Star Wars Outlawshas quite a few different gear sets to collect in the game, each of them coming with their own unique bonuses that really affect how the game plays. Each of these gear sets has its own style, too, though for some of these, there are multiple style sets to collect that have the same effect.
Some of these gear sets hit their stride more often than others; some only come into effect in specific situations, where others are more multipurpose and can be useful no matter what you’re doing at the time.
11Ruffian
The Ruffian gear set is found around the galaxy. When you’ve run out of grenades and haven’t been in combat for a while, this gear provides you with one grenade, free of charge.
While this can save you some money in the long run if you’re buying a lot of grenades, you’re able to often find grenades throughout combat encounters with great ease. Not to mention, Nix can steal grenades from Stormtroopers without too much trouble.
10Boonta Brawler
The Boonta Brawler set is obtained by maxing out your reputation with the Hutts. This set increases the adrenaline you get when you defeat enemies using grenades and gives you one grenade for each enemy you defeat using your Adrenaline Rush. The second bonus here requiresgood standing with the Hutts, or it won’t go into effect.
This is not useful, it’s going to be incredible; you’ll be able to clear a room almost immediately. But there are a lot of situations where it just isn’t going to do you much good.
9Imperial Disguise
The Imperial Disguise set is obtained by maxing out your reputation with the Pyke’s. This set increases your ability to avoid being detected by Imperials and allows you tolose your wanted statusquite a bit faster. The second bonus requires good Pyke standing to go into effect.
This is another gear set that is fantastic in the right situation, but that right situation isn’t always. If you aren’t dealing with Imperials, there is absolutely no need to use this set. If you are dealing with Imperials, and especially if you’re trying to stealth around them, this set is going to work wonders.
8Kijimi Explorer
The Kijimi Explorer set is obtained by maxing out your reputation with the Ashiga Clan. This set significantly reduces the damage that you take when your health is low, and defeating enemies while your health is low triggers your blaster Super Cooling. The second bonus requires good standing with the Ashiga Clan, otherwise it won’t go into effect.
The first bonus here is quite nice in a pinch, though ideally, you don’t need it to activate. It can save you from dying when things have gone bad, and it will save things from getting worse, but it doesn’t stop things from going bad in the first place.
7Scoundrel
The Scoundrel gear set greatly increases the window to Super Cool your blaster and charges the first shot to deal double damage, after Super Cooling. For someone who’s overheating their blaster often, whether on accident or purpose, this gear set could be quite a benefit to you.
While it’s not always ideal to overheat your blaster, if you’ve got the cover to deal with it, it can be more advantageous than a downside, in certain situations. That double damage shot can eliminate an enemy in a shorter window of you being out of cover than normal, even if it takes you waiting to Super Cool your blaster for an extra second from safety.
6Survivalist
The Survivalist gear set can be extremely nice, allowing depleted health chunks to slowly regenerate over time. It’s never fun to be down one health chunk and feel like you should probably use a Bacta Vial to get to full health in case something catastrophic happens, but also feel like you’re kind of wasting the vial.
This gear set is going to make than a non-issue. While Bacta Vials are pretty easy to find throughout combat, you also end up using them during combat quite often, too. And they aren’t always in a place where they’re easy to grab.
5Gunslinger
The Gunslinger gear set ensures that your Adrenaline Rush no longer consumes adrenaline. The Adrenaline Rush ability is massively powerful, and getting to use it more often is only a boon.
There is no real downside to this armor. It’s a pretty straightforward bonus, but that bonus is fantastic for combat. That said, if you’re looking to do anything other than blast enemies, you’ll want to look elsewhere for a gear set.
4Crimson Reign
The Crimson Reign gear set requires obtaining maximum reputation with Crimson Reign. This gear set causes you to recharge a Stun Shot when enemies are caught within a Smoke Bomb, and conversely, hitting an enemy with a Stun Shot recharges your Smoke Bomb. The second effect requires at least good standing with Crimson Reign.
This is a little bit of a Looney Tunes perk, allowing you to rotate between Stun Shot and Smoke Bomb in a cartoonishly fun and effective loop. The Stun Shot puts many enemies down in one hit, so the more you can use it, the better.
3Disruptor
The Disruptor gear set enables ion damage to kill enemies that have already been ionized. The ion blaster mode generally doesn’t work too effectively on the flesh-and-blood enemies of Outlaws, and this changes that fact.
On launch, this was an unobtainable gear set for PlayStation 5 players due to a bug.
This allows you to two-burst enemies; the first burst ionizes them, and the second burst puts them down, permanently. This can dramatically hasten your time-to-kill and make you a lot more effective in battle.
2Thief
If you’re stealthing in an area, there is no better option than the Thief gear set, apart from when you’re stealthing into an Imperial area, in which case the Imperial gear would be best. In any other stealth situation, this gear is going to outperform everything else.
Enemies in Star Wars Outlaws are a lot better at seeing you and tracking you down than a lot of other stealth games, and any bonus that you can obtain that makes it harder for them to do so is going to make a big difference, especially in the auto-fail stealth missions.
