Radio Idea

[MirkoVawsk]

I think it would be cool if we could craft a radio so that you're informed of storms in different biomes. They could even be used to announce flash sales from traders that only last a few in-game hours.

Heck, with a radio we could even have special rescue missions like saving npc survivor's from POI's or bandits (when they are in game).

 

[Riamus]

I think it would be cool if we could craft a radio so that you're informed of storms in different biomes. They could even be used to announce flash sales from traders that only last a few in-game hours.

Heck, with a radio we could even have special rescue missions like saving npc survivor's from POI's or bandits (when they are in game).

As far as announcing weather, remember that only the chunk(s) that you and other players are in are actually loaded and doing anything.  Weather isn't managed across the entire map.  So that wouldn't really work.  Maybe that will change in the weather update, but I don't think it will.

 

[zztong]

I suppose you could get weather reports about upcoming changes ... assuming there's a meteorologist alive somewhere ... with a radio station.

I could see a small survivor radio station reporting on something they can measure, like whatever a barometer tells you, thermometer, etc. Maybe found an amateur weather station for the trader. Maybe we could assume some part of the NOAA system survived and was more automated than it really is when it comes to forecasts or weather alerts. Maybe the apocalypse only affected the SW USA? (Somebody is flying airplanes and dropping supplies, after all.)

Hand-held radios could let players talk to each other across the map ... like the chat feature ... I guess we can count that feature as complete.  It would be kind of cool if people on a server had to build a HAM radio repeater, and players had to carry a hand-held radio, to enable the chat feature.

I like to listen to the Fallout 4 Diamond City Radio while I play.

 

[Riamus]

I like to listen to the Fallout 4 Diamond City Radio while I play.

Yeah, something like that in this game would be great.  I don't really need weather or chat stuff, but I enjoyed that radio in Fallout 4.

 

[Adam the Waster]

Buyable radio at the trader to get missions from home. But at a Cost of less dukes

 

[Arez]

As far as announcing weather, remember that only the chunk(s) that you and other players are in are actually loaded and doing anything.  Weather isn't managed across the entire map.  So that wouldn't really work.  Maybe that will change in the weather update, but I don't think it will.

Why would that matter? The weather changes in all biomes every day. There would be no need for accuracy. Hell, the traders say they restock daily when they don't. 

It would add to the ambiance.

Now I do think there should be some kind of walkie talkie thing where you can call your drone if you left it somewhere else, like how you whistle for your horse in Red Dead.

Also I've been planning a radio mod, where it would give out day specific messages for the first 40 days and then default to an emergency broadcast message after that.