Comments on: Recon for One, Recon for All

By: shane

shane — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:17:39 +0000

my gamer tag is insainpain146

By: shane

shane — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:15:57 +0000

i need help geting two vids on halo3 odst not the classic i will help any one that needs help i got all of them exsept those two.reply plz

By: REcon

REcon — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:27:52 +0000

recons cool and all, but for christs sake it looks like ur crying the whole time.

anyway, heres the perms for the recon-look alike

Scout head
EVA shoulders
Hayabusa (not katana) body.

By: SupplyMan420

SupplyMan420 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:58:08 +0000

i read most of what everyone has said and these are my thoughts. Personal Memento is deff what i consider recon. i have worked very hard to recieve the original 1000 and by doing so i got the katana and security armors. i currently wear both the katana chest and security sholders because i think the combo with the ODST helm or hyabusa helms work and look great to me. it also to me shows that i have put alot of effort into getting all the achievements, almost all the medals and have been a long time player. i may not be that good compaired to some but i still completed the annual in an hour an a half with swords so i proved i was worth the achievement. now odst is coming out and ill have the final 3 maps…. thank god i can finally kinda learn wepon placements maybe nade locations to and the final 3 skulls for brain pan and then the final three achievements to reach the perfect gamer score. when i first started playing halo was about 3 months after halo 3 came out so im relatively new to the line of duty so to speak. yet through hard work and some good friends have accompleshed alot. regardless, when i first started i set a couple simple goals.
1. get all pieces of armor.
2. get all 1000 gs (complete game on legendary goes in here somewhere)
3. reach level 50 in loan wolf
4. and finally get a general grade 4 by the time i got general id be happy though.
since then i have completed only one of those goals… number 2. ive also added a few more.
5. get all heroic and legendary achievements.
6. get all mythic halo 3 disk only for perfect 1750 gs.
7. finally recieve recon for some sort of hard work.
there are a total of 7 vidmasters to recieve the recon armor so i think th i will have some something pretty hard to do considering some of the vids require 4 people either for the annual or while playing firefight.
so in my opinon im glad bungie released it to the whole world. it would still be a status symbol because it would show all the hard work you had to do no matter how good you are at the game to get the VidMasters or something to benifit the community to recieve it. even after odst releases bungie will still give recon from time to time for certain things to those who dont already have it and have been long time players or atleast have 1500 games under their belts. i personally have around 4000 and am a 28 in LW but highest achieved their is a 32. i play alot of social and a lot of ranked i enjoy both and play for the fun of the game aswell to acomplesh my goals. so again it goes back to recon becoming like the hiyabusa armor. it will be very valuable untill we see alot of people wearing it then people will calm down. personally i want the helmet to finish my rewards suit(recon helmet, security sholders, and katana chest). all of which were for doing so many things. like 35 of the 50 gave u all security but head that was at all 50, katana for having all of the original 1000 gs and of course the 7 vid masters or spectatular work in bungies eyes… maybe im side tracking a little but thats my opinion. its just another armor perm that i want to have to show that i love this game enough to work for all that is available in game while still having fun.

By: Alex C

Alex C — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:28:51 +0000

:D :D :D

By: Socom boy27

Socom boy27 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:17:01 +0000

I think that this recon situation should not be this easy to get because now people are asking me for help on these achievement I dont help them because I like to watch them cry and complain about how they dont have the achievements and now because of this their is going to be noob running around in recon

you can contact me on Xbox live Socom boy27

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:39:21 +0000

Honestly i think that it should stay the way it is. Recon is cool and all but having to see every damned person on the game wear it is sad. I like to play people who have it cause I dont. He/she got it for whatever reason. i dont care.

im not one of those people who try like hell to get it. to me its just a digital clothing for my avatar. bungie should give out a Recon Mrk II or something. at least give the original Recon a bit of a rarety.

By: BerserkerBarage

BerserkerBarage — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:07:27 +0000

Posted by Senor Leche:
“In response to BB (BerserkerBarage), people will still get recognition for making cool contributions to the Community buddy. With Urk doing spotlights and front page articles like a champion, etc. At PAX, I was joking around with Wu and I said “People love seeing their name in lights”. Of course, I also said “Whoa, check out that girl in a skintight Cortana costume” so pay no attention to me. ;)”

I understand that Leche but it just seems to me that Bungie is going back against what they said the armor stood for. They said Recon was a community reward and it was a very powerful reward indeed. Now that “reward” is being transferred to cheap marketing. That’s what probably bothers me the most. The simplicity of the action needed to complete the task. Again, if they would have said “if you can SLASO you can unlock Recon” as part of the VidMaster Challenges I probably would have less of a problem with it. To me this all seems like Bungie is recanting what they’ve been saying all along.

Take for example the Hayabusa helmet. To unlock that was next to impossible originally. It was suppose to be a reward for people who spent hours trying to figure out every nook and cranny of the game. Sadly, people looked through the hex code and found out how to unlock it. I’ll admit that I have the skull but I won’t wear the helmet because I really shouldn’t have it. I can recall how there were quite a few Bungie employees that were tremendously saddened by the fact that something they wanted to keep very exclusive got overexposed in an instant. Now it seems that THEY are the ones doing it with their own IP.

I’m making a big deal out of really nothing here and I recognize that but I don’t see how this is a good decision by Bungie except for the pure marketing factor. They know people are quite obsessed with the armor perm so what better way to market their new game than make it so you can finally access something you previously saw as the holy grail.

To me, the holy grail is now devalued to the point of being a Wendy’s carryout cup.

~B.B.

By: Apostrophe

Apostrophe — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:41:12 +0000

I agree with the folks that are saying that Recon is just another armor permutation.
I also agree that this is just a game, and it doesn’t matter what you look like. The only time you see your armor is when you die.. (by which point you may not even care).
Recon really isn’t that special. If Bungie had made it unlockable by regular means, no one would care about it.
Personally, I still prefer the ODST armor.
Also;
“One is this really annoying kid, and I only put him on there because I’m polite…”
I think everyone has this really annoying kid on their list… I’ve got two of ‘em.
Maybe we can set up a trading service. I’ll trade you “masturcheef69″ for that kid with all the numbers in his name.