You are absolutely right, none of them wore helmets and all end up messed up by the enemy some way or another lol. cayde is dead! Maybe if he had a helmet then his head would’ve survived that headshot from uldren

Human and Awoken would suffocate on the moon and possibly other places.

This isn't the way.

Logically speaking, our Guardian has literally swathed through hordes of enemies, gunfire and any possible name for a sharp object swung their way. While we can just have armor and all rematerialized by our Ghost, you would be able to survive and keep fighting until your next rez so long as you had armor left to take the damage even if it got blown off or stripped away from gunfire, bit by bit. Perfect example: Cayde. As tough as an Exo’s body is, those Scorn still managed to throw him against that steel grate/panel hard enough that his face got smashed up. I don’t care where you’re from, that had got to hurt. That said, had he a visor or some sorta protector on to take the physical shock from that, since his horn wouldn’t provide much in a helm fitting, he probably would’ve fared better. It just makes sense that the Guardian would have a helm on in combat zones seeing how they’ve seen the most combat out of most and thus would use past experience to account for it all.

in crucible/PVP, it would provide an advantage by, ironically, masking an individual's otherwise immediately identifiable exotic ability, aka they can hide things like helm of saint 14 helmet to make bubble's surprise blind, or other useful tells like 1-eyed mask, worm-husk crown, etc.

I don't see why not other than the common argument that "It's not realistic because of headshots." I feel like when Saint headbutted a Kell to death, that logic went out the window. Heck, we're wearing Adidas, jeans, PAPER MASKS on the battlefield now! Why not remove helmets?? Edit: And joggers!

Military doctrine dictates that helmets and other personal protective equipment not be removed in all combat zones for the sake of safety.

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There’s so much Bungie could do to really make Destiny bad a$$. Bouncing of your suggestion, how about take it one step further and have animations showing our guardians removing the helmet and vice-versa.

I’ve wondered what shaxx looks like without a helm.

I want more cutscenes without helmets. Other than that, I’m fine.

Absolutely not, I feel utterly disgusted when I see a guardian with their helmet off, disgusting.