Fireaxe

"Yeah, always wanted to be an axe murderer!"

- Ellis

"Axe me a question, I dare you."

- Rochelle

The Fireaxe is a close combat weapon from Left 4 Dead 2.

Location
The Fireaxe is one of the most common melee weapons in the game, mirroring their ubiquity in real life.

It is found the following campaigns:


 * Dead Center
 * The Passing
 * Dark Carnival
 * Swamp Fever
 * Hard Rain
 * No Mercy (Left 4 Dead 2 only)
 * Crash Course (Left 4 Dead 2 only)
 * Death Toll (Left 4 Dead 2 PC version only)
 * Blood Harvest (Left 4 Dead 2 only)
 * The Sacrifice (Left 4 Dead 2 only)
 * Cold Stream
 * The Last Stand (Left 4 Dead 2 version)

Official Description
Great for clearing out crowds of infected, this handy lumberjack-approved melee weapon will have you stacking up the zombies like cordwood.

Pros

 * Wide swing.
 * High spawn rate.
 * Extremely consistent hit registration.
 * Predictable attack pattern.
 * Can be used to cut a Smoker's tongue.

Cons

 * Slow swing rate resulting in low DPS.
 * Attacks may obstruct the user's vision.
 * Not recommended for killing Boomers due to bile showering attacker and any nearby Survivors.

Bugs

 * On the Xbox 360 version, when attacking with the Fireaxe as one of the Left 4 Dead 2 survivors, Coach's grunt noise is sometimes played.
 * As of the Last Stand update, this has been fixed on the PC version; the Left 4 Dead 2 Survivors start using their own grunt(s) when swinging the Fireaxe.


 * If the player increased the weapon's FOV (cl_viewmodelfovsurvivor) to higher than 60 (default is 51) they could see the Survivor's left arm on the screen which partially obstructed their view. This was especially noticeable if the player used custom Survivor models that have larger arms.
 * Following the Last Stand update, this issue has also been fixed.