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Chainsaw secondary ability: the quick cancel
This idea comes from playing both chainsaw killers quite a bit, the ability to quickly cancel the chainsaw.
This ability could benefit both chainsaw killers in different ways. Hillbilly players have no option to quickly cancel his chainsaw, so if they start and need to stop, they must wait or go through with the chainsaw when they didn't want to.
Leatherface players can accidentally let go of the m2 button early and immediately cancel the chainsaw when they didn't want to, the quick cancel fixes that. Leatherface's chainsaw would need to be changed to act the same way as billy's when charging it up and letting go, so that it slowly goes down, this would make quick cancel better for leatherface so he doesn't do it by accident and his chainsaw overall better because the player has better control to dictate when they want to use or cancel their chainsaw.
for balancing purposes it could be that when you quickly cancel the chainsaw instead of letting it go down, you still would have a cooldown time, i'm pretty sure leatherface has a slowdown already when you let go as it is in the game currently.
Let me know what you think of this suggestion, does this sound good? are there ways to improve it?