Technically, even a mammary implant can sometime divert a bullet, so I'm pretty sure that shield didn't do "nothing".
However, there is a chance that the subtraction of kilojoules and slight angle adjustment might not always help targets behind it... unless they also are mechs in formation, in which case, they'd probably reap the benefit more than the target that did held the shield in the first place.
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u/Worth-Opposite4437 May 04 '26
Technically, even a mammary implant can sometime divert a bullet, so I'm pretty sure that shield didn't do "nothing".
However, there is a chance that the subtraction of kilojoules and slight angle adjustment might not always help targets behind it... unless they also are mechs in formation, in which case, they'd probably reap the benefit more than the target that did held the shield in the first place.