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7/27/2009 8:34:05 PM
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The Definitive Recon Thread- UPDATED September 30th--Now With Synopsis
[url]http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=17206655&postRepeater1-p=1[/url]
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[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=13289977][i]The[/i] Recon Speculation Thread[/url].
[quote]Head: The Mjolnir VI/R variant was developed concurrently with the Mjolnir Mark VII* Powered Assault Armor. The goal was to increase stealth capability without impacting endurance.
Shoulders: In developing the Mjolnir VI/R variant, the goal was to increase the armor's overall stealth capability with little or no loss of endurance. This was achieved by relying on several tried-and-true methods.
Body: In developing the Mjolnir Mark VII Powered Assault Armor/R, the emphasis was to increase stealth capability, specifically by reducing its IR signature, reflective surfaces, and Cherenkov radiation emission.[/quote]
*SOURCE: Search Bar+ Alec9224*
Picture:[url]http://halowiki.net/images/e/ed/Recon_Armor_Infobox.jpg[/url]
Being the hypocrite I am, I have decided to make a thread about Recon to quell a thread or two about it. And yes this did take me a few hours to get everything together. That's just how much I love you guys.
Recon. We first saw it in an old picture. [url=http://www.bungie.net/projects/halo3/asset_popup_viewer.aspx?at=60&cc=21&item=0]This one[/url]. But what was it? It was some armor Bungie decided not to put into the game, right? Sure, let's go with that.
[quote][url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12834][b]Guyver45 asks[/b],
[i]Is it true that the Flaming Head and Ninja Recon helmet is for Bungie only?
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No idea what you're talking about. Flaming Heads? Nonsense.[/url][/quote]
Bungie, at this point, refused to acknowledge what it was. But the rumor had already spread- for Bungie only.
The following week it's out.
[quote][url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12857]I'm making a list, I'm checking it twice, and it's a list of dumb messages (and perfectly polite ones) inquiring about the Recon armor permutation. The short answer to those inquiries is, "No, you can't have it." The people you see with the Recon helmet are Bungie employees, and they did nothing in-game to unlock it. There is nothing you can do to unlock it.
The same counts for the flames. Don't be too jealous however, since the flaming head makes us a giant target and is reflected in our online performances sometimes. Sending us angry or rude messages won't help and our policy now is to simply block communications with folks who're rude and our sincere apologies to the polite folks, that we don't have enough time to answer your question individually. We've had literally thousands of requests.
No apologies however to the dude last night telling me to "turn down the retardation" in a game of Social Slayer. [/url][/quote]
So now it's confirmed- you can't do anything to get it. Stop trying. Stop bugging us about it. It's ours to do with as we wish.
Recon was mentioned in the 10/25 Humpday Challenge.
[i]Oh Bungie stop taunting us! I want Recon so bad give it to me![/i]
(note the switch between 'us' and 'i')
[url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12901]Ah, but here was a turn of events[/url]. Recon was given out to [i]non[/i] Bungie Employees for the first time.
UNACCEPTABLE! Bungie noooooes! y cn thy haz rekonz ZOMG!!! This was for the infamous traffic cone and sniper suicide incidents- the first to do so (and to readers: No, you won't get Recon for doing the same).
[url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12930]And no, don't ask: us using your map/gametype/films/screenshots doesn't mean you're getting the Recon armor. Recon is Fight Club and the first rule is you don't talk about it.[/url]
There is it. The rule: Don't talk about Recon.
[url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13088]For his work on the map 'The Great Wall' (which apparently has been taken down since I cannot find it and the gamertag given does not have the map up on the file share), another person received Recon.[/url]
Now here's the analysis: before that, I noticed a lot of people thought the cone kill and sniper suicide were cool. 'Wow I've never seen that before.' 'Lol he got killed by a safety cone. Not very safe.' Yet with this map I remember some people telling me how it wasn't that super. Sure it received a ton of downloads and everybody played it back then at least once (exaggeration) but people started saying, 'Mine's better- why'd he get Recon?' This was the beginning of a problem. People were, and are, jealous. They began to think they could decide who deserved what better than Bungie. dum dums.
[url=http://admin.bungie.net/images/News/WeeklyUpdate/Update%20Studio%20Pics/update_security.jpg]No ikkle childrens- you can not haz Recon![/url]... according to the 1/18 weekly update.
[url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13245]Aw how sweet- a painting of Mister Chief up for Auction.[/url] The thing is... if I'm remembering correctly Bungie actually threw in Recon to go with that. Or maybe that was the vending machine auction later... eh.
