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[Cappy (DayZ) 6]

So me and my buddies were driving down the road in our van, aptly named the 'mystery machine' ( its looks just like the van off scooby doo, well kinda )

Spotted and heli and fixed her up, long story short, the game became too easy. Not only could we spot all vehicles and camp sites with ease ( i'm not against this, but i'll cover that more later ), we could land very close to them 'liberate' all their loot to the heli, take down anyone who came near, and be on our merry way

Personally i like a bit more of a challenge, I'm not saying those who like heli's want the game to be easy, because lets face it, flying around in a heli gunning down people in field and chasing down cars is incredibly fun, in fact its down right hilarious. i just feel there a bit too good.

Now i've never had a team gun me down in a heli, or find our camp and loot our tent, so please don't think this is a QQ, whaa whaaa, mah loootz haz gone thread, in fact we welcome such things as it give us more things to do, whether it be replenishing our supplies, or exacting our revenge.

I just feel that heli's are a bit too good if you know what i mean.

Cars are fantastic, you immediately see the benefits, being able to travel at speed around cherno is great with a larger loot store, not to mention the food/drink you save in traveling in a car, and picking up buddies after i may have accidentally shot them during a panicked firefight is great.

As for aircraft i personally think it would be better to have a few light aircraft about,. cessna172-esque planes and such, like a little 2-4 seat propped plane.

That way you'd still have a tool for recon missions and such to find other groups camp sites/vehicles and such, but you'd have to work in uni-son with people on the ground, either on foot or in a car.

also you'd have limited places to land,. the 3 main places being the the current airfields which are conveniently place at the NW, NE and south. still giving to the ability to travel across the map at great speed, but not allowing you to go effective anywhere you like,. i think it would be a nice balance

[scoffield77@gmail.com 192]

I agree, they should give the ability to move camps in to the forest, unlike it is now.

Will make camps harder to find.

maybe change the Huey to the An2

witch will take away from the Land and dust off Blitzkrieg tactics

or make the Huey harder to repair.

OR both, An2 as easy as the Huey is now to repair. and make the Huey harder to repair.

[Strategos (DayZ) 190]

Also the heli needs the radar removed, this has been pointed out quite a few times. That alone would balance it considerably.

On this subject as a matter of interest can you snipe a pilot through the glass?

[scoffield77@gmail.com 192]

Also the heli needs the radar removed' date=' this has been pointed out quite a few times. That alone would balance it considerably.

On this subject as a matter of interest can you snipe a pilot through the glass?

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you can, but it's hard if the heli is moving lol

[Deuzerre 64]

One hell of a feeling I guess.

Back on topic: Radar off would hamper you a bit, but I second that plane idea.

Also making vehicles able to survive an encounter with a rabbit would help a bit. Helos tend to die less often from encounters with rocks.

Anyway, you deserved the right to own the skies. Enjoy, make rescue missions, fire support while a small team raids the ground, fly over the starting areas for respawners to be awed, wipe out cherno and elektro outskirts from bandits... Things like that.

[revenoff 1]

somebody claimed to have taken out a heli with a single shot to its engine or something. is this possible? i assume with a high powered rifle, if anything.

[dut 21]

somebody claimed to have taken out a heli with a single shot to its engine or something. is this possible? i assume with a high powered rifle' date=' if anything.

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A lucky shot from a makarov can destroy a helicopter if they are flying around with a 99.9% damaged tail rotor, main rotor, engine or hull.

And radar doesn't make any sense, if it's so advanced that it picks up abandoned cars in thick forest why doesn't it pick up the hundreds of other undriveable wrecks around chernarus?