I believe that I have found a bug to do with stealth. I know that wearing a mask increases your base stealth amount, but up to this point, I don't believe that you've been able to wear multiple. THAT HAS CHANGED TODAY! I have recently come across a beautiful new addition to my clothing inventory, and that would be the marvelous item known as the
Sandworm Mask '21. This item is revolutionary. It has changed the way that I have seen stealthing, and I believe this isn't intended.
I believe that I am able to equip two masks, and have full effectiveness from them both. I have not done any testing on this (due to an appalling amount of dex, meaning my stealth is practically 0 anyway), but I have two masks equipped. Since it let me equip two, I believe that I have double the stealth from these masks.
[image: imgur.com]To ensure that I actually had the masks equipped, I looked over at my loadout, and sure enough, it also displayed it there, but then I noticed that I wasn't wearing a helmet. I decided to check if putting a helmet on changes things.
[image: imgur.com] To test if this is possible, I decided to try and wear the
Sandworm Mask '21, a
Psycho Clown Mask, and a
Combat Helmet. This was successful. I am able to wear a
Combat Helmet, as well as double masks.
[image: imgur.com]This fascinated me. I told one of my faction mates about this, and they asked whether or not I could wear a
Motorcycle Helmet too. I wasn't sure about this. I didn't own a
Motorcycle Helmet, nor did I want to buy one. Due to this, I spoke to my good friend
KeepMustard, and I asked him if I could borrow his. I put this on and tested if I could wear all three.
[image: imgur.com]This happened, and I was stunned. The
Psycho Clown Mask stayed on, but the
Sandworm Mask did not. I was utterly confused. My mind was completely shaken up. I had no idea what the qualifier was to be able to wear both, so I decided to do some research. This is when I started looking into other types of helmets. Next up was the
Construction Helmet. This one wasn't as interesting.
[image: imgur.com]The double mask situation carried on. "Now what?" I thought to myself as I trawled the item market for helmet items. And then I saw it.
The Medieval Helmet. It was a full-face covering, but it didn't have the Temporary item block that the
Motorcycle Helmet had. "Maybe this would tell me the qualifier?" I thought. So I bought one and tried it.
[image: imgur.com]f**k. It didn't work. Next up:
Leather Helmet. I had decided to try everything at this point.
[image: imgur.com]The
Leather Helmet worked. It was time to check something else.
[image: imgur.com]The
WWII Helmet? Worked. Now, this was the tricky part. I had to try and find someone to let me use a
Welding Helmet. I trawled the HOF and tried to contact as many online people as I could. Many responded, but unsurprisingly, not many were willing to let me borrow the $5b item that I was after. Many were helpful, and inquisitive into what I was doing, such as
LTJELLOMAN, who was interested in the results of my thread, and
deft, who was a very welcoming person, despite my extraordinary request. After failing for a while, and even receiving 60 bounties, I had found no success. It had taken a few hours of trying, and I had no results from it. I assume that the
Welding Helmet would throw at least one of them off, but without having tested it, there would be no way to know. As for the Hazmat Suit, well, that would be an accolade indeed. If someone didn't trust me with a
Welding Helmet for a couple of minutes, there is no way that I'd be able to borrow a Hazmat Suit. I hung my head in shame and decided that today just wasn't my day.
So I leave it to you: is it intended that only
some helmets get thrown off, and should it be all of them?
Thank you for reading all of this. I would love to have been of more help, but I could not source the items that I needed to fulfill that. I know this probably isn't a bug, and even if it is, it's a very minor one, as it wouldn't really change much about Torn, but I have enjoyed writing out this report and finding the bounds, even if I was unsuccessful at the end.
I hope that whoever had to read this has an outrageously outstanding day.
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