Helicopter Hell

[cfordy@live.com 0]

Ok so here is the deal.

I run a server with a couple of friends and we fixed up this helicopter. Everything was fine and dandy we were hunting heli crash sites and having a blast in our new helicopter.

On one of the heli crash sites we saw, we were going to land so I went to hit auto hover.

Instead, I hit engine off, so my helicopter comes crashing down and I die. Fair enough, my mistake.

Of what I have read, if a helicopter crashes it respawns immediately, in the same spot or from the original spawn point (this case skalastky island)

Checked all heli spawns and nothing. So I go back to where I crashed the helicopter to begin with, and I restart the server. All off a sudden the helicopter respawns in the sky (where I turned the engine off) and comes crashing down and blows up killing me once again. So I go back this time with a cargo truck, and i respawn the server again to see that it comes crashing down from 50 feet or so and keeps blowing up everytime I restart, as it is stuck there or something.

So I park the cargo truck directly underneath the helicopter crash site hoping to break its fall a bit.... Well that didnt work, just blew up both vehicles.

So it keeps doing this over and over restart after restart and I am wondering how will my helicopter respawn if it just falls from the sky everytime I restart the server.

VERY frusterating, any help will be much appreciated.

It might be important to note my server has been running 1.7.2.4, but I also switched to 1.7.2.5 to see if it would make a difference, which it did not.

Thanks!

[MurQ 33]

Save it after it has crashed and blown up, this should sort it and it will more than likely spawn back at the island

[cfordy@live.com 0]

I cant save it when it crashes again, it just disapears but there is kind of a debris field around the crash, but you cant tell it was a helicopter because its random metal, thats all

[MurQ 33]

Wait some time maybe as i've been able to save wrecked/crashed chopper, then on the reset it has always been back at the island using 1.7.2.5.

Is it a legit chopper?

Edited September 3, 2012 by MurQ

[cfordy@live.com 0]

its a legit chopper that I found on skalatsky Island, i had my server on 1.7.2.4, this was 3 days ago. now what happened was when i came back on in the morning, I restarted my server, then went back to the crash site, nothing there, went to island, nothing there. came back to crash site, restarted server and then the chopper would fall from sky, blow up, and I could not see the chopper after that, it vanishes. I see debris around, not just little bits of metal and the impact crater, but no chopper, cant save anything. I just switched to 1.7.2.5 so maybe i will check out the island but im at the crash site and it jus keep falling from the sky.

[cfordy@live.com 0]

waited 3 days already and everyone says it should be instant on reset..... so yah.... help dayz dev team who wont get back to me :(

Edited September 3, 2012 by Fckn_fordy

[cfordy@live.com 0]

Anyone have any other ideas?

[Obsolescence 129]

Revert to 1.7.2.4 and find the chopper, repair it, fly it where you want, save it, and then re- "upgrade" to the version that just respawns it at last known location after every reset (where it was when you "upgraded" to 1.7.2.5).

Cheers =)

Edited September 3, 2012 by Obsolescence

[Zeppa 562]

Helis take minimum of 7 days to spawn back if destroyed(what I have read). Just wait, it will spawn back at skali... and after every restart is will be there if not crashed, its bugged.

Edited September 3, 2012 by Zeppa