Chainsaw

Chainsaw
Pricing: £1000 (£750) Weight: 8 blocks Power: Speed: Related achievements: – Bitter Irony

The chainsaw is a powerful motorized melee weapon for Berserkers. It has two firing modes usable with the primary and secondary fire buttons. Primary has a high rate of attack but low damage, secondary is the opposite; a powerful swing of the chainsaw which can stun specimens and does large amounts of damage whilst still possessing a relatively high rate of attack. It is the only melee weapon to not give a speed boost and by default is never found in random weapon spawns.

[edit] Statistics

The Berserker perk gets bonuses and a discounts for the chainsaw, and spawns with one from level 5.

Level	Discount	Price	Sale value	Hit damage		Fire mode DPS
				Primary	Alternate	Primary	Alternate
Base		£1000	£750	19	270	190	337
0	10%	£900	£674	20	297	209	371
1	20%	£800	£599	22	324	239	425
2	30%	£700	£524	26	378	292	519
3	40%	£600	£449	30	432	334	594
4	50%	£500	£374	34	486	393	698
5	60%	£400	£299	38	540	456	810
6	70%	£300	£224	38	540	475	843

[edit] Price

The base cost of the chainsaw is £1000, this can be reduced to £300 with use of the berserker perk, at intervals of £100 per level. As with all melee weapons there are no maintenance costs for it, it also doesn't require fuelling up to function as the trader description made out.

Tactics

As with all Berserker equipment, it is ill advised to encounter Fleshpounds or the Patriarch with it on higher difficulties. Sirens, and to a lesser extent Husks and Bloats, can also be a problem due to their ranged attacks; ambush tactics and hit and run maneuvers can be useful against them. Scrakes and all smaller zeds suffer a stun effect from the chainsaw's alternate fire backstab damage bonus, making them easier to kill and will likely also earn you the Bitter Irony achievement. Due to their size and speed, Crawlers are likely to cause a berserker grief, holding primary fire and aiming at the angle they jump is one solution, another option is to simply swap to a gun and deal with them before they get in range.

However, if a team of 4 or more players select the Berserker or Medic perk and all have the Chainsaw equipped, it is easy to kill the Patriarch, even on Hell on Earth. This can be achieved by waiting for the Patriarch and once he is near your group, everybody stands in a circle around him and continuously presses the Chainsaw's Alt. Fire button. This way, the Patriarch can't run away and can't heal, thusly, he is easily killed.

Equipment by perk
Field medic	Medical syringe • Combat armour • MP7M • MP5M
Support specialist	Welder • Shotguns (Shotgun • Combat shotgun • Hunting shotgun • AA12)
Sharpshooter	Pistols (9mm • .44 Magnum • Handcannon) • Rifles (Lever-action • Crossbow • M14 EBR)
Commando	Grenade • Assault rifles (Bullpup • AK-47 • M4 • SCARMK17)
Berserker	Knife • Machete • Fire axe • Katana • Claymore • Chainsaw
Firebug	MAC-10 • Flamethrower • Husk fireball launcher
Demolition	Pipe bomb • Grenade launchers (M79 • M32 • M4 203) • L.A.W
Weapon damage table

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