As someone who doesn’t always wear helmets, yeah it can fucking suck a lot. In a game where a lot of the fun can come from customizing and creating a unique character, instant headfracs and near unavoidable constant eye blurriness sucks a lot. Even if you aren’t actively fighting frontline it takes one or two bad swipes even when surrounded by teammates and you’ve got IB.
You all are forgetting the key point of the argument: this is literally a video game. Should the SG’s have instantly been removed from the movie because they decided to wear stuff that made them recognizable as opposed to a helmet like mandate?
You are already taking no HUD and no extra storage by going without a helmet. IMO it should keep its decapability but it should get some armor because key point: this is a video game in which looking cool and creating a unique character is fun.
Having to constantly walk to a corpsman because “oh I got two tapped and I have IB again” and them going “I’m not fixing you again, fuck off” because you decided to not wear a helmet isn’t fun!
Feeling like you’re actively being a drain on your team because a literal cosmetic choice isn’t fun!
You are getting literally 0 benefits from not wearing a helmet for how extremely heavily it’s punished