Butcher Cleaver

Butcher Cleaver
Product information
Manufacturer	Locust Horde
Type	Melee
Technical specifications
Range	Close quarters
Usage
Era(s)	Locust War Lambent Invasion
Counterpart	Machete
Affiliation	Locust

The Butcher Cleaver was a tool that Butchers used to cut Rockworms meat and feed it to the Drones. They are also used as weapons by Butchers and Savage Therons.  The are also used by Humans as melee weapons.

History

The Cleaver is at least 3 feet long and consists of weighty, solid metal razor-sharp blade and It dwarfs human users.

The weapon was first encountered during by the COG in the hands of Therons during the Destruction of Halvo Bay. It was again faced in Operation: Hollow Storm when the COG invaded Nexus. It was used by Butchers for carving up Rockworm bodies for the Locust troops to eat, and Butchers will use it to defend themselves.

It was later used in a Ambush outside of Port Farrall and again in the hands of Savage Therons when Delta Crossed the Deadlands. Some were later encountered by Delta during the Mission to Char and the Second Battle of Azura.

Gameplay

The Butcher Cleaver acts as a third-handed weapon. It will not slow down your movements and you are also able to sprint with the Cleaver, dragging the blade across the ground. Unlike what some may say, the Cleaver doesn't restrict your ability to take cover behind objects, but it does restrain you from mantling over cover.

Its good for taking out Savage Locust and especially Wretches because they run up to you in order to hit you with their claws.

The Cleaver also has its limits. It can only cut through flesh a certain amount of times. After that, the Cleaver breaks. The maximum number of times a Cleaver can cut is 12.

The execution for the Cleaver is as follows: The user slams the Cleaver on the downed opponent's arm, levers the Cleaver down once onto the neck, and then once more, decapitating the head.

Trivia

• The Forces of Nature DLC contains hidden elementally charged cleavers for horde on the new maps.
• If the Infinite Ammo mutator is enabled it's not supposed to get infinite ammo, but when the cleaver runs out of attacks the player can press B and still attack, thus having infinite ammo. As of the latest update with the Forces of Nature DLC, infinite ammo no longer affects cleavers; elemental or not.
• The Lambent Gunker is a mutated Butcher Boomer, and embedded in its left arm is the Cleaver.