1226th Post: Who looks for chopper wrecks anymore?

[applejaxc 2500]

Hi guys.

So recently I've noticed just about every chopper wreck I find spawning with medical boxes instead of guns. And that doesn't bother me too much; I've been saved from NWAF-to-Elektro trips countless times by the odd chopper wreck giving me morphine sticks and the like.

On top of that, I don't see there being much value in hunting wrecks and praying for Fals and/or L85A2s anymore; I can pretty much just shoot other players and take theirs, saving me the hassle. It's not nice, but hey!; man's gotta have a gun, doesn't he?

So what about you guys? What are the merits of stopping at wrecks and thoroughly cleaning them out? How do you avoid going into cities for medical supplies?

[Beck (DayZ) 1768]

FN FALs NEVER spawn anymore!!! PS: Congrats on the 1226th post

[applejaxc 2500]

FN FALs NEVER spawn anymore!!! PS: Congrats on the 1226th post

Are you serious? Dammit. ;(

[I408 2]

well, from my point of experience:

-found a FN fall on a heli crash site yesterday.

-shitloads of SVD camo's

-gillie suits, gillie suits everywhere!

-also found a GPS and nightvision goggles in the past weekend.

-so much m107's.. have 5 atm. with ammo. loads of ammo.

-and then i lost all of it in the hive switch. yeah..

my view might be flawed since i use a huey to go look for em, and actually find a lot of em as well.

tl:dr, still worth checking choppers me thinks.. my view might be flawed since i use a huey to go look for em, and actually find a lot of em as well.

[applejaxc 2500]

well, from my point of experience:

-found a FN fall on a heli crash site yesterday.

-shitloads of SVD camo's

-gillie suits, gillie suits everywhere!

-also found a GPS and nightvision goggles in the past weekend.

-so much m107's.. have 5 atm. with ammo. loads of ammo.

-and then i lost all of it in the hive switch. yeah..

my view might be flawed since i use a huey to go look for em, and actually find a lot of em as well.

tl:dr, still worth checking choppers me thinks.. my view might be flawed since i use a huey to go look for em, and actually find a lot of em as well.

I can get that on one run through the NWAF, especially on a population server.

[JSparks (DayZ) 109]

If weapons can supposedly only be obtained by killing other players, where do you propose they get their guns?

I play on one server most of the time and still go for heli crash loot trips after every restart. The only problem is that now almost every private hive has customised their loot tables and reduced the spawn rates of crash site loot. So I blame private hive owners for making their server loot underpowered.

[callsignBravo (DayZ) 323]

on a tavania server the mountian east of the north airfeild had 4 or 5 chopper crashes on it. me and a pal loaded up a offroad FULL of guns, multiple kind of l85s a L115A5, two m107s loads of m16s a dmr, 3 M24s And my personal favorite, an M8 sharpshooter! On the opposite mountian we found a chopper crash with a 5.56 ammo box. It held tons of mags for guns with 5.56mm bullets we cleaned it out, and at the last one a 7.62 ammo kit. Needless to say me and him killed two clans that were warring in sabina. what a day.

[Inception. 9443]

I remember a time where I only had 4-5 FN FALS spawn at every crash site I visited.

[colekern 1364]

I don't hunt them, but they're always a nice surprise. I got my MK 48 AIM from one of them.

[JSparks (DayZ) 109]

I remember a time where I only had 4-5 FN FALS spawn at every crash site I visited.

Last time I found a heli crash it had 5 M1014s and nothing else. I was so so sad.

[Inception. 9443]

Last time I found a heli crash it had 5 M1014s and nothing else. I was so so sad.

How horrible, haha.

[Fern Baron 128]

On my home server they have introduced the dynamic heli crashes, where the helicopter flies in from the coast and then explodes and crashes. It's been fun trying to actually witness the crash, which I haven't yet, but have seen them fly over and hear them explode as they disappear into the fog and crash land. With the two that I tracked down and found today, one had a medical box, few food items and junk loot, the other had camo clothing and a M107. This is a private hive and I think the crash site loot tables have been edited, but it just goes to show not every private hive ruins their tables with customization.