Deamon Head Ammo

Primary (100 ammo):

This seems to be like the razorcube’s secondary fire, except you hold it down and keep it pointed at enemies. Excellent at accurately and immediately picking off enemies at a great distance, but it’s also a real ammo-eater.

Secondary (300 ammo):

If you think this is new to PK you’re wrong – it behaves exactly like Demon Morph shots. It can bring down weak and tough alike, and it’s definitely worth conserving the ammo for when you’re in big trouble.

What makes this thing even more worthwhile is that it’s like a railgun – it fires through enemies and hits the ones behind them too. There’s no better weapon for dropping a long line of goons at once.

Bone Gun Ammo

Primary (100 ammo):

Not a great range but there’s no better weapon for getting an enemy out of your face. Those bone needles really look like they hurt. Very nice damage to ammo ratio.

Secondary (100 ammo):

Try not to miss, and if you don’t miss try to make sure you shatter those minions with some bone needles quick. Works on most enemies but ammo is scarce, so this weapon is extremely useful, but not one to abuse. Wonderful against certain strong monsters, while totally useless against others.

Eggs Ammo

Primary (200 ammo):

You can both toss a single egg and detonate it with the primary fire.

Secondary fire lets you throw multiple eggs without detonating them. Cover a big enemy with eggs and then hit primary to blow them all up at once in a cloud of green. Brilliant.

Nuclear Gun Ammo

Primary (300 ammo):

Remember the good old stakegun? Well, this is the closest you’re going to get in Overdose. It’s not as fun, but it still behaves pretty much the same way. Less useful than the crossbow or the skulls for sniping, but the ammo count is decent enough.

Secondary (300 ammo):

This will spray the titular green goo all over nearby enemies, slowing them down and incidentally turning them green. Get rid of them while they’re disabled, but make sure you don’t waste it on enemies who are immune to it. I doubt you’ll be using this much, though enough ectoplasm can eventually fell most enemies.

Crossbow Ammo

Primary (300 ammo):

This is the crossbow, very accurate at any distance but so accurate that it’s easy to miss with it (if that makes sense). Use it at medium or long range and don’t forget it comes with a zoom feature. Fun to use on executioners if you’re a good shot.

Secondary (200 ammo):

Chuck some explosive, bouncing heads into close bunches of enemies, but don’t be too close yourself when they go off on impact. As tremendous for taking out enemies from around corners as BOOH’s heater ever was; just get your angles right.

Sword Ammo

Primary (300 ammo):

The skulls fire in bursts of three and home in on enemies with a generous margin for error. It’s great for taking out those monsters who are proving difficult to reach with other weapons, and it’s definitely the weapon to which the less accurate of Overdose’s players should turn first.

Secondary (200 ammo):

This is a very weird one, and a genuinely new idea for any PK game. The plan is to launch a whirring blade and steer it around by targeting one enemy after the other. The blade scythes around and homes in on whichever monster you are currently targeting, almost instantly reducing the poor sod to mush. You do need to be careful not to steer it into the ground or anything else that can stop it; and it helps to realise that it moves pretty slowly. Practice with it and you can get great results, though only against the weaker monsters.

You can right-click again to recall the blade and stop it eating the ammo – it uses it very fast, all the time the blade is spinning.

Rocket Launcher Ammo

Primary (100 ammo):

This defaults to the cannon and it should be used with care, as its explosive flechette rounds tend to rebound off enemies and twat you in the face. Use against groups of enemies or big single ones, but only at mid range. This is a weapon to use only when you run out of ammo for the better ones. Aim at the ground around their feet so you do damage without fear of missing altogether.

Secondary (500 ammo):

A chaingun, as useful as it always was. Great in almost every situation and against every enemy, though it does require accuracy on the user’s part.

C7L1 Cataclysm

C7L3 Desert

C7L4 Asteroids

C8L2 Nuclear Plant

C8L3 Animal Farmt

C8L4 Field Ambulance

C8L5 Ragnarok

C9L1 Haunted Valley

C9L2 Village of the Damned

C9L3 Studios

C9L4 Loony Park

C9L5 Air Combat

Razor Cube

The initial weapon is the Razor Cube, which is a cube made of metal blades that can be flung out at enemies. It then quickly returns back to you, which is nice in the event you find yourself out of ammo for the rest of the arsenal.

Deamon Head

Another gruesome addition to the weaponry is the Demon Head. This item is actually the head of the demon who was guarding the dungeon Belial is imprisoned in at the start of the game. How often do you get to walk around carrying a demon head with its tongue lolling out, let alone use it as a weapon?

Bone Gun

The BoneGun is equivalent to a shotgun, something no FPS would be complete without of course. What makes it unique however, is the fact that it shoots out high speed bone fragments as its primary fire and causes petrification of enemies as its secondary fire.

Eggs

Eggs: For some reason these reptile eggs are explosive. Not only that but you can remotely detonate them with a… is that a lizard? It doesn’t make any sense to have remote mines in this game. It’s never possible to sneak up on enemies and use them. The only time I really need them is when I don’t have ammo or a chance in hell with the razor cube and in that scenario I don’t want something that I have to detonate one second after I throw it. I want something that I throw and it explodes AKA a grenade.

Nuclear Gun

Nuclear gun: It harnesses the power of nuclear waste. Left click fires these canisters of radioactive sludge which kill on impact, making me wonder why they need to be filled with ooze at all. It’s not like the enemy’s around long enough to die from radiation poisoning. Actually the canisters stay around for a while, emitting green gas which does seem to have an effect on really close enemies. But really they’d be just as lethal filled with rocks or even candy corn. Right click just shoots a stream of that same green gas directly at an enemy. In reality this would be extremely inconvenient because really how far can you spray gas? And what if it’s windy out? What If it’s blowing at you? You’d at least need a mask.

Crossbow

Left click fires/wastes three bolts. Right click fires/wastes six shrunken heads. the heads bounce around and explode. Two of them might hit enemies. The other four will either hit nothing or hit you.

Sword

Left click shoots three giggling skulls in a horizontal line. They sort of hone in on enemies and injure them. They also sort of fly past the enemies and do nothing. Right click makes the sword fly around like a boomerang. I never really got the hang of this. It seems like you have to have a ton of crystals to even get it to start. Once it’s flying around you can drag your crosshairs on to an enemy and if you can manage to hold it on them long enough, the sword will fly over and chop them in half.

Rocket Launcher

The Rocket Launcher in Painkiller: Overdose is particularly the same as in the Original Version. It shoots now 3 Rockets at one time, but still deals the same damage.