Mask - what is it for and why mc can't hold it properly?

[gatsu]

I can't figure out what it is for at all.

Also, WHY oh WHY mc CAN'T hold it properly so I can see?

[Andy Mil]

wear like what trailer did

[Valen Logan]

Before the cannibals see you, put up the mask and keep it up. You can fool them into not attacking...most times. Depends on how much of a menace you have been to them. Like, if you have spent the last 20 days killing them and shooting guns then your mileage with the mask will be subject to change.

[NickTwist]

Anyone know what the GOLD MASK does? (Not talking about the golden armor)

[JustinGayme.TTV]

I wear ired mask when going to their little villages. Immediately untie their prisoners and they will engage in a fight. Let’s you stealthy take all the loots or wait to see who’s standing at the end and finish off what’s left.

Doesn’t always work but definitely noticeable when it does.

I don’t know of a gold mask I’m new but maybe it has a similar affect to enemies with gold mask? I notice my red one onky works in villages with th big red dudes.

[indigo]

One tribe of cannibals has red-masked leaders. If you throw this up in front of your face, they're supposed to react as if you were a leader and leave you alone.

Another tribe has a gold-masked Leader, and the gold mask is supposed to do the same for those.

Using the wrong mask on the wrong tribe should make them immediately hostile.

I can't verify if this actually works or not, largely because I'm not really interested in leading cannibals to anything except a future as furniture.

[Valen Logan]

I saw a guy on youtube experiment with the masks. The gold mask made them approach you and start making a weird noise, I assume it was a prayer. That seemed to be the only difference I could see between the two.

[Tebeas]

Endnight is horrible at balancing.. The mask should be something you can wear 24/7 and changes the reactions of cannibals (inb4 AHKTUALLY..). The fact the main character does not realize he should hold it closer to his face in order to not obscure 90% of his vision does not help either. Not to mention that.. Even the primitive cannibals managed to figure out how to add strings to masks in order to comfortably wear them

[JustinGayme.TTV]

Originally posted by indigo:

One tribe of cannibals has red-masked leaders. If you throw this up in front of your face, they're supposed to react as if you were a leader and leave you alone.

Another tribe has a gold-masked Leader, and the gold mask is supposed to do the same for those.

Using the wrong mask on the wrong tribe should make them immediately hostile.

I can't verify if this actually works or not, largely because I'm not really interested in leading cannibals to anything except a future as furniture.

This.

The tribes aren’t all the same. Many enemies have differences. I don’t pretend to know all the details but noting the difference can give you in advantage in hard mode.

[Valen Logan]

Perhaps Kelvin wasn't the only one to get brain damage in the chopper crash. Our MC does not know how masks work and can't figure out how to open cat food without a can opener.

[Ataxio]

Originally posted by Tebeas:

Endnight is horrible at balancing.. The mask should be something you can wear 24/7 and changes the reactions of cannibals (inb4 AHKTUALLY..). The fact the main character does not realize he should hold it closer to his face in order to not obscure 90% of his vision does not help either. Not to mention that.. Even the primitive cannibals managed to figure out how to add strings to masks in order to comfortably wear them

To play devils advocate, I believe they did that for balance reasons and probably think it's too OP to have either mask permanately affixed to your face. Evreyone would just wear a mask and somewhat trivialize cannibals. In the first game the red paint would wear off with contact from water or rain so it had that as a balancer. Masks are permanate items.

I think a better way would be letting you wear the red mask properly but it can be destroyed easily and you'll need to print a new one.

[Tebeas]

Originally posted by Ataxio:

Originally posted by Tebeas:

Endnight is horrible at balancing.. The mask should be something you can wear 24/7 and changes the reactions of cannibals (inb4 AHKTUALLY..). The fact the main character does not realize he should hold it closer to his face in order to not obscure 90% of his vision does not help either. Not to mention that.. Even the primitive cannibals managed to figure out how to add strings to masks in order to comfortably wear them

To play devils advocate, I believe they did that for balance reasons and probably think it's too OP to have either mask permanately affixed to your face. Evreyone would just wear a mask and somewhat trivialize cannibals. In the first game the red paint would wear off with contact from water or rain so it had that as a balancer. Masks are permanate items.

I think a better way would be letting you wear the red mask properly but it can be destroyed easily and you'll need to print a new one.

The paint from the masks wears off over time (especially when it is raining/you are taking damage) and they can be destroyed due to a combination of the aforementioned things. There, fixed it. Shame that they will most likely never include what I just wrote or make the masks fall apart within 2 hits from skinny cannibals

[DanteBrane]

The masks have different effects depending on who you use it with. Most cannibals will just ignore you when you use the red mask but some may still attack you. Gold mask seems to have a greater effect and may make some cannibals worship you. I'm not sure which specific cannibals pertain to these rules though.

I think we should be able to combine the masks with rope so we can just wear them. They might have made our characters have to hold the mask to...balance it? I don't know if that's their intention but I barely use the mask because it's so obstructive and it has no effect if the cannibals see you before you cover your face. And you have to hold down the button to wear it, all these factors make it more of a novelty to me. I only use it when I feel like going into their village to observe what they're up to.

[gatsu]

Alright that pretty much concludes the topic. A thank you very much to everyone present.