Editing Chainsaw (section)

=== Price ===
The base cost of the chainsaw is £2750, which can be reduced to £825 with the [[berserker]] perk. As with all melee weapons there are no maintenance costs for this weapon. It also doesn't require fueling up to function as the trader description made<!-- past tense; they are no longer visible ingame --> out.

{{clear|left}}== Tactics ==
As with all Berserker equipment, it is ill advised to encounter [[Fleshpound]]s or the [[Patriarch]] with it on higher difficulties. [[Siren]]s, and to a lesser extent [[Husk]]s and [[Bloat]]s, can also be a problem due to their ranged attacks; ambush tactics and hit and run maneuvers can be useful against them. [[Scrake]]s 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 [[Achievements#Bitter Irony|Bitter Irony]] achievement by killing a Scrake.

Fleshpounds require kiting and quick switches back to [[Knife]] or any other melee weapon to maintain distance while dealing with them as Berserker. While Chainsaw requires precision, it also lacks movement speed bonus that Berserkers usually get so it's not entirely a weapon of choice while dealing with Fleshpounds. Chainsaw is rather a trash clearing weapon when you stand at a crosspath and distanced yourself from the big specimen just enough. Biggest opportunity and pros of the Chainsaw is how fast its secondary attack is; this allow Berserker to score lots of backstabs without needing any speed bonus. With a [[Field Medic]] tossing a heal gas grenade at Fleshpound's feet, it's possible to backstab it to enrage Fleshpound on top of gas that it's vulnerable against. Without healing gas or at least [[Grenade]] barrages from other teammates, sheer accuracy of alt fire to the back of Fleshpound's head will not be enough to decapitate it alone at 6 player Hell on Earth game.

Due to their size and speed, a small group of [[Crawler]]s 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 firearm such as [[Handcannon]] and deal with them before they get in range. Whilst kiting away, [[Stalker]]s or [[Gorefast]]s may tangle on you to slow you down on wide straight areas. Try to take the nearest turns or always run past the threats with a melee weapon that grants speed bonus to Berserker.