Just watched the adventure, thanks for putting that together. Hope to see more SimHQ video clips in the future. The game looks so good in an HD clip vs the LQ live streams on justin and twitch.

Awesome thread guys. The screenshots and the video are top notch and really tell the story.

Sadness.

We just finished getting the helo on Perfect up and running in top-notch fashion, fully tanked and kitted with something like 18 full tanks of gas and we landed in the carpark after getting a message saying the server was gonna reset in 5 minutes. Two of us 'saved' the vehicle before logging out.

Once the server was back up, the vehicle was gone.

Perhaps it is at its spawn point with the current repairs and is ready to go again?
We don't know.

It's 2:17AM here. I'm out.

Spawned on the island today and went looing for the heli, its back at its start point at the unfixed state. Strange the repairs did not stay, it might just be that server but with our 1 hour heli ownership times its hard to tell :}

Hey Moose what software did you use to make that video? I got some good footage from last night's heli adventures and want to patch something together.

I forgot to press record during the church incident though

On a side note, my reddit post with a glitched out screenshot of Cherno is the #1 topic on the DayZ reddit right now. 17,000 views in 9 hours!
http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/ygmfp/our_first_chopper_cherno_is_beautiful_from_the_air/

The helis are lots of work they do change the game into epic levels of fun, for a bit :}

It def looked fun and one huge use is to do what you guys were doing, picking everyone up to get them together a lot faster than all hoofing it to a meet point somewhere.

Thanks for the comments guys. I used dxtory to record in 720p. it uses three of my 1tb drives as a software raid so that it doesn't bog down the system trying to write only to one drive, so after recording you have to combine them..that took about 2 hours total. then had to extract the three sound sources from the avi as wav files (ingame, teamspeak, and my own mic input) and then import the video and audio into adobe premiere. (adobe can't process the separate audio channels on its own unfortunately) threw a bunch of immediate music clips in there as well. whole thing took about an hour or so once i got the avi and sound files straightened out

Very nice vid moose !

It seems we may have a problem with helis not saving after a server reset so the net worth is limited. We see very few in the game world flying about and we have never seen one parked in all of our looking about the map for tents.
A team is required and we need a boat and a car of some kind to move stuff about to get one in the air, a weekend job for sure.

That said they are a blast to ride around in amd when they get the glitches fixed i would love to do some rooftop drop-offs in berry on the hospital roof and other places of interest :}

Unrelated note, died in the water on that atlantis server and had to restart at kameka and run back to camp. Made the trip back and had to grab all the stuff again with a couple of our reg servers not working.
In the search for a server to play on we endend up on an older server we had pulled out of for hacker attack reasons and we had 1 tent placed at the lower spot in new camp. We also found a broken atv and UAZ with more tents at that triple tree spot just to the se and also 3 great tents at the old camp local.
I expect someone who ran with us for a bit and learned those spots used them while playing with another group, sorry to who ever it was, we grabbed the cars after fixing them up.

And on that same server jeff and i found lots of small camps in the badlands. While scouting a hacker dropped a UAZ on top of jeff while we were running about, with that Marvin Gaye song whats going on, as sung by the 4 non-blonds going over direct comms !!
He lived as the aim was a bit off, we logged off before he had a chance to run us down with it ! LOL

We did not have a code name for this server yet and i would like to name it now, welcome marvin to the code name list :} Other than the hacker car drop action that server played well and had some great tent spots on it so if your looking to re-gear after a death add it to the list for hopping about the camp area.
Remember its hot so be carefull.

I'll see if I can pop in to TS tonight and try joining you guys on your Stateside servers. Pings are somewhat high on my end with US servers and the real worry there is an auto-kick.

Was scavenging at Berezino over on SG#500 GamerBuildz this afternoon. Got into the Northern supermarket and two minutes into my shopping, I heard a chopper approaching. I stayed indoors and hidden. I cannot see it but it hovered overhead. I don't think they saw me but they hose down the supermarket all the same. Frapped a short video of me running to the rear of the supermarket with the sounds of bullets pinging off the roof. I waited near the rear doors for their assault team but nobody came and the chopper flew off. Scary stuff.