Start game as young and agile engineer, but use the machines you've created to help you move around in your older days
Small changes concerning balance, gameplay, or graphics.
Transportation of the player, be it vehicles or teleporters.
Does this affect mech armor and exoskeletons generally? Or only the character? Sounds like yes yet it probably shouldn't, because the whole point of the mech armor is to be one with the machine and don't rely on your weak flesh ;)
Hmm, that's what exoskeletons are for, IMO