Is the helicopter pilot trying to kill you?

[Buttbutt]

Got my first helicopter event and just hovers for like an hour, flies off, and comes back a little later, hovers some more, and repeats the process.

Is there any more plans for it to actually do things, like maybe drop a message about rescue, drop supplies or is it's sole purpose is try to attract zombies to kill you?

[Shurenai]

The helicopter is a news crew that breached the imposed military blockade (Aka the edges of the map); They have no intention of saving you, They don't come with news of you being saved, and they're not there to make your life easier.

They're there to catch a scoop on the military cover up, And you're the only living human they saw running around.

[Buttbutt]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

The helicopter is a news crew that breached the imposed military blockade (Aka the edges of the map); They have no intention of saving you, They don't come with news of you being saved, and they're not there to make your life easier.

They're there to catch a scoop on the military cover up, And you're the only living human they saw running around.

Ah. wish I can just shoot em lol

[JurgenNW]

They can return up to multiple times after leaving, hovering on you again and again in my experience. Until I was able to hid in a lone latrine in West point park... so maximum was 7 in my experience.

[Lucifer]

Short answer is yes.

It’s a news crew wanting a story and unwilling to risk themselves to assist you so they follow you with no regards to your safety just for ratings....

Or it’s a science team researching the outbreak and studying the zombies completely uninterested in your survival since they’ve accepted you are already dead...

Or whatever else you want to imagine (angry ex mad you didn’t return a text trying to teach you a lesson) but they are trying to kill you. Whether it’s through malicious intent or criminal negligence is actually moot.

[GDICommand]

lol after all the times I've had this event happen, I've never actually asked myself 'what is this helicopter doing?' I've always just been in such of a panic that the thought has never crossed my mind.

This makes it way more interesting now thinking about what it could be

[Neo Blitz]

I always thought it was just the crew out of day of the dead.

[𝔗𝔢𝔞 ❀]

They got a tip that something big's happening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXJBtFUMQmU

[GDICommand]

Lol theres a mod that needs to happen. A full conversion to make the zed combat more whimsical plus weird craft able weapons to make a chainsaw axe or a dildo spear. Then we can live out our Frank - Dead Rising mall scenarios! When npcs make it back to the game then someone has to do this for sure

[Deklend]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

Short answer is yes.

It’s a news crew wanting a story and unwilling to risk themselves to assist you so they follow you with no regards to your safety just for ratings....

Or it’s a science team researching the outbreak and studying the zombies completely uninterested in your survival since they’ve accepted you are already dead...

Or whatever else you want to imagine (angry ex mad you didn’t return a text trying to teach you a lesson) but they are trying to kill you. Whether it’s through malicious intent or criminal negligence is actually moot.

You mean a beeper code you didn't call back on, since it's '93 :P

[Buttbutt]

Would be great if i can turn on the TV, when I have access to power, and you get live footage of a survivor on the ground, shouting at the helicopter news crew, while popping shots off at zombies approaching.

[_TheBunnymaster_]

Originally posted by Buttbutt:

Would be great if i can turn on the TV, when I have access to power, and you get live footage of a survivor on the ground, shouting at the helicopter news crew, while popping shots off at zombies approaching.

I'm hoping it'd be the guy on top of the disabled automobile like in the opening DR1 cutscenes. Dude is fighting 30 zombies and Frank is like, 'yeah, lets get some closer shots!'

[Vaeringjar]

isn't it reported that the military had been flying their helicopters low for a while before the start of the outbreak?

[Lucifer]

Originally posted by Khillian MacDille:

Originally posted by Lucifer:

Short answer is yes.

It’s a news crew wanting a story and unwilling to risk themselves to assist you so they follow you with no regards to your safety just for ratings....

Or it’s a science team researching the outbreak and studying the zombies completely uninterested in your survival since they’ve accepted you are already dead...

Or whatever else you want to imagine (angry ex mad you didn’t return a text trying to teach you a lesson) but they are trying to kill you. Whether it’s through malicious intent or criminal negligence is actually moot.

You mean a beeper code you didn't call back on, since it's '93 :P

There were texts in 93. You just had to send them with the keypad which is why abbreviations became so popular because typing out see you was a serious pita.