Please tell me how the clothing option works for bullet proof, visibility etc. I have so much clothing attributes for bulletproof, explosion, etc etc and the bar barely registers for bullet proof, or visibility etc. when i pick up the clothing item and it says its bullet proof the bar is about 1/2 way colored but when im dressing my character the bar is longer and its barely colored . Please explain how this works or if its still something coming later …or what ? im confused . Thanks
For the moment, clothing stats do nothing. They got zeroed a while back, I think the idea was to revamp the mechanics but it hasn’t been a priority yet. So wear what you want 
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Is it something they plan on fixing /working on? Im assuming so… Please work on this
Do you have information about the Gas mask? Does it work or not now?
I don’t think it works yet, no.
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I did start testing on the Chemist skill though, now that health does not stop at 25% anymore. I measure ~1min 6sec until death from full health without having health boosted/leveled. I’d love to hear from someone without Chemist.
Thank you all, so basically now gas can really kill us…i am a bit disappointed, i hope in time they can fix this situation.
It is probably faster without Chemist. How much? Can someone else tell?
I heard the idea was that this gas works via skin contact, so the gas mask cannot work. This info is somewhere in the respective mission.
I think it is enough time to get in and out of gas filled bunker rooms. It is even slow enough to comfortably heal through with simple first aid kits.
It is not enough time when you are being bombarded by gas grenades inside a house 
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Well let us see what they change in December or not 
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At the moment I was looking for this exact information. So the clothing stats have zero effect whatsoever? So there’s no reason to choose clothes with stats over clothes I just want to rock out in? And the gas mask with it’s insulting visual obfuscation is pointless too? It certainly seems to be but that has made gas attacks very difficult for me as a low level player. For instance I was in one of those ubiquitous two-door sheds surrounded by two Hunters, multiple Runners and two seekers. There’s no way I could escape as they were all alerted to me. The doors were closed. I could have picked them off but the Hunter kept launching gas canisters that inundated the small shed despite there being no openings. Since making a run for it was certain death I had no choice to but to chow down all my health packs and adrenaline shots until they had run out. I was not able to pick them all off before they got me with the gas. If the clothes and gas masks have no effect there’s no point struggling to use them. That’s good news because I can have my characters dressed as I want but they should probably remove those stats if they aren’t being utilized. I do like the idea of certain clothes having perks though. It especially seems disappointing that the experimental clothes don’t bequeath any benefits for as difficult as it can be to attain them.
The gas mask used to have at least a small effect. I had good damage reduction perks, chemist, vanguard and a gas mask, and gas in bunkers stopped doing damage to me. Take the gas mask off, and it would hurt me again.
I don’t know if that is still true with the new patch, because everything is causing me a lot more damage than it did before, and I don’t know if damage has been ramped up cross the board, or if some of my skills have stopped working. I’m pretty narked about it.
It is true , Hunters and ticks do more damage now and the gas mask no longer does anything, as someone said in one of the discussions, each update feels like it gives something and takes something from us, and that is not good at all…
Thanks for clarifying. Well I’ve had all my range of play styles reduced to one and a half, and it’s stopped being fun. I’m not sure what I was given in return. The crashes certainly haven’t stopped. Anyway, enough O/T…
Yes and yes. It has been like that for a while. Maybe the clothes perks come back at some point. I would like that.
That often is your best chance, actually. The response times of the machines are not particularly low. Just don’t run in a straight line, and aim for cover.
And if that does not work, eat the bullet, die, and respawn somewhere else. No point in staying in a hopeless fight.
Also remember, those are dangerous machines. They are meant to kill you.
Huh, didn’t notice so far! Anything else besides the hunters and ticks that Mr_A1992 mentioned?
Tanks cannon and I think rocket, getting damaged from being ragdolled and pushed. It feels like regular runner’s bullets are stronger. I’ll try to check. I’ve had enough close escapes that I tend to be sensitive to the numbers.
What brought this up for me was that I’ve also recently changed outfit since hearing the stats on clothes make no difference. Maybe they do. I guess I have testing to do.
Dying as a means to escape is just cheesing it. Try getting creative. When that panic improv works, it’s so so sweet.
Should be easy to test with your regular house-circling tick.
I agree. I did not mean intentionally dying. But I won’t respawn endlessly in a hopeless situation eating up all my supplies. Unless I can change my tactics and actually run away, then I’ll try that.
Yes, it feels like more injuries occur, at least I used way more medpacks yesterday than before.
Oh and is it possible that the droprate of medpacks from machines has decreased ?
I had a whole bunch of dead metal at Sillavik church yesterday - “just” wanted to shoot a few runners but ended up with about 10 of them, FNIX and APO, two squads of Hunters, also FNIX and APO, a FNIX Harvester and a FNIX Tank… - but none of the lower machines had a medpack, only the tank had one special pack… Which I didn’t need at that time and because of the Plundra crap I can’t store anything new any more…
I find the mask work in the bunkers ( a bit) when you enter the room with the green gas, but as for the tanks gas or the hunters gas no no.
my annoyance is over the clothing when you go to up grade you averter it not in the clothing you selected the last time you up graded with , ok they are in the profile but you have to reselect the cloth you want on, can the program remember what you pick last time, plus an option to delete items of clothing on the list, if the have no value to the game but looking good to the players.