Weapons

Weapons are the primary tool of dealing with the enemies and bosses in the game. Can't eat them without tenderizing them first, no?

Overview
Although armed with a lethal hunger-drive, Chewie and Chewella are always sure to prepare future meals with a barrage of food-based ordinance. Here is some of the gear they have been known to utilize on the battlefield and in the kitchen.

A-Salt-Rifle
A fully automatic seasoning implement, this utensil is useful for spicing up dishes or tearing through ranks of ghouls.


 * Secondary Fire: Detonating Stuffed Shell Launcher. When you need to feed a bunch of hungry mouths in a hurry, nothing beats explosive pasta with weapons-grade marinara.

Shroomstick
Originally designed for a high-velocity fungal spore delivery system, the Shroomstick also doubles as a decent spread weapon, sacrificing range (but never flavor) for power.


 * Secondary Fire: Neo-Turtle Doves. Need someone to carry your doggy bag, or maybe soak up some damage? Summon a swarm of specially engineered avian companions to take some shots for you.

Critter Cannon
This contraption fires ballistically-modified organisms, the rejects of DarwinCorp’s Re-Engineering Program. They bounce. They explode. They satisfy.


 * Secondary Fire: Trampoline Critter. Need to get that ingredient on the top shelf? Get a boost from a helpful and spring-bellied critter.

Flambe Torch
Add the perfect touch of caramelization to your pastries, or really lock in the flavor of your next Ghoul, Bladder Crab, or Goo Behemoth by searing their flesh closed with the Flambe Torch.


 * Secondary Fire: Incendiary Jalapeño Popper. These spicy treats are so incredibly hot that they are kept in protective (yet oddly explosive) canisters.

Meat Seeking Missile Launcher
A team of gourmet chefs and eighth generation butchers combined their scientific and gustatory knowledge to create meat-based projectiles that would home-in on other fleshy substances. They also made them explode.


 * Secondary Fire: Thicker Meat. For the most ravenous maws, this version offers double the meat at twice the ammo.

Buffet Blaster
This device uses magnetic technology to launch spike-shaped silverware at high velocities. The inventor was trying to create a tool that could be use to refill his plate at buffets without him having to get up from the table, but he could never figure out how to make the spikes return. Soon after, waiter drones saw widespread use and his project was abandoned.


 * Secondary Fire: Crave Spike. Why stop at just one plate? The impaling properties of the Crave Spike let you get a sample from every dish at the buffet station, or pierce through multiple enemies.

Ham Ham!
For millennia, humans and animals have lived, worked, and fought side by side. Animals have served as everything from companions to transportation, and humans have protected and cared for them in return. And, while riding on animals is one of the earliest modes of this symbiosis, riding in animals is an alien concept.

Until now. Far more than mutant specimens suffering from gigantism, Ham Hams are a new species of rodent unique to Earth. However, they warrant special consideration from Chewie and Chewella, beyond their contribution to the Compendium.

Ham Hams allow Chewie and Chewella to ride in their bellies, and provide safe passage over spikes, burning shrapnel, and caustic fields of plant-based food items. They can also be used to reach secret areas and special objectives.

Potential riders are swallowed whole by the rodent, meaning these disgusting yet valuable critters can be considered the World’s First Mouth Mount.

Modifiers
Chewie and Chewella’s crafting fermentations can produce a dizzying array of food-based weaponry. Many of these weapons have special properties which further enhance their base functionality, increasing their lethality and optimizing their silliness. Here are just a few of the flavors of weapon modifiers you can expect to find throughout the game.


 * Spicy: Weapons with this modifier will ignite their foes for damage over time, for a fully cooked meal when the player catches up to their target.
 * Organic: Equipment with this tag will slowly regenerate their ammo.
 * Fermented: Creates a corrosive cloud of gas around the player whenever firing the weapon.
 * Inhaling: Exerts a gravitational force on nearby enemies when firing - especially useful for close-quarters weapons like the Shroomstick!
 * Sprouted: Whole-grain is only halfway, if you ask us. Sprouted weapons incorporate the roots as well - into the feet and legs of their targets, trapping them to the ground!
 * Refrigerated: High velocity freezing method for fast-moving meals. Thawing before eating is optional.
 * Devouring: Make the most of your meals with the Devouring modifier, which doubles the nutritional intake from enemies.