Talk:Tallboys/@comment-26352734-20170102053418/@comment-26536672-20170104000937

Hmmm, it is all still quite strange, since there are no visible actuators on the shield pylons. Just thin steel rods and the hinges between them. Moreover, it seems rather silly, mounting a bulky, whale-oil powered motor that's constantly idling just to brush aside some wooden shields. A spring-loaded system meant to respond to one's arm movements would make much more sense. In the meantime, leaving far more energy-intensive procedures such as walking with heavy steel stilts and drawing a quad-armed bow firing heavy incendiary arrows is left to the Tallboy's bodily strength.

In any case, as much as I absolutely adore the technological aesthetics of Dishonored (and I very much do), rather little of it all makes actual engineering sense...