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Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72

[Implant] - giant hands

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For ages they dreamed, 'the hands must grow'. In the soft luster of a laboratory, the dream was realized.

You can wield two-handed weapons in one hand.

Target body parts: Hands
License points: 3
Only compatible with True Kin genotypes

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Cybernetic Info

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giant hands is a moderate cost cybernetic implant which upon installation halves the hands required to wield any item which is normally equipped in the hand slot.

This essentially means that with one instance of the implant installed, the user is able to use gigantic gauntlets, two-handed melee weapons, rifles and bows while only needing to sacrifice one hand or ranged weapons slot. The reduced 'hand-cost' also applies to other items held in the hand that under normal circumstances require two-hands, such as the Fist of the Ape God or gear from the Great Machine.

Notably the reduction does stack with additional copies of the implant, essentially meaning that if the user were to have a second installed instance of giant hands such as by acquiring the Multiple Arms mutation and utilizing the extra implant handslot. The user would then be able to equip items which normally require 4 hands such as gigantic two-handed melee weapons and swarm racks with a single hand investment, down from an initial requirement of 2 hands with only one copy of giant hands installed.

Additionally, and unlike the bonus of the hand bones family of implants, the halved hand equipment requirements apply to all hands currently possessed by the user. Including those which are not technically apart of the user's body-plan, such as the robot arms granted by one or more helping hands or the spotted claws provided by the circle of light in the chord of Agolgot.

Advantages & Disadvantages

Advantages

• Effectively provides a flat damage bonus assuming, the user is able to find enough two-handed melee/ranged weapons.
• Two-handed Axes have a doubled chance relative to one handed ones of dismembering the target, potentially allowing the user to rapidly obliterate most foes, especially when augmented with one or more overloaded precision nanon fingers.
• The ability to wield two-handed weapons in one hand can be useful for characters who are heavily invested in the Single Weapon Fighting skill tree, essentially allowing the user to improve their overall per-turn damage output while still leaving the other hand open for a shield.

Disadvantages

• Two-handed melee weapons tend to be rarer than their one-handed counterparts, potentially limiting melee utility especially if the user wants to invest into Multiweapon Fighting
• Moderate cost can be a bit prohibitive depending on the user's license tier and build goals.
• Provides relatively limited utility beyond bosting damage potential, certain other cybernetics installable in the hands such as micromanipulator array, stasis projector, anomaly fumigator or onboard recoiler may provide greater specialized utility.

Tips

• The reduction in hand-cost can be used to great effect with the gun rack cybernetic, allowing the user to hold and fire with the Akimbo skill up to 4 high-damaging ranged weapons such as light rails or phase cannons at once.
• If the user is interested in impractical memes, having 4 swarm racks equipped, achievable by disarming 4 chrome pyramids or swarm turrets, installing gun rack and two giant hands , modifying the swarm racks to be fitted with suspensors then equipping all four and using the Akimbo skill to fire them simultaneously, is very funny.
  • The bits needed to mass fabricate the quantity of HE Missiles needed in order to ensure maximum fun, can be obtained by finding and rebuking a miner robot and then infinitely harvesting its deployed mines for materials.
• The relative rarity of two-handed weapons can be partially offset by rebuking a cloneling and mass-duplicating Tillifergaewicz in order to quickly obtain large quantities of metamorphic polygel. The farmed polygel can then be used to mass-produce any particular two-handed weapon the user wants to equip multiple times, such as zetachrome halberds or zetachrome warhammers.
• Being able to simultaneously equip multiple two-handed ranged weapons can provide the user unique utility. Such utility includes but is not limited to:
  • Allowing the user to use multiple freeze raies modified with the nanon mod (obtaible from Schemasoft [high-tier]) in order to rapidly immobilize and dismember nearly any foe.
  • Letting the user to equip up to to 4 grenade launchers at once, allowing them to then output several grenades each turn without needing to rely on grafted mirror arms.
  • Allowing the user to more easily combine plasma-generating weapons such as spaser rifles with temperature-adjusting weapons like flamethrowers or di-thermo beams. Dramatically improving the user's ability to raise or lower a given creature's temperature especially when augmented with a thermo cask.