Distress Signal Levels

[Aurora]

An option to purchase a Level 2 heli distress signal from the Blackmarket on modded servers --  at a higher RP cost.  It would make it more fun and challenging for group/team heli fights.

[Mister Dobalina]

The server I used to main had boosted heli’s. They had 2x HP and you had to take out both rotors for it to fall. I think that would be cool for a Lvl 2 type heli. Maybe dropping elite crates rather than standard military crates?

[Mister Dobalina]

Just to revisit this, I think this is something that really should be looked in to. I've called 7 helis today hoping for a M2 and except for one crate with C4 and rockets, the rest were all ammo crates, attachment crates, or an occasional MP5 crate, and it's been like that all wipe for me. I think tiered Distress Helis would be really good.

[rubiks-q-bert]

2 hours ago, Mister Dobalina said:

Just to revisit this, I think this is something that really should be looked in to. I've called 7 helis today hoping for a M2 and except for one crate with C4 and rockets, the rest were all ammo crates, attachment crates, or an occasional MP5 crate, and it's been like that all wipe for me. I think tiered Distress Helis would be really good.

So a distress signal is just a level 1 heli. It's not different than the normal level 1 heli. The loot is just random. Making it a 2 or 3 doesn't change the loot. Each box has the same chance to have whatever the loot table is. Just more boxes.

[Mister Dobalina]

21 hours ago, rubiks-q-bert said:

So a distress signal is just a level 1 heli. It's not different than the normal level 1 heli. The loot is just random. Making it a 2 or 3 doesn't change the loot. Each box has the same chance to have whatever the loot table is. Just more boxes.

According to the server, the level of the heli does determine the loot, see #5. I get 4 boxes of loot whether I take down a L1 or a L3

Edited June 12, 2021 by Mister Dobalina

[AlexaNightfire]

It determines the loot, as in the # of crates. The loot table, however, does not change between Level 1-3 helis.

Level 1 Heli/Distress signal: 4 boxes of loot (all heli crates, same loot table)

Level 2 Heli: 5 boxes of loot (all heli crates, same loot table)

Level 3 Heli: 6 boxes of loot (all heli crates, same loot table,

Hope this clears things up a bit!

-Alexa

[Mister Dobalina]

Welp, looks like I haven’t been picking up all my crates and I’m just very unlucky lmao. Thanks for clearing that up Alexa

[Death]

8 hours ago, Mister Dobalina said:

Welp, looks like I haven’t been picking up all my crates and I’m just very unlucky lmao. Thanks for clearing that up Alexa

It's quite possible some of them glitch through the terrain. It's a game bug, but I'm confident it's something I can fix on our end. I'm working on a few big feature updates so I'm unsure when I'll get around to sorting those niche issues.