[Edit: quick quality menu buttons fix, and objective labels scaling issue fix also added] Hey there team! I've completed integrating Rewired into MH-Zombie, making it much more compatible with all your crazy controller/HOTAS setups (looking at you, binding-the-pedals-to-the-mouse guy, and you, dual-VKB Gladiator guy), and made a few additional quality of life improvements, to include labeled objectives on easy and medium difficulty modes. Changelog: o Rewired Integration- Mouse hidden when gamepad connected. Tutorial omits unconnected controls. o Civilian evacuation collider logic updated to ensure it follows the body for injured civilians that get inadvertently (or advertently) moved by the player. o Timer turns red when badge time exceeded for Race and Evacuation modes. o Objective label system integrated into all modes for easy and medium difficulties. o Buttered-it-in tweaked (again) to reduce frequency of erroneous award. o Reticle logic fixed for 3rd person when looking above the horizon. o Cyan reticle option. o Advanced (free-floating) camera now has a reticle by default, with the option to turn it off. o Missiles use the correct gtl for seat. o General terrain beautification; increased detail and detail objects, particularly around bodies of water. o Distance badge score multiplier in Horde mode now scales with distance; the further beyond the minimum distance, the higher the multiplier. o Slight increase to the minigun's effective radius. o Switch Weapon can now be assigned to an axis, allowing you to cycle both up and down through the available weapons. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed testing it, and thank you for everything! MH-Zombie is now the #2 listing under "Helicopter Simulator" when sorted by player rating, and I really do appreciate all your support, suggestions, and requests which have kept me improving this game well beyond my initial dream for the game. -Joe

[ 2024-06-01 23:58:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

DISCLAIMER: If you've never flown a real helicopter, never flown a simulated helicopter, or never flown the helicopters in ARMA or Battlefield, this game is very hard, even on the 'Easy' physics mode. However, it's also very rewarding, and if you just keep at it, you really can learn the basics of how to fly a helicopter.

THE SCENARIO:

The National Laboratory has been studying all kinds of crazy biological "tools", and now it's under invasion. If any of that research gets captured, or worse, some sort of vector gets out, it could be the start of a happy new world. For zombies. For us, it would be quite inconvenient.

Perform aerial interdiction against the relentless Commies, using an increasingly sophisticated arsenal of weaponry from your Multi-Role Helicopter (MH), callsign Zombie 26. If zombies were to somehow result from your failure to fight off the invasion, and the zombies were to escape, all hope of containment would be lost, so fly like your life depends on it (SPOILER: It does).

Two maps and game modes, and 31 achievements will keep you coming back to fly the most realistic arcade helicopter game on Steam.

KNOWN ISSUES:

Keyboard bindings are for English Language layout; some bindings will not work correctly with other-than English keyboard layouts.

NOTE FROM THE DEVELOPER:

As any honest Attack Pilot will tell you, probably less than 1% of the flying includes pulling triggers. 99% of the flying IRL is incredibly boring, and yet also incredibly stressful. If you're looking for the entire Attack Pilot experience, to include the aforementioned, this isn't the game you're looking for. Maybe get the AH-64D expansion for DCS World.

BUT-

If you want to multiply that 1% of awesomeness by 100, with no radio calls to make, no permission to engage to ask for, no pesky aircraft limitations and failures, no deadly quirks of aerodynamics, lightning fast battle-damage repairs, and a whole lot of ammunition to rain down on the enemy, you need look no further.