Recon is my favourite Shell to play as in Marathon, so I was surprised to learn that she is considered one of the weaker characters in Bungie's extraction shooter. This is true both for the PC Gamer team and, apparently, Bungie themselves. Yesterday, game director Joe Ziegler revealed that Marathon's intelligence-focussed Shell would be getting "more oomph", alongside other changes like similar buffs for Vandal and a nerf to Marathon's knife.
Ziegler didn't reveal the specifics behind the Shell tweaks, intending to save them for when their respective patches arrive. But in the spirit of Recon, players' desire for knowledge was simply too strong for Bungie to resist, as the developer has offered a sneak peek at the changes coming to the shooter's weakest shell.
