The TRUTH About Project Zomboid's Helicopter Event
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Project Zomboid is an open-world isometric survival horror video game in development by British and Canadian independent developer The Indie Stone. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world where the player is challenged to survive for as long as possible before inevitably dying.
'Til Death Us Do Part was a story included in Project Zomboid as its own game mode. It served as the tutorial to introduce new players to the basic concepts of Project Zomboid, like base fortification, scavenging, and fending off hostile undead and survivors.
In 2013, 'Til Death Us Do Part was removed from the game, along with NPC survivors, with the release of version RC 2.9, due to NPCs being far too buggy. The Indie Stone did not abandon the story and have stated they still have big plans for NPCs and the story of Bob and Kate. - Hry
It's zombies flying the helicopter leading there brothers and sisters towards the food.
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@@chrisdonahue524 yes
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Hiding from the chopper to avoid hordes: I sleep
Going outside so footage of my desperate rampage is aired live on tv: Real shit
Killing the Undead so the Zombies at home have something to watch, good man.
Thought i was the only freak that thought about it. I always look forward to the helicopter event because of the same.
It's not a New's chopper though. Has to be military according to the story.
Based Alligator
@@Shitbird3249 reverse psychology
based peace walker pfp
i like the whole news helicopter idea
"BREAKING NEWS: KENTUCKY MAN TAKES MASSIVE HORDE OF UNDEAD HEAD-ON WITH NOTHING BUT A CROWBAR AND A WATER BOTTLE"
and what looks like a whole plastic bag full of Vitamins.
@@EmeraldOutlaw😂
Only in oh- Kentucky
I'm pretty sure it's literally the media streaming the zone lol, the media is literally the type to film a story even at the cost of someones life
“I wonder how did this massive horde got here?”
Here's my take; the helicopters seen in-game are observation teams sent by the state government of Kentucky in conjunction with the National Guard to monitor the exclusion zone.
Emergency broadcast just says "air activity detected". The state most likely doesn't know who is flying the thing.
@@jw9407 terrorists maybe
@@jw9407 Then maybe it's supposed to be one of those unmarked black helicopters that feds use
I saw the radio say "Air activity detected" then "media trespassers" or some such. So it's gotta be a news team.
Which also explains why they follow you around, they're getting footage.
@@1810jeff That might be possible
I like to go out during the event. First I like to get it away from my base or important loot locations, but secondly because I like to roleplay. I think about the people watching that broadcast, what they might see. Streets packed with gore, corpses, and the shambling sick. No survivors, everyone is dead. Suddenly the camera jerks over to a single living human, emerging from a ruined store covered in blood. They dome the nearest zombie with their crowbar, sending brains splattering onto the pavement, and they look up. They lock eyes with the camera. To the millions seeing this recording, the bloody store person represents the single ray of hope humanity has left. Proof that there are people immune to the air born strain, and proof that you can survive, if only you are smart.
/rant lol
Amazing dude
That's insane. I can't wait to see how build 43 will change everything with npc's, including roleplay like this. I just bought project zomboid and i can't stop watching every single video about it.
or "You've abandoned me, i've seen your face i will remember this, i will find you, and i will kill you in your sleep. WATCH ME"
A rant yes, but a good rant imo
Id imagine a time when i crash my characters car in WestPoint, he just desperately waving to the news team to help him before being ripped to shreds by zeds
Nobody is allowed to fly above the exclusion zone and the emergency broadcast indicates that the state/military doesn't know who is flying the helicopter. My assumption about the helicopter event has always been that it's just someone curious with access to a helicopter (maybe just some rich guy?) who wanted to see what's going on inside the exclusion zone. They were neither prepared to help anyone nor did they want to risk too much, they were probably just filming or taking photos, not thinking about the trouble they may cause.
nobody is 'allowed' to, but who's gonna stop you if you're in a helicopter? and the press seems like the most likely option given they'd be the ones most interested in what the government is hiding.
@@zantanzuken Given things get FUBAR for even the KY military forces sent in the week before....
odds are that by the point the Heli comes, the SAM and AA sites had been hit by the infection or bailed out already, meaning that only the Ground barriers remained blocking people from leaving. But bets are that an aircraft would be deployed from whichever airfield of the army remained in range to try gettng that Heli out and seize the idiot.
