What gun from downed heli?

[Jamz 253]

Last night I decided to head to the NW airfield for the first time (after two previous attempts where I got as far as Stary and then ported back to the beach grr). It took me a couple of hours on foot alone with my sense of direction and bad map reading skills, and I fannyed around for a bit when I got there but logged as there were so many zombies.

This morning I logged back on and successfully raided both barracks and a couple of hangars and came away with a shiney (well, shiney camo) M4A3 CCO and PDW.. Awesome! obviously I was now cocky so after stocking up on meat and refilling canteens I decided to try and find a heli crash by going south. After about a half hour I finally spotted one by a barn!

First I tries taking out the zombies with the M4 as I had about 9 mags for it but that went pear shaped and I came away with 8 zombie kills, 2 broken legs and 1 brown gillie suit trousers. I decided on my second attempt to just sprint around it and draw the zeds away but somehow after a bit of running I end up next to the chopper with no zombies near me lol. anyway to my point..I'm pretty much a newb when it comes to the higher end content of this game and I had the choice of these weapons which were around it: Mk 48 mod 0, DMR, FN FAL, AS50 and L85A2 AWS but I had no time to choose properly as zombies were getting close...

I came away with the L85A2 AWS, my rational being I'm not a pvper really so I didn't want a sniper and It could use my STANAG mags as ammo. Did I make the right choice? More importantly can someone give me a few tips on how to use it properly (it seems to be on night vision at the moment lol)? I'm well chuffed, I think its quite a good gun, better than that M4

And I survived (lucky I was carrying morphine!) Been playing for two weeks now and I'm enjoying this game massively :)

[M4L 42]

I came away with the L85A2 AWS, my rational being I'm not a pvper really so I didn't want a sniper and It could use my STANAG mags as ammo. Did I make the right choice? More importantly can someone give me a few tips on how to use it properly (it seems to be on night vision at the moment lol)? I'm well chuffed, I think its quite a good gun, better than that M4

press "N" (default) to switch between modes

[kannibalkiwi 7]

press n to switch between night vision and thermal scope. i personally would've chosen the mod 0 or as50, just because they're powerful and useful, ad different to your other primary, but it depends what you use it for. my best tip for a chopper site is to throw a smoke grenade about 2 meters away from the nose of the chopper, it will attract all of the zombies ad you'll have 2 or 3 miuntes before they aggro on you

[Jamz 253]

Thanks, I'll switch to thermal. I thought about smoke, then remembered the airfield where I threw smoke about two feet in front of me aggroing zombies by the barraks, panicked and ran off dropping more smoke at my feet (I had 3) as I didn't realise it wouldn't default back to my gun after throwing the first one lol! I had to lose about 20 zombies in the woods which were full of different coloured smoke... I seem to enjoy going in at the deep end and learning on the run!

Is it not worth trying to shoot them from a distance then? I picked off about five at first but they all just seemed to respawn right away

Edited August 26, 2012 by Jamz

[bankst3r 45]

Around 30 min ago I had the same dilemma. Happened to stumble on my first downed chopper and decided to crawl to it. Shooting would have been suicide. Well, when I got to the chopper there was only box of medicines nothing else. =/

I thought maybe the weapons are in the chopper but couldn't get in. Can you repair that chopper and fly away with it? Is all the loot in boxes around the chopper? I guess I was just unlucky.

[puppetworx 474]

I usually pair a FN FAL or M14 (Lee Enfield if I just spawned) with a M9 SD whenever possible. Versatile as balls. Their ammo packs more then double the lethality of a STANAG round great unless you want to spray and pray against enemy or use your primary weapon against zombies.

[Erik (DayZ) 61]

The L85A2 AWS was a great choice. I would've done the same. It helps you spot players because of the themal vision. This way you can gain an advantage on these players or just avoid them with ease.

[Erik (DayZ) 61]

Around 30 min ago I had the same dilemma. Happened to stumble on my first downed chopper and decided to crawl to it. Shooting would have been suicide. Well, when I got to the chopper there was only box of medicines nothing else. =/

I thought maybe the weapons are in the chopper but couldn't get in. Can you repair that chopper and fly away with it? Is all the loot in boxes around the chopper? I guess I was just unlucky.

The best way to clear the zombies around the chopper is to either use a silenced weapon or a pistol.

The reason why there was only a box of medicines is because someone probably found the chopper before you did, or you didn't look around good enough. (I'm having a really bad time trying to find the weapons as well. :P)

I don't think the weapons can actualy spawn inside the chopper but they do sometimes spawn inside its tail.

You cannot repair these helicopters. Each server has only 1 actual flyable helicopter which is a bit different from these crashed helicopters.

The best way to spot the loot is to stand quite far away and use binoculars or a sniperscope to spot them, after that u know where most of the guns are u can go closer and try to find them.

[Jamz 253]

The L85A2 AWS was a great choice. I would've done the same. It helps you spot players because of the themal vision. This way you can gain an advantage on these players or just avoid them with ease.

That was also what I was thinking, it should increase my awareness

I thought maybe the weapons are in the chopper but couldn't get in. Can you repair that chopper and fly away with it? Is all the loot in boxes around the chopper? I guess I was just unlucky.

I found the guns all around the chopper, even some were underneath! I don't think you could repair it, it looks like a static model (I found a huey last week that I could get into but this was more like an attack chopper)

[bankst3r 45]

Ah crap. So the weapons aren't in boxes? Man, I should have searched more thoroughly. I guess I was really unlucky.

[sunnz 24]

I would love just a plain l85 without the sights.

[puppetworx 474]

Ah crap. So the weapons aren't in boxes? Man, I should have searched more thoroughly. I guess I was really unlucky.

They're not in boxes they're lying around the helicopter. Sometimes the weapons spawn partially or fully submerged underground depending on the location. Scan the ground around the perimeter of the chopper and see if the 'Gear' icon flashes up.