Let Players Spawn without Headsets?

[rapid wadi]

Currently, every single crewmate automatically spawns with a radio headset. While it's nice and convienent to start with them already equiped and not need to worry about it, it means that you can never use lack of a radio as a feature in a submarine. It would be great if there was a way to have players not spawn with radios, so a unique challenge could be provided on a submarine. For example, only the Captain and Security get radios because they are in limited supply, so assistants need to manually relay orders to mechanical on what to do.

This could be made more conclusive by simply allowing the editing of the class loadouts inside the sub editor, so you can add and take away anything you want from the newly spawning crew.

[rapid scroll]

yeah thats a thing kinda

but you can only add things

and the problem with the radio is that if you get abducted there will be no radio silence after you

[hot frigate]

Being able to completely modify loadouts would be cool

Imagine a lot of custom subs could do interesting things with that

[fierce moon]

I frequently have to yell at the submarine captain to stop moving because we cant dock our shuttles lol

[timid spindle]

But you can just... craft headsets. Everyone would make one in 0.02 seconds because it's a basic necessity on any submarine.

Unless you wanted this feature to also disable both crafting them, and acquiring them from enemies/shops throughout the game.

It would also run into problems with the medic's auto injector headset, as they would promptly print lots of those. Otherwise the talent would have to be reworked/disabled for this setting.

[vague geode]

Make the walkie-talkie/headsets purchasable as in the Lethal Company

[rapid scroll]

idk if that would be good here

and we can already but headsets and keycards

[hot frigate]

not really

having them as a crafted thing means they're a running cost, and if i remember right the thing they cost is copper

i feel like there's never enough copper to go around already

assistants not getting headsets is absolutely a sacrifice i would make

[timid spindle]

they only cost 1 plastic and 1 fpga

they're not hard to buy or make.

on that note -- that reminds me of something to check for later...

[hot frigate]

I never have the copper for FPGAs

[timid spindle]

smack your security officers upside the head for using the default crafting with copper instead of switching to lead or zinc.

[sand sedge]

So headsets will be more of a trophy for taking down a guard, and the prize is that you will be able to troll captain from safe distance

[rapid scroll]

the prize is also a keycard

[sand sedge]

It is usually empty

[rapid scroll]

kinda fair

maybe custom ships i guess

[wind thunder]

This is a good mod idea

Install this
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2591160750

All that is described by OP is already possible. It's super easy to mod Barotrauma.

[rapid wadi]

This mod isn't what I want though, I want to be able to customize what players spawn with, including giving them more items to start off, or custom items that have special use in a custom sub

[wind thunder]

You can do that too

Mod the default loadouts