Gas Mask

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This article is timeless and should be accurate for any version of the game.


Protects against poison gas.
In-game description

The Gas Mask is a piece of equipment designed to protect the player from Gas Grenades and its deadly cloud of gas, which can easily kill a player. It requires a filter in order to be effective.

Description

The Gas Mask is an essential self defense tool against Green Ash. When equipped, it grants a player complete immunity to the gas. The gas mask consumes Gas Mask Filters when filtering green ash. The gas mask starts without filter. When you equip an empty gas mask, it automatically loads any filter in your inventory into the mask. When the gas mask's current filter is depleted one of the spare filter in your inventory is automatically consumed to replenish the gas mask's filter. The Player model reflects the Mask being equipped. The green ash cloud consumes 15% of a filter every second, so staying inside the cloud for its full duration can use either 90% or 105% of a filter.

When you're wearing a gas mask, a tiny mask icon will appear under your stamina bar, with the color of that icon gives you information:

  • Gas Mask0 UI Icon.png: No Filter equipped or in your inventory
  • Gas Mask1 UI Icon.png: Filter equipped or in your inventory
  • Gas Mask2 UI Icon.png: Filter equipped but less than 33% left and no spare in inventory

Production

Structure Input(s) Output Time
Factory (Utility) 160 x  Basic Materials Basic Materials.png Crate of 20 x  Gas Mask Gas Mask.png 00:01:40


Must be fully researched in the Weapons and Structures IconFilterWeaponsStructures.png Tech Tree in order to be produced.

Tactics

Despite infantry being a major target for gas grenades, it is discouraged for your average frontline infantry to wear them due to being able to die really quickly, which can rapidly deplete the valuable equipment.

If you are in a scenario where a gas mask is required, always have it equipped in order to prevent yourself from quickly dying from gas grenades.

The best use for gas masks would be for vehicles, like tanks and field guns. Due to these vehicles being high priority targets on the battlefield, they can easily be decrewed by spamming a ton of gas grenades on them. In order to prevent that chance from happening, it is recommended that crews have a gas mask equipped and a bunch of gas mask filters in your inventory, as those can be depleted quite rapidly in certain combat scenarios.

Trivia

  • The gas masks in Foxhole appear to be based on the GM 1917 used by the Imperial German Army in the First World War

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