Air Filter

An air filter is anything that filters the air you breathe, protecting you against all manner of noxious gases.

List of Air Filters

• containment helmet
• frigid scarf
• gas mask
• heavy containment helmet
• Midgard heavy helmet
• oppressive skull mask
• rebreather mask
• reinforced surgical mask
• sentai mask
• surgeon's mask
• The Best Helmet (with eclipse)

Effects

Encounters:

• 3rd Floor: Acid Rain: protects from Slags Poisoning
• 4th Floor: Waterlogged Corpse: modifies intro text
• 5th Floor: Two Roads: modifies some results
• Buried Lab: alters intro text
• Buried Lab: Southside Lab Corpsepile: reduces Dripping with Gore, increases rewards
• Charnel House: prevents entry, and unlocks Overpowering Stench encounter
• Charnel House (reopened): Hunting Shapes: prevents encounter
• Fractured Reflection (Autumn): Small Hut: prevents some effects
• Fractured Reflection (Spring): Flower Field: alters picking flowers
• Midgard Laboratory: Writhing Mass combat: prevents scalded effect
• Sewer Hideout: The Stash: prevents Etheric effects when burning
• Tainted Shoreline: Freak Storm: prevents encounter
• Halloween 2013: Rubble-Filled Dumpster: prevents encounter
• Halloween 2018: Stagnant Ballroom: prevents coughing fit

Modifies the following techniques when the attacker has an air filter:

• Breath Of Dust
• Call to Feast
• Frost Breath
• Gas Grenade (when defender has powerful wings)
• Ghoul Bite
• Organ Feast
• Shark Bite
• Shark Frenzy
• Wolf Bite

Modifies the following techniques when the defender has an air filter:

• Construct Snowman (NPC only)
• Ember Drift (NPC only)
• Gas Grenade
• Pile On (NPC only)
• Smother In Dark Vapors (NPC only)
• Smoking Ecofuel
• Spore Cloud

Other results:

• Capturing a Dark Specter with Mirror Gazing.
• Modifies resting results in The Slags with an REM Timer installed.
• Gang Warfare: Stage A Bust Fortification: results
• Gang Warfare: Vent Gasses Fortification: intro text
• Equipped used rocket without air filter can give Fire Serpent. (to investigate: does Air filter affect that technique?)

An air filter does not let you breath underwater - for that, see air recycler.

Used By (Opponents)

• Faceless Worker
• Midgard Heavy Guard (Gatling)
• Midgard Heavy Guard (Unarmed)
• Slags Guard
• All opponents with No Organs

Note hierarchy of flags possible:

• Air Filter - has flesh and organs but protected lungs or doesn't breath
  • No Organs - has flesh but not normal organs/vascular system (also has air filter)
    • Crunchy - generally having no real flesh at all (also has air filter and no organs)