Every Mason product launches the same way: download the loader with your key, pick the game, wait for the injection, start the game yourself. Little differs: which screen mode the game has to run in and which key opens the menu. Both are in the table below, and the steps under it are shared.
Some Mason products only launch from a USB flash drive: the loader lives on it, the drive comes out once the injection is done, and the loader file is deleted from the computer.
Before you start#
- Restart the computer and turn Windows protection services off. An antivirus is better removed than paused: its services stay in the system after the pause.
- Remove third-party anticheats — FaceIt, Riot Vanguard and anything similar. They load with the system and break the launch even in a different game.
- Sync the clock and the time zone: "Settings" → "Time & language" → "Date & time", switch automatic detection off and on again, then press "Sync now". A clock that has drifted is the single most common reason the loader cannot reach the server.
- Start the game, set one of the screen modes the table allows for your product, and close it.
- War Thunder Internal: switch DirectX from 12 to 11 in the game launcher — the injection does not go through on DirectX 12.
- Keep the key from your order at hand — the loader download page asks for it.
What your cheat needs#
| Product | Screen mode | Menu key |
|---|---|---|
| Apex Legends Internal | any | F8, then F2 |
| ARC Raiders | windowed or borderless | INSERT |
| Arma Reforger | windowed or borderless | INSERT |
| Counter-Strike 2 | any | INSERT |
| Escape From Tarkov | fullscreen windowed | HOME |
| Hunt: Showdown | windowed or fullscreen windowed | HOME |
| Overwatch | windowed or fullscreen windowed | INSERT |
| Rust Full | any | HOME |
| Rust Internal | any | F2, then INSERT |
| War Thunder External | windowed or fullscreen windowed | HOME |
| War Thunder Internal | any | INSERT |
| ABI Spoofer | does not matter, no game involved | no menu |
One product follows its own order, and the table does not describe it: Shaytan Spoofer, which checks the HWID before and after.
Launching#
- Download the loader on the download page using your key.
- Run the file as administrator. If your product launches from a USB drive, the file has to sit on the drive and not on the computer.
- Pick your game in the list on the left and press "Run".
- Wait for the check mark: on a successful injection the loader shows it and closes by itself.
- If the loader asks for a restart — press "Yes", restart the computer, run the loader as administrator again, pick the same game, press "Run" and wait for it to close.
- Pull the USB drive out and delete the loader file from the computer — if you launched from a drive.
- Start the game yourself, right away. The loader does not open it, and a pause between the injection and the launch breaks the session.
- Once the game has loaded to the main menu, press your key from the table.
Notes on specific cheats#
Rust Internal: hold F2 for 2–3 seconds to finish the injection; the menu then opens with INSERT, and F6 unloads the cheat completely.
Apex Legends Internal: restart the computer after playing — a restart specifically, shutting down and powering back on does not count. Until the restart the cheat stays loaded in the system, so going straight to a clean account is not an option.
Saving your settings#
Mason does not write settings to disk: the cheat dumps them into the clipboard as a single line and reads them back from there. That is why the config lives in a plain text file and gets pasted in on every launch. The CONFIGURATION tab is not on every build: it shows up on Rust Full, Escape From Tarkov, Hunt: Showdown and War Thunder External. If the menu has no such tab, the settings do not carry over at all.
Save your settings#
- Launch the cheat and configure it — in the game's main menu or right in a match.
- Open the
CONFIGURATIONtab and clickSave config to clipboard. - Minimize the game, create an empty text file anywhere convenient, and paste the clipboard into it with the right mouse button. What lands there is a line of random characters — that is what it should look like.
- Save the file and go back to the game.
Load them on the next launch#
- Start the cheat and the game by the steps above.
- Minimize the game, open the saved file, select everything with Ctrl+A and copy it with the right mouse button.
- Return to the game, open the
CONFIGURATIONtab and clickLoad config from clipboard.
The clipboard is wiped when the computer restarts, and a restart shows up in the launch order regularly. That is exactly what the file is for: without it the settings have to be redone after every reboot.