radio is sorta pointless

[Altruistic Muffin]

I mean besides raising your spirit and making your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hut feel like a les ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hut, it has very little use, sure it tells your *sometimes* the temp but thtas it, the news broadcast is boring and rarely contributes to the game, the classical music station is poinltess, so why have it, can we at least have more stations and actual hints or info in it

[DankSlayer]

Yeah. The radio that helps you with morale, tells you when the winter comes, when the war ends or is coffe expensive or not is REALLY pointless.

[Fornax The Lazy]

Yup,the weather situation , bandits are jumpy or not,military is having a fight,things have a high price is all pointless,better never make it , waste of resource....

[Battleseed]

Originally posted by SANIC TEH LEDGELOG:

I mean besides raising your spirit and making your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hut feel like a les ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hut, it has very little use, sure it tells your *sometimes* the temp but thtas it, the news broadcast is boring and rarely contributes to the game, the classical music station is poinltess, so why have it, can we at least have more stations and actual hints or info in it

After reading this post, have to wonder how you managed to find your way here to post that. Did someone assist you?

[Darmacien]

Check the radio : cigarette prices sky high. Great ! Got myself a lot of cigarettes to sell, ready my stock, check the radio again... there are now plenty of them... damn U.N. and humanity help ;o)

Radio warns you for :

1 - Danger zones
2 - Prices for some elements
3 - Zones available in the city
4 - Weather
5 - General news fronm the front.
6 - Morale (that i guess)

To bad it doesn't have presets.

[Morifan]

radio isnt pointless its epic to see SKYROCKET PRICES

[noob ferguson]

I'm kinda with the OP. If you've already got a decent hang of the game mechanics, radio will rarely give you any significant advance warning on anything that you couldn't have figured out for yourself.

You'll see the winter screen and temperature plummet within a day when the radio tells you it might get cold (and a few times it didn't). I hear about blockades due to fighting on the radio only as they're happening. Trade prices are nice to know about, but then again, the slight bump from coffee and cigs rarely affects what I actually bring back to the shelter anyway (unless I have addicts in my group).

It's great flavor that adds to the narrative and immersion of the game, but most of the time, the radio only tells me about stuff when it's too late to do anything about it.

I build radio last now; for the amount of precious rare electrical parts, the vegetable garden and reinforced door are far more important to have up and running ASAP.

[Johnny]

I agree. The benefits are marginal throughout the playthrough but the resource impact, especially in the early game is significant. When the times are uneventfull and the resources plentiful sure, why not.

[Altruistic Muffin]

i just think that it could have more uses, and more music stations

[Fornax The Lazy]

Originally posted by SANIC TEH LEDGELOG:

i just think that it could have more uses, and more music stations

Actually agree on more music stations,there should really be more channel.