LF2 Engine Questions: Armour

[Silverthorn]

but what is a novel armour?

LF2 has enough flaws. Introduce new ones while getting rid of the others!

But really, there are so many LF2-clones being developed that I don't think it'd be worth the effort replicating every miniscule detail of the original. More precisely, the way armor work. Especially because after compiler-optimizations and weird coding, the assembler-code looks uncomprehendable
No idea how exactly it works. And adding one's own thoughts into a system is cool anyways.