plane crashes

[WastedPooch]

Just curious but there was a plane crash near my base. Convienient but it was at night. Since it was close by I was able to reach it easily . I am playing Easy, No Hunters. Crash was still guarded by a bear and a wolf. No problem. BUT....... It's been four days and nights and the thing is STILL BURNING! How long until it despawns?

[Strikepoint]

It's there for quite awhile. You can use your pick ax to tear down the plane for scrap metal. Not sure if that makes it despawn faster or not. Too soon to tell.

[ice_freezer]

Yeah, dismantle it for scrap, as Strikepoint says. Scrap goes a looong way in Subsistence.

[WastedPooch]

thanks 4 the info

[Jonh]

how are you! Break the plane into parts with the ax or pickaxe to obtain metal scrap... I want to know how often the planes fly by!!!???

[WastedPooch]

Well, The fires finally went out. 6 days and 7 nights...

[GraylyRain]

Wow, that's good to know though, were you able to get all the same stuff off of it wondering if you HAVE to wait for it to stop burning fully, if you'd get more by waiting (or not).

[Aaron-L (Raw's Nephew)]

Some general information and a couple of tips, that may help some.

I've had 12 Plane crashes and 4 flybys', spread across 2 Games. In one game, the first 4, all crashed within meters of each other in the Pine Lake area. Which at the time, did not seem to be random, it seemed a fixed crash zone. After a couple of small updates, they have started crashing at both the Birchwood Lake and Pine Lake areas. However the last 3 have all crashed in different parts of the Mountains.

The Axe is quicker, but you'll need 2 of them as the first lasts, between the 13th and 15th bit of scrap. As someone stated, there are 18 scrap in total.

Of late the fire can burn for another day before going out. Now for the million dollar question. How often is there a plan crash? I am afraid it is going to remain a mystery for the moment.

They have appeared 3 days apart, 5 days apart and 6 days apart so far, but not in any particular sequence. There is no need to panic when you hear the explosion at night, it will be still there the next day.

The crates can vary a lot; there are some real with helpful stuff and some with average stuff. Even though there are two crates, there are a lot of single digit items, to give the impression of a lot. But still, it's all free, and that the best part.

You need to be mindful about the Pilots, they are aggressive and will surround you quickly with Lever action rifles. To gain an advantage, if you have basic weapons, try and kill one or two from as far as your weapon can be effectively used, to even the odds.

Just a word of caution, for those not aware. In multi-player, all the bad guys now, attack immediately with the same aggressiveness. No more killing with a bow or headshots, without arousing them. Put Bandages and Med kits in an easy access slot, it could safe your life in a gunfight. I personally have mine in slots 1 and 8.

[darknessanubis]

Curious if you have to deal with pilots in Hunters off. Kinda a deal breaker for me with plane crashes if I have to deal with Pilots in hunters off.

[St3rling]

Yeap, i had 3 pilots (hunters) at the crash site to take care of

[Strikepoint]

Originally posted by darknessanubis:

Curious if you have to deal with pilots in Hunters off. Kinda a deal breaker for me with plane crashes if I have to deal with Pilots in hunters off.

Hunter's off = No pilot's. confirmed. You still get loot as well.

[darknessanubis]

Originally posted by Strikepoint:

Originally posted by darknessanubis:

Curious if you have to deal with pilots in Hunters off. Kinda a deal breaker for me with plane crashes if I have to deal with Pilots in hunters off.

Hunter's off = No pilot's. confirmed. You still get loot as well.

YAY thank you so much

[umbravox]

Originally posted by Raw3793:

Some general information and a couple of tips, that may help some.

I've had 12 Plane crashes and 4 flybys', spread across 2 Games.

so many plane crashes in such short time. I dont know if i finding that a bit too much and bit unimmersive..
Another question that arouses my curiosity is: Why do they even crash ?
I mean are those all Bad/drunk pilots or whats wrong with them ?

[darknessanubis]

Originally posted by umbravox:

Originally posted by Raw3793:

Some general information and a couple of tips, that may help some.

I've had 12 Plane crashes and 4 flybys', spread across 2 Games.

so many plane crashes in such short time. I dont know if i finding that a bit too much and bit unimmersive..:hidden_cat_silent:
Another question that arouses my curiosity is: Why do they even crash ?
I mean are those all Bad/drunk pilots or whats wrong with them ?

Shot down by hunters/rogues?

[umbravox]

Originally posted by darknessanubis:

Originally posted by umbravox:

so many plane crashes in such short time. I dont know if i finding that a bit too much and bit unimmersive..
Another question that arouses my curiosity is: Why do they even crash ?
I mean are those all Bad/drunk pilots or whats wrong with them ?

Shot down by hunters/rogues?

shot down with what? a shotgun? a bow?
Never seen any anti-aircraft defense at the hunters bases lol
But it would be cool if we had such a thing. Or even better a mini helicopter to intercept the planes..

[umbravox]

Now that i said mini helicopter i can imagine like this: As a random event you get a notification on the screen like :plane arriving in two minutes! Then u quickly need to get to the chopper and up into the air.
When the plane comes u need to intercept it and shooting it. When the plane takes enough damage it will go down and u can handle the pilots and loot as normal. The important thing is that the plane only will crash if we shoot it with our helicopter.
It could be a funny minigame .
Of course we dont have a helicopter right now, but maybe put it on the roadmap as a wishlist item.?
Pls let me know what you think about my fabulous idea^^