Found attack chopper at NW

[tact 3]

A guy in our squad found an attack chopper at NW AF, at the far NW part of the runway. He flew it down to Kamenka for me to fly so he could gun. The radar was very confusing, it pinged things in different colors, he had rockets and 800 rounds of something and could lock onto things. I crashed it within 10 minutes, I did not play ARMA vanilla, and that was like flying a dumptruck around with a mouse. Very odd handling, I guess it is "realistic".

So we took a hand landing in a dip while attempting to turn, gunner died instantly, I lived, the chopper exploded but placed me outside of it unconscious and bleeding, but with a whopping 9000 blood.

Then the town (Zelenogorsk) proceeded to have a very strange "mass on fire" flickering bugged out animation... flames would appear over the whole town, but as you walked through them they would disappear in front of you, almost like rain when you enter a hangar or something. Multiple restarts did not make this go away, for either of us. This was on UK/US XX (purposely hidden server name) last night, shortly after this I was shot in the back at the center deerstand at foot of the northern facing side of Green Hill. Green hill also had very dark smoke coming from the south side of the slope, closest to Zeleno. A russian gentleman typed 3 times in bold cyrillic red text, which I did not know was possible. We disconnected fearing being nuked or something.

My question is this:

So, are choppers back in? Attack choppers only or? I see multple posts here with people saying only "old servers" have choppers. This is 1.7.1.5 with latest ARMA patch, or second latest I believe. We have found NO vehicles, only (players) bicycles and a van at Solnichy in 1.7. This was both surprising, and saddening (I crashed it quick), we desperately wanted to find other vehicles with the radar but couldn't figure out how to fly the fucking thing, should of loaded singleplayer and landed it out of bounds. Fuck my life.

So will this chopper respawn in 7 days?

Anyway, the flaming Zelenogorsk thing was very very strange, and would not go away. It was literally, all of Zeleno, no damage when you walked through any of it (after the crash) just some odd bugged out graphics of our fiery skidding crash I guess?

[Rakkasan 23]

Huey is only chopper in game, and those are not actually in game because of the lag and desyncing they cause.

[Lukio (DayZ) 24]

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[tact 3]

I have checked the day z wiki, and no other choppers other than the huey... I googled " day z attack chopper", and there is a video of I don't know like single player editor or something, but this was the chopper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npb9MqdoiCE

The server was UK11. Our guy found it fueled, fully functional, and sitting in a place that, for all intents and purposes, appears to be a vehicle spawn point, not arbitraily on the map in a field or even off-center of its spawn location.

All evidence then says, hacked in for sure? The russian text in red was 30m after the crash, possibly hours later. It was after he had ran back looted his body at our crash site. and we travelled up and past NW AF to see if it was somehow "back" where he found it, and it wasn't. Also I teleported while in this server hugging the road West of NW AF, I teleported a good distance BACK along the road, in an area we had NOT been running in (like a huge lagged out rubber banding, so not this).

It was an ODD fucking night. We came across a chopper crash sight, a sniper in a ghillie suit in front of us runs PAST it, checks a deerstand and appears to DC. Not seeing the downed chopper at all (day server UK while we play from US at night).

So was this chopper hacked in, in such an oddly appropriate location? Ninja patch? Vehicles respawn after 7 days correct? IF not hacked in that is.

[nomorechillies 11]

cheats

only chopper is huey, and currently disabled (except for some select favoured servers)

[cjust89 0]

This is not entirely true apparently the russian chopper spawns but doesnt explode like its suppose to, this is what i have read/heard dont know how true it is

[hooumeri 3]

Why are the helis not enabled on most servers? Supposedly there is still this issue:

https://dev-heaven.net/issues/32339

This issue existed with cars earlier, as well. It has been fixed months back (atleast with cars) and I have not to this day seen a single evidence / repro of this bug with helicopters. As far as I'm concerned, there is no desyncing problem with them, atleast not on a proper server.

But yeah, latest news is that the devs at BE (ArmA devs) are taking a look at this issue and after it is fixed helis will be rolled on to all server, so Soon™, as Ander would say.

[RandomFool 0]

I have seen a twin rotor helicopter flying in the air, looked like a Boeing CH-47 Chinook. It had a players tag when I looked at it. None of my friends believe me, I'm pretty sure it was hacked in, so I'm sure its possible to hack in an attack helicopter. Sadly I can't remember the players name or I would have reported him.

[PvtHopscotch 0]

allintensive purposes

Please don't take this as me being a dick but I've noticed quite a few people don't know that it's actually "for all intents and purposes".