Hmm...I love the Recon, but my opinion is quite the opposite of this guide. Firstly, let's clear the air on this: Red is Dead procs from weapons that reveal. Laser sights can proc it. As for Pups, I find that Guard Dogs isn't as powerful as having a dedicated CC class, like a Doc or a Techie. I personally like regular Pups for general situations, but Blood Hounds is just the Best for higher difficulties. The ability to perma slow elite enemies, with a 25% def shred is Insane. (no pun intended) This is especially true against Stalkers and Brutes, and also serves as a permanent 30% slow on the Pathogen Queen. As for weapons, my personal favourites are the Twilight/Scout Rifle for the Rifle Slot, and the Plasma Charger/Pump Shotgun for the CQW slot. Mind you, I also take quite a few CQW perks as well.
I don’t think you need all the duration. Just equip a long haul and an extended duration 3 and you’ll get the max ammo clips (4). Also, IMO of course, I’d rather my recon equip damage boosts for his own gun than combined arms. The benefits it grants are pretty slim for a 4 slot perk.
I run extended duration 1 on the support drone and consistently get 3 packs of ammo. So if you can live with one less ammo pack per use, you can put the other duration perks on the pups and use the headshots on revealed targets to cool down the support drone.
I dont think your build is very optimised. With back in the fight and threat neutralized, you dont need any ability recharge on your drones. And yes, having lets say a tac scope on your twilight will help reduce your cooldowns with this perk. I just use extended duration 1 on my drone, as that guarantees 3 ammunition clips and that is usually more than enough. If you're using best friend, i would use threat detected as that accuracy boost is permanent and when using shotguns it tightens the spread. Generally if you're a decent shot, the more accurate your shotgun, the more consistent your damage. Combined armed tactics is a very big perk for such a meh effect. Focus only needs a one space perk to make it great, unbreakable focus. If you're a good shot with a twilight, or using an accurate shotgun, headshots are easy to get even on insane. That reload boost can be handy. Bloodhound is incredibly good on insane. Thats a 25% damage boost on highlighted targets, 35% as long as you have red is dead. Painkillers is a huge waste of two perk slots. 10% damage resistance is miniscule. Uping the damage of your recon through weapon perks, which you can have a decent amount of space on a recon to do so, just complements back in the fight/got your back. If you're killing more enemies, it's more likely you're going to activate them. Also uping your DPS, is never a bad thing. Been times when a level feels harder than normal, enemies breaking through.. to find the recon has about 50 kills. Depends on what level im playing, but usually tech training, gunner mastery and tech mastery for cqw makes most shotguns much more beastly. If for twilight, the very least i have is demo training, gunner expertise (it says for auto rifles but it still works on dmrs) and doc mastery makes the twilight feel much better to use.
Im not sure you have the right idea for this class you dont need to buff drone you buff pups and you use original variation with 30% slow speed debuff all i play is recon man
I have several Recon builds, some of which focus on PUPS. Best Friend is amazing with the right comp especially; the reload speed alone is fantastic. On top of that, not at least buffing your Drone to get 1 extra ammo drop is a no brainer. I play each class extensively, and while I make guides, I make sure to stress in each one that it's all about what feels best for the individual. They are guides, not the law lol
what else is there to do after you max out all the classes? im struggiling to find more things to grind, it feels pointless doing missions getting 0xp for the class and gun im using. occasionally ill unlock a new perk or cosmetic ive never gotten before, but overall i feel like there was a very short lived wall ive hit after no lifing this game on layoff haha
Good to know, I wasn't 100% on that one. It does seem like a bit of overkill though. You save a lot of grid space just using Duration 1 and getting 3 drops I've found.
Super weird build and logic. I don't think anyone who runs this build will be successful without major teammate play style fits. I play with randoms with no coms and this build would have me dead in the first room. js
Hmm...I love the Recon, but my opinion is quite the opposite of this guide.
Firstly, let's clear the air on this: Red is Dead procs from weapons that reveal. Laser sights can proc it.
As for Pups, I find that Guard Dogs isn't as powerful as having a dedicated CC class, like a Doc or a Techie.
I personally like regular Pups for general situations, but Blood Hounds is just the Best for higher difficulties.
The ability to perma slow elite enemies, with a 25% def shred is Insane. (no pun intended)
This is especially true against Stalkers and Brutes, and also serves as a permanent 30% slow on the Pathogen Queen.
