v1.7.5 zombies attack vehicles: choppers?

[Dayzo 182]

They break the glass in vehicles now.

Does anyone know how this impacts re-fuelling a chopper? Do the choppers still leak fuel when the glass is broken?

If so, that totally sucks.

[Gooober 34]

Why don't Chopper have fuel tanks? Glass should be meant to keep out the weather and damage from zombies

[FlamingDefibs 421]

yeah, they still leak fuel

[Dayzo 182]

So I tried re-fuelling. At the end, some zombies were standing around the chopper as usual - aggro'd, but they don't enter the rotor area. But when I got in to take off, one zombie attacked the chopper. Four glass are now yellow.

That's ridiculous.

I must assume that the devs are so bad at the game that they never manage to get themselves a chopper!

Edited December 6, 2012 by Anti

[ybm 111]

lolwut? When did 1.7.5 come out?

[jdz (DayZ) 238]

This thread is full of derp. Once a helicopter has been fully repaired it will not leak, even if it gets damaged again. The only time it leaks is before it is completely repaired.

And don't be a dickhead and say that about the devs, I have personally spoken to two of them and they're great people who put a lot of time and effort in to this mod without being paid

Edited December 6, 2012 by jdz

[Very Ape 748]

So I tried re-fuelling. At the end, some zombies were standing around the chopper as usual - aggro'd, but they don't enter the rotor area. But when I got in to take off, one zombie attacked the chopper. Four glass are now yellow.

What a scandalous act on the part of those pesky devs, making landing a helicopter to refuel a risky thing!

[Dayzo 182]

Once a helicopter has been fully repaired it will not leak, even if it gets damaged again. The only time it leaks is before it is completely repaired.

That might be true for the choppers you've had, the server you play on, and/or the version you play on. But it isn't universally true for v1.7.4.4 and before. The server I play on has always been bang up-to-date with all versions of Arma and DayZ, and as far as I know all choppers leak due to broken glass, no matter how many times they've been repaired already.

I don't know if windscreen leaking has been changed for v1.7.5 - it isn't in the changelog.

And don't be a dickhead and say that about the devs

My comment was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. But I do feel that it was hard enough and dangerous enough to refuel a chopper already, considering you have to make yourself very vulnerable for twenty minutes, and that one shot from another player during refuelling or flight meant you had to go on a precarious mission to replace a windscreen before you could log off without losing all your fuel overnight.

If the windscreen leaking is the same in v1.7.5, then having a zombie cause untold damage to half your windscreens in the space of ten seconds is a bit much in my opinion, especially when it takes a couple of dangerous hours to obtain replacements from a factory hotspot, and considering none of the other vehicles have the same problem.

lolwut? When did 1.7.5 come out?

The server files:

https://github.com/R4Z0R49/DayZMod

I don't know where you get the client files from - our admin uploads them to his own server for us to download.

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Edited December 6, 2012 by Anti

[FreshmeatDK 22]

It will consolidate choppers as an absolute group effort. No going rambo, and if you want to refuel, you better lay down a defence perimeter. Better yet, make sure that you have a ground crew ready, with vehicles to supply the jerrycans. We need more incentives to form communities anyway.

On a side note, I hope this means 1.7.5 is stable enough to be released 'soonish'

[renegade9x 5]

it could be a server side only update as well

[r4z0r49 4761]

The glass issue is being looked into.

Group Play:

What we do is repair any damaged glass before the server restart or group and stop the zeds damaging the chopper before hand.

Single Play:

Jump into the chopper start engine use eject as soon as you have started the engine and defend while you wait for the engine to be fully running.

[Castle (DayZ) 23]

This thread is full of derp. Once a helicopter has been fully repaired it will not leak, even if it gets damaged again. The only time it leaks is before it is completely repaired.

And don't be a dickhead and say that about the devs, I have personally spoken to two of them and they're great people who put a lot of time and effort in to this mod without being paid

Really? It was only 15 hours ago I had a fully green huey get shot at and have one of the windows damaged start leaking fuel. I landed the helicopter and turned the engine off to check.

Edited December 6, 2012 by Castle