Heavy Hand

Heavy Hand is a modifier that affects how orbs interact with pegs during a shot. When equipped, every orb that hits a peg will trigger that peg one additional time, effectively doubling the peg's activations from a single orb contact. This increases the total effect of pegs — extra bounces, added damage to damage pegs, or additional fills to score/clear pegs — for each orb that strikes them.

This benefit is balanced by a significant reduction to the aimer: the aiming indicator becomes drastically shorter, dramatically reducing the visible prediction of an orb's path and making precise long-range shots much harder. The shorter aimer forces players to rely more on instinct, memory of peg positions and bounce behavior, and shorter, more controlled shots.

Practical notes and strategies:

• Heavy Hand is most effective in boards with dense peg clusters or where multiple pegs lie in close proximity; the extra activation multiplies value when orbs hit multiple pegs in quick succession.
• Favor setups that do not require long, precise initial aim. Short straight shots and tight bounces that keep orbs near targets exploit the extra activations while minimizing the penalty from the reduced aimer.
• Combine with high-multiplier or multi-orb effects to amplify score or clear potential, since each orb’s extra activation compounds those benefits.
• Avoid relying on long bank shots or thin precision shots; Heavy Hand makes judging long trajectories unreliable due to the much shorter aimer length.
• Practice on specific boards to learn how much closer you must be to targets before releasing; muscle memory compensates for the reduced visual aid.