Cloudy Copter is a poorly modeled, levitating white cloud object with a shape vaguely resembling a helicopter, hence his name.[1] His body has several creases and spikes on it. He has two round, crooked eyes each sporting some black dots as pupils, and a rat-like snout with 6 whiskers, which are based on wind effects.[2]
Personality[]
According to his description from the Principal's office, Cloudy Copter merely enjoys being a cloud doing "cloudy things". This might mean that he likes imitating a cloud while he is not exactly a cloud.
Cloudy Copter roams around the hallways, and eventually, Cloudy Copter will stop and blow strong winds down a hallway for 10 to 30 seconds. Depending on the direction, the wind will make the player or other characters (excluding It's a Bully and Chalkles) move slower or faster.
In this demo, he will only spawn when the campfire gets bright enough while the player is far away from it. Once he is spawned, he will descend from the sky towards the campfire and begin blowing on it, causing the fire to dim twice as faster than normal. The only way to prevent Cloudy Copter from blowing out the fire completely is to go near the fire so that he will get scared and flee. This is the same case for Cloudy Copter's camping field trip appearance in Baldi's Basics Plus prior to V0.3.
Cloudy Copter can be helpful to the player, as the wind gives them a much faster speed, or slows down NPCs such as Baldi.
Neutral[]
Cloudy Copter is not affected by any ground object, such as conveyor belts, 'Nana Peels, or whirlpools.
Pushing Cloudy Copter with a BSODA or its diet variant will cause him to stop blowing wind.
If Cloudy Copter blows wind on a conveyor belt going the opposite direction of his wind, anything on it that is affected by conveyor belts will move completely normally, due to his wind and conveyor belts having the same speed. However, anything unaffected by conveyor belts will be slowed down or sped up depending on where they are trying to go.
If Cloudy Copter blows wind on a conveyor belt going in his wind's direction, some NPCs and the player will be unable to go down the hallway if they are going the opposite direction of the wind, due to being too slow, but if they are going in the same direction of the wind, they will get a large speed boost.
Cloudy Copter is not affected by the Faculty Nametag because he does not directly interact with the player.
The Techno-Boots item will allow the player to pass through Cloudy Copter's strong winds at a normal speed.
Disadvantages[]
If Cloudy Copter blows wind to the opposite direction of the player, their speed will be decreased.
Trivia[]
General[]
The Cloudy Copter's origin.
Cloudy Copter was inspired by a cloudlike face from a point & click game called Disney's Princess Fashion Boutique[3], more specifically the minigame where players create their own storybook, where it is used as an undo/clear button.
Prior to this being revealed in the Basically Games Podcast, mystman12 kept the inspiration behind the character a secret for a long time.[4]
According to mystman12's comment on Baldi's BasicsKickstarter page, Cloudy Copter was originally named "Cumulonincompoop" (portmanteau name of the cumulonimbus cloud and the insulting slang "nincompoop"), but he ultimately decided to change it due to lack of sense.[5]
He is the earliest and newest character featured for the full version of the game.
Baldi's Basics Plus[]
Cloudy Copter has the least number of voice lines/sound effects of any character in the game, having only one sound-effect (the sound of his blowing).
He stops moving when there is no way to get back to the hallways. This can be seen when he is in the cafeteria or playground and all swinging doors to the hallways are locked.
Prior to V0.3, by hacking in the camping field trip and/or going far enough in the camping trip with/without hacking, Cloudy Copter can be seen floating idly above the map when he is inactive. Also, with hacks, flying up to the sky to get close to him will make his "*POOF*" sound play rapidly as long as the player stays near it.
Prior to V0.4, Cloudy Copter could be pulled by whirlpools.
Prior to V0.8, Cloudy Copter was not affected by his own wind.
Despite the fact that before that, the wind influenced him by looking at him in chaos mode or using hacks.
He and Mrs. Pomp are the only characters who freeze their AI if there is no specific room
Prior to V0.10, if Mrs. Pomp were to stop all characters and game environment, Cloudy Copter's wind would still push any characters in it. The same goes for the conveyor belts.
Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered[]
Cloudy Copter can be affected by other Cloudy Copters in Chaos Mode, or the so-called mode that duplicates every character. If two Cloudy Copters blow in one spot, the wind's strength will stack and either make characters go faster through the wind or make it harder to pass through the wind. If two Cloudy Copters blow in the opposite direction of a hallway, characters will not have an effect by the wind. But if a Cloudy Copter gets blown by another Cloudy Copter, the first Cloudy Copter will be pushed and stop blowing.
Baldi's Basics - Field Trip demo: Camping[]
The file name of his sprite is CloudyCopterFinal. Similar to the It's a Bully and Baldi's Basics Classic/Birthday Bash main menu screens case, there may have been different appearances while creating this character.
Glitches[]
Baldi's Basics Plus[]
If Cloudy Copter blows wind while being squished by Dr. Reflex, his wind texture will stop in place and the wind will not affect any character.
If NPCs try to enter or exit the room while being pushed by Cloudy Copter's wind, they often get stuck in place. This commonly happens when they enter Gotta Sweep's closet while Gotta Sweep is not active.
If Cloudy Copter is blowing wind in the Test procedure event, and if a super door is blocking the wind, Cloudy Copter will not move, and the wind will not appear.
Prior to V0.1.4, when the party event started and Cloudy Copter was still blowing wind, Cloudy Copter would move but the wind did not disappear.
Prior to V0.2, when the player hid in the locker while the player was blown, then got out, the blowing speed for the player duplicated and all the wind movement would not stop when the player got out until the wind disappeared.
Cloudy Copter in the "Sweepin' Time" pullover hoodie.
Cloudy Copter, along with half of the cast, in the "Thank you!" image after the game's Kickstarter page was funded.
mystman12's comparison of Cloudy Copter to a helicopter on Twitter.
References[]
↑"Well, it looks *vaguely* like a helicopter. :P" - mystman12. August 20, 2018. Twitter/X
↑"The whiskers actually are inspired by wind effects!" - mystman12. August 29, 2018. Twitter/X
↑"The character's concept was actually inspired by something in a game my sister had called Disney's Princess Fashion Boutique." - Basically Games Podcast: Episode 1, 1:01:37~1:01:47
↑"It's a secret... For now!" - mystman12. August 20, 2018. Twitter/X
↑"The new character's name is Cloudy Copter. I originally just sort of wanted to make it look like a cloud, but after messing around with his model it ended it look like a helicopter. So that's what I named him! My original idea for his name was something like Cumulonincompoop, but I decided against it because like, it didn't really make any sense. :P" - mystman12's Kickstarter comment
