The mask not working

[JimDFTW]

It seems the mask we can 3D print makes no difference to the big red masked mobs or any other mob for that matter, i held it on for minutes at a time and they still attack. Any ideas?

[Owl]

I came here with the same question! The mask doesn't seem to help at all.

[Ja]

Never works for me either. They ignore it and attack me. It's more like a trick to get you hurt.

[Cougarific]

It helps up to a certain point.

Early game you can use it to loot villages while they stand around looking and pointing at you.

If they're already pissed off at you because you keep killing them, it stops helping.

[Valen Logan]

If I remember right the mask causes a kind of environmental "fear" in the cannibals. They have a lot of things going on in the AI but the two main ones influencing whether they attack or not are "fear" and "anger".
I imagine if you already have 100 aggression with them then their "anger" values outweigh their "fear".
Like what has been said already, in the early game the mask has a noticeable affect on cannibals and I think it will always have some kind of affect on the mud men who start out with something like 20-30 points in their "fear".

[RobeRonin]

works so rearley for me most of the interaction with the npc`s like in the first game is just non existent and they really are just bots running circles and screaming at you lol devs got a lot of work to do!

[NickTwist]

Gold Mask, not gold armor, also doesn't do anything and nether does holding out the cross. But holding out a skull or head seems to scare them away.

[Puke87]

they probably hate the fact that i have a pile of there bones by my fire. "oh look here comes another firelog attacking my base"

[Monarch]

Originally posted by NickTwist:

Gold Mask, not gold armor, also doesn't do anything and nether does holding out the cross. But holding out a skull or head seems to scare them away.

The cross is for a different type of enemy at the end of the game. Not for your average surface dwellers.

[ƬᗩԲԲվ]

It works if you are hidden. If you put it on while visible they will always attack.

[LeeIzaZombie]

It worked for me in my single player game but I didn't lay a finger on any canibals at all and avoided any attacks. I put the mask on while approaching a camp and they didn't react at all to me... But for all I know it was just a glitch

[viper_2029]

Originally posted by Ace Rimmer:

It seems the mask we can 3D print makes no difference to the big red masked mobs or any other mob for that matter, i held it on for minutes at a time and they still attack. Any ideas?

It worked for me.
>There's a fairly large cannibal campsite beside the shore where you can find the Machete.
>Equipped the Mask and LMB as I approached them (6-8 of them minding their own biz).
>They never even noticed me as I was walking around them.
>Until I LET GO of my LMB i.e took off the Mask. Suddenly, they all looked at me & started approaching to attack.

[RobeRonin]

the cross does 0 for me heads on sticks dont seem to mess with them aswell !

[Hexalotte]

I had the mask on in a cave, could hardly see with it and it was of no use either. The cannibals attacked me immediately. How useless is this mask?

[Cougarific]

Originally posted by Elaine:

How useless is this mask?

Read the other posts in the thread.

[ᗷᑌᒪᗩᗰᗩTᗩRI]

"If cannibals already know you from your violence against them, and subsequently hate your presence, the Red Mask may not work on them. Pulling it out and using it doesn't make an aggressive cannibal suddenly passive. The player must deaggro the cannibal first and then approach them with the mask drawn. Golden Masked enemies do not respond to Red Masks, and they will regard you with the normal hostility." (SotF Wiki)