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Afaik it have always been the intention that we should be able to go without a Helmet (and take increased Headshot damage when doing so), but it isn't exactly a high priority or even a medium priority ^^
Sorry mate, got canceled due balancing the game (haha). No seriously, soon(tm) via RTC-store with ridiculous prices (hahaha). But don't expect something like the Table Top miniatures (hahaha, OK I stop now, I'm in a too sarcastic mood atm)
Making $$ is a priority. I can imagine a lot of players would easily drop $10 to $20 bucks PER CHARACTER on various head, hair, service studs, ocular implant options for their character.
It will never happen. The only faction with -1- face and a few easy to make cosmetic modifications (teeth) for it are orks. The reason is that they have a small face, which is 80% covered by the mandatory gobs and helmets and hats and dont need any facial expressions or any additional care. Furthermore they are "ugly" green Xenos, so people by default have a very low astethic standard and exspectations. Human and Eldar faces are simply not there techwise and would need to be developed from scratch and then they would need to hold up against the industry standard of shooters like ghost recon wildlands or people would just complain about it forever. How likely is that? I mean different facial expressions and headsizes, haircolors, beards, eye color, skin color, hair lenght and cuts, just to name a few would all be required to appease the masses and prevent many dissatisfied customers. Afterall you want a face to look human and to look distinguishable. So standard face 1 joe astartes wont cut it. A whole can of worms. Not to mention the first exspected posts of an eldar saying "my banshee has red hair all the way down her back but when i spin and flip it is not moving at all.... Plx fix!!!1111 Or the first person citing some wh40k lore how inhabitants of a certain planet are indeed asian looking, taller, thinner, etc. In comparison they could get you a new helmet which is mostly copy and paste and has a far better designtime/RTC income value. Since every haircolor would be a new skin. Giving 100 options and pricing them all 1k and selling 5000 of them nets only a fraction as selling 5000 of 5 helms which cost 5k each and can be done in 10% of the time.
Oh how i would love to have helmless characters... Yes, i would drop 10-20€ on that, just to have that look. But i don't think this will ever happen. Either never, or soon after Open World get's implemented. But a man can dream, eh?
PETA is going to bash BE for putting wolf pelt on Space Wolves, kek. And if for 20 bucks I could the option to personalize my look (outside armor I mean), I would gladly pay. So I will be able to stomp or be stomp with style.
