As mentioned here and in a lot of other places:
Please remove or at least add the option to remove the gas mask visual screen filter effect.
It’s a very helpful game item - but I never use it due to the horrific scratched and dim screen overlay it adds on.
There’s a reason I and many others don’t play with a beat up, old scratched monitor…
Thanks
I just carry extra medical kits 
I don’t change into one because takes to long to swap out, just for a quick walk in & walk out, & last time I was in a position room was 2 months ago helping multiplayer person out
Agreed.
It’s no item that’s intended to be used all the time.
Haven’t used a gas mask for years now and just when I played the story missions in some of the bunkers.
It would be more useful against the machines close combat gas attack, if you could equip it with a single button press.
The view is ok, but the whole system how the mask can be used and how it works should be changed. There are some more topics here with suggestions regarding them.
I mean for some that are not as bothered about visuals or graphics they may leave there’s on all the time. If it is meant to be a game balancing in effect then the gas mask filter / screen effect should be stronger.
In all honestly if they are worried about game balancing there are much bigger issues than just a gas mask being used.
It also looks cool on your character so it would be nice again to keep it on all the time.
Thanks, yeah I did look for mods, but it’d be nice to keep my game nice and clean as I see it has problems with updates etc. Plus I only want to change the gasmask, I am happy with everything else. Well, the DoF with the binos is rather rubbish but still it’s usable…
I’ll just keep using health kits for now but I hope they implement this change or something similar.
I think you can use the proposed optional download individually. No idea if removing the dirt too is REALLY needed for gas mask visibility. Sadly, don’t really know which texture file in the main mod corresponds to that one. You could try to just test and swap. There are only a couple of potential modded textures, i suppose.
Thanks I might look into it - I don’t want anything covering my screen tbh, I purchased the best gaming QD-OLED screen around and I want to use it to its potential :D.
Let’s not talk about mods here, it breaks the Terms of Service.
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Considering the Gas masks DO NOT DO THEIR JOB, they should remove the “mask filter”, if the masks actually worked and allowed us to not take damage, then it would be a good deal, they limit our vision but protect us (like real life), it would be a trade.
As of the moment, they dont work and are just purely cosmetic.
In real life, there are a lot of chemical warfare agents that even affect the skin. They don’t have to be inhaled.
For example, the well-known chloropicrin.
The fact that a gas mask only reduces damage from toxins is quite realistic.
For complete protection, chemical protection suits have been invented.
It’s in the game, but it doesn’t work.
And getting it is a separate adventure.
It doesn’t work because it’s not intended.
That’s one of the things I already made a suggestion about. Certain apparel should give different bonuses, like helmets and military uniforms/ vests a bullet protection.
Gas masks on the other hand should be a useable item like the flashlights, not an apparel.
i think video games need to be closer to real life 
if you wanna walk around with a flashlight, then you need to be able to carry a shotgun with one hand, as for gas mask, the ones in game dont protect 100%, in real life they would be good enough for chernobyl l
This is the picture you probably where looking for:
But I don’t see the need.
The flashlights all over östertörn can be clipped at your clothes.
Gas masks in real life just protect as long as the filters work. That could be an option for GZ, too. Filters as ammo for the item “gas mask”.
Guys you’re reading too much into it, I just want a clear screen 
If I recall right, that was part of one of my Gas mask suggestions, too.
If it’s an Item, you could also have different qualities (1c to 5c), which give differently long strong protection plus offer differently clear view, like the scopes.
I actually only found óne situation that really needed a gasmask.
Yeah, there are about two mission related situations where a gas mask is helpful, but would be solveable with constant healing, too.
Besides of that the only situations where a gas protection could be really helpful are during combats when standing close to a farting big machine. Their gas is very aggressive, but on the other hand equiping a gas mask just in that situation actually takes too long to survive it.
it’s also kinda funny, Poison Gas cans are the only item that you can craft 10 at a time 
and also only in 1 single location in the game that might using the gasmask, I still think there’s a explosion with Posion Gas cans, so being close to them when shot still hurts even with gasmask, owell, it is what it is
What if there was an amount of time before the screen developed the dirty screen effect? In other words, when you first put the mask on it’s no difference, but the longer you wear it, the more grit and grim shows up. Like reality. In time, you have to take it off and clean it or something like that?
Or…returning to its qualities, all gas masks are initially 5c, but over time they lose quality and finally become 1c. You may drop them and pick up (or craft) a new one.