Star Wars Battlefront has finally introduced a general helmet requirement for the Death Star update for Stormtroopers! This has finally fulfilled an old demand from many fans!
Star Wars Battlefront offered a remarkably diverse selection of faces for your character. Therefore, we were also allowed to customize our Stormtrooper avatars on the Empire’s side. In order for everyone to see the character, there was also the option to hide the stormtrooper helmets. However, this was for many Star Wars fans worse than Episodes 1-3 combined!
Stormtrooper – only real with helmet!
Because especially Stormtroopers as a faceless army of blindly obedient soldiers of an evil regime are an important element of the Star Wars aesthetic. After all, we never see a trooper without a helmet in the entire classical trilogy, and even in Episode VII, only the defector Finn is shown without a helmet. Helmets and Stormies are therefore said to belong together by many Star Wars fans!
With the last update, playable characters have come to the Empire that are traditionally helmetless imperial officers, allowing us to give them the diverse faces that the troopers had before. The Stormtroopers, however, now only come in the imperial standard look with helmet.
What do you think about the helmet requirement for Stormtroopers? Did it always bother you that the soldiers of the Empire used to charge into battle without helmets? Does this improve the Star Wars atmosphere? Or did you actually like the feature and regret the developers’ decision because you wanted to see Stormtroopers as humans and not as faceless cannon fodder? Let us know and write it in the comments!