[url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13294]Ah Valentines Day. A day of love. Bungie gave people that in the form of... [i]Recon[/i].[/url]
Hurray luck! Yet this was also a turn. This was the last time Bungie ever, to this day, announced the names of the people. See, stupid mentally challenged people began to think they were cool by stealing peoples' accounts who had Recon. For some reason they thought they had something to gain by it. Dumb dumbs. Bungie obviously made the right move there though. Also said... Bungie can take aware Recon. Beware (that goes for people today too- don't be a jerk or lose it!)!
[url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13322]Ah, a different contest. Anyone who was active in a positive manner on a different website- Fyreball.[/url]
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[url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13330][b]Beaverkill2227 asks:[/b]
[i]Is it true that Recon is unlockable. I'm not asking for hints or for recon itself. Just wondering if it is truly unlockable.
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No, it is NOT UNLOCKABLE. Bungie has to gift it to you. So please don't spam mailboxes, or come up with crazy schemes. It will be a natural organic process. Bungie will give it to folks who're cool, do something nice, play well, perform good deeds, whatever. They will NOT give it to anyone who harasses or harangues them. And don't complain about the vague criteria either, or you go on the "complainer" list of no Recon.[/url][/quote]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13351]Ah, Double Exp. can get you Recon too. Sweet. [/url] [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13368]The Requirements were posted later[/url]. I know I tried for this one- went for Bomb Kills. I failed miserably.
[url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13366]'Lulz'- kinda funny talk at the end, even if only one comment is about Recon.[/url]
Now here's something interesting. Lots of new guys don't realize this... but Shishka wasn't always at Bungie (nO wAi DoOd). [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13428]No, he came back.[/url] He says [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2lfZg-apSA]no 'con for you! Next![/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13519]I heard if you ask enough, a Bungie Employee will give you Recon[/url].
[Edited on 09.30.2009 6:27 PM PDT]
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[url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=16545]Oh lookie a weekly update. [/url]OOOHHH RECON GIMME GIMME!!! It is not to be my friend. In this weekly update, we received some ODST concept art. One was of the character we now know as: Dare. She [i]can[/i] haz Recon. [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=16887]Urk begins to see a lighter side or at least show it. Kid at the very end of the update agrees that Bungie is awesome and Recon shouldn't be easy to get. [/url]How right he was. [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=17091]Later on another person asks for it. Right after we find out about brute pimps . [/url]He's da player, you see. He had Bungie against a rock and a hard place, clearly. [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=J782PFMJRX3VT3X993RMQJYMW]Auto Responder. A tool designed to tell people asking for Recon to go away.[/url] Clearly. And to you forum goers who have it set to auto TURN IT OFF. There's no reason for you guys to have it set to auto send. Something like 'If this is a group invite then GTFO' or I'll respond to this shortly'. Those are a waste of the reader's time! Make it say I'm on Vacation and I may respond to you when I get back' then set it to manual, only turning it on auto [i]when you're actually gone[/i]. Really buddies- that's what you need to do. Oh, also later in the last link you find out that people who posted vids showing where the Mythic Skulls were are on THE LIST to never get Recon. Joyous. This crushed one person I know because he never got the warning not to do it. Common sense? Perhaps. Still didn't know. Oh well though- Bungie's call. [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU_032009]With the grrness behind, we move on to more contests. Announcement for the Valentine's Day massacre winners. Congrats to them. Employee was also going to be on a trip. He told you guys right then and there, in that update: He couldn't give you Recon.[/url] I wonder if anyone tried anyways. Hmm. [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=Humpday_Joystiq]Now this was good stuff- Bungie plays a team for Recon[/url]. Now before any of you go on a tangent: NO- Bungie does NOT 1v1 or 2v2 or anything else like that for Recon. This was special. See, these people tried so hard to get it before. They failed. So Bungie played them. The thing was Bungie's map choice. They used every dirty trick in the as-yet-unwritten books. Using things such as hidden weapon caches that the other team couldn't find. In a CTF game both the flag spawn and flag cap spawned right next to Bungie. Needless to say, Bungie won. It was all in good fun, however. The guys [i]did[/i] end up getting Recon, but no people, YOU will not get Recon for this. It was a special event. [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU_050109]Ooo lookie here- Recon challenge[/url]. Take a screenshot, tag it, win Recon. Now isn't that just lovely of Bungie to do? [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=19433]Results of the last contest? Yayzorz[/url]. You're gonna get another contest too. Sweet! [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU051509]Results of that contest, prepare for a new contest, and we learn that Urk is 11 years old. Huh.