Talk:Atlas Soldier/@comment-108.67.162.18-20150904014434/@comment-25555436-20150904020524

It only exposes the mouth, so while being worse than full helmet, it's not even half as much of a problem as you make it sound. Plus, the only important part of the head necesary to live is the brain. The brain is not located in your mouth.

Really, the only real issue is that since it's not sealed they are still weak to gas attacks or similar. But hey, Atlas doesn't give a damn. Their MO is to replace soldiers with robots anyway, why should they waste resources sealing their mouths instead of making more robots? Atlas's idea is to preserve man's life by replacing them with machines, whose survival is less important and are more easily replaced. So really, Atlas doesn't have much reason to finish that helmet.

And from an aesthetical point of view, it would probably look worse than it does now.