Make helicopters respawn faster after accidental crashes please

[worn spear]

Currently, a bad pilot can be 10x more detrimental to the team than a bad player in any other situation. This fix would do would mitigate that and maybe even lead to more people trying out piloting.

[noble urchin]

uh no

will be abused

[undone trout]

“Oh no, my heli is about to be destroyed, better accidentally crash into a tree”

Plus it wouldn’t really be possible to determine if done on purpose or accident. Sure, you could make it only apply to safe zone, but..

1. Not every heli spawns in safe zone

2. Would still be ripe for abuse for faster heli spawns in the right situations. It would still reward crashing, essentially.

[rapid sierra]

from a technical side, would this even be possible to implement? like how would you determine whether the crash was accidental or not

if it somehow was implemented it would probably be abused in some way too, yes

[ember pawn]

Its not about heli respawn time it’s about killing your teamates and thats why there should be some competence test or a lock behind using the black hawk

[noble urchin]

transport troops mindset yes

Armed littlebird main mindset no

well

For the first part

Idk about competence test

[ember pawn]

Or add team killing so i can spawn camp the fucking bot who rammed the whole team in the ground

Newbies need to learn the hard way

[undone trout]

Ik this is more so you being frustrated with shit pilots, but wouldn’t a tutorial on how to fly fix this?

I’ll cook up a suggestion if people want with a mock up idea of something like a “drivers permit/flight permit”but I’m not a good pilot myself so I might need help with demonstrations and the like, I’d need to jot down some notes as well to make it as understandable as possible

[lucid belfry]

if you messed up outside the safezone, that's ultimately on you.

but I think there should be a similar treatment when 10 year olds fly the heli in the safezone and they land it so the main rotor constantly damages due to chopping up a building.
Leaving your team -1 helicopter for the end of the round, because you can't put it out of its misery + it gets healed constantly by the repair station

[undone trout]

Easiest fix would be the have the vehicle repair box stop repairing after a set time, something like 1-2 minutes. Make it repairable again once it leaves said repair zone

So it isn’t perma softlocked on a building

[lucid belfry]

there could be other better solutions, + note that the blackhawk is beefy and has a lot of hp

[lucid belfry]

• once repaired the status of poision damage refreshes, making the whole "after two minute it stops repairing" not so optimal for solving the issue because it might heal the heli 1-2 minutes without a main rotor untill it doesn't burns and stucks like that for the end of the round

[ember pawn]

Let people fly littlebirds for a minimum of 30 minutes in air time before being able to use black hawk

[lucid belfry]

or just allow people to fly in shooting range

[ember pawn]

Ok and if they then crash in game its 100% on them and punish them

[lucid belfry]

no punishment, the aftermath of their crash itself is a form of punishment itself

[ember pawn]

Put them in a room of constant ear rape