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Ok, I know some people are saying that mask scent is working just fine, but I'm not one of them!

I am detected 100% of the time by stalking creatures! I can sneak past non-stalkers, like feral banthas and kreetles, but if the creature is a stalker, like a dragonet or scyk even,I'm quickly stalked down and attacked once I get within about 40-50m.

Is this the way it is intended to work?! If so, what good is mask scent?!

To those of you who say that the ability is working fine, is there some trick to utilizing it? Must you always walk or crawl by the creatures? That hasnever worked for me, I have experimented with different modes of movement many times to no avail... Once, as I was trying to crawl up to a harvester, a whole pack of dune lizards stalked me from 40+m away and proceeded to chew me a new @$$!

Please, somebody, help a fellow ranger out. I am getting pretty frustrated with this non-functioning ability and/or my appearent inability to utilize it properly.

If this is happening to you, please chime in so I dont feel so alone/inept. I am starting tofeel like the gimpiest Master Ranger in existance!

I don't know if it is working or not, now that you mention it. I was basically working ranger stuff last night and I used maskscent several times. I was around quite a few stalkers and got nabbed by a few of them. However, I never EVER got the message that I had been detected by anything. As a matter of fact, several times I got the message that my mask scent had worn off after its full duration. That was even after I had been tracked down by a few stalkers. I also can mask scent, remove the mask and then mask scent immediately. I thought there was a 60 second timer before we could mask scent again, or was that only when we were detected by a creature?

Mystt Terien

60 second timer was only if you were detected, i.e., you got the message like you USED to do.

Now, you will never get a message. Since the big patch, I still maintain that MS is borked. I think it will be borked until the changes mentioned in the Scout correspondent feedback thread get implemented, probably some time in the next century.

I still don't use it and won't until those changes.

You will find WILDLY varying opinions on whether it's working as intended if you do a search on the topic.

The maskscent does not seem to work at all at the scout Explorer II when you first get it. It does however start working at Explorer III.

I'm at the top tier of the wayfaring under Ranger and I don't have any problem masking scent on creatures on the starting planets. It does, however, break consistently on higher level creatures (most animals on the more difficult planets see right through it within seconds). As I understand it, this will be fixed when /conceal is brought in. It will be more effective and require the use of a kit that must be crafted.

Makkaio: The 60 second timer only applies to being detected.

All I can say is I am attacked more often for using mask scent vs not using it.

I have to say that even last night I got the detected message, so it is still in there along with the 60 second delay. I have also been attacked by stalkers without it breaking. I think sometimes that if they get close enough they don't have to smell you, but I'm not sure how they go about tracking you in the first place.

Vectinn

Ranger\Pistoleer

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