Destroy the last helicopter without damage.

[twad]

Just before Black Mesa East. I did it on hard.

simple.

drive like mad to start the alarm

drive even faster to go back in the tunnel from where you came (get to the left of the entrance or you will get stuck in the wooden logs)

enter the tunnel and wait an instant to see where the copter will position itself (it will start shooting like MAD but it will miss if you are in a good position, and it only attacked me once in my game) , try to be able to see only its "belly" (you should be able to spot a gun, a red light and maybe the lower propeller) and start shooting at it.

For some reason it will never move away from its chosen spot, even when it get near death.

It dies stupidly in about 500-700 rounds i think.

 

[Sid Burn]

lol... really? well, let me try that too...

 

[Ren.182]

It's more fun to fight it outside

 

[qdave]

500 rounds, hmm....sounds alot.

 

[Ren.182]

Yup, that's emptying and recharging the gun 5 times at least... Could take a while. I prefer fighting it in the open, way more fun than sitting there for 30 mins holding fire

 

[twad]

this copters really have a lot of armor (and mines.. how can it have something like 300 mines of this size in a thing this small???).

i would have liked to be able to completely destroy a flying transport. Did not have the oportunity yet.

 

[Flyingdebris]

it must be the using same technology that allows a SMG without a grenade launcher to shoot grenades in an incorrect manner

 

[Drizzt]

lol.

It has a mini teleporter in it to feed the heli all the mines

 

[piggy]

this is wierd... i think i drove past the big chopper cuz i dont remember fighting if :S

 

[kirovman]

You know that the part where it spits out loads of mines?

That was originally a bug during playtest, but they thought it was so cool they kept it in the game.

 

[Phat-t]

what i dont get is why dont the combine use the helicopters more? You see helos flying overhead in the first few levels, so why didn't the combine use them to easily crush the City 17 rebellion? I mean the helos had mines, missles and a machine gun that can kill anyone except gordon in a second, so wtf?

 

[kirovman]

I don't know...but we didn't see any more helicoptors after Nova Prospekt was destroyed, did we?

Maybe in the week since they got sabotaged or shot down by RPGs, leaving very few.

Or maybe the level designers for the later levels were unaware helis were available...

 

[Sid Burn]

I don't know...but we didn't see any more helicoptors after Nova Prospekt was destroyed, did we?

Maybe in the week since they got sabotaged or shot down by RPGs, leaving very few.

Or maybe the level designers for the later levels were unaware helis were available...

I guess that the copters were reassigned and the combines knowing that copters cant defeat you... sent a combine gunship instead. that gave you a head ache in Nova Prospekt. :smoking:

 

[twad]

just a single gunship need about 7-8 rockets to blow it up in hard so... maybe the copter dont have enough armor against rockets.

 

[SimonomiS]

I loved the fact the pilots got ejected out when the 'copter got damaged enough.

 

[Phat-t]

"just a single gunship need about 7-8 rockets to blow it up in hard so... maybe the copter dont have enough armor against rockets."

if you use cheats to get the launcher during the helicopter sequence it takes about 20 rockets to kill it though.

 

[Zeus]

"just a single gunship need about 7-8 rockets to blow it up in hard so... maybe the copter dont have enough armor against rockets."

if you use cheats to get the launcher during the helicopter sequence it takes about 20 rockets to kill it though.

Wow, it only took one or two rockets to take down an apache in hl1 I think.

 

[Sid Burn]

"just a single gunship need about 7-8 rockets to blow it up in hard so... maybe the copter dont have enough armor against rockets."

if you use cheats to get the launcher during the helicopter sequence it takes about 20 rockets to kill it though.

really? it only took me about... 6 rockets to kill one gunship. the problem is... their point defenses systems are really good at killing my rockets. damn. :smoking:

 

[twad]

to kill a gunship i try to not to shoot my rocket in a straight line, i make it take altitude then drop on it or make spirals then hit ect ect.

20 hits to kill a copter?! wow. then the gunships are weak.. they dont even have missiles of mines or wathever. (when black mesa is attacked a copter is shooting missiles in the holes in the wall)