What the mod does
ATG Translator adds a single item: a handheld translation device. Hold one, hand a second to the person you want to talk to, and the two of you can speak to each other at conversational range.
It exists so that talking to a civilian or a prisoner is something a player does in the world rather than something arranged out of character. The device has to be carried, handed over, and switched to — all of which take time and put you in the open.
Using it
- Take a translation device into a gadget slot.
- Give a second device to the person you want to talk to.
- Select the translator in your radio menu.
Both parties need a device, and both need it selected. Range is short — a few metres — so you have to actually stand with them.
Fitting it into your server
The device is an ordinary inventory item, so you can place it anywhere you would place any other gadget:
- Arsenal — add it to an arsenal catalogue in a mod of your own so players can draw it on deploy.
- Game Master — place it by hand from the content browser during an operation.
- Loadout — put it in a character loadout so a role, such as an interpreter, always carries one.
Nothing needs configuring, and there are no settings.
The relay requirement
Since Arma Reforger 1.8, the game only delivers a radio transmission when a relay on the same encrypted net is in range. Translators use their own net, so no faction’s relay covers them — a world that offers translators must also contain a translator relay, or the devices will not work at all: the recipient never sees an incoming transmission.
The mod ships one ready to use: TranslatorRelay, under the mod’s
Prefabs/Systems folder. It is invisible in the world, needs no configuration,
and covers a 15 km radius, so one instance placed centrally covers a typical
terrain. To add it, open your world in the World Editor, drag TranslatorRelay
in from the mod’s Prefabs/Systems folder, and save. It cannot be placed through
Game Master at runtime.
Requirements
None beyond the base game and, from Arma Reforger 1.8, a translator relay in the world — see above. The mod is standalone.