Recon
Recons use intel as a weapon.
Everything about Recon shells is geared toward identifying threats and providing insight into enemy locations and movements: Mark hostiles. Track wounded targets. Deploy a tracker drone to engage threats in unexpected ways.
[excerpt, UESC threat eval: rnnr.rcn.fileID38406c_p471]
Abilities
Prime and tactical abilities recharge; traits are always on.
Echo Pulse
Prime abilityActivate your shell's advanced detection systems, releasing a series of sonar pulses in your aim direction that reveal the location of nearby hostiles.
Non-Runner hostiles pinged by Echo Pulse are staggered and cannot use abilities for a short time.
Tracker Drone
Tactical abilityDeploy a mechanized microbot that tracks down nearby hostiles and explodes, Overheating any targets caught in the blast.
Interrogation
TraitWhen pinged by a hostile Runner, you automatically receive a warning in your shell's HUD.
Performing a finisher on a Runner pings their crew.
Stalker Protocol
TraitAfter breaking a target's shields, they leave behind a lingering holographic trail for a short time.
Cores
Cores that only Recon can equip.
Performing a finisher grants tactical and prime ability energy.
Your Tracker Drone detonates into shrapnel submunitions that explode on impact, dealing additional damage.
You receive an alert on your HUD when a hostile Runner is nearby.
Your Echo Pulse releases additional pulses. Defeating hostiles recently pinged by your Echo Pulse returns prime ability energy.
UESC Target Acquisition Devices that you access remain active for longer and release additional ping pulses.
Your Tracker Drone travels faster and further before automatically detonating.
Each target pinged by your Echo Pulse briefly grants a stacking bonus to your weapons' ready speed, reload speed, and stability.
Your Interrogation trait now triggers when you down a hostile Runner.
The trail left by your Stalker Protocol lasts much longer. Defeating hostiles affected by your Stalker Protocol reduces your generated heat.
Gain increased sprint speed and heat cooldown rate when your Tracker Drone attacks a target. Your Tracker Drone Overheats targets for an increased duration.
Skins
Rendered from each skin's own models and textures (body, head and hood).
![Astrophage [356]](/games/marathon/icons/r2-fig-80a9eccc.webp){kind=icon}
