Коды (cheats) к игре Ravenfield

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Helicopter Guide:
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Written by Hijong Park.

This guide tells you how to use helicopters effectively in ravenfield, based
on my experiences.

-=Before Start
Helicopter in Ravenfield is the reason why i love and play ravenfield. since my
trash computer never can run last battlefield series like BF4, and there isn't
many helicopter flight games to enjoy, ravenfield gave me the first experience
of flying helicopters in first person shooters and it was fantastic. For these
reason i always get to the helicopter when playing the game and never take a look
at other vehicles or being infantries. Appearantly, there are many people who are
frustrated to fly it or instantly down after flying for about a minute.
I hope this guide would be helpful to you.

-=Controlling Helicopter
There are many people who can't properly fly the helicopters, crash instantly and
never take a look at it. I was exactly same at first. i never controlled helicopters
in 3D games before, so all i could do was rolling on the ground or doing silly spins
until crash. First you have to know how the keys work in ravenfield's helicopter.

There are Throttle, Pitch, Turn, and Roll. pressing Throttle up makes the helicopter
to fly up, and Throttle down is vise versa. moving pitch changes the heli's angle to
down and up. by moving pitch to down and pressing throttle up you can move to forward.
Turn moves the heli's angle to right or left, so you can aim the target or facing the
enemy. Note that turning doesn't affect the movement direction of helicopters, unless
you move the pitch or roll. and roll literally rolls the helicopter to left or right,
so you can move to side.

Unlike when you are infantry or flyng planes, the helicopter's pitch or roll will
keep moving when you moved the mouse a little and stopped. If you don't take any
action the helicpter will lose stability and crash into something. you have to
practice a lot to control the helicopter's pitch and roll with mouse. If you are
not so good at it, I recommend to fly a few hours in empty maps instead of during
combat. Dustbowl would be a good map to practice.

In default control set Turn and roll is mouse X and A/D, but i recommend to replace
them. pitch and roll determine the movement direction of helicopters that it's better
to control them with mouse. also helicopter sensitivity should be at least more than
1. by decreasing sensitivity you can fly stable more easily, but you can't react fast
during the combat. It's best to get used on higher sensitivity. i set it to 2.

1.Taking off
There's noting to say much about taking off. by pressing W, helicopter will easily
take off. i usually press W and down the pitch at the same time for faster sortie,
but don't move the mouse until taking off if you are not so good at it yet and afraid
of crashing or being upside down.

2.Flying
When you fly helicopter, you'll see the green circle that moves around your seat.
this thing tells you the direction you are moving. it may doesn't look much important,
but you'll have to check it frequently if you want to use the helicopter more safer
and effectively.

Also there is a straight line on the helicopter UI which indicates The horizontally angle.
It's very important when you want to stop.

By moving the pitch to this position and hold W, you can directly move to front. so when
you want to go front, move the pitch to around these position.

But when you lower the pitch, you can't see what's happening at the front. in this case,
you can press mouse2 and look around or front to check the enemies. don't be afraid about
falling, the green circle will always tell you if you are flying correctly or wrong, and
the helicopter's angle won't move to the mouse movements when you are pressing mouse2.
Of course, you have to stop the moving angle first before look around.

If you don't like this way, you can down the pitch a little and repeat pressing W and S.
by this way you can thrust without lowering the pitch too much, but it won't be as fast
as the first way. The best way to move fast is lower the pitch and throttle up at first,
then upper the pitch (but not higher than the straight line) when you get the speed.
unless you up the pitch higher than the straight line on the helicopter UI, the
helicopter won't loss speed.

It's also same when you want to strafe. just roll instead of moving pitch, or get the
speed by using the first way at first then turn the helicopter. turning doesn't affect
the movement of heli.

3.Hovering
What makes the helicopters shine from the planes is their hovering ability. and There
must a situation where you want to hover in the air. To hover, you have to slow diwn
the speed and stop. and you might know that you have to move the helicopter's angle
to opposite to slow down. However, you don't have to struggle moving pitch or roll
extremely to just stop, that rather makes you to move to the opposite direction. just
move the pitch to little higher than the straight line(or little lower if you are
moving backwards), and repeat pressing W and S.(if you hold W you will fly up) in
this way you can easily slow down and stop very stably. if you managed to stop, you
will now hoering. but the helicopter will keep moving a little to any direction so
keep moving the mouse minutely and pressing W shortly.

4.Landing
Laning is quite simple if you mastered hovering. just find a place to land, hover in the
air, and repeat pressing W and S but press S little longer so you can fly down slowly.
If you are good at landing you can hold S and press W before crashing into the ground for
fast landing. by this way you can land safely, and even if you crashed into the ground,
it won't lead to destroying and dying unless the helicopter has almost 0 HP.

-=Basic Strategies
If you mastered controlling helicopter, now it's time to use it in the combat. helicopter
is very strong vehicle with 16 rapid fire rockets, but it would be useless if you don't
know how to use it.

*Helicopter's job in ravenfield is defending and supporting, rather than attacking. the
heli rockets are weaker than other rockets, so it can't wipe all the enemies in the
enemy CP as effective as other weapons. also the helicopter doesn't have much HP, and
importantly, you can't capture the point in helicopter. However, 16 rockets are enough
to get the enemies who are attacking your CPs and even if the rocket couldn't killed
the infantries, the splash will make them ragdolls and it's very helpful to your teams.
Helicopters are mostly shines when defending the team's CPs from or supporting the
teams who are fighting with enemies.

