Recon helmet
Recon helmet
A high-tech armored helmet with a built-in status computer and a protective plasteel-weave plate. Armor like this is often used by imperial scout troops or glitterworld police forces.
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%
- Lifestage
- Adult
- Coverage
- Head, Left Eye, Right Eye, Left Ear, Right Ear, Nose, Jaw
- Layer
- Headgear
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Recon armor
- Skill Required
- Crafting 6
- Work To Make
- 15,750 ticks (4.38 mins)
- Resources to make
30 + 
1
- Has Quality
- True
- thingCategories
- ArmorHeadgear
- thingSetMakerTags
- RewardStandardHighFreq
- defaultOutfitTags
- Soldier
- tags
- SpacerMilitary
- tradeTags
- HiTechArmor
A Recon helmet is a full-head power armor helmet that forms a full set along with the Recon armor.
Acquisition
Recon helmets can be crafted at a Fabrication bench once the Recon armor research project has been completed. They require 30 Plasteel, 1 Advanced component, 15,750 ticks (4.38 mins) of work, and a Crafting skill of 6.
Alternatively, the armor can be received as a quest reward, purchased from outlander and Empire 
traders and faction bases, or found on Imperial Janissaries and other Raiders.[Which?]
Analysis
Recon helmets are the first helmet since the neolithic war masks to offer complete face protection. It is preferable to both simple helmets and flak helmets, with superior coverage and a higher armor rating than even a plasteel flak helmet. The main downside is the advanced component required to make each helmet, and competition from the other power armor helmets.
The marine helmet costs only 10 plasteel more, and the cataphract helmet, 20 plasteel. Once you've researched and are capable of making the heavier helmets, there is little reason to make a recon helmet. Unlike the body armors, none of the helmets slow movement speed. It is often worth to wait until you've finished researching Marine armor and just make marine helmets instead. Note that, in order to research Cataphract armor, you will need to obtain 2 techprints first.
A recon helmet is roughly equal to a marine helmet 1 quality level lower (i.e. a normal recon helmet ~= poor marine helmet, etc.), or a cataphract helmet 2 qualities lower. Thus, if you've obtained a particularly high quality recon helmet, then it is worth using.
Stats table
 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) | 260  |
| Poor | 73.6% | 32% | 36.8% | 120 | -3.6 °C (-6.5 °F) | +1.8 °C (3.2 °F) | 395 |
| Normal | 92% | 40% | 46% | 120 | -4 °C (-7.2 °F) | +2 °C (3.6 °F) | 525 |
| Good | 105.8% | 46% | 52.9% | 120 | -4.4 °C (-7.9 °F) | +2.2 °C (4 °F) | 655 |
| Excellent | 119.6% | 52% | 59.8% | 120 | -4.8 °C (-8.6 °F) | +2.4 °C (4.3 °F) | 785 |
| Masterwork | 133.4% | 58% | 66.7% | 120 | -6 °C (-10.8 °F) | +3 °C (5.4 °F) | 1310 |
| Legendary | 165.6% | 72% | 82.8% | 120 | -7.2 °C (-13 °F) | +3.6 °C (6.5 °F) | 2625 |
For the full effects of qualities, see Quality.
Styles
 | This article relates to content added by Ideology (DLC). Please note that it will not be present without the DLC enabled. |
Ideoligions allow the selection of styles which then change the texture of the certain items and buildings when constructed by the colony. These style variants can be crafted if the colony has the selected style, or can be looted from raiders from factions with the requisite style.
Base variant
Animalist variant
Morbid variant
Totemic variant
Trivia
Every recon helmet found on an Imperial Janissary will be black.
Version history
- 1.1.0 - Added.
- 1.1.2647 - No longer meets the clothing requirement of nobles, replaced in that role by Prestige recon helmet.
- 1.2.2753 - Icons of spacer armor now display as off-white instead of dark gray.
See Also
- Prestige recon helmet - a variant of the recon helmet that both pleases nobles and improves psychic ability.
- 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