I always thought those were just some sort of terrorist, or raiders, who got access to that helicopter, hence why they follow you around, probably knowing they are attracting a massive horde to your location so that you die, and after the zombies go away, they kill you as a zombie and then loot what you had.
@@zantanzuken press wouldn't violate FAA regulations, they need to keep their jobs. It would be private individuals (for example when I do legit UAV work I follow all rules and regulations), but once I clock out I violate multiple regulations in half a second. It's like I'll usually follow traffic laws (roughly, maybe like 50% over the speed limits and some wheelies next to the guards), but once I'm out of the gates I'm spinning tires and drifting it out of there.
Professionals don't break laws, they need their job. After work? Pshhh, do whatever you want. Personally I'm still debating getting a private jet that can outrun an F-35 someday, you can't take my license if I never had one.
@@jakegarrett8109 ahh but you see, what if the reporter's boss said 'get out there in the helicopter or you're fired, we NEED to be the first ones on this story.'
"It was a moody day, me and John took our daily turn in helicopter to fly around Knox County to find some news, we were flying around Muldraugh, we've seen the "HELP" sign on the roof of the old storage building, it was just sad - seeing all of those people, now undead. When we got to the Police Station, we saw something. It was a man, a muscular man - he was wearing just pink boots, underwear and an cowboy hat - we raised our cameras to record this unusal look, we watched him yell to gather a horde. After a while, when the horde gathered, he downed ten bootles of booze, just straight up without losing a pace, then he throwed an molotov cocktail at the horde, and started beating them with a crowbar, crazy shit man i tell you"
Lmao
Someone pls make this canon now
@@Quick15pretty sure someone did this at some point
@@randomplayer1098 Yea sounds like a true story fr. Guarantee this was the last game he played before writing this comment.
avarage muldraugh troglodyte, clearing the world of infected, versus avarage rosewood helicopter-driving wojak, observing from safe distance
*threw
#grammarfail
Imagine one of the last live TV images that people living outside of the exclusion zone sees is a lone survivor facing off against a relentless horde; Although maybe not the most preferable means of becoming famous, it does makes the idea of surviving the helicopter event more impactful.
It's would giving hope to Survivors around world and thus keep them fighting for their lives and their loved ones
0:58 the ingame news and the fact that romero's concept of a zombie was never a thing in pz universe could mean that they can't tell whenever you are a zombie or not since zombies (from the perspective of the ingame news reporters) look indistinguishable from normal people. One of the broadcasts on NNR on day 5 states that "It's impossible to tell who has the infection, and who does not."
I think a guy with a rifle in his hands and sprinting seems so different to a dumb slow zombie
nice argument
I am pretty sure that a pale-skinned person with bloodstains and sometimes missing pieces of flesh is easily identifieable as a zombie
@@cola-warthunder9888 im fairly certain pale skin and bloodstains is pretty normal when everyone wants to eat you alive
I don't think it was ever said zombies don't exist in this universe. Romero even has his own place in Louisville
I like the grim idea of the news team questioning either to save you or to leave you
maybe the PZ team should add a broadcast to one of the news outlets where it describes their decision to leave you to the fate
To be fair, considering they'd know about the Airborne infection by then...
Safe to say saving you was NEVER on the table, they dont have the equipment to even attempt that :V
Technically something like that did happen, shortly after the helicopter event the radio says there are still survivors in the exclusion zone, meaning they likely said you were alive
News crew: Oh hey look there is a guy there.
Zombies: Get to the choppa!
::groans::
News Crew makes the most sense to me. If it was the military I wouldn't expect them to linger so long, especially without shooting at the horde.
If it were just your imagination, I'd expect the real reasonnthe zombies are attracted to your location is because your character starts screaming for help at something that isn't there. But your survivor produces text when they talk so I doubt it.
bro he was joking 💀
@@aquarius5264who’s joking? An empty comment isn’t a joke
@@thetasty5246 bruh 0:16 he says "nah i'm just kidding" afterwards
@@aquarius5264 woah jokes exist?! I had no idea! Maybe I made one?
@@thetasty5246 it was not apparent at all that you made one, you just look like you're covering up the fact that you didn't hear him say that now.
