Helicopter crash site system

[Dagwood 680]

Can someone please explain this system to me as of 1.7.7.1. Saw at least a dozen crash sites between vybor and stary on us 818? yesterday.

I'm also unsure about how the loot timer works with these. Thanks

[Serious Stan 202]

Thats the usual place for helicrashes, as far as i can remember they have not been worked on in last patch.

 

The loot spawns when the server restarts, when all the loot is gone it will not respawn..

Only way is to find a new helicrash with loot.

[Dagwood 680]

Ok that is how it has always worked as far as I understand. I asked for clarification because I heard somewhere that there is now a timer to spawn loot in when a player gets within the proper range (300m?).

[Soupee 57]

There seem to be boatloads of heli crashes now.  I found two within flare throwing distance of each other a couple days ago.

[kander 80]

There seem to be boatloads of heli crashes now.  I found two within flare throwing distance of each other a couple days ago.

 

Yeah, I played 150 hours or more last year without seeing one, and found three in the first week since coming back at the start of this month.

[Soupee 57]

Yeah, I played 150 hours or more last year without seeing one, and found three in the first week since coming back at the start of this month.

 

That describes me almost exactly as well.  But I found a few in the past, but not like it is now.  There was someone commenting in the sidechat a couple of nights ago that he found some really close together.  I figured he was at the two I found, but he wasn't.  There were 3-4 in a similarly close together cluster in a different location.

[fluxley 2228]

I believe the current system for helicrashes in main hive vanilla is two heli's spawn at server start then more spawn over time, usually around every 50 minutes.

So this means if a server isn't restarted very often there will be lots of heli's. recommended is every 6 hours at least.

 

Private hives can often use a different system to this as heli crashes are controlled server side.

[Dagwood 680]

The answer I was looking for. Muchas gracias, señor Fluxley.

[Devon206 (DayZ) 77]

Yeah Vybor and Stary have a lot of plains, causing it to be high to Crashed-Heli spawns.