Helicopters?

[reveilleun]

https://trello.com/c/dLsvdp2M/131-patrol-helicopter

What is the reason for adding helicopters? I think it would ruin the game?

[kyle]

Before anyone else comments... People are going to tell you what they think. But the official reason or how it will be used isn't quite clear. I think they could be overpowered as well, depends.

[Necro327]

im with you i think itll ruin the game...they need to take this game as far away from modern day as possible otherwise it wont be a survival game anymore itll just be a kill on sight fps so you can take whatever the other player has

[2 FLY]

imo helicopters is just too much. survivalists with a helicopter? yeah, maybe like, the top guy on the server after farming for a solid week or two maybe, but otherwise ill be pretty upset, if its too overpowered or easily available.

[kyle]

To argue your points...

It might be an NPC, or extremely hard to craft, I'm 99% sure they'll tweak it, this is a big step for Rust, and modded/community servers may or may not have it, especially servers that try to remain primitive where you can barely even craft C4 now... So let's see what happens.

[sl0th]

I was hoping for a starter vehicle...maybe like a simply bike?

[Praxius]

I doubt this will be anything regular players can use.

In early stages of Rust, there were cars that admins could spawn / use but regular players couldn't.
http://i.imgur.com/uXtBkZ4.jpg

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=217166955

It's called a "Patrol Helicopter" so I would assume it's designed for Admins to use to check what's going on in their server without having to use teleport commands, etc.

[AmonAmarth]

There is NO official word on what the helicopters will do. They are modelled after the Huey and those are primarily transport/medi-evac and light assault helicopters. There are models of mountable rocket launchers you can attach to the side pylons.

I have HEARD two possible stories

1. They are the anti air-drop , call one in and it blows up the air drop plane and drops the loot where it is blown.

2. They are player crafted and can be flown by players, mounted with rockets for maximum target saturation.


Personally, i hope they're player crafted and can mount some sort of weapon, but overall, i LOVE flying, i would adore the possibility of loading up my buddies and inserting them on the roof of a base before providing overwatch to make sure we had a successfull raid, i just hope they're expensive enough so that they aren't EVERYWHERE, i roll with a large group (10+) so it wouldn't be hard for us to gather for a few days to experiment with this. If it came with a deployable rope my buddies could slide down, even better.

Before anyone whines about "They'll break the game waaaa" think about it. 10 guys in kevlar with m4's , c4 , ect, with good coordination and tactics will do just as much awesome evil as having a helicopter will. Get a better group. Git Gud, and fear us!

[AmonAmarth]

Originally posted by Praxius:

I doubt this will be anything regular players can use.

In early stages of Rust, there were cars that admins could spawn / use but regular players couldn't.
http://i.imgur.com/uXtBkZ4.jpg

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=217166955

It's called a "Patrol Helicopter" so I would assume it's designed for Admins to use to check what's going on in their server without having to use teleport commands, etc.

Fuggin' ford focus, LOL.

[Praxius]

Originally posted by Amon:

There is NO official word on what the helicopters will do. They are modelled after the Huey and those are primarily transport/medi-evac and light assault helicopters. There are models of mountable rocket launchers you can attach to the side pylons.

I have HEARD two possible stories

1. They are the anti air-drop , call one in and it blows up the air drop plane and drops the loot where it is blown.

2. They are player crafted and can be flown by players, mounted with rockets for maximum target saturation.


Personally, i hope they're player crafted and can mount some sort of weapon, but overall, i LOVE flying, i would adore the possibility of loading up my buddies and inserting them on the roof of a base before providing overwatch to make sure we had a successfull raid, i just hope they're expensive enough so that they aren't EVERYWHERE, i roll with a large group (10+) so it wouldn't be hard for us to gather for a few days to experiment with this. If it came with a deployable rope my buddies could slide down, even better.

Before anyone whines about "They'll break the game waaaa" think about it. 10 guys in kevlar with m4's , c4 , ect, with good coordination and tactics will do just as much awesome evil as having a helicopter will. Get a better group. Git Gud, and fear us!

So long as I can steal your helicopter and use it against your team, sure.

Then I'll drop it into the ocean so you can't take it back, thus wasting your hard work :)

[Simple Man]

Originally posted by GavNation:

I was hoping for a starter vehicle...maybe like a simply bike?

No matter the reason they are implementing it, i think those are efforts could be going elsewhere.

And yea some kind of vehicle, sure ok, even if a bycicle, or a much harder to achieve mortorcycle, or something. Seems the game is leaving all the survival behind. Zombies are going, theres already M4s and explosives, now helicopters, 6 months from now maybe nukes too? that would make sense. Start -> rock -> wooden shelter -> couple hours later, build nuclear warhead *waits 30 seconds*. Yup, nice.

A helicopter, no matter how hard it will be to achieve, wherever avaliable, all the nerds will bum rush it for hours, days on end if they have to, to get one, and off they go, KoS from the sky, like a BAWS.

I can also see people leaving the game in droves, if thats its general direction.

[Prodieus]

Originally posted by GavNation:

I was hoping for a starter vehicle...maybe like a simply bike?

i can just imagine a bunch of naked cavemen riding around on bikes.

[Disodium]

Who says these helicopters will be for players?
They may well be hostile NPCs..

[DireSwift]

They are talking about events as well. I'm going to assume on the side that it will be along the lines of the airplane in that it isn't drivable by the player. It's been called a Patrol Helicopter and what little I have been able to find on it seemed to suggest NPC.

[Phisher_0x029A the last of you]

this thing killed me wasted all my beginning on a new server, gg
fu ckpunch, bow is broke so you must cheat and paint a dot on your screen with a textmarker to hit anything , but a new helicopter asset ... wow