Using Your Radio
The ability to communicate is a key part of surviving the apocalypse. When using your radio, you can look for supplies, call for help, search for other survivors (or even other players) to help, and even get out of a sticky situation. Almost everything will cost you influence and has a cooldown, so make sure to read the details when selecting your help. You can get to your radio commands by opening your inventory, then tab over to Radio. Let’s explore your options:
Find Resources/People
If you are running low on supplies, you can reach out to your neighbors via the Radio to look for types of resources you may be lacking. This includes people. If you need to find more people to recruit to your community, you might be able to find help over the airwaves. All options require a small amount of influence and a cooldown before using it again.
Recruit Legacy Survivors
Bring a survivor to your community from your legacy survivor pool with any items they may have previously had in their inventory. This costs quite a bit of influence and has an 80 minute cooldown.
Medical Advice
In a sticky situation and out of medical supplies? This command can help. A medical expert talks you through techniques to recover Health and remove Trauma. This is only available if your community has a survivor with the Medicine Skill.
Infestation Options
This is where you can use the defense options explained under Defending Your Base>Radio Commands. Instead of influence, these two options will cost you fuel or ammo.
Daybreak Options
Here you can call a Prestige Trader who accepts Prestige in exchange for gear unlocked via Daybreak. Recruit a Red Talon Daybreak Operator, or a Red Talon Soldier
Independence Pack
The Independence Pack is available for free, once per community for Green and Standard zones, after which point it will cost influence. For Dread zones and harder, calling the Independence Pack will always cost influence. You can either request a weapons or supply drop, have your choice of three different cars delivered, or call an Independence Pack Trader who has a huge inventory of exciting explodables.
Multiplayer
This is where you can Join Multiplayer, ask for help from other players in the community by sending out an SOS using the “Host Multiplayer” radio command, or volunteer for Daybreak or Heartland by using online matchmaking to join someone else’s game who needs your help.
Note, you will need Multiplayer set to “on” in order to access these functions, which can be toggled from the settings menu > Multiplayer.
Stuck Command
As much as we might not like to admit it, sometimes characters and vehicles get stuck. If you run into that problem with a character, open the Radio menu, scroll to the bottom, and choose the “Stuck?” command. This command should relocate you to a place where you are no longer stuck. It also works if you are in the driver seat of a vehicle. It takes a few seconds to kick in, so it isn’t any good at escaping hordes or tough missions in a hurry, and don’t try to use it in a car to escape zombies — they’ll hold on for the ride.