I always interpreted it as a News Team or Military Survey flying a chopper overhead to gather information on the Exclusion Zone, whether it be for a news report or a survey. The TV News Reports tend to support this as soon after the helicopter event various News channels report of survivors still in the EZ. The fact they linger around you for so long suggests that they got curious and are definitely very likely recording footage of you being a one man army and are simply watching in horror. It also definitely isn't a hallucination because you can *hide* from the Helicopter inside once the event starts, so people saying it's a hallucination are really silly.
Yeah, I thought of the surveying team as well. Flying just close enough to make a noise but too far to see a survivor
Why couldn't you hide from a hallucination?
I'm no psychologist, but if you really believe there is a helicopter outside, then wouldn't getting away from the perceived helicopter, going into the safety of your home, help you calm down and make the hallucination pass faster?
As for why it would attract zombies? Well, while it might not be making any noise, you sure as hell might be. If you are outside, perhaps your character is screaming for help, screaming for a helicopter that isn't really there, to pick you up, and take you far away from this hell. If you are inside, hiding, then screaming and panicking that the helicopter is there to 'get' you or something.
I don't see you being able to hide from it as a strict contradiction making it impossible to be a hallucination.
That said, I don't personally believe it is a hallucination, specifically because it only happens once, in the first week. If you were to survive months in the apocalypse, all of your family, friends, everyone dead... Turned into those... *things*. Struggling to find the food, and water, that you need to survive... You might start breaking down, going a bit insane and having the occasional hallucination.
But instead of having more 'helicopters' flying around as the months pass by and your sanity breaks down, it's just the one early on. Early enough that you possibly might still have been in shock anyways, and not quite to the point of hallucinating.
Though, again, I'm no psychologist, and maybe Hallucinations happening once, early on during a major traumatic incident, and just never again, is a common thing.
@@chaoticsilver8442 I think you are severely overcomplicating what I meant by mentioning hiding from a hallucination.
To explain more, hallucinations in real life involving being stalked and such like that inherently require you to not be able to hide from the hallucination, otherwise the hallucination wouldn't be debilitating. This means you need to use other stress reducers and such in order to temper those delusions. That's because hallucinations have no tangible effect on reality; there is no measurable effect of reality and these hallucinations are often impossible with no actual evidence of them being real outside of the person's perspective. So, if a hallucination is affecting the world outside of the person's own perspective, that means it is not a hallucination, or is only partially a hallucination.
Case-in-point, that ties into why I said you can't hide from a hallucination. Because, in order for the helicopter to be a hallucination, it would have to not actually affect reality in any tangible way, and it would also not respect the rules of reality. Hallucinations do not care about if they can realistically see you or not. However, the helicopter does.
It can not see you if you hide from it, and, most importantly, if it leaves, the zombies follow it, away from you. That means it is not a hallucination. If it was something as simple as the survivor screaming for help, zombies would exclusively follow the player and then get disinterested once the screaming stopped. Not only that, but the zombie horde would gravitate towards the exact location of the player itself, not just the general area, meaning that going upstairs during a helicopter event, or barricading yourself in a room, despite not being seen by any zombies, would still result in a death sentence during a helicopter event if it was a hallucination. But that is not what happens.
So, yes; you cannot hide from a hallucination. Because if it was a hallucination and the player was simply just screaming for it to go away and leave it alone, this would universally result in zombies killing the player every single time, no matter if you were hiding or not.
I'm still pretty new to the game, less than 60 hours. When I first got the helicopter event, I thought I would have been able to see it so I kept on walking around the sound trying to find it, assuming it could have been helpful in some way. Theoretically speaking, I suppose it does help if you want to level up your weapon skills
i thought the same thing! i went out to explore because i thought it could’ve been a military helicopter with loot drops. little did i know i would get ripped to shreds by a horde not even 5 minutes later
I like to Imagine that it's some rich guy who is trying to find people so he can flex on them with his wealth one more time before he too becomes zombie bait.
Andrew Tate wants to see you dead during the zombie apocalypse.
I personally believe that its the military, or national guard looking for groups of survivors, and by the time they actually find a survivor (you) they realize its too risky to land and save a single lone survivor, even more when theres a hoard high tailing behind.
they follow you around for hours and dont even take some half hearted pot shots at the zombies,i dont think its the military
@@Bigotsandwich1995 Or drop supplies..
