Mask Scent 3 (Source)

I don't know the full details about it but I've noticed problems with mask scent when new creatures spawn. It seems newly spawned creautres will sometimes agro without even checking mask scent, so you'll get attacked even though your mask scent isn't broken. This happens to me all the time when I'm hunting with friends. They will attack the lair and I'll just sit there, mask scent on and not attacking anything. As soon something spawns it'll go straight after me, even though my mask scent is on and I'm not attacking.

If your friend was killing a lot of squills, they were probably spawning pretty fast. My guess is that some of those new spawns jumped you before even checking against your mask scent.

I'm almost starting to believe in the secret animal faction now too. All animals will always attack Rangers first becuase they hate us, and think we're tasty.

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It has to do with the "checking" system.

1st a creature will check for your presence. If you are masked or concealed with camo, the sytem will play with the numbers to see if the creature "see's you"

If it an aggresive creature it will attack you upon detection.

BUT!

Lately, when an enemy is under attack it does a GROUP check first when it spawns.

I noticed this at Ft Tusken when I would be not in combat. A Tusken would spawn and head STRAIGHT for my droid. I assume it was because the droid was grouped with me.

So my assumtion is that a creature will look for all members of the attackers group, and randomly attack WITHOUT checking for camo/scent first.

I have had dealings where I would go on "follow" with my group hunting and go AFK. Now obviously I am not attacking anyone while AFK, but I would come back to keyboard to find myself dead. (non aggro example of course)

So I believe the system is checking for "members of the group of the guy who just shot my nest" BEFORE checking for maskscent.