A quick note about helicopters - Rust

I wanted to personally jump on here and publicly thank the development team for adding this PvE element to the game. z I have recently jumped back into the game, and it has been exciting having a helicopter show up and patrol the area that I am in, while I am trying to haul my loot back home. Even stripping down and putting my weapon away, they still lock onto me at times when hiding between rocks, and it has had to take a lot of creativity at times to get back home in one piece - one time, it took me sprinting between hiding places during the heli's reload times, towards a player I saw in the distance that was sneaking into a nearby rad town, to finally get the heli off of my tail, as I watched it switch targets onto the other guy who was now fleeing in terror. Looking forward to seeing even more gameplay elements such as this one - I love having to constantly watch my step, regardless of player activity in the area.

Helicopters are great in that respect but I've found them almost impossible to kill. Five of us tried multiple times to destroy it but it has impeccable aim, prefires like a bitch, does ridiculous damage and from what I've seen regenerates health. Only the Rifle is practical as accurate hits in the right area do anything, but due to its damage and aim it makes it impossible to even line up your shot once its noticed you.

I honestly wish the heli patrolled daily, or even just never left. I really like the idea of a boss roaming the island being a threat to literally everyone.

Yea I love the chopper but yea personally I like that its hard to down it but its way to accurate when its got you in its sights

Also it can romp an armoured base in 1 pass

I wish it was not killable.. and there were more.

For my players is too easy to strike down, they farm heli... BTW someone know the use of "heli.guns 2"?

[QUOTE=PROTO (PD);48742422]Yea I love the chopper but yea personally I like that its hard to down it but its way to accurate when its got you in its sights[/QUOTE] Considering it's a fully functional and presumably professionally manned war machine I see no reason why it would not be incredibly accurate, it's more akin to today's choppers than to the door gunners from Vietnam era IMO

[QUOTE=Nero_ink;48743842]For my players is too easy to strike down, they farm heli... BTW someone know the use of "heli.guns 2"?[/QUOTE] AFAIK it only checks if that var is 0, if so it disables the guns, otherwise "suns out, guns out.".

[QUOTE=Timmix;48741254]Helicopters are great in that respect but I've found them almost impossible to kill. Five of us tried multiple times to destroy it but it has impeccable aim, prefires like a bitch, does ridiculous damage and from what I've seen regenerates health. Only the Rifle is practical as accurate hits in the right area do anything, but due to its damage and aim it makes it impossible to even line up your shot once its noticed you.[/QUOTE] Me and 2 other guys that weren't even team members (neighbors of mine, we weren't even on comms) got one on the first try we did. We had prepared for it (3 sleeping bags, bullets, armor, meds) and we met at one of the little warehouses when it showed up, placed our 3 bags around the place and used the warehouse as cover from the fire. It took about 10 minutes to down it and it was pretty easy. We all died a lot at the beginning but I didn't die once in the last 7-8 min of the fight. The warehouse was the key here, I would move to the far end of it vs the heli so that the warehouse itself would soak the rockets. Most bullets would hit the warehouse. I could shoot at the heli through the holes and other openings and get a few hits on it every time it did a pass. If you ever played WoW, it's similar to a boss fight... If you don't know what you are doing you'll get rekt, but if you plan a bit and know the dance, it becomes much easier.