HL ALYX Shotgun: ALL Upgrades (Demonstration)

[@FalbereChan]

1:27 laser sight 2:33 double shot 3:13 autoloader 4:21 grenade launcher 5:15 fully upgraded

[@williamsmith6921]

what commands or mods did you use to spawn weapons early

[@TheArklyte]

I just love how "laser" sight adjusts between normal and grenade mode to show different ballistics of flechets and grenade.

[@lizadonrex]

Please make a SMG upgrade video.

[@DanielFoxy1999]

What does "NIL" stand for?

[@AlexZebol]

@@DanielFoxy1999 "zero", "none".

[@ThePhotoshopGuy]

*When there’s no inspection animation so you have to make your own.*

[@veorangejuice733]

Hi gordon

[@ediodimacaroni]

Hello Gordon! Have you heard of Wikipedia the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit?

[@kirby7648]

Look gordon, a rope! We can use thes---- HELLO GORDON

[@mike7DILFLUVR]

@@ediodimacaroni the free online encyclopedia that nobody can ever edit again!

[@afungai1649]

Gordon wtf why are you talking you can’t talk omg I’m literally shaking rn

[@KoreanSpy1997]

Obivously they can't afford to mass produce the weapons like we're currently doing right now, due to the combines. So it makes sense how the weapons looks handicrafted. And I personally like it.

[@FalbereChan]

personally the weapon gives me a feeling like it used to be a manufactured break-action semi-auto shotty, but for some reason, had the entire rear end sawed off.

[@quint3ssent1a]

Slide was added, and the lower seems to be fabricated as well, but barrel, breech and mag tube looks like it was there from the start. In the end shotgun looks like some weird alien assault rifle.

[@ElHuevoRancheroWasTaken]

It kind of looks like a jerry-made SPAS-12 when you put the double fire heatshield on it. Maybe it was a stolen combine prototype that would've been the ancestor of the Combine SPAS-12 that Gordon uses?

[@TheOdst219]

It sort of reminds me of a Saiga 12 .

[@joaovitorsilvagohl682]

@@FalbereChan it has a colapsable stock

[@inceptional]

The weapons designs are absolutely top notch in this game.

[@josephvagnier9643]

Makes it really feel like this is a rebellion making there own weapons to fight against the combine. And that’s what I love about valves story telling it makes you feel immersed

[@truthseeker9833]

They look very generic, wth are you talking about

[@Manofsteal912]

to bad that they don't have melee and punching and kicking things if you have full body tracking and the melee was the most iconic thing in this game,like i wish you can just grab a metal rod and poke some headcrab to death.

[@SDNimm543]

The valve designers must have had so much fun kitbashing

@@gooer2887 Literally half of the rebellions (and Gordon's) arsenal was guns hidden from the combine, or made out of junk or alien meat. They seem perfectly Half-Life themed.

[@chickendrawsdogs3343]

Never thought a proper, full-fledged AAA VR game would be a Half-Life game...

[@williamsmith6921]

I fully expected it. valve created the half life series to showcase technological advancement. with all of the experimentation in vr valve has been doing it was the obvious next step

[@jc8153]

william smith It wasn’t obvious valve would make a game, let alone a new installment in half-life nonetheless. Then again, it can be assumed they were waiting for the proper time to release half life along with a new innovation in gaming...

[@mitri5389]

valve is a indie studio.

[@lisandrolabastie]

@@mitri5389 xD ??

[@williamsmith6921]

@@mitri5389 Are you joking. please tell me you are joking

I love how these weapons, and even Combine Technology feels so expertly put together, but so ramshackle at the same time. It's like everything is Macgayvered together to be as simple and efficient as is possible, but using unorthodox and complicated parts. Like taking a gear shifter and using it as a coffee grinder, or taking a solar panel and using it as a plate. It's like nobody really knows what their working with, but knows exactly what it does.

[@James-oj6ru]

Yggdrasil Burnes This maybe a combine SPAS 12 but re-vamped for Rebel usage, this was 5 years after the 7 hour war, which means the Rebel were an undercover insurgency, and that would make senses to how the double shot has the SPAS 12 cover

[@ernestasjarmak9884]

@@James-oj6ru It's 5 years until the events of half-life 2. Alyx was an infant in the events of half life 1, so it has probably been atleast 18 years, since she's 19 in half life Alyx.

