It’s a random event that spawns. I believe in lore it’s scientists or reporters or something. The only effect really is that if you’re outside the Helicopter follows you and all the noise calls Zombies to your location. I’ve seen a few mods that add different helicopter types though
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slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What’s the Helicopter? Bad guys?
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
mitch@piefed.mitch.science 3 weeks ago
it's a random event that happens sometime in the beginning of any new game — in story, it's a military black hawk helicopter flying over the Knox County area looking for survivors.
The effect in-game is that the zombies in the world all gather around to follow the noise source, which controls and drives a gigantic crowd of zombies around where you're at. It can be very overwhelming, especially when you're just starting out and don't have much by way of structures built.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The helicopter is a helicopter. After about a week, it arrives and if it spots you, it follows/observes you for nonspecific reasons.
The helicopter is also extremely loud, drawing zombies from a huge distance to you. The best way to deal with it is by being inside, so it doesn’t spot you. Then it’ll just fly around and not do much.
slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah okay. Thanks for the info.