This guide explains how to take your Gas Mask off in Call of Duty: Warzone (MW3 Season 1).
After a year of Warzone 2.0 and its divisive gameplay changes, the popular battle royale game has received its most significant update yet as part of MW3 Season 1.
It brings across the majority of MW3‘s movement mechanics from multiplayer and introduces a number of notable tweaks. One of these addresses a frequent criticism related to Gas Masks. For those unaware, Gas Masks enable players to survive for longer in the game’s deadly gas which surrounds and eventually engulfs the map.
This is an essential piece of equipment in Warzone and will greatly improve a player’s chance of success. However, in previous iterations of Warzone, a frustrating animation plays when your in-game operator equips their Gas Mask. It’s brief, but the operator pulling the Gas Mask over their face can obscure your vision and interrupt the flow of gameplay.
This is particularly annoying when you’re facing off with another player and the animation causes you to die because you couldn’t see them properly. There was no way to prevent this as Gas Masks equipped automatically.
Thankfully, Season 1 has introduced the ability to manually equip and remove it. But exactly how you do this isn’t explained. So, after picking up a Gas Mask, how can you take it off in Warzone following the start of MW3 Season 1?
How to take Gas Mask off in Warzone (MW3 Season 1)
To take off your Gas Mask in Warzone, you must open your inventory by pressing down on the d-pad. Highlight the Gas Mask and press Square/X to stow it in your backpack. This will un-equip it.
To re-equip it, open your inventory, highlight the Gas Mask in your backpack and press Square/X.
The animation is still present in the game and there is no way to disable it. However, the ability to equip and un-equip it manually prevents it from interrupting enemy encounters.
Unfortunately, there is no button you can press to equip or remove it and you are forced to open your inventory every time.
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