[@James-oj6ru]

Ernestas Jarmak Oops, wrong events, sorry

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

Yggdrasil Burnes The timelines keep getting retconned. When HL2 was released all interviews, promotional material, the Prima Strategy Guide, and the behind the scenes book Raising the Bar stated that 10 years passed between HL1 and HL2. Then when the Orange Box came out the websites now stated _nearly 20 years_ which could mean anywhere from 15 to 19 years. So if Alyx is 19 in HLA then she’s 24 by HL2. Which means if we are going by the current nearly 20 years time gap she was 5 to 9 years old during the Black Mesa Incident. If we were going by the original 10 year time gap she would be 14 years old during the Black Mesa Incident. Gordon Freeman is stated to be 27 years old in the opening text of Half-Life 1. The G-Man put him in suspended animation or sent him to the future which means he never aged.

[@Teknanam]

@ Wait what was making you uncomfortable?

[@turingsghost]

I really love that, since a 2-handed shotgun like the regular HL2 shotgun would prove disorienting in VR (due to not having anything actually physical for the second hand to hold onto), their solution was this delightful little shotgun-pistol. It's a wonderfully straight-forward solution.

[@chuggaa100]

There's nothing phsyical for the main hand either? It's in VR

[@turingsghost]

@@chuggaa100 ...The controller.

[@bobblackmesa7914]

I think it's more because a 2 handed weapon doesn't really work with the gameplay of alyx, because you're other hand is usually doing something, like throwing grenades or using syringes

[@n0m4r22]

They could've went with a sawed off shotgun but that simply isn't very original and went for a hand-crafted looks which I really adore

[@ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ]

they could had kept the SPAS-12, the hook in the stock allows you to fire it one handed, and it also has a semi auto mode, so i'm really not sure why they replaced it

[@gensumm]

i really played the entire game thinking you could only have 2 shells in the gun

[@VRicken]

Same!

[@UnknownSquid]

I went for a while thinking that, right up until I noticed the number on the back and was like, "Wait what. Three? Three shells? How did that... oh..."

[@mike7DILFLUVR]

Bolloxed did too

[@sgt.nuclear]

The same here :(

[@jonatanjaakkola4994]

@@catfan__ Lol same, i was thinking that i'd get an achivement for doing just that lol

[@MrGunzngirlz]

Man that shotgun is so nice, powerful, and useful! It'd sure be a shame if it NEVER GOT ANY AMMO!

[@TransistorBased]

You're not looking hard enough

[@josealejandromontilla1106]

The game gives more ammo to the weapon you use more

[@josealejandromontilla1106]

like in letf 4 dead

[@TransistorBased]

@@josealejandromontilla1106 I was wondering about that. I got a ton of pistol ammo since I used that the most. I was afraid if it didn't have that mechanic I'd run out of shells

[@UnknownSquid]

@@josealejandromontilla1106 Lol. I'm maybe a third of the way through the game, and have barely touched the shotgun specifically because of how incredibly rare the ammo seems to be. Great mechanic for the kind of player who blasts away without care or reserve, but a bit of a double edged sword for the resource management minded players. xD

[@TheArklyte]

I just love how "laser" sight adjusts between normal and grenade mode to show different ballistics of flechets and grenade.

[@Fierywell]

Flechets?

[@ArcturusOTE]

@@Fierywell Small darts, basically fin stabilized ammo

[@Fierywell]

@@ArcturusOTE so apfsds for shotguns

[@Manofsteal912]

It sad that you can't have melee ,punching and kicking in this game if you have full body tracking.I wish valve would update it so that people can use whatever the fuck they want to kill an enemy,like you can just grab a metal rod and poke some headcrabs to death,or even just grab a brick and smash it to a combine's head.