Not to mention, they'd have FAR more to be concerned about than Knox county at the moment, considering it's broken quarantine and is currently spreading rapidly throughout the US as their forces are retreating...
If my imagination is capable of summoning 500+ zombies in a 5 block radius, maybe I should let the bleach Valkyrie take me away
I remember posting a looong message on the project zomboid official wiki about it. It went as follows :
In game, the helicopter arrives between 6 and 9 days after the beginning of the apocalypse.
Thanks to TV transcripts, especially Triple-N and WBLN transcripts, we know that the evening of day 5 is the day of the containment breach. ANd day 6 is the moment everyone learns that the infection is also airborne. So the world is fucked.
And yet, it's at THIS moment that the helicopter goes overhead. It's when everything outside goes to hell that an unknown helicopter is flying over the first area to be "lost". What kind of helicopter is it?
First, we can bar the rescue helicopter completely. Sending a rescue helicopter one week after the appearance of the infection simply isn't something that would be done normally. Instead, rescue operations would be deployed to newly infected areas, in order to get people that can be saved out of dangerous areas.
In lore, however, when does the helicopter fly overhead?
Logically, one might say day 6. The reason is that the military lockdown is broken since the day right before. And there is another clue.
On the Triple-N transcript, on the third transcript of the 7th day, we hear the following :
"We have anecdotal evidence that a very small minority... of people may be immune."
The thing is, the infection can kill someone in a few days, and sometimes, it takes that long to the player to feel the effects. There is, therefore, not enough time between the breach of end of day 5 and day 7 for a guarantee that someone might be immune. But then, where would that information come from?
You get where I'm going now.
The only place where there has been enough time spent to guarantee that a survivor is immune is on Knox County. the only way for Triple-N to be aware of the events happening inside is through bieng able to observe Knox County.
And if the date is right, the day PRIOR to the announcement that there might be a small immune minority, the helicopter flew overhead. And that helicopter saw the player. They saw an uninfected at the heart of the infection fighting off against the undead.
Therefore, we can safely assume that the helicopter is a Triple-N news helicopter that is trying to get some infos now that they are finally able to fly over Knox County.
Makes a lot of sense, also explains why they follow you as they likely want to be absolutely sure you are truly not infected by observing you and how you act differently than the zombies. Honestly in the grand scheme of things, even if they knew flying around you would attract zombies and likely mean your death, the knowledge about potential immunity is so important to the wider world that is it probably worth it.
Its not better to just save the guy so they can study????
Makes sense. They see someone probably immune Ans hover overhead to confirm this guy is indeed immune, then bugs out.
@@Ahrone1586 it’s just a news crew, so i doubt they would be able.
@@Michaelonyoutub And these people are badass enough to survive the event so it's definitely worth it
hot take: the helicopter might try to kill you by bringing zombies near you, due to the fact you are the only one alive in said town, and if you get out, everyone will have a bad time explaining why they didnt help you at all
They could just, shoot you dead.
"Why tf you guys used weapons if you were inside a fucking helicopter?"
I don't think anyone is concerned about being called out for not helping one guy in a hopeless situation when the world is ending around them. More likely, I'd bet they're astounded that someone is alive and not a zombie and so are getting as much information as they can.
I don't really think there will be much explaining left to do. What could you say ??
- Oh yea, I saw a heli but they didn't help me
+ Did you get a glimpse of the tail number of the heli ??
- The tail what ??
+ Have a good day sir
There wouldn’t be anyone to have a bad time explaining why they didn’t help you.
the news reporter crew watching the loner down there cleaning a horde with nothing but molotovs, anger and the local pd weaponry:
you need a very strong imagination to let the zombies hear what you think :v
but what if the zombies are also part of ur imagination
@@kompv since when You can be eat alive in the real world and turn into a zombie by your imagination? :V
@@francoemmanueldeanta5933 Maybe it didn't really happen and your mental state is just so fractured you believe that you've become zombie and every time you find a survivor to eat it was just an innocent person living out their life
@@DustyDaniel then how is possible for a person with rotten skin, missing parts of his body and really wounded body be able to live and attack another person?
