Whenever I see a vertibird, I know its doomed. It either persists in it's attack until it gets shot down, or it just crashes into something. Are they supposed to do this? Does it happen in everyones game? Is it story related or just bad programming? As a Brotherhood supporter its starting to weigh on me. Whenever I see Brotherhood in a fight I go charging in, desperate to help. Then to see the vertibird crash and to come across the mangled remains of the crew. It just gets to me man.

yeah, bos got a secret vertibird factory, but nobody who can teach to properly operate the darn things apparently

or maybe it's a constructive problem.

got chased by a gunner in a vertibird yesterday (don't ask me where he got that)

crashed the thing into a highway bridge (the ONLY ELEVATION FAR AND WIDE!!) before i could even get my missile launcher ready to fire

Think about it this way...

We (in workshop mode) are building weapon parts from corn, and pencils.
Building macinegun turrets from old typewriters, and desk fans.

So, I am pretty sure the BoS are building those vertibirds from old tins cans, and empty nuka-cola bottles.
And, you expect them to stay off the ground?
HA!

Yes, is normal.

yeah well at least you can keep the sound fx that way...

toasters and desk fans if you ask me

I can quit see how giving larger health and or damage resistance to vertibird would make it difficult for player to deal when against one. However they at last could make it fly away when low on health.

Don′t you know the mighty BoS blacksmiths that forge the vertibirds on their anvils of ... whatever?

If the verti-birds simply flew away when low on health there would be fewer explosions, less chaos and it would make sense. Who wants all that?

Nah, The BoS main goal is to find and hoard tech so you can't use tin cans to excuse the shoddy aviation abilities.

It is actually funny, if you think about it.

If I take it serious (and I do not mean 'real life serious', I mean 'in game Fallout serious'), then the only reaction possible would be to shelve the game until somebody corrects this - and I do not expect Bethesda to do it from my experiences in former games...

The ripe plum Vertibirds, and the fact that they constantly fly around and disturb locations I did not even visit yet is the reason I delay starting the quest which triggers it. I only once triggered it and after seeing this nonsense I loaded an older save and was done with it. I still can enjoy the game and see things I never saw yet in the game - its a big place. But the Vertibird menace is a bit too much for me to swallow...

Personally, I had been scavenging the bodies of BOS crash victims for ages before I ever saw any of them alive.

on stg radioactive anyway, everything non-nuke would be heavily out of character...

how 'bout the legendary Overheating Fusion Core Forge?

hell no, low on health is where you're to close in on those 5 red glowing sentry bots under that bridge, it's in the bos-rulebook

edit: almost forgot, and try a barrel roll during that of course

honestly, i actually find them darn handy...

"clear out the legendary super mutant forged master army at sauvega ironplant"

...close in on location...

...sound of flapping rotor blades coming in from the distance...

...check out local park benches...

...have a nuka, pop some day tripper, read the boston bugle...

...check pip boy - "oh, that late already?"

...go collect boards and power armor

"completed: clear out the legendary super mutant forged master army at sauvega ironplant"

:-)

Whenever I see the Vertibirds flying, I'm just minding my own business, and am like "Yup, must be tuesday."

Corn And Pencils are a deadly combo!!!

Honestly it's a good example of BOS Cockiness. They assume that raiders and super mutants will think it's a magic bird.

You are taking games too seriously

I've been to close once and when it crashed parts were flying everywhere. Scared me.


I never call one in, safer to walk.

they should really change the script , when it's low on health it should retreat

- i'm not a BoS fan ... because they are closer to what the Enclave is , but yeah it's a bad design to have them blow up in 10 sec

They are all made from paraffin wax and balsa wood

If your on PC there is a mod on Nexus that address Vertibird weakness.

I installed a mod to make them and their minigun and their pilot stronger, best thing I did in this game.

Although to be fair, fighting them is hard but hey... That's what happens when you decide to fight against the dudes with the deadliest toys

The BoS is tactically inept. It's a faction wide thing. You first see it in all it's glory when you first help Danse in the Police Station mission. I tend to just corner the turrets. You know, peek around the corner and blow em' away without really exposing yourself. Costs a few seconds and can be done with 0 damage. Not Danse, he stands out in the open and does a hero routine while pumping that not too impressive Laser gun till it's gone.

They fight the silly birds the same way. Just keep firing and keep taking damage till it's over. Nearly always they lose, as they are sitting ducks and even a lone mutie can prevail on occasion.

They dumb. I am going to betray them as completely as I can.

Vertibirds dropping like flies seems very realistic given their exposure. I mean, as machine gun and rocket platforms, you'd expect them to be treated as airborne artillery; Keep them on the ground until a spotter calls in a target, fly them in to a deployment zone miles away from the action, fire off some bracketing rounds with feedback from spotter, and then rain depleted uranium and fire down on whoever the spotter has picked out.

Just doing that is dangerous enough but flying VTOLs into direct confrontation is a good way to lose them and their crews. And, competent crews, by the way, are much harder to replace than aircraft.

So, for me, the rain of vertibirds makes sense given the BoS no longer have competent crews (having been at war with all sorts for two centuries) and, well, if those BoS folk have been gathering up tech, I would be very surprised if they did not have steel mills, precision machine tool shops and manufacturing plants capable of churning out vertibirds like there was no tomorrow - especially with all the building scrap around. Just smelt those I-beams, engine blocks and old metal sheets, drop forge the machine parts and mill that sheet-steel. It's not like there's a price of doing business here. Good crews, on the other hand, can't be churned out like that and, well, the way those vertibirds are being flown is as if they're being crewed by whoever the BoS can grab and strap into the cockpits...

The worst thing you can do is save them from being shot down.

I've made that mistake a couple of times, causing them to circle continuously, like flies around a fresh, steaming Brahmin turd.

Round and round they go, ruining the ambiance at my nearby settlement with their noise pollution.