Chainsaw



The chainsaw mutilates enemies close enough to contact. At 525 hits per minute, it is roughly a quadruple-speed fist.

In original Doom, if a player has a chainsaw, they cannot switch back to fists unless they have a berserk pack.

The chainsaw can be obtained via the cheat code idchoppers (and, in some source ports, idfa or idkfa).

It is considered to be most effective against Demons and Spectres. Some players, when confronted by a pack of Demons and Spectres, back into a corner and chainsaw them down one by one. It can also be used fairly effectively against Cacodemons, Pain Elementals, and Imps.

Appearance statistics
The IWADs contain the following numbers of chainsaws: