Megaphone
| Megaphone | |
|---|---|
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| Class | Tool |
| Weight | 2 |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.Bullhorn
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The Megaphone is a handheld electric loudspeaker. When equipped, it makes a shout far louder than a bare voice.
It is a tool for drawing attention on purpose. A loud shout pulls zombies toward the speaker, so the megaphone can lure a crowd away from a building or a car. Its main strength is that reach. Its main cost is weight, since it is one of the heavier small tools.
Megaphones turn up at fire stations, prisons, electronics stores and army storage. The Carpenter is the best occupation for tools. It starts with the most Carpentry skill. The Construction Worker and the DIY Expert also start with some Carpentry skill.
Using
The megaphone works while it is held. Shouting with it equipped raises the volume of the shout sharply. A survivor can use that to pull zombies from a wide area to one spot. That clears a path elsewhere or gathers them for a fight on chosen ground.
The same noise is a risk. A shout through a megaphone draws far more zombies than a plain shout, so it suits a planned lure with a clear escape route.
The megaphone has metal parts inside. Cooking it in a microwave can start a fire. A spare megaphone can be broken down for Scrap Electronics.
Locations
Fire stations are the best place to look, with one in garages and storage about one time in four. Prison locker rooms and electronics store counters, shelves and boxes are almost as good. Army storage, military crates in offices and pawn shop offices hold one about one time in eight. Prison storage lockers come close behind. Closets, sheds, pawn shop shelves and staff lockers turn one up only rarely. It is a fairly common find in the right buildings.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Fire station garage | Other | 23.7% |
| Closet | Crate | 2.8% |
| Closet | Other | 2.8% |
| Shed | Other | 2.8% |
| Bathroom | Locker | 2.4% |
| Fire station garage | Locker | 2.4% |
| Garage storage | Locker | 2.4% |
| Bedroom | Cardboard box | 2.2% |
| Bedroom | Crate | 2.2% |
| Garage storage | Crate | 2.2% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Fire station storage | Metal shelves | 23.7% |
| Fire station storage | Other | 23.7% |
| Prison locker room | Locker | 20.6% |
| Army storage | Metal shelves | 12.3% |
| Army storage | Military crate | 12.3% |
| Army storage | Other | 12.3% |
| Office | Military crate | 12.3% |
| Prison storage | Locker | 11.5% |
| Break room | Locker | 2.4% |
| Changing room | Locker | 2.4% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Electronics store | Counter | 20.4% |
| Electronics store | Shelves | 20.4% |
| Electronics store | Small box | 20.4% |
| Pawn shop office | Metal shelves | 12.3% |
| Pawn shop office | Other | 12.3% |
| Pawn shop | Other | 2.8% |
| Pawn shop | Counter | 2.5% |
| Pawn shop | Metal shelves | 2.5% |
| Pawn shop | Shelves | 2.5% |
| Pawnshop storage | Other | 1.2% |
Notes
- Equipping the megaphone makes shouts much louder.
- It is a strong tool for luring zombies away from a target.
- Its metal parts make it unsafe in a microwave.
- Fire stations and electronics stores are the likeliest places to find one.
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