[/url] [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU052209]Results of another contest BUT THAT'S NOT ALL![/url] Bungie also discusses an issue that has plagued many unfortunate (and I use that term incredibly lightly) people who have found themselves banned. The question?:[i] Can I still haz the 'con?[/i] The answer?... Maybe! Yes, maybe. If you were exp banned, banned from the forums, any of that you can still receive Recon via the vidmasters with Halo 3: ODST. Those people are [i]not[/i] on THE LIST. The list is reserved for people who do worse things. Such as oh I dunno cheat their way to perfect gamerscore. Ah well. Click the link I gave for specifics. [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU_052909]Another contest and Bungie decides not to give us Recon for it? WTF BUNGIE U SUCK I H8 U!!![/url] Oh. Wait, what's that? You were just kidding? Oh, well that's OK then! I would have flipped out had I actually believed you for a second! That coulda been messy! Later they also say the most worn armors, emblems, and colors. Recon it was dead last on all of the 'top worn armors' lists. NO WAI DOODZ. [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=Halo3ODSTsquad]Hi community. Meet Dare (psst, I heard she's a poo poo meanie head, so watch out)[/url] [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU060509]Wait, what? Oh. It seems fans weren't too happy with Dare[/url]. I think it had something to do with her seemingly massive head. Hmm taking a glance at that picture Bungie posted at the bottom of the update I think I see what the fans meant! [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU061209]Another contest occurred at this time. Haloscreenshots.com ran this one. That a pretty pimping feature, I must admit[/url]. [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU062609]And then it hits us like a wall. You're in a maze. Left turn, left turn, right turn, right turn BAM BRICK WALL. Yeah. It was Bungie's biggest Recon contest ever. Bungie Vs. the World Playlist- 1 Vs. 1 million.[/url] Bungie would be going into a playlist that would be out for only that day using 35 community maps. Anyone who beats them gets Recon. There'd be other secret criteria too, of course. [i]But I'd never tell![/i] [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU070309]More talk about the Bungie Day contest[/url]. And then [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BungieDay09]OMG it's here!!![/url] Bungie Day yay! I'ma win me some Reconz! The 10 PM slot was the team people wanted most to play, by the way. Gee, I wonder why. Also on this day people were given the opportunity to earn Recon based on a puzzle. If you were one of the first to send a PM containing the correct answer to the puzzle (the question of which was a puzzle to figure out in itself!), you would win yourself a brand new shiny set of Recon Armor. [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?cid=20950]Click here for a link to the article[/url], and [url=http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo2WebMaps/richgame.aspx?g=774245350]click here for a link to the puzzle, where you had to figure out the question[/url]. [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU071009]Results of Bungie Day- its playlist.[/url] Bungie gave off 328 sets of Recon armor for beating them. Over 700 for the secret criteria (back off bub! I said I'd never tell- read the update I gave you if you want to know what the criteria was!). That's over 1,000 sets now. HOWEVER: I would like to call attention to [url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=34939702&postRepeater1-p=3#34953251]this link right here. The one you should be clicking. If you haven't clicked it all ready you're obviously in need of something to do so you can haz cheezburger. Then come back and click this link. Lazy bastard.[/url] I don't think I need to explain that link. [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU071709]Here we are: Bungie on account security, especially with Regards to people who have recently obtained recon. Unfortunately common sense seems harder to come by these days. Ah well.[/url] [b][u][i]NOW THEN: That was all the weekly updates. Now I'm going to list the Bungie Blog references! Joyous! This consisted of me going through 73 pages of Bungie Blog Entries. This took me to December of 2007. Man, the Blog has been a lot more active these last two year, huh?[/b][/u][/i] [url=http://www.bungie.net/news/content.aspx?type=news&cid=13024]Bungie tries to tempt the masses to let them win the 1UP GOTY awards using, of course, Recon[/url]. [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=13800]Scarring Frankie. One word to describe it: Recon[/url]. Wait wat? Oh. Right. That was Frankie's last photoshop here on Bnet, as he left Bungie. It was really sad for many of us fans. You can find a link to the weekly update, Frankie's last one, in my last link. That includes the last ever official Mister Chief drawing. [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=13989]On a happier note, I was pleased to discover that cheating with Bungie employees to get their 1000 GS might get you Recon! Go for it people[/url]! (Not really. No, seriously don't. Urk, Stosh, Shishka, Achronos, Killane... none of those guys would ever let me live it down if they started getting a bunch of those PMs). [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=14291]Bungie guys to to an MLG event and some kids shamelessly try for Recon. Come on guys what's with that?...[/url] No not the Recon people. The MLG event! Show BUNGLE some love! Oh wait, BUNGLE wasn't around then ah well. You guys need to think ahead more. Clearly. *nods head sagely* [Edited on 07.07.2011 8:11 PM PDT]