Best explaination: it's all just a dream
I used to be annoyed that we couldn't actually see the helicopter in PZ but then I realized that I live near a hospital that gets helicopters occasionally and I can normally only hear them pass over my house
I always assumed that it was a military observation helicopter, there’s an exclusion zone that actually worked and I think they’re intentionally corralling zombies, it’s why the fly about so long - they’re keeping them away from the walls
This kinda makes sense gameplay wise too - shuffle them around & soft reset their positioning, leading to more emergent gameplay & adding chaos in the mix!
This is my headcanon now
I thought the disease was airborne though
We need more events like this in PZ. As annoying as the helicopter is, it's an intense adrenaline rush trying to survive it
If I recall correctly, there's a video of the entire project zomboid lore timeline as told through TV and radio stations, and at one point the military broadcasts that they're pulling out of the area, and that there's an air evacuation of a top general in the area, or something like that. It doesn't really make much sense, since why would an evacuating heli stop to hover around your survivor, but I like it's implications.
maybe looking for a spot to land w/o getting killed?
@@RealEggBeater In that case they could throw down a ladder or pick us up on a rooftop.
Personally I belive all of Kentucky is lost but the red rift he states survive due the infection being probably contained
My biggest bet is the News Chopper theory.
Because let's face it, for the sake of media attention they have to go to Knox County where the Knox Event occured. At the time of 6-9 days since day one of the outbreak, news outlets and communication are still going.
Lo and behold they see you (player) driving down through beaten-up Lousiville in a Mercia Lang 6000.
Yes, I suppose it would be an ideal premise, it must also be much easier and safer to record things over the air, although it is rare that they have not doeasie Live broadcast . Maybe they recorded it because they didn't want to show such graphic things on TV and they would edit it later. But why didn't it come out? The army intercepted them? Journalists were arrested or They were shot down to contain the infection or out of fear that they would expose the truth
Imagine you're in a news heli
you realise that there is someone on the ground
a survivor
and then you realise that you just made the whole hell break loose
you can only watch and document what happens
and then he just mows down everything with guns, cars, fire and god knows what else
Reason why I like Helicopter Extended. It makes it quite clear what is what
The thing is , the helicopter draws zeds to you when it follows you, but doesn't draw them away when it leaves.
yeah because they're targetting you and not something they cant reach now
ur a ground target of course they'l be drawn to you more than the heli
they will prefer meat rather than sound, so it's kinda obvious that when they spot you, they will come for you and not follow the helicopter
I believe it's a news team, and once they see you they try to save you (hence why they fly above you) but can't due to the horde they've drawn in
Ngl, considering they know about the Infection methods...
"Saving you" was *never* an option, that's utterly stupid :V
Would be cool if there was a secret walkie-talkie frequency that you could use to contact the helicopter or something and they would be contemplating whether to save you but just say that they won't help or something.
>they would be contemplating whether to save you
They wouldnt, not a chance :V
There really are only 3 options
1: its a news crew following you and unknowingly bringing zombies to you.
2: its the military, they try to find a location that they can land near you when they spot you.
3: its some people who want to watch the world burn and find survivors to chase around causing zombies to be drawn in.
Personally i think option 1 makes the most sense.
Edit: there is another, and yes i did see it in the comments but it could be an observation team of some kind studying how the zombies interact with humans and possibly see how long it takes for someone to turn.
Options 1 and 3 are synonymous.
@@derchozenvun83 the only difference is ones a job
@@alexandersergal "I vas just doingk mein job!"-famous words from doubles of men who were executed before Nuremberg.
@@derchozenvun83 yeah, you can either do horrible experiments on people or get paid to do horrible experiments on people. the only difference is that one is a job.
@@alexandersergal "I don't drive a Lincoln because they pay me..."
I like the idea that it's the media/news team looking to spread the truth. They either don't think/care about riling up zombies near you, they don't help because they fear getting too close might spread the infection to them, and they follow you to get a good video to spread online. it's simple and reasonable.
All of the Above, pretty much.
You've survived around a week of Utter Hell, you can probably survive that just fine...
by the time the helicopter arrives everyone is already kinda dying though
My take: The military is probably trying to bait the zomboids in one place so they use you (the player) as a bait so all the zomboids go in specific spot, trying to contain the infection
well, or they know that the player is a damn terminator who alone with the help of a fire can do more than these life-size puppets called the US army
the zombies follow the helicopter because it makes noise, not because they know it will lead them to the player
@@luctapia yeah but once they get closer they see the player and since the zombies prioritize seeing a person over hearing something they will follow the new sound, then spot the player and ignore the heli
@@luctapia the zomboids may not know It will lead to the player, but the helicopter does
I mean they already did contain it by making an exclusion zone and the zeds are attracted to the noise, The military could easily bamboozle the horde by just hovering the helicopter in that specific spot
"The TRUTH about..."
