Heli-Wars: Dessert Attack

Heli-Wars: Dessert Attack is a Roblox game made by DrewsomeB. It is a capture the flag style game.

Content
The game is played in a large desert area with rock formations, a cave system, and cacti. Two bases are present, with one at each end. The goal of the game is to fight the other team and capture their flag, using vehicles or on foot.

Unique features
The game allows players to bring their own gears to use in combat. While normally combat based games except for dedicated gear fighting ones would avoid doing this due to the likely occurrence for players with overpowered gears to show up and easily win, Heli-Wars seems to do this as there is a lack of weapons. For less fortunate players, they can use the game’s default loadout of a rocket launcher, a pistol(formerly an AK-47), and a shortened variant of the Linked Sword, possibly due to Roblox updates breaking it.

One cannot also ignore the vehicles present in the game, as often they are the only way to get in or out of a fight. Present are a small single seat helicopter, a larger, Chinook based one with seats for players, a special helicopter for players with VIP, and a small Jeep with two seats. Most of the vehicles are equipped with weapons, with rockets and missiles for the helicopters and a small machine gun for the Jeep.

Formerly when helicopters worked, they were known to break the laws of physics somewhat, as they were able to stay flying provided the driver’s seat was attached to at least one rotor, and as such could easily survive multiple hits from rockets.

The game also has two bases and a flag area. These areas are actually destructible.

A small cave system is present in a rock formation, and has a badge in it.

Broken features
Most of the weapons are broken, as they either don’t fire correctly(example being the rocket launcher), or are not even present(example being the pistol). As such, it is advised to buy a few gears to use, or brush up on sword fighting skills, as it is the only gear that seems to work.

There seems to be no way to control any of the helicopters, and as such only serve to be used as mediocre cover to slow a normally fast death. Jeeps are controllable to some degree. The helicopters also suffers from the glitch in where a player leaves a vehicle seat and is then thrown at a fast speed.

Controversy
The game has been criticized for it’s allowance of gears, as overpowered gears such as the Airstrike can easily allow a singular player to gain the upper hand, allowing one to possibly farm kills for the combat badges.

The game also allows for teamkilling and spawn killing, with little to no consequence for teamkilling as the script which kills the team killer doesn’t always work. This often prevented a team from even leaving their base or defending themselves, and both teams likely forget to complete the actual objective of trying to capture the flag. This is illustrated in Episode 3 of Raging Roblox Reviewer by XiaoXiaoMan.

The helicopters present in the game have sometimes been criticized by those who think they are stolen while in fact DrewsomeB made them himself.

Even though the fighting in the game has stopped a long time ago, the fighting in the comments for the models of the helicopters are still seen today, as many people wanted them to be free or at least for a price, with promises of giving credit and for using them in good games, however many others countered those claims by saying it would steal visits from DrewsomeB and through good old fashioned insults.