Board Thread:Off-topic discussion/@comment-39814790-20200221172851/@comment-44011273-20200427195409

Elliottw wrote:

Sorry if I'm nitpicking. But if you're going to speculate, speculate correctly. Like real Nerfers 😉 I mean if ya wanna play that game.

Repaint and reskin are synonymous terms. They refer to a change in the aesthetics and/or paint/color scheme of a blaster, while internals are left unchanged. The "skin" of a blaster. While the word reshell refers to a change in the actual shell of a blaster. As far as this goes there are two options: functional reshells and actual reshells. Functional ones involve either similar internals or function of another blaster, while actual ones are new shells but with identical internals.

The Modulus Stryfe is a reskin/repaint of a Elite Stryfe, the paint has changed, but the internals have not. The fortnite AR (whatever reskin) is a functional reshell of a stryfe. The Rapid Glow is an actual reshell of a retaliator because it uses the same internals.

But on the topic of the Turbine = Rapidstrike debate. I agree I'm not 100% sure it will be a rekinned Rapidstrike. The listing was translated, so it is possible some aspect was lost in translation. It may be refering to a reshell of the rapidstrike platform, same loveable function ina new shell. It might be refering to a reskinned rapidstrike that has some yet unknown change that is part of the Elite 2.0 line. We don't know yet. But we can speculate, as long as we don't take that speculation as fact.