Do the faction skins in Star Wars Battlefront give any advantages or disadvantages to the player? Such as increasing the hitboxes, making it much easier to get headshots on players with the Twi'lek or Sallustian skins. And for the Scout Trooper and Shadow Trooper, give better vision, for the scout, and turn invisible with the Shadow Trooper? I am not at a high enough level to purchase these skins yet, but was curious so I can spend credits wisely.
Star Wars Battlefront 2015 – Do Skins Provide Any Perks?
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Short answer: it decreases the y-wing run length, depending on when you shoot it down.
The first time I shot one down, I got curious about this and played around with it a lot. Here's generally what I've figured out:
Shooting down the y-wing will reduce that y-wing's amount of time it has contributed to the overall y-wing run. If you look closely at the graphic at the top of the screen during the y-wing run, you'll notice the "current" y-wing has a small cooldown that slowly runs out before the next one makes it's run.
That remaining time is what will be removed from the y-wing run if you shoot down the y-wing, meaning if you shoot it early in its flight, the whole time can be removed, but shooting later yields less of a reward.
Note: As mentioned by @Mufasa, there is also an achievement for shooting down one of the y-wings.
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Why choose the DLT-19 over the RT-97C?, Reddit - Battlefront subreddit
I think it's right to say that RT-97C is more powerful and has tighter spread (starting and maximum). In theory it will drop a DLT-19 user if both go at each other from 10 m. However, it's looks more like a burst-fire weapon at medium range. It gets less accurate quicker than DLT-19 per shot, but it stabilises quicker too. Has minimal side to side and bigger upwards kick than DLT-19.
DLT-19 looks like the more 'spray and pray' weapon of the two (there's just no real penalty from holding down the trigger), with slower spread build up and less of a upward kick, thus feels more predictable and reliable. RT-97C has a bit more damage (1 'blast' less on average, assuming you stay on target) meaning you can come up victorious in CQC if you learn to control it and it offers great accuracy as long as you keep tap-firing it.
I've got the RT-97C yesterday and I'm sort of getting the hang of it. As long as I manage to control I can win with DLT-19 users in 1 v 1 and drop targets that I would find difficult with DLT-19 at longer range. However, one small mistake and you will easily miss a 'blast' or two that wouldn't happen with the DLT-19. It's definitely good and if you're willing to master it you will give you a slight edge over DLT-19.
Great statistic to remember:
Base spread
DLT-19 - 0.5
RT-97C - 0.1With spread per shot:
DLT-19 - 0.025
RT-97C - 0.15So RT-97C has amazing accuracy with the first few shots, but after that it can easily get more inaccurate, but will not go over 1.0 (which it will reach after 6 hots). DLT-19 will go to a maximum of 1.475 without start cards (max is 2.0, but it goes up by 0.975 after 39 shots before overheating from the base of 0.5), meaning that overall RT-97C should be considered more accurate, but it increases the spread much faster.
I own the game but I really don't play that much, but I can say that the RT-97C is better than the DLT-19 in terms of rapid fire when shooting.
But DLT-19 is a good starter blaster.
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Definitely the camouflage factor would be the reason here -- the stormtrooper/snowtrooper outfits are damn near impossible to see on the ice worlds, but easy as anything to spot on Endor. The opposite is true for the Rebel outfits (somewhat, as they are not totally one color). I personally bought a stormtrooper outfit that doesn't wear a helmet, hoping that the blaring white body suit was diminished by the fact that they saw my face, giving pause to firing at me (with little to no success of course). I do try to change my skin to match the environment for any advantage though.