Prestige recon helmet
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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
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
- thingCategories
- ArmorHeadgear
- thingSetMakerTags
- RewardStandardHighFreq
- defaultOutfitTags
- Soldier
- tags
- PrestigeCombatGear
- tradeTags
- HiTechArmor
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.
- 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