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“Send whirling death blades whipping through the air with the ultimate in zompocalypse slice and dice technology. You'll wonder how you ever managed without it!”
— In-game Description
The Sawblade Launcher is a legendary Projectile maiming weapon featured in Dead Island 2. It comes with a fixed Superior Melee Mutilator Mod featuring an unique sawblade design instead of the usual muzzle extender. Additionally it features 3 fixed, exclusive perks. this leaves one perk slot open for your perk of choice. The Sawblade Launcher uses Sawblade Disks as ammo. With the SoLA DLC, the Sawblade Launcher was fully released to the game, being automatically given to the player after completing the final story quest of SoLA, The Sound of Violence.
Overview[]
The Sawblade Launcher can easily dispatch of weaker enemies due to it's high damage. Thanks to this, it plays much like a Hunting Rifle. The maiming attribute together with the Sharpshooter perk make it so that the weapon behaves similar to other Sharpshooter weapons. The fixed perks combine to give two playstyles. Hip firing allows for health regen via Power Cutter and additional ammo via Didn't Happen, thus allowing for a durable usage of the weapon. From short testing, it seems like the health regen and ammo refill from these perks are currently not working. The Sharpshooter perk and Power Cutter combine to make aimed shots at limbs and heads deal massive damage. Up to 3 times the damage of a hip fire body shot can be achieved, easily taking away more than half the health of a Crusher.
The Sharpshooter perk increases damage dealt when aiming down the weapon by 35%. Power Cutter seems to work differently as detailed by the perk itself. Upon aiming, a significant damage increase is given to limb damage. This damage increase reduces quickly over time. No animation is played for the 'charging up' part of the perk.
Mods[]
- Superior Ranged Mutilator Mod (Fixed)
Perks[]
- Threefer (Fixed)
- Top Up (Fixed)
- High-Caliber
- Hair-Trigger
- Tactical Reload
- Accurate
- Speedloader
- Russian Roulette
- Precision Shots
- Vigilant
- Mind-Blowing
- Honed
- Damaging
- Ferocious
- Vampire
- Restoring
- Energizing
- Agile
- Bloodthirsty
- Violent
- Do Or Die
- Destructive
- Vengeful
- Primed
- Hazardous
- Relentless
Notes[]
- The perks Acid Rain, Static Charge, Tear 'N Sear and Infectious show up in the workbench but can never be applied as the Sawblade Launcher does not allow for the required mods to apply these perks.
Trivia[]
- This is the only projectile weapon in the game that has a maiming attribute. The Sharpshooter perk however makes it function similar to other Sharpshooter weapons.
- This weapon is likely inspired by the Sawblade Crossbow in Dead Island: Retro Revenge.
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