As for weapons, my personal favourites are the Twilight/Scout Rifle for the Rifle Slot, and the Plasma Charger/Pump Shotgun for the CQW slot.
Mind you, I also take quite a few CQW perks as well.
I don’t think you need all the duration. Just equip a long haul and an extended duration 3 and you’ll get the max ammo clips (4). Also, IMO of course, I’d rather my recon equip damage boosts for his own gun than combined arms. The benefits it grants are pretty slim for a 4 slot perk.
I run extended duration 1 on the support drone and consistently get 3 packs of ammo. So if you can live with one less ammo pack per use, you can put the other duration perks on the pups and use the headshots on revealed targets to cool down the support drone.
Just an idea though, great vid tg
Yeah this. I didn’t know that. So run extended 1 OR long haul and extended 3 for 4 packs.
Great ideas my dude. I'll have to try that out. Thanks for watching!
I dont think your build is very optimised. With back in the fight and threat neutralized, you dont need any ability recharge on your drones. And yes, having lets say a tac scope on your twilight will help reduce your cooldowns with this perk.
I just use extended duration 1 on my drone, as that guarantees 3 ammunition clips and that is usually more than enough.
If you're using best friend, i would use threat detected as that accuracy boost is permanent and when using shotguns it tightens the spread. Generally if you're a decent shot, the more accurate your shotgun, the more consistent your damage.
Combined armed tactics is a very big perk for such a meh effect.
Focus only needs a one space perk to make it great, unbreakable focus. If you're a good shot with a twilight, or using an accurate shotgun, headshots are easy to get even on insane. That reload boost can be handy.
Bloodhound is incredibly good on insane. Thats a 25% damage boost on highlighted targets, 35% as long as you have red is dead.
Painkillers is a huge waste of two perk slots. 10% damage resistance is miniscule.
Uping the damage of your recon through weapon perks, which you can have a decent amount of space on a recon to do so, just complements back in the fight/got your back. If you're killing more enemies, it's more likely you're going to activate them. Also uping your DPS, is never a bad thing. Been times when a level feels harder than normal, enemies breaking through.. to find the recon has about 50 kills. Depends on what level im playing, but usually tech training, gunner mastery and tech mastery for cqw makes most shotguns much more beastly. If for twilight, the very least i have is demo training, gunner expertise (it says for auto rifles but it still works on dmrs) and doc mastery makes the twilight feel much better to use.
I'll try this build. Nice job.
thx. build. happy new year! :)
Hi, could you say me which card pack is better to get extra attachment cards?? Thnks
Good build, where/how do you unlock the Best Friend ability replacer? I have maxed out Recon and still do not have that
It's from completing the Pathogen campaign on any difficulty
@@TGWhitta ty ty 🙏
Do you plan on making a Phalanx Pathogen Insane setup out of curiosity?
Yep I sure do. It's coming soon 😃
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Im not sure you have the right idea for this class you dont need to buff drone you buff pups and you use original variation with 30% slow speed debuff all i play is recon man
I have several Recon builds, some of which focus on PUPS. Best Friend is amazing with the right comp especially; the reload speed alone is fantastic. On top of that, not at least buffing your Drone to get 1 extra ammo drop is a no brainer.
I play each class extensively, and while I make guides, I make sure to stress in each one that it's all about what feels best for the individual. They are guides, not the law lol
what else is there to do after you max out all the classes? im struggiling to find more things to grind, it feels pointless doing missions getting 0xp for the class and gun im using. occasionally ill unlock a new perk or cosmetic ive never gotten before, but overall i feel like there was a very short lived wall ive hit after no lifing this game on layoff haha
Buy everything from the store?
Just play the game what do u even mean go harder difficulty
I mean the only thing you do at that point is play for fun lol. Hopefully we get more content soon
U only need +38% Ability duration for 4 ammo drops
Good to know, I wasn't 100% on that one. It does seem like a bit of overkill though. You save a lot of grid space just using Duration 1 and getting 3 drops I've found.
is there going to be a phalanx build?
There sure is. Next week for sure. I had a lot of work to do with other games 😋
@@TGWhitta sweet. I've been using this builds to get back in after a while. nice work
Super weird build and logic. I don't think anyone who runs this build will be successful without major teammate play style fits. I play with randoms with no coms and this build would have me dead in the first room. js
Works for me bruv 😁 all I run these days in pugs on Insane
ive never seen u be recon
I've been playing it more and more. Having a lot of fun experimenting