Editing Katana (section)

== Statistics ==
The Berserker perk gets bonuses and a discounts for the katana. Strikes to the head cause 10% more damage.

{{Berserker weapon stats
|style     = float: left
|cost    = 2000
|pri_dmg = 135
|pri_rof = 0.67
|alt_dmg = 205
|alt_rof = 1
}}

=== Price ===
The base cost of the katana is £2000, this can be reduced by up to £1400 with use of the berserker perk, at intervals of £200 per level. As with all melee weapons there are no maintenance costs for it. With full level 6 bonuses Katana drops down to £600 for cost and sells for £449. The golden weapons downloadable contents adds a golden katana that share the same price range and stats without any additional benefits.

=== Usage and damage ===
The katana's headshot multiplier is 1.1x, which is less than the 1.25x multiplier of the [[knife]], [[machete]] and [[fire axe]]. Like other melee weapons it has a 2.0x backstab damage multiplier as standard which can be improved further by aiming for headshots. Katana has a swing reach of 1.8 meters which is longer than [[Fire axe]] and [[Chainsaw]]. Upon swinging for a heavier alternative fire horizontal slash, it slows down the bearer only 50% which is on par with [[Knife]]. Its delay for primary attack is as short as 0.67 seconds at base value, scoring up to 89~ RPM and its delay lengthens further to 1 second for alternative fire horizontal swing for a flat 60RPM.

Without any perk bonuses katana deals 135 damage on primary and 205 damage per alternate attack. While alternate swing deals 65% more damage per attack, the damage per second difference between two are rather negligible. Primary attack scores 201.49~ dps, compared to that alternate attack barely surpassing it with 205 dps. Berserker bonuses allow wielder to deal up to double damage and attack up to 25% faster. Without any perk bonuses an off-perk user only can deal that amount of damage by general backstab multiplier of 2.0x to attack from behind per hit but can't sustain it and won't have faster attack speed bonus.
At the hands of a level 5-6 Berserker, Katana can deal up to 270 damage on primary and 410 damage on alternate swing. At the hands of a level 6 Berserker, dps table won't change much besides the increased attack speed over the level 5. Level 5 Berserker can deal 483.58 dps with primary attacks and 492 dps with alt-attacks; Level 6 Berserker can score 503 dps with primary primary fire and 512 dps with alternate fire.