# Chainsaw weapon bug
**URL:** https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539
**Category:** Gameplay Feedback
**Created:** [July 30, 2026, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539 "2026-07-30T10:57:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@BFV\_Robot](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/BFV_Robot)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2026, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539/1 "2026-07-30T10:57:49Z")
I frequently encounter a camera/view bug when using chain weapons—the view will suddenly shift dramatically, like snapping to look at the floor. Is there any way to fix this (or maybe through a mod)?
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### Author:  [@Djaresh](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Djaresh)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2026, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539/2 "2026-07-30T11:47:16Z")
As a chainsword main I know what you mean but it’s not really a bug but more an unfortunate side effect of how they work. The camera always centers to the point where your chainweapon is caught in the enemy’s body. If the enemy for instance charges a diagonal strike where he puts his right hand over his left shoulder and you hit that hand, it will shift your camera with that hand going down from his stagger animation.
The other thing where you may turn around completely all of the sudden is when an enemy you don’t even see is standing close to the side or behind you and one of their arms is going through your face just as you where striking your weapon and their arm got hit, causing you to turn completely around towards them. This however is rather rare and requires you to basically touch an enemy with your back or side.
The looking on the floor part is probably when you swing a vertical attack while missing the entire body of the enemy but hit it’s feet, or another enemy that is laying on the ground from a hard stagger, like explosions or Ogryn bull rush.
As for a solution, the only thing that would come to mind is that the attacks that get stuck only register towards the middle of the screen, which would probably cause more people to complain about chainweapons than the camera shift thing.
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### Author:  [@Cannon\_Fodder548734](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Cannon_Fodder548734)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539/3 "2026-07-30T12:18:58Z")
I guess it’s how it’s coded, I wish they didn’t snap when you hit a target, they just ‘stick’ instead. Then again I wish you’d cleave through things if you kill them during one of the damage ticks, so you could hurt someone with the rev attack after killing your current target.
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### Author:  [@ZoroDaOtter](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/ZoroDaOtter)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2026, 2:18pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539/4 "2026-07-30T14:18:45Z")
They fixed this a long time ago. However Fatshark has no clue what version control is so bugs will often get unfixed.
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### Author:  [@aroth68](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/aroth68)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2026, 2:56pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539/5 "2026-07-30T14:56:52Z")
I wish they would just uncouple your viewmodel from your camera when that stuff happens. No more brutal and disorienting camera movements would be nice.
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### Author:  [@Djaresh](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Djaresh)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539/6 "2026-07-30T20:45:47Z")
> [@ZoroDaOtter](#):
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> They fixed this a long time ago. However Fatshark has no clue what version control is so bugs will often get unfixed.
That is a straight up false information right there. I play this game since the beta and Chainsword is my most used weapon. This was never “fixed”, as it is not a bug or something easy to fix. I explained it higher up how it works and it’s just an unfortunate side effect of how the saw mechanic works.
Also when did Fatshark ever accidentally revert a fix? That is also just made up.
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### Author:  [@aroth68](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/aroth68)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2026, 7:38am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539/7 "2026-07-31T07:38:39Z")
> [@Djaresh](#):
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> Also when did Fatshark ever accidentally revert a fix? That is also just made up.
TBH that has been demonstrated to be true many times. Case in point, since the Skitarius update pressing the Ability button while charging a Heavy attack will replace it with a Light attack, which is a bummer for Fury of the Faithful zealots.
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### Author:  [@Djaresh](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Djaresh)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2026, 8:27am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539/8 "2026-07-31T08:27:42Z")
> [@aroth68](#):
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> TBH that has been demonstrated to be true many times. Case in point, since the Skitarius update pressing the Ability button while charging a Heavy attack will replace it with a Light attack, which is a bummer for Fury of the Faithful zealots.
This is a new bug. I don’t remember this bug existing before and been fixed. Zora made it sound like Fatshark is too incompetent to patch the game and accidentally re-introducing bugs due to uploading older versions.
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### Author:  [@aroth68](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/aroth68)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2026, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539/9 "2026-07-31T09:02:07Z")
This is absolutely not a new bug.
[Combat Abilities Cancel Heavy Attacks](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/combat-abilities-cancel-heavy-attacks/96307)
[Heavy attack bug with Fury/Chastise ability](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/heavy-attack-bug-with-fury-chastise-ability/123383)
[Pressing your ability hotkey resets your held heavy attack to light](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/pressing-your-ability-hotkey-resets-your-held-heavy-attack-to-light/96469)
FatShark gets a lot of flak for being kinda slow or for their…unique approach to certain issues, and sometimes it’s not completely justified.
But over the years there have been many such cases where they’ve reintroduced old bugs. This was also true with Vermintide 2 previously. Fatshark has an issue with version control, and quality control in general, and it’s nothing new to veterans of their Tide games.
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### Author:  [@Wolfpack11](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Wolfpack11)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2026, 9:36am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539/10 "2026-07-31T09:36:00Z")
> [@Djaresh](#):
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> Also when did Fatshark ever accidentally revert a fix? That is also just made up.
As far as I can tell they borked they FSR update they rolled out a few months ago with the Skitarii patch. Same behaviour as pre FSR
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### Author:  [@ZoroDaOtter](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/ZoroDaOtter)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2026, 3:08pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539/11 "2026-07-31T15:08:48Z")
This is a company that once patched VT2 to an older version and didn’t notice for 6 months and kept wondering why old bugs keep reappearing.
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### Author:  [@JanZamoysky](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/JanZamoysky)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539/12 "2026-08-01T12:18:48Z")
> [@BFV\_Robot](#):
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> I frequently encounter a camera/view bug when using chain weapons—the view will suddenly shift dramatically, like snapping to look at the floor. Is there any way to fix this (or maybe through a mod)?
It’s all in Fatshark hands, so…don’t expect any fixes any time soon, and likely ever. There have been multiple issues with chain weapons, some were just design issues, others are clear bugs. This is one of them.
More you use chain weapons more you will notice, especially stuff like “ghost” hits, and the weapon refusing to attach to your target when using the special. The sudden camera shift can be very disorienting, and I can imagine might make some people feeling sick.
I’m glad that at least they have decided to allow us to dodge out from the latching attacks…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/chainsaw-weapon-bug/124539/13 "2026-08-15T12:19:48Z")
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