Attempting to determine what the Venture Zomboid helicopter does? If you first begin taking part in Zomboid, each little growl means hazard and each thump of an undead hand towards a window makes your coronary heart leap. Avoiding imminent demise means paying numerous consideration to all of the sounds round you, however you won’t make certain which of them are value worrying about. These wolf howls within the forest, for instance, aren’t indicators of an incoming canine assault.
The sound of helicopter blades is one you have to be cautious of, although. For those who’re caught unaware by a rogue helicopter you are about to be swarmed by extra zombies than you need to deal with. Plus, you may by no means really see a helicopter in Venture Zomboid, so you may be relying solely on listening to it. If you do, this is what you may need to learn about how the helicopter occasion works.
What does the Venture Zomboid helicopter do?
Basically, the helicopter in Venture Zomboid attracts zombies. So while you hear it, you may need to be additional cautious. For those who’re exterior and listen to the helicopter blades within the distance, you may doubtless hear them develop nearer till they appear to be on prime of your character and start following you across the map.
The sound will fire up zombies within the space the way in which different loud noises do, inflicting them to wander extra incessantly and drawing them to your location. Even when you run inside, the helicopter will stay overhead, attracting the undead to your hiding spot.
For those who’ve been noticed by a helicopter and are being adopted, get your self far-off from any constructing you are utilizing as a base so you do not draw zombies to your own home. Until you are extraordinarily equipped and seeking to struggle a horde, that’s.
In multiplayer, a helicopter might swap between following totally different gamers. The helicopter occasion will occur randomly between days six and 9 of your save, so be significantly cautious on the finish of your first week.
Find out how to keep away from the helicopter
The helicopter is a random occasion, however you will get a heads up when it will occur. The automated emergency broadcast station (AEBS) on the radio will announce “air exercise detected” on a day when a helicopter goes to be out and roaming for gamers to torture. Of observe, the AEBS is just not on a set frequency throughout save video games, so you may both must manually hunt the airwaves for it or discover a radio that has it saved as a preset in your world.
To keep away from being noticed and adopted, you possibly can keep inside or in a forest for the complete day. As soon as you have been seen, the helicopter will comply with you to any tried hiding spots. If it will probably’t discover you for round an hour, it could depart and are available again later. Do not get too snug although. You are not completely free from hovering doom till you have survived the complete day of the occasion.
By default, the helicopter occasion solely happens as soon as in your world. If you would like to by no means be bothered by it (or be challenged by it extra usually) you possibly can create a customized sandbox world and discover the choices to alter helicopter occasion frequency within the rightly named “Sadistic AI Director” part.
