What about a Radio? Maybe something like Fallout?
Radio stations needs an operator to brodcast anything useful or entertaining, which indicates there are other survivors out of the player’s reach and that gives a mixed feeling of hope and despair. but I have some “slightly” different ideas:
A “walkie-talkie” like device that can only be used in multiplayer and has multiple channels used to communicate to other players from afar. Only useful with a mic, will only transmit to other devices with matching channel
A rework of the existing radio to play broadcasts of matching NPC or player radio channels.
A radio broadcast device, sends radio broadcasts but doesn’t receive them. Adds to the “community survival” side of the in game
These ideas needs rethingking & reworking.
Oof, Nercropost :v