Your thoughts on radio communication?

[MaDeuce]

It would be nice to be able to have an RTO in your squad, needing to carry around a radio and batteries to be able to communicate back to base and to other squads using frequencies. Though if the VOIP isn't robust and accessible it will end up fragmented with squads using discord, so that idea would probably do more harm than good. for faction cohesion

I just imagine sitting back at base listening to what's going on in the field before deploying. I know they said radio communication would be expanded, I just don't know how they're going to do it.

What would you like to see?

[First5trike]

Nice in theory, people being people would probably make it hell to be on public channels though. Probably better off sticking to Discord for private long range comms.

[MaDeuce]

Originally posted by First5trike:

Nice in theory, people being people would probably make it hell to be on public channels though. Probably better off sticking to Discord for private long range comms.

That's sort of the problem. If everyone is using Discord then communication across the faction isn't going to work. In-game comms need to have an incentive for players using it. Maybe if only squad leaders could do a net call while everyone else can only listen in on that channel it wouldn't be hellish.

[Deadpixel]

Radios with custom freq and modeled range/interference is such a great part of ARMA. Would be nice to be able to tune to another player/squad freq to communicate, ask about an LZ, etc