"This is all just speculation"
I always thought they were news heli, and always imagined my character driving away, fighting zombies being broadcasted on the TV. Such a thrill
i love that idea since i first heard it, like, imagine some of your character`s family living somewhere else seeing the news and watching your character fighting to the end agains countless infected
@Marksnow234 coming out on top wielding a molotov and shotgun would be a great flex to broadcast lmao
the helicopter is just frank west heading for the mall, don't mind him
Apart from the whole PZ storyline and how the dev see this, or want to go with the whole helicopter event. Helicopters are so oldschool zombie movie vibe.
Dawn of the dead and their helicopter. Which plays a important role. The group of suvivors would not have gotten anywhere without it.
Day of the dead was overall not the best movie out of the dead frenchise. But that opening was so legendary strong.... that guy yelling hello? Is anybody out there. And the other guy stating with his perfect jamaican accent that no-one is alive in this place... "Listen, you can hear it over the engine".
Romero builds it up so well on the power of suggestion. You do hear the moaning over the engine... the whole idea of a giant city full of moaning zombies... spine tingling and morbid dire outlook.
I imagine that in theory you can hear louisville from miles away... maybe the devs should do something with this. Just to disturb us and throw us off more.
Once i hear the helicopter in the distance i call out, helloo?...is anybody out there? Which everytime was a oh sh... moment for my ex, because i always hear it first.
sure thing i'm out there, hiding my ass very quietly in a bathroom or garage without any windows. 😂
so what you're saying is that Frank West is in project zomboid
That'd fit right in too
So it was Frank West this whole time
Must be right? Who else can it be..
I have EHE, I sometimes role play in raven creek by making them all almost insane rate. Makes it seem like the outbreak just started
I only like it like that, when people do the like 3 months later stuff it’s like, where has my character been for 3 months? in bed? a cryopod?
I always wanted to scare away a helicopter by shooting at it
No real reason why that isn't a feature yet
its so you suffer, as is the point of the event; but, rest assured that i want too as well
@@8vantor8 first playthrough here, by day 9 i already had my top floors blocked off by furniture and such and used an escape rope to get in and out, i was expecting a full out war but not a single zombie even came close to my house lol, they all gathered near the church like good christians on a sunday morning
I feel like the idea of whoever is in the helicopter is just filming you and causing a horde event is a lesson of society. People trying to use you for their own personal gain while you remain in anguish. That’s why the helicopter is never there to save you.
Hmm suena interesante pero a la vez muy edgy me gusta pensar que son camarografos y reporteros transmitiendo imagenes reales de la verdad en vivo y en directo y justo te encuentran a ti angustiado y corriendo por sobrevivir y el equipo se esta devatiendo a gritos e insultos si salvarte o dejarte atras
Just started playing a few days ago. I finally survived long enough to go through the event, it was absolutely infuriating but so much adrenaline packed fun as well... then I died to another horde immediately after jumping over a tall wooden fence in Rosewood.. 10/10 will still keep playing. This game is something special.
Honestly with this take it makes me feel like I should take on every zombie it draws to me so I can look cool on TV.
I'd put money on it not being in your head, because it does attract zombies. A hallucination wouldn't do that. I think a news chopper is the best guess.
lmfao that ending got me good. Really enjoy seeing you in Predz hardcore series as well!!
i now hu hi is , is Frank west!! ebriting maches .
I think it's news crews, and I think the reason they hover is because they want to get good footage of you being eaten
Keep up the work I love your videos!
The Helicopter event is Frank West coming into the town. He's covered wars you know.
I like the idea of the new channel just filming a survivor in a swat outfite while beathing the hell out of random hord with a crowbar not afraid at all
Having known about the helicopter event from watching youtube before even playing Zomboid, I haven't yet had any difficulty more than the slightest inconvenience from the helicopter. I just chill in my hideout and read a book, since I always hit up the school in Rosewood at the very beginning of my runs. Cook a meal, read a book, watch some TV, read more, it's like just a random "indoor" day for me whenever it happens. Kinda makes me want to get that expanded helicopter mod since it doesn't even really add any significant difficulty to my runs right now.
