I would love that option so much!!! I also hope that as far as helments go we have alot of variation. Much more so than we had in Space marine multiplayer while there was some good customization options to me every helments with the exception of the custom skin one had a very vanilla feeling to them
I Let's hope that if there is its not all prefab parts to form a face (like in dragon ball xenoverse for example) and that we can actually customize face demintions like in skyrim and other rpgs. I really don't want to run around and find 10 other people in a squad with out helments that look just like I do.
That brings up a valid point. Some one mentioned that going hementless may give your squad a bonus, does that mean that headshots would be an insta kill? If that's the case then not many people would be doing it that's for sure lol
As I said earlier, in 40k lore there is high tech to protect one self without wearing the helment. You see it all the time, Abaddon is one of them. The most hated man by the Imperium, I don't think he has to worry about getting sniper shot in the head. There is halo shields, force fields etc.. that protect you. I would like to customize my character face in the game, similar to Star Wars of the Old Republic by Bioware. Even give us different type of helments looking like a spartan helm. Here is the face I modded for the Space Marine game, I wanted something badass like two face terminator. Gave him red eyes, tattoos on his face of the Dark Angels. Even the Joker face as well like in my avatar lol. Be awesome if they let us upload our own Chapter or Clan badges like in Dawn of War.
Cosmetics for helmets are a lot easier to pull off and i expect to see many more options for it as oppose to features for going helmetless. I'm expecting to see things like manly space wolf beards, corroded chaos faces and wild banshee hair but i predict they'll be the exception rather than the norm. Planetside 2 for instance has a helmetless option (granted it's not a free option funnily enough) and i can probably count with both hands the total number of times I've seen someone not wearing a helmet. I really don't think we'll be seeing legions of balding marines running around.
One issue I can see coming up (Getting into the "Lore-friendly" stuff here so bear with me) is how space marines are portrayed in the books. They're all individuals and therefore look different but there is always a common theme such as the shape of the head, the broad face, ect. So in the realm of a game where looking closely at your characters face may not come up too often the only way to differentiate yourself at a distance is through very strange/highly visual alterations to the face or hair. The problem I see is that isn't very common with the regular space marines, hell most of them are shaved bald simply for comfort in their helmet. There are exceptions like the white scars or the space wolves but the only way I can see you implementing a full-scale customization that people will like (I.E.: My character is obviously my character and no one else really looks quite like him) without totally separating this from the lore is going to be tough to say the least. Maybe not for the chaos players since ostentation isn't uncommon in the lore for them. Besides bionics and maybe tattoos I can't see a good middle-ground solution but then again these are just my thoughts on this topic. And everything doesn't have to be 100% lore friendly all the time in my opinion, just to clear that up. If it were that hard up on the lore the game probably wouldn't last long.
