Aerodax (DayZ)

Yes' date=' it does just that. Also it takes away a demand for decent pilots, because landing is the only thing with this plane that is somewhat difficult. [/quote'] Because you can only land on airstrips obviously, it's not like there are hundreds of fields you can safely land and take off from that the autopilot can't help you with at all. Another cool thing about the An-2 that you can't do in the huey is glide. Turn off the engine and you can perform a stealthy insertion almost anywhere on the map given enough initial altitude. Been trying this out in the editor and had some good results. So I tried making it more challenging by doing it at night with no NVG and some cars to light up a field, indicating the landing zone. Would be a cool scenario in DayZ. Unfortunately due to the settings or time of year I used, I could barely see anything. Instruments are dark as well so that doesn't go too well if you try turning. Worked a lot better with NVG's and since they are in DayZ, one could perform a stealthy night insertion for sure ^^. Would love to see it happen.

Well, I'm searching through the depths of the forum myself for similar info as I'm in the same situation as described in the OP. The only recent chopper sighting/spawning that I know of was a few days ago in Dallas 1. Someone put up a vid about it and I believe one of the dayz devs spawned it in himself. Maybe as part of a test, I don't know.

Since they are only present in legacy servers, you're best bet is joining servers with single digit numbers. you recognize them like this: [region/country/city][#] for example Dallas 1 or EU4 The servers with the lower numbers have usually been around longer and as such have higher chances of choppers present. However, there seems to be a lot of problems with them like desyncs and fuel leaks. Servers with them enabled tend to lag a lot as well and need frequent restarts. The devs are aware of the issue and are looking into it. My totally ungrounded estimated guess is that they rollout choppers at the end of July for all servers. It's more of a hopeful thought so don't take it too serious ^^

As promised: Made a vid to illustrate the possibilities and because I felt like goofing around with the an-2 ^^

Yup I'd rather they make it impossible to set up camps off map. That and a reduced vehicle longevity for vehicles off map, say 1 day of inactivity and it goes poof ( instead of the regular 7 day) I'll try and get a video up showing some field landings/takeoff for illustration.

I have no idea when I was supposed to be anywhere. As for evidence this is all I have, yet I have seen nothing from your side. Let's sum things up. I can prove I was there 20 minutes before the first nuke. Moments before that very first nuke we had about 4 vehicles rounded up somewhere way south of your camp. I was switching up gear between them only to die out of nowhere. Session lost follows about half a minute later or so. Getting my hopes up it was some sort of server glitch I rejoined only to find myself spawning with nothing but the basic gear. Kinda pissed off I respawned several times in order to spawn somewhere near solnichy/berezino so I could race back to the vehicles. So did my friend. We traveled all the way back to the last known position, we geared up again out of our vehicles only to die another time 10 minutes later. That's when I called it a day and logged off. I lost several guns, ammo, equipment and due to the ridiculous ban all that was in the vehicles. The ban reason is using god mode all the while I'm not banned by battleye despite the recent banhammer wipeout. I looked up some stuff about spoofing ID's and a 5 minute google search proved it was ridiculously easy to do. Seeing jubag's comment I think that's what happened here as it might have happened to him as well. Why on earth would I even bother coming here if I could just hop on another server and go about with the godmode thing. It's understandable for admins to ban if they see logs with my name on it, but if the ID can't be linked to my CD_key (the check that battleye performs) I'm not the one cheating. I think that was about it. :dodgy:

I think the whole parachute thing is dealt with in the mod already. I found this video of some dudes goofing around in a chopper. They found a guy on a roof and rescued him. At some point in mid air the rescued dude decides to hop out. At first they think he is dead, but if you look closely you can see a parachute going down. Its probably better to just have the standard arma2 approach, which as far as I know is that you auto deploy your chute if you hop out of an aerial vehicle while in flight.

Ok so far I have not yet heard anything from Dronin. I'm just gonna leave this here: It's the unedited/uncut fraps footage of our raid on the northern camp. This was about 20 minutes before the first nuke. How can I be in elektro killing folks at the same time. Timestamps of the screenies are on my steamprofile. I've been polite and patient in the conversations we already had as were you, however have not heard anything but being in logs. As I said I hope my ban does not have anything to do with aforementioned raid.

This clip was taken about a week ago. I found a Su-25 parked on the NW airfield, so i decided to take it for a ride. However after this epic ride I read on the forums that these things aren't supposed to spawn in DayZ and that it was probably hacked into the game. I uploaded this vid anyway because I had a blast flying around in Chernarus. Maybe in a future update we'll get legit aircraft like the An-2. enjoy :D

Joking right? I was north of berezino when i got killed. I lost some nice equipment/weapons at the time. Disappointed as I was I went back to where we last saw our vehicles, resupplied and went on with our business, only to die another time, losing the rest of my stuff. If this is about the quad we took from your camp, that's all part of the game. If this is not the case I'd like to know how you got to the conclusion to ban me.

I'm gonna go ahead and shamelessly bump up this thread because of the shear awesomeness involved in flying this godly biplane :D As an added benefit of no engine damage models etc it might not even impact server performance as much as the huey does. All the more reason to put it in.

I saved it before the nuke, so I can probably locate it again ^^

snip no you'll get banned regardless. I would genuinely love to have a source for this as it sounds highly unlikely. This was over a week ago and I can still play.

This is good to hear. It's a shame that even with the tightened security' date=' some hackers still manage to get through. On top of that I'd rather see them spawn an ammo box or something, instead of killing everyone which is just lame. In other somewhat not related news and also an attempt to get the thread back on track, I have an interesting story. After seeing the images posted here, me and a buddy decided to try and locate your camp. Due to dumb luck or awesome tracking skills we found it at the edge of the map. Screenshot or it didn't happen? no problem :D We "borrowed" one of the quads, too bad the chopper was gone ^^

I think a completely random map is too much to ask. However a group of buildings, let's say some military tents like the one in stary sobor, should be giving random locations on each server. This way server hopping for military loot becomes harder and finding them is more rewarding. This should work in the same way like the UH-1Y choppers spawn (the grey unrepairable ones). Positioning of these tents would be in some of the numerous fields near towns/barns. As it is now almost everyone knows where to find these type of buildings. Maybe even go as far as removing the barrack buildings. That plus random tent placement as described above could potentially eliminate the tedious hopping and camping.

And again everyone dead. 22-06-12 22:25 GMT +2 I hope this gets sorted out, since I lost all my gear again ( acquired from stashes, hurr durr). Seems pretty serious and probably hacked. I wish you the best of luck but I would suggest people avoid going into this deathtrap for now.

Everybody just died in this server. 22-06-12 20:15 GMT +2 Dafuq? return of the nukers?

Looking good so far. With all these fps optimizations and vehicle damage model fixes in previous patches, perhaps the time is right to reintroduce the huey in all servers. Maybe even consider adding the antonov an-2. Myself and probably many others have been waiting patiently on any news regarding aerial vehicles. Keep up the good work.

May I suggest changing the thread title (if possible) to something that shows this thread is about adding a plane. Some people might not know what an an-2 colt is. By doing so this thread may get the attention it deserves.

Not sure if you have flown the an-2 ingame yet, but they are actually quite slow. The huey is not the most agile chopper but you can certainly evade a collision. Besides I don't think that when you find an aircraft, get it in flying shape, manage to take off, the first thing that comes to mind is to ram the first chopper you spot xD.

Considering the plane cannot be damaged/repaired like the Huey (as pointed out before), It's probably gonna spawn completely intact. However, I believe the fuel can be altered so it could still require some team effort to fuel it up. Having 3 airfields on the map is reason enough to have at least spawn one an-2. It's fun to fly, however I don't even think paradrops are a necessity. Landing in fields is possible and opens up lots of possibilities. Heck, I would probably start an airline service, flying from one airfield to another. Boarding at own risk ofc :D

Pretty much what's in the title. I'm not much of a forum rat but I just had to post this. Sound is off cause i messed up fraps as I was in a bit of a hurry to get it going. Is it intended that tanks spawn on the map? Sure is effective against zeds I suppose :D Server: Atlanta 10 Time: 14 June 2012 - 21:16:30 GMT +2 Area: On the road north of Novy Sobor