Bio Engineer Archive

Doing Kamurith Defiler missions today on Dathomir - Even with Mask Scent up they charged you and attacked even though your mask scent isn't broken. Can't even get near them to sample.

I had that happen with a BS Merek, but only once, so it didn't worry me too much. If it happens with Mutants I'll get a bit upset about it though, they're hard enough as it is...

Took some enraged rancor missions (CL80) and they broke mask scent but didn't always attack if we were in 64m.

/shrug

there is definately something buggy with maskscent after this hotfix... had a naboo camo kit in my inventory... went to endor with my Bio-E friend to sample... hit maskscent, the game said i had been masked... wlaked up to the first creature and got attacked... backed off and tried to remask thinking it was a bugged application... it told me that i was concealed... i know i didn't hit my conceal for 2 reasons... 1. i didn't have endor camo kit on me, 2. Conceal is on the other end of the toolbar... this shouldn't be possible... what the game did was conceal me with the naboo camo kit on endor when i hit the maskscent button... once i destroyed the naboo camo kit everything was fine... not sure if you have any ranger camo skills but just something to keep an eye on...

I had the same thing happen 4-5 times today sampling on Dathomir with getting aggroed and not having mask scent break. I also found that Mutant Rancors seem a lot more sensitive, I was consistently getting mask scent broken at 65m and then getting aggroed from that distance before the timer expired and I could get it back up and running.

Of course, this might just be me. I have major bad karma with Mutants and have never managed to get close enough to even attempt a sample. Rancor Youths, Gnarled Rancors, Rancors, Bull Rancors - just the usual problems, but Mutants hate me.

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CazzimirStylla wrote:

this has been happening to me since the last big patch. my maskscent would still be active, but i'd get aggroed.

no messages saying i was detected or anything.

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At least it did work for you guys. Mask scent has Never worked for me after I mastered the column it is in. It ALWAYS breaks arount red creatures. I dont even use it anymore cause it is safer for me NOT to use it.

-Indene-

Samething's been happening to me today on dantoonie seems like pikets attack me everytime i sample...

everytime get attack by red even with maskscent really p i s s ing me off.... hope they fix it cause it's not working right...

There's another thread going on regarding critical failures while crafting. One gentleman says that he believes there's something wrong with the game's random number generator. This might be the cause of what's breaking mask scent, since it's also a randomized occurance.

Have maskscent clothing. They may be bugged due to the patch. Every so often even though I was masked creatures would attack as if I wasn't.

I know something funky is going on. I Was in the rancor cave on Dath. and i had just gotten novice ranger, so i was getting scouting xp again. I got the xp for the rancor not breaking my mask scent. It the proceeded to agro on me, and chase me out of the cave, and for a long while afterwards. my mask scent never broke. Got a good bit of scout xp from running from a rancor.

When i get near certain squills in the squill cave they also seem to ignore my mask scent and just attack me like i didn't have mask scent on. but others around i just walked passed didn't notice me.

I've had no problems. One thing, if the animal has a bleed on it, it will argo anything around, including your bike. Mask scent doesn't matter in that case, for some reason. Also mask scent always seemed to not work as well on the weekends, for some reason. Haven't noticed it in a while, but it use to be every weekend mask scent never worked for anything.