*Fly low, use cover. in beta 1~5 versions, the only weapon that mostly treats you is
the dagger, which can be easily avoided by flying high and keep moving. so the best
strategy in pre-steam versions was flying as high as possible. However, ravenfield
now have AAguns, planes, and SLAM-R, so flying high is a death wish. now you have to
fly very low most of the time, and use buildings or hills as a cover. sometimes you
have to almost slide on the ground to survive. Flying lower is very dangerous even
for experienced players, but this is the only way to survive unfortunately. you have
to practice countlessly, and memorize the whole maps so you can effectively use the
covers and don't crash. If thers is no covers to use (for helicopters) in the map,
blame the map creator.

*Check the map frequently. your job is defending and supporting, so you always have to
know where the enemies are, and where the teams are fighting with enemies, and which
CP is being captured.
*Never go to the enemy CP alone. This is just a suicidal act. You may have seen enemy
helicopters coming to your CP and their last moment many times. the exactly samething
happens when you do it. even I who used helicopter a lot and writing this guide can't
survive longer if i do that. if you want to get the enemy CP, always go together with
your team and support them to capture the point. if the capturing operation failed,
run away from there instantly for next chance.
*Face the enemy you are attacking or who is attacking you. attack helicopters include
eurocopter Tiger have narrow surface in front than side. by facing the enemy you can
have the smaller hit area, which can be very helpful when you run away.

*Always get the co-pilot. the co-pilot shoot the infantries or enemy helicopter with
turret and their aiming is much better than you. (because, you don't have any crosshairs
when you are gunner.) co-pilot can kill the enemies you hadn't find and that's very
important for surviving longer. in previous versions co-pilots usually being jerk and
suddenly get out, but now you can make them to join squad and take them permanently.

-=Fighting with Enemy
Now you have to know how to fight with them in helicopter. Here's the list of enemies
you have to deal with helicopters. all of these informations are based on my experiences,
so leave feedbacks if you know better way to deal with them.

1.Infantries
Usually infantries are just obstacles in other vehicle-using games. However, in ravenfield
they can be the most dangerous enemies. every single infantries can have the rocket launchers,
and they have god-like aiming skill. and the helicopter is one-hit-to-death to every rocket
launchers. they are one of the main reason why you have to fly lower and use covers. if you
found infantries, especially when they are facing you, hide to the cover instantly while
firing rockets.

-=Here's the list of rocket launchers they are using:=
Dagger - daggers have slow speed and fall in the air, so they can be avoided by moving and
keeping the long distance. but even if you are keep moving, it can hit you if they are close
or you are moving slow.

SLAM-R - By far the WORST enemy for helicopters. many people love this weapon because it's
the best weapon to take down helicopters. nothing is different when bots using this. SLAM-R
has very fast speed with very slow falling that you can be hit even if you are in long
distance and keep moving. all i can say is just use the cover and kill them as fast as
possible.

Scapel - At this moment bots never use this, but if they use, It can be the another worst
enemy for helicopters. once the missile is fired, no helicopters can survive from this and
there's no flares to distract the missiles. if they are using it, you'll have to become
even more intimately with hills or buildings.

2.Motor Bikes
They are easy to take down with single rocket. however, one infantry can shoot rocket
launcher. Don't be careless.

3.Jeeps with machine gun
Machine guns are nothing, but still one infantry can shoot rocket launcher. so destroy
them instantly.

4.Normal jeeps
Now three infantries can shoot rocket launcher. Definitely more dangerous, so destroy them
as fast as possible.

5.Boats
Now it's 4! they are also can be destroyed with single rocket, but if you met them in the
middle of the sea, you are in extreme danger. when you are in island shoot them around the
cover and if you are crossing the sea keep facing them and flee away.
(shoot them if they are close)

6.Machine guns
Enjoy additional score.

7.TOWs
TOWs can be dangerous if you stay in air or move slow. be always well-informed about the
TOW's location and keep moving in their range.

8.AAguns
AAguns aren't that dangerous. they have weak damage and bots shoot it very slowly. shoot
single rocket and they will be finished.

9.Tanks
Tanks are a lot less dangerous than infantries. fly on them and shoot 4 rockets precisely.
don't face with the tank's cannon, you'll be hit. if you are facing with it keep strafing
and shoot rockets.

10.Gunboats
Another easy target for helicopters. they are really not a treat and very easy to shoot down.
but if you have less HP, their cannon can be a treat.

11.Helicoppters
Fighting heli to heli is definitely my favorite part of this game. helicopter's rocket has
half damage of other rockets, so helicopters can take 1 rockets. your rockets have slow speed
and falls to the ground that predicted fire is very important. also it's better to fly higher
than the enemy helicopter if you can, so you can easily avoid turret.

When the enemy helicopter is at side, you can easily shoot them, but it can be problematic if
the enemy is facing you. the rockets are fired form side wings instead of middle of heliopter,
so the rockets will be missed if you precisely aim the enemy.

In this case you can turn the helicopter a little and shoot, so one of the rockets can hit the
enemy. the same strategy is required when you are fighting with planes.

12. Planes
Planes are counter vehicle to helicopters, and they have lots of advantagies compared to
helicopters. However fighting with them is not impossible.

First, you always have to know where are the enemy planes are. if the enemy plane is flying
around your CPs, you have to keep concentrate to them. even if they are not attacking you,
they can always attack you right after their previous target is killed or they gave up killing
it. if they suddenly attacks you, especially from behind or long distance, you are doomed.

Second, if you can spare time to deal with them, keep trying to follwoing them so they won't
attack you from long distance. don't try to shoot them with rockets, they are faster than
rockets that it's impossible to hit them in this moment.

If they turns and move forwatd to you, that means they are about to shoot you. this is the
only chance where you can shoot the planes. Just like when you shoot the helicopters facing
you, aim a little unprecisely(only horizontal) and fire.

Just hit one rocket and they'll be finished, now return to your main duty.