"As Close As it Gets" Achievement; chainsaw discussion.

[nietr]

So, I started my second play-through and i've opted for hard+hard while going melee only but i didn't put much thought into the fact i'm using a chainsaw a lot. like, for all of my melee combat almost to this point. I've just made it to brookhaven hospital and fear I may have ruined my chances at the achievement as the achievement sort of vaguely specifies to be using the plank and steel pipe but not so much the chainsaw.
YET, the achievement specifies "No ranged weapons."
So, I'm kind of at at a loss. Did i screw up my achievement already? Should I just switch to using ranged weapons when I can at this point? or am I fine?
I've tried googling this, with no real consensus on the topic so I would love to know if anyone knows by now. thanks

[Damp_Surprise]

Chainsaw is melee, but I did melee only on easy. Not sure how difficult a hard melee run would be.

[bschaff2001]

Chainsaw is a melee weapon so you'll be good, my bud got the achievement on PS5 using it.

[Alive!]

I can verify that the chainsaw counts towards the achievement. I used it exclusively on my NG+ run and the achievement still popped. You're also allowed to fire any one of the guns, just don't damage an enemy. I'm only throwing that tid bit of information to you because I'm sure it's gonna come up in your mind when you reach the Lakeview hotel and you have to shoot the glass to make the can opener drop.

[Mirona]

chainsaw is fine. did it with the saw

[nietr]

Originally posted by Alive!:

I can verify that the chainsaw counts towards the achievement. I used it exclusively on my NG+ run and the achievement still popped. You're also allowed to fire any one of the guns, just don't damage an enemy. I'm only throwing that tid bit of information to you because I'm sure it's gonna come up in your mind when you reach the Lakeview hotel and you have to shoot the glass to make the can opener drop.

thanks everyone, and yeah i've already popped more than a few shots but made sure none were to even weaken enemies even though i've heard you can damage them, just not kill them with ranged weapons but i'm not even going to take the chance lol.

[nietr]

Originally posted by Mirona:

chainsaw is fine. did it with the saw

thank you!

[nietr]

Originally posted by Damp_Surprise:

Chainsaw is melee, but I did melee only on easy. Not sure how difficult a hard melee run would be.

so far, not so difficult though i know the game really ramps up from here. we shall see. it's not my sole achievement this run, so it's not make or break but i would have felt almost a little mislead lol

[Helaling]

Question if I accidently shot my gun then reloaded does it still count as melee only?

[DarknessRadio]

Originally posted by Helaling:

Question if I accidently shot my gun then reloaded does it still count as melee only?

As long as you didn't hit any enemies you should be good

[HNTR]

I've made a second playthrough just right after the first two days ago and it was chainsaw only. It worked for the achievement.

Originally posted by Helaling:

Question if I accidently shot my gun then reloaded does it still count as melee only?

As long as you don't hit an enemy with your shot then it should work. There's a part where you even need to fire a shot to break distant glass to retrieve an item for a puzzle.

[Mr. Death]

Feel free to shoot as many enemies as you want! You just can't kill them.

I always shot minor enemies once with the handgun to weaken them. I fired plenty of bullets at bosses with the rifle and shotgun, but the final blow always came from a melee weapon.

And in the case that you do accidentally kill one... just reload. I had to do that twice and I still got the achievement last night.