Okay guys, this may sound stupid, but before I can close the chapter of halo 3 I want to get recon, I have all the vid masters, I just forgot to do it a long time ago, is there any way of completing the road to recon still?
Apparently, the H3 Recon armor unlock was tied to Bungie and their servers. Bungie gave Recon to everyone before they pulled the plug regardless whether the player had completed the vidmasters or not. So, if you weren’t online with Bungie prior to March 2012, you may be SOL.
I completed the vidmasters in August 2013, but I already had Recon armor that was handed out by Bungie more than a year earlier. I just did them to get 100% ODST achievements (which were great fun, by the way). My fileshare has some great screenshots made after our H3 4 player ghost run.
What LateMinotaur051 said is not entirely true. Yes Bungie had the button on Bungie.net that unlocked Recon when the “Road to Recon” challenge was going on. But the challenge didn’t cross over to 343 after they took control. Because of this as 343 were also handing out Recon in waves to everyone for a while but then stopped.
But it was confirmed a few months ago by BS Angel on Twitter that Recon armour is no longer available in Halo 3, regardless of whether you have the Vidmaster achievements or not.