Nightstick
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| Weapon Type | Close Combat Weapon |
| Capacity | 1 |
| Carry Capacity | 1 |
| Rate of Fire | 5.85s for 9 hits |
"♪ Gonna beat me a zombie to death with a nightstick~♪"The Nightstick is a new close-combat weapon introduced in Left 4 Dead 2.[1] The nightstick takes the slot of the pistols, and kills Common Infected in one hit. It's usually found in certain safe rooms or randomly throughout levels, but the Nightstick can also be dropped by a Riot Infected when killed, if there's one around his waist. The Nightstick isn't really supposed to be used against Special Infected. Against Boomers, Spitters, and Witches, it isn't very effective, while against Hunters, Smokers, and Jockeys it's better to shoot them, and it takes two hits to kill a Charger while putting you at high risk of taking high damage from the Charger's melee attack. However, any melee weapon (excluding the Chainsaw) can be marginally effective against a Tank who is pounding another player due to the special ability of melee weapons to deal 10% of the Tank's total health in damage.
- —Ellis
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[edit] Trivia
- In the original Left 4 Dead, many Infected police officers have nightsticks hanging from their belts, though they can not be picked up upon their death.
- Nightsticks derive from the tonfa, a Okinawan weapon of very similar shape usually made from red oak.
- The weapon is or strongly resembles a Monadnock PR-24 police baton, commonly associated with law enforcement officers. It can be distinguished from a true tonfa in that it is not made of wood and is used alone rather than in a pair.
- The Nightstick is the only campaign exclusive melee weapon, appearing only in The Parish.
- The nightstick, along with the frying pan, are the only melee weapons that can't cause any physical deformities to Common Infected, meaning no decapitations or dismemberment.
- It is the fastest blunt-object melee weapon in the game.
- The nightstick is yet another weapon look down upon in Max Brook's "Zombie Survival Guide", as nightsticks are designed to be non-lethal. Most of the melee weapons in Left 4 Dead are looked down upon in the book, ironically.
- In the Left 4 Dead 2 Demo, the Nightstick's shove animation was grabbing the opposite end with the Survivor's free hean and pushing it forward. In the full version, the Nightstick's shove animation is the same as the Machete's.
Nightstick on The Parish
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 A Riot Infected with a Nightstick on his belt. |
 A Nightstick dropped by a dead Riot Infected. |
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| Weapons | |
| Left 4 Dead | |
| Tier 1 |  Pump Shotgun /  Submachine Gun
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| Tier 2 |  Assault Rifle /  Auto Shotgun /  Hunting Rifle
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| Sidearms |  M1911 Pistol
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| Left 4 Dead 2 | |
| Tier 1 | Pump Shotgun /  Chrome Shotgun /  Silenced Submachine Gun / Submachine Gun / Hunting Rifle
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| Tier 2 |  Combat Rifle (SCAR) /  AK-47 / M-16 Assault Rifle /  Combat Shotgun / Tactical Shotgun /  Sniper Rifle
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| Sidearms | P220 Pistol /  Magnum
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| Special Tier |  Grenade Launcher
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| Other Weapons | |
| Melee Weapons |  Axe /  Baseball Bat /  Chainsaw /  Cricket Bat /  Crowbar /  Electric Guitar /  Frying Pan /  Katana /  Machete /  Nightstick
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| Grenades |  Molotov Cocktail /  Pipe Bomb /  Bile Bomb
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| Upgrades |  Incendiary Ammunition /  Explosive Ammunition /  Laser Sight
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| Other Weapons | Minigun / Heavy Machine Gun /  Gas Can / Oxygen Tank / Propane Tank / Fireworks / Cola / Gnome Chompski
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