But isnt that what the choice between the katana and chainsaw is already?
"This weapon would benefit Killing Floor by giving the players a choice between pure power to speed. Although the chainsaw is seen to be the weapon for "slow" attack I don't think it is. The player can hold down the fire key and the blade runs, putting out damage where a 6zerk can pop heads within seconds."
Okay lets go ahead and dissect the weapon in question here the chain saw.
The whole idea is that is puts out power while taking away the zerks speed bonus. This is true, but the primary fire runs the blade at a constant speed. This attack pops the heads of any clot, gorefest,crawler and stalker. Now this is still an attack where the player has to not really time anything, hold down the fire key to run the blade. Simple.
The secondary attack is quite slow and puts out massive damage. This does take a considerable amount of timing, many dont use the saw.
The whole point of my suggestion is to give the player one more choice, the war hammer will give a nasty amount of damage and crush heads. This may be prove to be quite satisfying to many players. The katana cuts fast, the chain saw more or less cuts fast. This would bash skulls in slow. Now this would not really be a choice weapon for a crowd of clots.
This weapon would prove to be one of harder handling and take more skill. The lack of auto swing would make timing essential, making this a weapon of importance, a must hit and not miss. The miss of the first swing could cripple you on the second one.
Now that I am thinking about it I am going to pull back the no speed bonus, make it half due to the weight the player would lose only half max melee speed bonus, make the choice a bit nicer.
With that being said I dont think the chain saw has insane power, its very powerful but not insane enough. Like i said, lets make things interesting, put in insane power with the handicap for speed.