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Here I will attempt to locate most info and answers to questions you guys may have about heli crashes. Q: When it says "Helicopter crashes are completely random" is there absolutely NO restrictions as to where it can spawn? A: Naturally, there are a few restrictions, below is an image, inside the red square is the ONLY places it can spawn, it can NOT spawn outside of this square. One of the most important things when searching for crash sites is to never look in the forest, you may have heard it before but I will tell you again, it will ONLY spawn in open fields. NOTE: The red square is a bit too small (I did it in a hurry in paint). It extends about 500-700m further north. (a little past Krasnostav) Q: How many crash sites can there be per server? A: 1-6. Q: What loot can I get? A: The loot from Heli crashes are top-tier loot, usually British. Weapons like AS50, L85A2, FN-FAL etc. are some of the loot you can find here. Q: How much loot is there per crash site? A: There are 6 _possible_ loot spawns, this does not mean that there MUST be 6 different loot spawns. The loot can often spawn bugged under the ground or it can be in tall grass, it is recommended to sway your crosshair back and forth to make sure there is nothing more. Also remember to check under the tail, as there can often be loot there. (Note: It is recommended to kill and loot the "pilot zombies" (easily recognizable because they wear a large black helmet) as these can drop NV Goggles. Q: How dangerous is it to approach a crash site? A: Many people will tell you that this is more dangerous than running across NW Airfield holding a flare and caps in while screaming, it's not. If you are paranoid, then lay down about 200m away, take a few minutes to scout the field and look for snipers. In the end, the most dangerous thing will be the zombies, which, lets face it, isn't a real problem. (Personal experience: Usually I only meet another survivor at a crash site in about 1/50 crash sites, better grab the loot and run off) Q: What is the best "route" to take when looking for crash sites? A: Note that there is a circle around Kabanino, just run the circle and then continue on the larger circle. Note2: Following this route you will not find ALL the crashes on the server, but you are more than likely to find atleast one. Q: Is there any places you would recommend to check? A: North and south and Stary/Novy Sobor are GREAT, talking like 1km in each direction. (Thats 1000m, Americans...). I have often found 2-3 Crash sites in one go, only by doing a circle around these two towns. (Beware of snipers around Stary Sobor) Q: What's the easiest way to do this? A: Naturally, a helicopter goes fast. If you got one, just get two buddies in, drive around, when you see a crash site, one guy jumps out in a parachute, loots the whole thing then the heli returns for extracting. Sadly, most people don't have helicopters available at all times. (I know right? Buff the spawn chance by atleast a thousand times, Rocket!). If that's the case, I would advise you NOT to grab your Ural/UAZ/Tractor and go hunting, personally I prefer a bike. Not a motorcycle, but a bicycle. Why? It's silent, its quick offroad and its hard to see, compared to that blue huge Ural you are driving at the sniper hill in Stary Sobor. Q: Is there any point in following Heli crash maps from google? A: No. These maps are outdated as they are from before the crashes became random, as they are now. Q: Can trash loot naturally spawn, or is that a sign of another player? A: Trash loot can naturally spawn, but of course, someone can have dumped it there to make room for the AS50 they just got. Q: Is there any point in camping a crash site for loot respawn? A: No. The loot that spawns stays there infintely, or untill the crash site disappears. Once you have looted it, it's best to bolt before someone else stops by. Q: How do I best approach a helicopter crash site? A: If you are alone, the best idea is to scout it for a bit. (Never scout it for too long, or else someone else might come, and they might have backup). When the area is clear, use a silent weapon (in other words, dont use your AS50) to clear the zombies. Run in grab the loot, get back into the woods. If you are, however in a group, approach the crash site from different sites, the best idea is to always have atleast one spotter/scout who stays at a range of about 500m, looking for other survivors/bandits, this player does not aid in killing zombies as that would reveal him. If you arrive in a vehicle, stop for a second to unload your "looters" while the driver drives off, drive in a circle and arrive back at the crash site in about a minute. (By then the looters should be done, if not, kill them for slacking.) Q: You are awesome! Can I play with you, pretty please?! A: No. I play with a squad with a total of 5 people, we do not accept any more members. If you got some info I have left out, feel free to post it and I will add it to the OP.

Nice map, keep in mind tho that Helis can spawn anywhere in an open field, of course with a map like yours, if you check all the spots, you have also checked all the open fields... Edit: edited out the image as it takes alot of space, the map in question is the last post on the previous page.

Yes, the "gear" icon (Gun with some ammo beneath it) will show up. The furthest away I have ever seen is about 5 meters, not too far away... I have been inactive for some time due to personal problems, but I am back baby :)

Not as much true/false, more like... "info". Anyways, yes, I am aware that the square is not perfect, which I have corrected in the comments...

Yes, I understand you now, thanks for elaborating on your post :) Parachuting out of the Huey IS possible, but it can often be buggy and lead to death. Especially ejecting while the chopper is descending or going at full speed can be risky behavious. Personally I have never died from ejecting at speeds lower than 100km/h with a steady altitude.

Not accusing you of saying I am wrong (Hey, the info I have posted is based mainly on my own experiences and some from my squad). And in retrospect I can agree that the red square is "wrong" (In the sense that some people claim to have found heli crashes outside of here, I myself included). And yes, I can agree, you may very well use that map and make your own route (I would actually recommend making your own route, if this thread gets popular, then yes, some sad sacks will probably camp the route.) If you take a look at the southbeach map and the DayzDB map that I used, there are marked Heli crashes in pretty much every open field, so yes. This map may be "correct" in the end, if you follow this map and visit all these spots, you are bound to find atleast 50% of the crashes on the server... But in the end, I wanted to "encourage" more exploring, all the spots marked on the southbeach map CAN have crashes, but there can also be crashes outside of these spawns. And you are in no way more likely to find a heli crash at a place cluttered with crash markers on that map, then to just visit a large, open field. Anyways guys, I'm off for the night (2:30 AM here). Keep throwing questions at me and I will answer them in about 10 hours. Edit: Also, if someone is able to prove me wrong, I take it with a smile, it just means I learned something I did not know :)

Sounds interesting, sadly it's in german so I will have to improvise what each word means, but seeing as english (and norwegian for that matter, as I am Norwegian) are both Germanic languages I shouldnt be too far off. Thanks for the link, the truth is im just going to get google to translate it for me. Just so I get a little boost in the start, I am suppose to download the "Helikopter.rar" and then all the info is in the pdf, right? Right. Edit2: To be honest, it seems like these are really just tutorials to make good Aram2 videos, and the "Helikopter.rar" just gave me a .pdf about, what seems to be a tutorial on how to make helicopters fly "autopilot" in Arma2... Neither of which really helps in a guide for Helicopter Crash Sites...

Done, hopefully people read it aswell :)

Personally I have not seen spawns that far east the last two months (the patch where the crash sites got reworked), so untill someone is able to provide a screenshot and/or I find one there myself, I will not bother opening paint again and having to re-do the whole map :( It's a real hassle, you guys! I gotta stretch that thing...

Yes, this is correct. If you want to be as silent as possible you can always do what I have done numerous times (actually did it like 4 hours ago after respawning). Run in, pull all the zombies, take them with you about 75-100 meters, shake them off, run back and loot. Naturally, this is risky behavour if there are people scouting it. But as previously stated; rarely anyone camping it. And I do agree, the respawn time is a hassle, you really don't have much more than approx two minutes to loot it, which is why, if you know where to look. You should be done in a minute, or less. The patch bringing in the new spawns for crash sites was implemented about two months ago, so you might have caught it right before that patch went out. (About 06.18.2012, don't butcher me if the date is wrong, its an aproximate. No problem for converting it into the silly "month-first-american-standard" for you people, as it seems a majority of players are american.)

Hi! I can tell you clearly did not read OP, it's generally a good idea to get a basic grasp of what it contains as it usually has some decent information. If it's too long for you, I'll shorten it down for you: These maps are outdated, these are pre-NewHeliSpawns. Next time you should take a look at the patch notes, pretty clearly stating that the spawns are now random in any open field (inside the red square on my map). Don't worry kiddo, I am used to meeting autistic people with the attention-span of a squirrel on the internet, and reading a "wall of text" can often be hard, which is why I made it prettier with some pictures for you, you are welcome!

There is already a jungle map (Lingor Island), and I hear there is a less played map based on Fallujah. Neither of these are officially supported, sadly, in the end, that works alot better as they have alot more protection against hackers, aswell as actually being able to ban people without having to post it on the forum.

Who the fuck snipes in Berezino? * Who the fuck even goes to Berezino? But yes, I abort if a hacker comes along. (Especially when they summon everyone) Other than that, really, no. There are multiple times where I have been in the forest, suddenly I break my leg from proning over a stone (that should be fixed by now), or some other situation where it's just me and a buddy or two in the forest all alone and I end up bleeding and/or becoming unconscious. Where I am not able to bandage myself, I often bleed out rather than alt+f4 and wait for them to locate where I am.

Are you sure that these spawns were after the crash site spawns got reworked? I myself have never seen any of those spawns you talk about, mostly because I am never in that area, the closest I have been has been one spawn fairly close to Berezino. (If not right inside the red line, not much more than a hundred meters away)

Updated OP with more info.

Yes, I realise now that the square I marked up in paint might not be entirely accurate and might extend as much as 500-700m further north. As for parachutes, I am fairly certain that the HUEY (UH1H) that is infact the "DayZ Chopper" has parachutes, so my point still stands.

Trash loot can naturally spawn there, but of course, someone can have stopped by and dropped it there.

About two days ago, me and a buddy decided that we should set up a camp, so we scavenged untill we found a Camping Tent, found a sweet location for it (two pine trees fairly close to eachother so the leaves overlap a bit). So anyways, I pitched the tent down, when I was done I couldnt open the loot so I figured "Hey, maybe it just needs a second or two to recognize that its a tent here!" so I waited, and I waited some more, after ten minutes I tried running away a bit and coming back, I ran in circles around the tent, I tried crawling inside it etc. Nothing worked. In the end I got bored and started vaulting around, suddenly I find myself stuck between a tree and the tent, so once again I try to vault out. This led to disaster, my leg broke, I started bleeding and I got a two minute unconscious timer. With my buddy screaming at me on skype I freaked out and I tried to tell him the coordinates (he was not there when I pitched the tent as he was scavenging barracks at the time). In the end we gave up, he was unable to find me, so I bled out, spawned in Cherno and ran straight up to the location of my dead body. Now here's the kicker: Not only am I still unable to loot my tent, I am now also unable to loot my corpse. Thus NV Goggles, GPS, FN-FAL, MP5SD6, M9SD and a ton of other valuables gone to waste. Is there any solution to this problem?

Soo anyways, I would never give out my coordinates and/or server as most likely you would just kill me and have a go at looting it. Eventually I figured it out, got a friend to stop by with some frag grenades in a desperate attempt to blow my corpse away from the tree (in case that was the problem). All it really did was blow away my tent, which was an expected result. In the end (Note: Took me a total of 4 hours) I was now able to crawl inside my corpse (seeing as the tent was gone). And in first person I was able to loot myself and recover all of my gear.

Hi, whenever I try to launch DayZ through DayZ Commander the tickbox that comes up (you know, the 10 blank boxes which then gets filled up with these "v"'s before the actual game pops up) simply disappears. It appears for only a fraction of a second before going away, no errors, no nothing. This happened after I uninstalled Lingor Island if that has any meaning. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How come there is no "delete topic" button? :(