Let’s stop kidding ourselves. They made it simply because they wanted to make some new crap for the marketing purpose (despite being logically redundant).
Well, you could make that same argument for a lot of the OT Stormtrooper variants.
I mean if a regular Stormtrooper with a few add-ons could function in the desert, then why did we get a completely new type of trooper for forests?
It’s a lot easier to sell one of these rather than just changing the regular Stormtrooper a little bit like they did in the first movie before they knew it would sell ridiculously well.Well you cut off the part of the post where I pointed out justifications for scout trooper. It is not a “type of trooper for forests”. When it comes to scout trooper it is not about the environment, it is about different type of unit. It not an infantry unit, it is a speeder unit. It operates alongside infantry (storm troopers).
Fair enough, they are after all bike troopers. But what about the Snow-troopers?
This is kind of unrelated to your point but the lenses on the Snow Trooper helmet are even worse.
And let’s not even get on the TFA design:
what sucks is that it looks so fucking cool.
Well, this photo from the SW OT visual dictionary, you could argue that the Stormtrooper helmets don’t actually have lenses meant to be seen through, but rather some form of “camera” or sensor which allows for enhanced eyesight (in the EU it even had a HUD).
