Prestige recon helmet

Prestige recon helmet

A high-tech armored helmet with a built-in status computer and a protective plasteel-weave plate.
Expensive and beautiful, prestige armor like this is usually made for those of high status. Embedded eltex threads also enhance the wearer's psychic sensitivity.

Base Stats

Type

Gear – Armor

Market Value

715 

Mass

1 kg

HP

120

Apparel

Insulation - Cold

4 °C (7.2 °F)

Insulation - Heat

2 °C (3.6 °F)

Armor - Sharp

92%

Armor - Blunt

40%

Armor - Heat

46%

Coverage

Head, Left Ear, Right Ear, Left Eye, Right Eye, Nose, Jaw

Layer

Headgear

Creation

Work To Make

15,750 ticks (4.38 mins)

Resources to make

40 + 1 + 40

A Prestige recon helmet is a full-head power armor helmet introduced by the Royalty DLC that forms a full set along with the Prestige recon armor. It combines the defensive ability of the recon helmet with additional the psychic boosts and noble-pleasing of Eltex apparel.

Acquisition

As a complicated piece of technology, Recon Helmets can only be made at the Fabrication bench and requires Recon Armor to be researched in order to be constructed. Crafting the helmet requires 40 plasteel, 1 advanced component and 4 gold.

Analysis

The prestige recon helmet improves a pawns Psychic Sensitivity by 5%, and improves the neural heat recovery rate by 0.033 heat per second. This primarily improves a pawns psychic power, but note that it also makes them more susceptible to psycasts themselves, as well as psychic drones. This increase is inferior to the Eltex helmet that the prestige recon helmet replaces, but in exchange it is significantly more protective.

Protection-wise, the prestige marine recon is exactly as defensive as the regular recon helmet. Recon helmets are the lowest tier of the three power armored helmets, the other two being the Marine helmet and the Cataphract helmet. As such they're both significantly cheaper and have fewer research requirements, while also offering significantly less protection. While they have the same full head coverage, the recon helmet is roughly equivalent to a Marine Helmet one quality level below (e.g. a Normal Recon Helmet ~= Poor Marine Helmet), or a cataphract helmet two quality levels below.

Compared to the non-power armored helmets like the Simple and Flak helmet, the recon helmet is almost totally superior. It offers superior coverage, covering the face as well as the head, has a higher armor rating than even a plasteel flak helmet and requires 20 less plasteel to construct, however it does require a relatively rare advanced component instead of two of the more common components.

War veils and war masks provide identical coverage, but even with high level materials, they only offer a fraction of the sharp and blunt protection.

Prestige recon helmets also appease the headwear requirements of all nobles.

Stats table

Prestige recon helmet	Sharp	Blunt	Heat	HP	Insulation - Cold	Insulation - Heat	Market Value
Quality
Awful	55.2%	24%	27.6%	120	-3.2 °C (-5.8 °F)	+1.6 °C (2.9 °F)	355
Poor	73.6%	32%	36.8%	120	-3.6 °C (-6.5 °F)	+1.8 °C (3.2 °F)	535
Normal	92%	40%	46%	120	-4 °C (-7.2 °F)	+2 °C (3.6 °F)	715
Good	105.8%	46%	52.9%	120	-4.4 °C (-7.9 °F)	+2.2 °C (4 °F)	895
Excellent	119.6%	52%	59.8%	120	-4.8 °C (-8.6 °F)	+2.4 °C (4.3 °F)	1070
Masterwork	133.4%	58%	66.7%	120	-6 °C (-10.8 °F)	+3 °C (5.4 °F)	1785
Legendary	165.6%	72%	82.8%	120	-7.2 °C (-13 °F)	+3.6 °C (6.5 °F)	3575

^{For the full effects of qualities, see Quality.}

Stat	Increase
Psychic Sensitivity	+5%
Neural Heat Limit	+4
Neural Heat Recovery Rate	+0.033

Version history

• 1.1.2647: Added

See Also

• Recon helmet - the base model. Identical protection, but not acceptable to nobles and offers no improvement to psychic abilities.

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Apparel

Torso | Clothing

Button-down shirt • T-shirt (Kid ) • Tribalwear (Kid )

Corset • Eltex shirt • Eltex vest • Formal vest • Formal shirt

Slave collar

Sash • Kid romper

Armor

Flak vest

Legs | Clothing

Pants (Kid )

Armor

Flak pants

Shell | Clothing

Duster • Jacket • Parka (Kid ) • Robe

Cape • Eltex robe • Prestige robe

Burka • Slave body strap

Heavy bandolier

Lab coat

Armor

Flak jacket • Marine armor (Prestige , Grenadier ) • Plate armor • Recon armor (Prestige , Locust , Mechlord ) • Cataphract armor (Prestige , Phoenix )

Head | Clothing

Bowler hat • Cowboy hat • Hood • Psychic foil helmet • Tuque • Tribal headdress • Veil • War mask

Beret • Coronet • Crown • Eltex helmet • Eltex skullcap • Ladies hat • Stellic crown • Top hat

Authority cap • Blindfold • Broadwrap • Flophat • Headwrap • Shadecone • Slicecap • Tailcap • Torture crown • Visage mask

Airwire headset • Array headset • Gas mask • Face mask

Ceremonial hood • Ritual mask

Armor

Flak helmet • Marine helmet (Prestige/Samurai helmet ) • Recon helmet (Prestige , Mechlord ) • Simple helmet (Kid ) • Cataphract helmet (Prestige ) • Gunlink • Integrator headset • Mechcommander helmet