Arma helicopters are here!

[bybee1234]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/experimental-october-12-2023

anyone played yet? im not able too for a while. will love to check out some videos and see how it is.

What are your thoughts? how many helicopters did they add? hows the physics of it?

[leon44gamer]

2 helicopters, huey and Mi-8MT Transport heli, physics are very nice, basically same as arma 3. Animations are nice, you can shoot out tail rotor, engine, main rotor gear etc.

[-OrLoK- Слава Україн]

oh, wow! Official helis!

unexpected and excellent!

[bybee1234]

im glad its a struggle when damaged. difficulty flying with parts of your vehicle falling off is exactly what it should be

[battle]

Unfortunately as far as I know, there is no support at all from Bohemia for HOTAS

[leon44gamer]

Originally posted by battle:

Unfortunately as far as I know, there is no support at all from Bohemia for HOTAS

A Dev said right now on discord, "The joysticks are not supported yet. We have issues with input handling that have to be resolved first."

[-OrLoK- Слава Україн]

yeah, controller support often comes later with BI. Understandable.

[WidowMakervVv]

I juts got in the game... I dont see helicopters.. what are you guys talking about? Im hella confused rn

[leon44gamer]

Originally posted by WidowMakervVv:

I juts got in the game... I dont see helicopters.. what are you guys talking about? Im hella confused rn

It's in the experimental version, a second steam game

[★ GallowDancer]

The helicopters are good. A lot easier for a beginner to fly compared to Arma 3's. They're lighter and more manoeuvrable. Also they don't explode if you hit the ground a little harder when landing, They only added 2 helicopters, which is okay for now. They just need to add an armed version of the MI-8T because that can have machine guns, pods and bombs added to it. They need to add the CH-47 too for transport and add an armed version of the HUEY

[Arma Pilot YT]

Arma Pilot Testing the new UH-1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuIOBm1EpkY

It feels great but i hope they will make the start of the Rotors slower. It's a bit unrealistic now

[Japo32]

A shame loosing the advance physics we had in ARMA3.

[stburr91]

Originally posted by JSNFARRELL:

Originally posted by Japo32:

A shame loosing the advance physics we had in ARMA3.

No one said Reforger won't have advanced flight physics. Its just not here this early in development.

I may be mistaken, but I do believe it was said that there will be not an advanced flight model in reforger.

Regardless, I wouldn't expect an advanced flight model, it's outside the scope of reforger. Also, the AFM in Arma 3 is locked to only 30 fps because it's pretty demanding on the cpu, so don't expect them to add it to reforger.

[Japo32]

Yes in ARMA3 it may be 30fps locked but technology advance and 10 years has passed. So they can improve it. In any case I also expect the joystick support as fly them with mouse and keyboard or a pad it is a no go for me to fly them.

[Towelie420]

Originally posted by battle:

Unfortunately as far as I know, there is no support at all from Bohemia for HOTAS

I just found this out, WOW, how could Bohemia do this? I fly with a HOTAS , and have for a long time. I simply can not fly a helicopter with KB and Mouse, or PS4 type controllers, no way.

[Bremer]

Originally posted by stburr91:

Originally posted by JSNFARRELL:

No one said Reforger won't have advanced flight physics. Its just not here this early in development.

I may be mistaken, but I do believe it was said that there will be not an advanced flight model in reforger.

Regardless, I wouldn't expect an advanced flight model, it's outside the scope of reforger. Also, the AFM in Arma 3 is locked to only 30 fps because it's pretty demanding on the cpu, so don't expect them to add it to reforger.

Yeah, and you aren't a pilot!