HelicopterRevival


Adds a fully animated attack helicopter to the game. Ideal for getting from A to B quickly, exploring the map, building islands and nuking biters from the sky. Originally forked from Kumpu with fixes for Factorio 0.18.2+, but adding some enhancements of my own as well.

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18 days ago
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b ✅ [fixed] "Ghost" choppers and helipads

24 days ago

There appears to be a case where two "ghost" choppers and two "ghost" helipads are created in the game. I can even control said "ghost" helicopters with the remote GUI. The helicopter is not visible and cannot be entered, nor manually controlled, but it responds to GUI commands and will "fly" to the designated spot.

The helipads are just empty markers, invisible to everything, that helicopters appear to be able to fly to. This occurs on every planet I've visited.

24 days ago

Is it possible to get more information?
As in in what kind of mod this is? OR is this just in vanilla + heli?

Is this a map from older version?

24 days ago
(updated 24 days ago)

I just noticed that the "ghost" choppers aren't ghosts at all. They're choppers on OTHER planets. Because I just found one chopper that I'm 100% sure I parked on a helipad on Fulgora, in the middle of the Oil ocean. So I sent it back to the helipad, and immediately switched to Nauvis and checked the GUI, and as suspected; the "ghost" chopper was moving.

So apparently you can see choppers on other planets in the GUI, regardless of what planet you're currently viewing.

And yes, this map has been going for months. So it's been through several versions of both Factorio and this mod.

24 days ago

Yeah simple said, helis aren't surface aware atm. We will be looking into this.

24 days ago

Splendid. Just making sure you were aware. I do remember something in the conversations about them not being surface aware. However, I started this bug report thinking it was another matter entirely. My bad!

24 days ago
(updated 24 days ago)

Splendid. Just making sure you were aware. I do remember something in the conversations about them not being surface aware. However, I started this bug report thinking it was another matter entirely. My bad!

There was a discussion being surface-unaware in Space Exploration and Factorissimo... It was something lingering in the back of my mind, but got generally got discarded because, basically, well, new version and all.

And no need to feel bad. A valid report is still a valid report.

18 days ago

Helicopters should be surface aware now and no "ghost" cams should remain.

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