After playing Take On Helicopters for 2 hours, I say YES to helos.

[maybeme 22]

so you think exploits are OK, as they're on the game?

And helicopters arent on the game yet, and probably wont ever be. With all the duping and hacking problems, i dont think anyone would work hard for a helicopter at all, the clans would just dupe 20 main rotors after they find the first one and get an eternal repaired chopper, as they did in the mod.

And crap isnt supposed to be easy to get back, smartass, the only excuse they have right now for the fucked up loot system is that it's for testing. They'll change it soon, hopefully.

And you should know that there's no hiding shit in dayz, your tents literally stick out of anything you put them on, so unless you glitch them in khelm rocks, there's nowhere to put them.

I don't think exploits are okay, so maybe the devs should fix ALL exploits and bugs before adding anything new...

Oh wait, everyone is too greedy and says gimme gimme gimme all the time, so they have to put interesting things in updates to make people stay around. I'd be happy seeing an update that fixed only bugs, and added nothing new.

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

 I'd be happy seeing an update that fixed only bugs, and added nothing new.

That's called beta

[maybeme 22]

That's called beta

Ah, if only. I'd imagine beta will be no different than alpha, with constant, buggy new content. I can only imagine how many people will break legs getting into cars or the car disappearing or something while traveling 100km per hour down the road.

[UltimateGentleman 355]

"But helicopters are hard to fly and maintain"

 

So? People learn. If one asshole clan that just murders everyone knows how to fly one properly they dominate the map. It's not like it's going to take years of work to know how to get it going one guy will be dedicated to that and the others will shoot everything and they'll all server hop to get fuel cans so they never run out.

 

Can't see how it would be easy to shoot the pilot while the heli was moving, it would be almost purely luck and if you miss then they know they're being shot at and can just move differently.

Plus what position could you really be in where you can do that and not get seen? If a heli is like 500m up and moving you are not shooting that down with a mosin.

 

Adding any kind of helicopter that takes more than 2 people would just severely unbalance the game, to the point where stingers would be needed, then tanks, then rocket launchers oh and then mines and laser rifles and wtf why are there zombies running around this ain't no zombie game!

 

I don't know what they're called but in one of the mods they had some shitty wee helicopter, looked like only one person could fit on them.
I'm all for that one person could probably maintain that by themselves and pose no real threat to the other players while still being able to be a useful machine.