Also, if you do get caught by the helicopter and followed, you can pick any random two-story building, run to a random room on the second floor, and close the door behind you (bring a sheet so you can close the curtains). The zombies won't go looking for you upstairs unless they see/hear you go up, and mostly they get stuck on the first floor just wandering around aimlessly. Once it's gone, if you're not overweight (underweight is way better anyways) you can hop out the window taking only slight damage and run. Super EZ.
personally: the helicopter is frankwest photojournalist, and someone just started a new playthrough of dead rising 1
There already exists transcripts of news crews looking into the knox event and filming zombies shambling around, I always seen it as another or the same crew coming in for a second pass to see how much it has progressed.
Great video! Never really thought about it because I’m
Usually fighting for my life
I like to imagine they’re just media bloodhounds filming your demise for ratings
Pretty much this. I was a literal baby the year the game takes place so I don't know how bad they were back then, but I'd believe it in a heartbeat if we were talking about any of the major modern networks.
Love your Tomodachi Life Interior shop background music :)
The Expanded Helicopter Events mod adds a whole bunch of stuff which I at this point consider canon due to how well made it is. I say it’s a wide arrange of the things the helicopter is perhaps in the earlier days it could be the Military and police trying to maintain order. Perhaps even news teams covering the outbreak. Then probably in the much later days it’s probably just fragments/remnants of what’s left of the military. Or else it could even be fellow survivors or pesky raiders. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So the army was actively shooting down the helicopters from which they were trying to flee?
@@enderclasscraft6411 i guess that does make sense
first time playing project zomboid and finally having cleared a house for a base after dying tens of times. i heard the helicopter, had no idea what it was. i thought maybe it was the end of the game event where im going to be saved. i ran outside and waited and lost a base and my dude. rip
I saw someone talking about the helicopter event while on my first playthrough and decided to look it up. I hate that I could have been destroyed by a hoard if I didn't hear about this on time. Would've been four days of base building gone
This makes me want multiplayer challenge modes and profession based starts, maybe objectives and stuff, got me thinking about dead rising 1 all over again. Have players land in a heli on a mall and they get like 3-4 days to gather npc survivors, supplies, etc and escape.
I know the devs work with mod authors to get mods officially added in, I really hope they either work with the creator of the Expanded Helicopter Event mod, or turn it into something similar.
I figured almost everything has been grounded and as the infection rages on nothing takes off near you. Except for one survivor who fixed up a heli and left the area with what he’s got. Sees you and thinks about grabbing you so watches if your nonviolent to humans before realizing he gave you a death sentence
The picture of the Marine riding the lawn mower is fantastic.
wonder if the news chopper will be physical when NPC's finally get added.
never thought about the helicopter event being a news team helicopter. kinda makes alot more sense that way, reminds me of the opening to dead rising 1.
favorite random helicopter event was, it happened during a severe thunder storm like the AEBS (auto emergency broadcast system) was calling for like 44+MPH winds, heavy downpours, and lightening strikes and in the distance the faint sound of helicopter blades i was laughing in my make shift safe house
I hope we can get an expansion to zomboid one day, that lets you be in a different state/country. Just imagine being in berlin or something and seeing on the ingame news that a helicopter found a lone survivor in the Kentucky exclusion zone and accidentally got them killed lol
When i hear the sound approaching, i just stay indoors and wait for it to pass.
I usually have plenty of time to get inside and away from a window.
it's the opening scene of dead rising. that helicopter has covered wars, you know.
Whenever you hear the emergency radio broadcast on the day of the helicopter even the military says “air activity detected” so it’s unexpected, leading me to believe it is indeed a news chopper or some other form of civilian aircraft
Love the idea of them seeing the sole survivor, in shock they fly over, realize they've doomed this man because of this, and hastily fly away so they dont have to confront the reality they just condemmned the man too
It would be interesting if in later days after the heli events, you could hear radio and news broadcasts of leaked images of a "survivor" within the zone, and maybe even in the town you were in, when the event took place. could maybe give new players who dont know better a dash of hopium that maybe just maybe, this is how they survived.
