Nightstick

"♪ Gonna beat me a zombie to death with a nightstick~ ♪"

- Ellis

The Nightstick is a close combat weapon in Left 4 Dead 2 that can be found lying around maps or dropped by Riot Infected upon death.

It can be found in the following campaigns: "The Parish" (only time it appears in L4D2 campaign), "No Mercy", "Crash Course" and "Death Toll".

Melee Mechanics
The Nightstick is classified as a bludgeoning weapon: it will spew blood, but will never dismember the Infected. It also sends the Infected's body flying a small distance.

Pros

 * Has the fastest attack rate of all melee weapons (except for the Chainsaw), and unlike Chainsaw, you could use it infinitely.
 * Can be randomly dropped by defeated Riot Infected.

Cons

 * Has an incredibly small arc of swing.
 * Has poor hit registration, meaning that you may have a hard time hitting enemies with it.
 * Has an odd animation for a swing from this weapon, meaning that it can be hard to tell if you have scored a hit.
 * Not recommended for killing Boomers due to bile showering attacker and any nearby Survivors.

Console Command
There is only one console command for the Nightstick:
 * (where XX is a floating point variable)

The variable above will determine the probability for the Nightstick to be dropped by Riot Infected when killed. The value is a floating point number, meaning it can be a number with a decimal. This specific command restricts it to any number between 0 and 1 inclusive. The default is 0.1, therefore all Riot Infected would have a 10% chance of dropping a Nightstick on death, thus, setting it to 1 will guarantee a Nightstick to drop every time a Riot Infected is killed.