if only you used some better sieilds, havoc shield is big and all but it costs a TREMENDOUS amount of power. GSO shields and venture healing bubbles are probably the best as long as you don't plane on facing to many battleship MK3 cannons, or don't have an absolutely MASSIVE tech with more or less infinite power!

yes ik

@Tankuality, yes, now it is just about balancing. This was before separate controls so it was about concept design also.

its honestly not very hard to do this now that there are separate controls for helis, you just need to balance it right, i have quite a few helis like this, and even a tiltrotor(actually, my apache looks kinda similar to this one)

@aqva, balance is broken, this was before they made separate controls for helicopters. Concept can be used, I make new helicopters same way, just balancing is different now.

Is this broken?

i wish there was a way to make a helicopter hover in place like a hover craft. would make it easier to attack things

will do!

just send me links to them when you finish!

still gonna make 8 helicopters that fly like their real life versions just you wait and see!

oh dang it

@Minion
OMG... now it is easy to make it. with all new blocks and control schemes... not challenge any more. If you where here two years ago.... :D :D :D

can't make another helicopter that flies like its real life version eh? challenge accepted.

i dont think it works properly anymore, after the update, i cant take off with anything but w and s. for some reason they cause the propellers to spin up even though that now what the keybind is set too. oh well.

looks realistic and i like realistic things... have a penny

with BF update it is easy to make this kind of helicopters, even better as you can make it to move and rotate in all axis. I am not sure if this one even works properly any more.

there were a lot of realistic looking helicopters out there but none of them flew as great as this one did, so I was quite impressed and surprised. Now of course there are plenty of helicopters that look and fly like their real life versions, but this was one of (if not THE) firsts.

yeah what I more meant by that comment was "OMG you just made the first realistic looking helicopter that flies like it's real-life counterpart flies!"

Just saw this video on YouTube with this and a few other Workshop helicopters I recognise (your builds are really famous!): https://youtu.be/og_0ymcX-T4?t=1157

Link it here.
Second you did not read properly what is written. It say this is the first that look and flies like real helicopter. And I made lot of hoverbug helicopters before this one and lot other people actually posted hoverbug helicopters on forums YEARS before this one. There is a lot of hoverbug helicopters that where posted here or on forum before this one...
This one is first that is designed to look and fly as possible (in TT) as close to real RL helicopters. So yes, it is first one like that.

@NightbladeGreyswandir, even i posted my hoverbug heli 7 minutes before that (thats right, whole 7 minutes!), and i was quite late to a party of glitched helis, far not a first

@Clanfear, how do you know it is not first?

lies, not a first

I love it! it fly's so well!

Definitely an inspiration for many helicopters. I even went and made a GSO chinook with this control method. :D

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remove the minigun so when you fire you wont have to keep on pressing s to stablelize

woohf

whoa

Thanks!!

wow

cool

@donimalai, it is called hoverbug, If you remove few blocks from side of helicopter, you will find one GSO hoverplate and one GSO wheel inside it. When you place wheel so it is rotated as hoverplate is ground, then wheel thinks that it is non stop on ground and this bug prevent tech to get in to air mode when they fly. This allow you to have ground controls when in the air. We use it a lot for hovering tech and for helicopters.
NOTE:Developers said that this is bug that will not be repaired until there is dedicated blocks to replace these feature, so you can use it without worrying that at some point your tech will stop working as you want.

how did u get the side ways rotors to not move when ur in the air

how did you get the fan on back not follow the master key?

super cool

That could be a bug. If you have any problems with game at all, developers will be grateful if you send savegame and log files, so they can repair it. You can contact them on Steam Terratech forum.

@NightbladeGreyswandir
I just got it working, I think it was stuck in the ground or something

?
I just subscribed and loaded it from workshop, and it works fine...
Can you tell me, or show me on broadcast how it does not work for you?
When you press and hold shift and it does not take off? Does propellers rotate? Does it move at all?

when I use shift i cant take off im on rd test chamber

@sweeney449, start with planes, they are little easier to build. Here is guide how to build nice flying airplanes
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=910060181
Then you can try to build helicopters. After few hours on this you will know how to build flying things :)

im not to good at bilding flying things

super cool bro good job

For all that are curious about HARO's plane, it turned out well :D

i have made a disscusion in the general section (forgot to put it in workshop) i put my specifications in as the first comment. thank you for the reply i hope this tunrs out well

Nice one Mindlessmrawesome. I like that you used only Venture blocks. And no gyros :)

Hey grewswandir!
I made a Venture-only helicopter that is similar to this one. It is fully shielded and has a decent battery-life, but is almost half as small yet has about the same firepower as yours. It is also very speedy.
It uses the same real-life controls that yours does, and can turn and move forwards with ease.
Check it out: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1272015238

@HARO, can you copy this request to Terratech forum, then we can talk more about what you imagined and I can help you with design.

this is just a suggestion for an idea but could you make a helicopter or plane tha is small but can transport resources in bulk from one base to another. for example a way you can do it is compress two geocorp silos into some kind of capsule, then attatch it to either a plane or heli and transport it to the other base and you would drop the capsule on the base. my second way you could try to attempt would be to instead the capsule is dropped you could build the capsule AS the plane / heli and make it as small as possible. but the thing is, I just want a aircraft that is built to transport resources across long distance. and personally i would perfer a plane. thank yopu for reading i hope to see this made soon! :)