Could be Frank West in that chopper, he's covered wars y'know.
that was the most straightforward video i've seen in a long time
Frank West is probably taking pics from the helicopter
I used to think it could be a new's helicopter, but seeing the story evolve and them not giving any update about it on the radio and TV leads me to think it's military in recon duty. The military actually tries to hide the truth since it may cause panic, trying to contain the situation until they could figure out what is going on. The president himself speaks about not wanting to give wrong info.
I would think that the helicopter pilot and whatever other crew comes with is astonished that there's actually a survivor inside the zone. My guess as for why it follows you may be many; From trying to rescue or curiosity about seeing someone alive, maybe a mixture of both and maybe something more. The fact that they can't get to you is obvious. Either they can't save you by the risk of the player being infected and the high risk of making a landing while a huge wave of infected is attracted to the noise (and if there's even a landing spot to begin with). Many other factors could also be in play, such as them just following orders. Probably the pilot reports about the player's pressence but any attempt of rescue is denied because of these risks.
I've noticed the sound follows you so they must just be filming you as you just suffer lol
Could you imagine if the helicopter was a news team trying to catch interesting footage since the event draws all the zombies towards you?
Couple of days ago I survived long enough to hear that helicopter the first time, not knowing what it was at all. At the time I was for the first time trying to see if I could safely do some gun practice out in a field without ruining the game by having all the zombies come at me with no way of escape. After a while I drove around trying to follow the helicopter sound to see if I could physically catch up with it. I envisioned possibly military NPC guys that would shoot my ass if they found me. Apparently it's not something you can see, it just manipulates zombie behavior. Yesterday I had my second helicopter event and I knew a little bit more about it then after researching it. Either I was lucky or it isn't all that hard. Just drove away from my base and hanged out in other locations for a while.
It's totally a news chopper. They're filming you like a reality tv show. "If it bleeds, it leads."
"Holy shit... he's- he's immune! We gotta fuckin save him... come back for him in like... 3, no 5 days?"
"Yeah, sure- Hey that's a horde, holy shit we gotta run"
"No no, look... he's winning."
"HE JUST THREW A MOLLIE! WHAT THE FUCK?"
That could make sense, if I don't remember wrong the event only happens once so maybe they realized that one time that being there would lure the zombies to you which would also spread bad info about the helicopter for other survivors
I think it only happens once because the exclusion zone breaks free and society around the world collapses since the radios, power and water go out and you never catch a trace of humanity again after that.
society around the world also canonically breaks down over the next one to two weeks, so they might just not be alive to do it anymore
The Thumbnail is great
What music did you use? It sounds strangely familiar... like it's from a Nintendo game
My opinion is that its a military scout team
But if you set heli event to sometimes in sandbox settings, it turns from military, to news, to the last person in the original group just happy to see that not all hope is lost quite yet.
0:04 is that music clip snip from silent hill ost?
Id like to think its the military since the automated radio station warns of a helicopter event happening
I like to imagine the player looking the helicopter driver in the eyes and just showing a middle finger to them for attracting a huge horde to their location
The devs seem to hint that it may just be a random person trying to get people killed, if you look at the helicopter event in sandbox settings they’ve put it under “Sadistic AI”
"I HATE helicopters"
-Francis
If you have a mod on (Expanded Heli events.) The helicopter event makes more sense. The news chopper reporter can be heard speaking inside. And the military will fire at the zombies (you too, if they spot you). And the police one which i think plays a siren.
quite an imagination you got there it even manages to summon all the surrounding zombies
Imagine watching news on the TV abt the Knox Infection which is "contained" and its a live broadcast from a helicopter they spot a survivor and the survivor gets ripped apart by the people with the "contained virus"
It can't be a imagination since it attracts zombies to it.
my first assumption was that it was a reference to The Dawn of the Dead, but from the perspective of the folks on the ground rather than the ones in the helicopter.
I’ve always liked to believe it was Frank West snapping pictures for points chasing me around. Just need a mod for that now.
In my theory, it possible that helicopter was raiders to fool you gettin rescue
you just gave me an idea for a rp story - news team sneaks into the quarantine zone, but get stuck inside and have to survive lol
but seriously if it is a news crew, they need to be destroyed for getting my 3 characters swarmed by zombies.
its actually frank west from dead rising looking for Willamette Parkview mall