[quote=@pugbutter]
I was basically trying to design a Frame which was a sniper at the cost of everything else: no mobility, no armor, no spectacular short or medium-range armaments, but its right arm could punch through shit two miles away.[/quote]

Which would've been awesome if FRAMES had miniature nuclear reactors to power some nifty energy weapons.
-But we're limited to whatever can be powered off a 12 cylinder rotary diesel. (in short, you'd have needed a [u][i]much[/i][/u] bigger engine to get 5% the speed of light done with a decent-ish rate of fire, [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju-OBU7uTyc]it was a problem of power[/url], [i]and it sucks[/i], chemical propelled solutions seemed like a viable alternative)

[quote]The latest military-grade frames are powered by a reciprocating internal combustion engine. It is located in a backpack-like housing unit on the rear of the machine. At its core is a large, V-shaped support axle, to which multi-chamber cylindrical engine blocks are mounted. The cylinders are arranged parallel to each other. The pistons rotate around the support axle as the engine runs. Each engine block’s output shaft is connected to an assembly housing an axial piston pump, an electric generator and an axial-flow fan. This lets it run on both hydraulic pressure and electrical energy. These engines can run on a variety of fuels. Commonly, they are fed refined gasoline and kerosene, though natural gas, alcohol, machine oil, ammunition propellant, liquid rocket fuel and industrial cleaning solvents are technically viable.[/quote]

Which means all but the lightest frames aren't going to be super-graceful unless falling with style counts (Aristo has a history of telling us not to engage in fisticuffs when another frame can just shoot us, [sub]although there was this one moment when Sarah pummeled another Frame with her arm, that was more because everything else on her frame was broken... it walso makes for an awesome stealthy takedown[/sub]).

Although this is noting latest [i]production[/i] military, and I'm almost certain there *are* bigger things than FRAMES established in this universe. So there may be some experimental ones with stuff like micro-Thorium Liquid metal salt reactors in prototyping stages or at the very least bigger things that are closer to Bolo-tanks capable of pretty much one-shot obliterating planets.

And on the low end of the tech-spectrum, [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3apnzNVHtLg]we have wood-burning FRAMES[/url].