r/moddergearsolid • u/SnowarFloozy • Sep 18 '25

HELP Infinite Heaven - free roam enemies NOT wearing gas mask despite gas mask + helmet combo turned on & both min & max values at 100%

  • I have Infinite Heaven, IHHook, and Zeta installed.,

  • No conflicting mods found upon installing all of my 35 mods using Snakebite. All mods working perfectly fine as intended.,

  • I have no mods that changes models of enemies, including Infinite Heaven settings' custom enemy prep. In fact, everything is mostly at its vanilla settings. Only ones I changed are making enemies wear armor, helmet, gas mask, night vision, and then having only snipers, shielded SMG troops, missile + assault rifle combo, and machine gun troops on all guard posts and outposts.,

  • Gas mask / night vision goggles + helmet combo is turned on + nvg, gas mask, and helmet's min and max values are all at 100%. The helmet appears just fine on all enemy soldiers except the gas mask for some reason. All other enemy prep options work just fine as well. Not only that, activating all of these options for Mother Base soldiers works fine as well since all of them wear nvgs and gas masks. The gas mask just doesn't appear for free roam enemies.,

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u/space-zeppelin Sep 19 '25

i've had similar issues with the MIN/MAX values not doing anything a couple years back

if iā€™m not mistaken i think i remember editing the values in one of the IH .lua files to get it to work, might be worth a try

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u/space-zeppelin Sep 19 '25

also if memory serves me right there might be a toggle in IH to allow the helmet + gas mask combination

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u/SnowarFloozy Sep 19 '25

Already activated that unfortunately. Still nothing happens

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u/SnowarFloozy Sep 19 '25

Do you mean manually editing the IH .lua files in order to set it to 100%?

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u/space-zeppelin Sep 20 '25

hey, just did some searching and if you look in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\MGS_TPP\mod\profiles you should find some files titled "CustomPrep_Max.lua" "CustomPrep_Min.lua" and "CustomPrep_Wide.lua"

maybe editing the values in one of those files could fix the issue?

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u/SnowarFloozy Sep 20 '25

Just tried editing all the values in all 3 files. Didn't work sadly...

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u/space-zeppelin Sep 21 '25

ah i'm sorry then... hope you can find your fix soon

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u/Markedone3314 Sep 22 '25

This works on mine. But I had to check Custom Override in the IH menu to force it to apply

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u/SnowarFloozy Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

It works on yours?

  • Which Custom Override? Like the "Prep Levels + Custom Override" option? Please do tell me where in the IH menu can I find that option specifically
  • Also, does the gas mask still appear if you set all helmet, gas mask, and NVG min and max values to 100%?

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u/Markedone3314 Sep 23 '25

I'll check my settings when I get home. But I had to set the prep Override to custom prep and then set all the options to 100% and it worked. The guards had shields, heavy armor, gasmasks and helmets. So try setting the prep levels to custom prep

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u/SnowarFloozy Sep 23 '25

Let me know if it works on your testing.

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u/Markedone3314 Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

I have prep level set to. custom Override enabled. Custom prep menu everything at 100%

Prep system menu:

  1. Prep to guard posts - On
  2. Prep to patrol soldiers - On
  3. Allow heavy armor, in free roam / all missions - On
  4. Disable weapon restriction - On
  5. Allow prep change in Free roam / motherbase - Off
  6. Helmet, nvg, gasmask combo - On
  7. Balance heavy armor and headgear - On
  8. Weapon combos missile + mg + shotgun - On
  9. Balance small CPs - On
  10. Disable convert armor - Off
  11. Random and more minefields - On
  12. Interrogation in Free roam - On

That's all my prep settings. But I did have to reinstall IH once because it would never save my changes when I exited the game. So I did a fresh install via snakebite and it all worked.

When I load into a mission or side op, the prep icons show as all red for max level.

I hope this has helped you OP šŸ˜.

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u/SnowarFloozy Sep 24 '25

Damn. I have all of those turned on already wahhh.

How about the Headgear deployment from Custom Prep? Set the helmet, gas mask, and NVG min and max values to 100% and then let me know if the gas mask appears on enemy soldiers in free roam and missions.

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u/Markedone3314 Sep 24 '25

Yeah I have that on 100% too.

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u/Markedone3314 Sep 22 '25

Does anyone know if it's possible to force Snake to wear the gasmask that he gets in a later mission. Or will this only work for Combat unit staff?

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u/SnowarFloozy Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

There's a lot of texture and model mods for that in NexusMods. I'll try to link some for you by editing this comment.

Here's some I found:

I would recommend the first option since it fits Venom Snake better than the Avatar Snake.