Why did they change the shape of the mouth on the helmet? The old one was better.

[777]

Maybe I don't know something, but the simple lines on the sides look kind of boring. The old version where it was in the form of a gate looked better.

The intro cinematic in this game with the black armor and old helmet was atmospheric.

https://imgur.com/a/BL56PRG

[zenebatos1]

Its part of the new design for the Primaris armors when GW revealed the models 4-5 years ago

Dunno if there is a specific reason other than "we din't simply upscale the old armor to make them bigger"

But yeah, the Angry Mouth Grill was an iconic part of the SM.

[EvilAsh110[ATC!]]

I believe it's a primaris armor thing.

[TauShasla]

the image you are reffering to are "normal" space marines generally, even though they had their fair share of different designs. in this game every space marine is a "Primaris" aka GW needed money so they reinvented Space marines to sell new models. These new ones look more modern, which i personally also find bad

[Tr0w]

All part of the Primaris cringe with their Marvel Comics look.
The older pre-primaris helmets looks so much better.

[Darth Revan]

Because we play primaris marines and they use mk 10 armor.

[Darth Revan]

Originally posted by TauShasla:

the image you are reffering to are "normal" space marines generally, even though they had their fair share of different designs. in this game every space marine is a "Primaris" aka GW needed money so they reinvented Space marines to sell new models. These new ones look more modern, which i personally also find bad

I am not a big fan either, but at least they based the helmet on a old horus heresy design rather than inventing a completely new design for the helmet.

[NOD Flamer]

Originally posted by 777:

Maybe I don't know something, but the simple lines on the sides look kind of boring. The old version where it was in the form of a gate looked better.

https://imgur.com/a/BL56PRG

GW recreated the Astartes under the guise of lore changes, so that they can sell more minis. the Primaris change hasn't been very much welcomed by the community, and tabletop is getting slowly fooked over too. Because in the future there might only be primaris marines for SM, which means that your entire army is now useless.

Agreed that OG space marines look better than primaris marines. but GW is really pushing it so not much we can do except for boycotting their plastics.

[spoony bard]

That helmet you posted is a mk. VII/VIII helmet and the current one in game is the mk. X.

[zenebatos1]

A Bit more COntext:

The "Older" Marines where what is called now the "Firstborn" Marines

Now the scale of the models for decades never really matched up to the Lore scale they are suppposed to be.

In Lore a Marines is a 7ft Monstrosity, in models cale, they where barly a couple of milimeters taller than Guardsmen models.

A trend started appearing, where people who had Space Marines armies, converted/modified their models to make them taller closer to Lore scale.

This was called the "Tru-Scale marines" and it grew rapidly within the community.

Since the time of making drastic changes to the setting and rules was approaching, GW saw it as an opportunity, to make Tru-Scale Marines Models.

ISSUE: GW saw what people did and how they reacted when they announced the end of Warhammer Fantasy battle setting to make it Age of Sigmar and COMPLETLY invalidating whole ranges of models for the new Factions.

So GW din't want a repeat of this, where Space Marines players (who are like 40% of the community) would feel forced to Buy the new models to replace their Old ones.

So they came up with the Primaris lore (wich was really NOT a popular decision) and that Primaris models where limited to a couple fo new Units that you could field alongside the Old models and units.

But the end goal of GW was to slowly replace the OldMarines model range with the Primarines, and turning th old modles into "Legend "ranges, meaning that you can use them if you have those, but they will NOT have any new rules updates in the future.

Wich off courses pisses off people, but hey this is the life of a 40k fan..., never liking the decisions made by Corporation, while being a Loyal undying fan of the setting and lore...

[ThunderHawk]

design was present during the horus heresy and the great crusade with the mark 3 castillus pattern armour and the mk4 looked even more similar its not a new design

[Mobile Suit God Damn]

Bottom line is that pretty much every old grognard hates the Primaris helmets and wishes GW would offer some alternatives. Considering how rotten this game is with downloadable content I'm sure the devs wanted to add stuff like beakie helmets but they can't because GW sucks.

[Skoll]

Because they have to force the Primaris garbage nobody likes on us in all venues.

[Katitoff]

We play as Primaries.
Not a single piece of wargear we use is the same as old ones, because they don't fit.