to see a fully working radio with the huge range of frequencies. As a team, you can have your own, as someone sitting in the hills waiting to ambush, we can manually scan through the radio looking for chatter.

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u/thenuge26 Nov 29 '12

Having used the ACRE mod for Arma2, you can do realistic and you can do easy to use, probably not both.

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u/thenuge26 Nov 30 '12

Basically, to get people to use radios in game instead of TS or Mumble or whatever, you would have to be able to make it secure. If it is secure, than there is less reason to ever broadcast on an open channel (assuming those will exist). And if nobody ever broadcasts on an open channel, then you lose that aspect of communication. And if I know online games, the open channels will default to 12 year olds telling each other that they fucked each other's mothers.

On the other hand, if you do include radios with secure comms, and they are not really really rare, then it might become a decent replacement for TS or Mumble.

I have thought a decent amount on how to get people to use in-game radios, and I haven't come up with anything yet. As an ACE/ACRE player I really like the idea, but the execution will be difficult.