Carryable Chainsaw

This addon turns the chainsaw into a carryable weapon. That means you can use this weapon as long as you carry it without losing your current secondary weapon!

Carryable chainsaw is a better chainsaw for horde events because: [olist] [*] It's no longer a risky trade - when fuel runs out, you still have your secondary weapon. [*] It's still a standard chainsaw - you get same 50% damage reduction bonus while you are attacking with it and it has the same ammo pool (30 seconds of continuous attack). [/olist]

Features

• Localized UI help + ability to view fuel using sniper rifle zoom button to compensate for the lack of ammo in the HUD.
• Does not give a pistol after it's been spent.
• Does not change core weapon mechanics (30-second fuel tank, switch to the first available weapon when used up).
• Does not remove the chainsaw from the world after it's been spent.

License

MIT (aka "You can modify this addon however you like as long as you credit me").

Possible conflicts

• Addons which modify the chainsaw script file "scripts/weapon_chainsaw.txt".
• Other known incompatibilities are described here.

Technical info and limitations

Known incompatibilities are described here

• Modifies the weapon script ('bucket' value). That makes it incompatible with other weapon script chainsaw addons.
• Weapon script will make the weapon unselectable on servers that don't use this addon (or similar addons that move chainsaw to carryable slot). Use mouse wheel (or whatever you bound to next/previous weapon) to choose it on public servers. I cannot bypass this problem.
• Player's reload button is disabled while they are carrying a chainsaw.
• If a player has no other weapons to choose and their chainsaw runs out it will have its attacking animation stuck. It's a game bug which I can't work around.
• This addon uses ammo trickery to fool the engine. More info here.

Alternative download locations

The addon is available for download on: GitHub GameMaps