[@thegamingvillager2392]

Filthy Alan Animate Valve probably had difficulties doing that but perhaps they can add a small update adding that feature or someone can make a mod for it

[@gus9351]

@@thegamingvillager2392 yes and they even said that the resources that is supposedly gonna go to the next half life game that they were gonna make next was used for Alyx so yeah they really had difficulties

[@thegamingvillager2392]

Lucifer Morningstar I hope they release Half Life 3 and also make it keyboard and mouse compatible even if it’s gonna be VR

[@gus9351]

@@thegamingvillager2392 With the surge of popularity of vr, they will surely be more given attention and maybe become even mainstream so meaning vr headsets will become more and more cheaper and I sure do hope that headsets like oculus quest becomes more viable for these kind of games so that everyone gets to play it.... So the next half life game is probably still going to be vr but hopefully vr is way more cheaper after that.

[@CZProductions]

I agree, which is why I still prefer Boneworks from a tech perspective. Apparently they attempted to give Alyx a crowbar for melee combat, but they said they didn't like the melee combat because of the lack of proper haptic feedback so decided to scrap any melee fighting.

[@benjaminmonskey4880]

I love how the shotgun looks like a skeletonized and modified Franchi edit: i also hadn't realized how kick-ass the laser sight looked on the gun

[@engijack]

These demonstrations are really neat to see, especially for those of us with no VR capability. I appreciate it.

[@TheJosiahTurner]

Imagine not firing 2 shots at the same time, this was made by the HL2 shotgun secondary fire gang

[@Fierywell]

I like how ever since the first half life they thought the second barrel was a shooty barrel and not a shell holder

[@anonimoqualquer5503]

"press secondary fire key to broke you arm"

[@TheDuplicat3]

a half life video "7 hours ago" oh no

[@FalbereChan]

hi i just heard the war started 7 hours ago, how is it going now?

[@joaopaulogalloclaudino9671]

@@FalbereChan lmao is already over, we lost chief

[@Bruh-hq1hx]

@@FalbereChan Will you do a Video like this for the smg

[@deetee2011]

Dear god poor laszlo the finest Ming of his genarcse come to such an end

[@blackstone1a]

For a fictional gun from a video game, this is actually really well designed tbh.

[@MaximG.]

2:40 - Of course it has SPAS-12-like top xD

[@moneminer1915]

@@BlackoutBlakeOfficialYT It's a heat shield btw

[@McGilm342]

its ironic because thats something the games get wrong about the spas-12 it doesnt have 2 shots though in this game its different because it lets you fire two shots right away so i guess it does represent it actually

[@McGilm342]

@Purple Emerald yeah though in all honesty if the next half-life game doesnt have a spas-12 im suing accuracy schmaccuracy

[@mitri5389]

@@McGilm342 spas 12 is a garbage shotgun

[@McGilm342]

@@mitri5389 you dissin the s p a s - 1 2 *_f r a n c h i ?_*

[@CaptainGrief66]

It's such a unique looking weapon, though I've been thinking about how it would realistically work [Gun nerd babbling ahead] So far I'm set thinking it uses a gas delayed blowback system like on a Steyr GB pistol or a Gustloff VG-1-5 rifle, it would make sense on why it has a slide in the first place, but I've been trying to make sense of the geometry of the magazine tube and breech assembly, maybe I'm missing something but it seems like the mag tube has a cartridge lifter integrated to it just under the last rear-most shell, still trying to figure it out.

[@Trevor20113]

When you rack the slide back you can see an up angled shell entering the chamber. My guess is there's a hidden lifter, like that on a conventional simi-auto/pump shotgun. IRL, you could create a reciprocating action independent of the slide to move the whole upper receiver over the lifter when not firing. It would make the action, recoil operated similar to a Beretta 92F or Barrett M82/M107. Just a guess though. Someone needs to make this thing.

[@holepunch1829]

might just be a straight blowback, like the browning auto 5

[@CaptainGrief66]

@@holepunch1829 _The Auto 5 was long recoil operated_

[@holepunch1829]

@@CaptainGrief66 good thing i'm wrong fuck

[@doingmybesthere3940]

this gun would also have pissall accuracy, due to how short the barrel is, this thing is like an autoloading sawn off

[@YourGameTV_]

This is has to be one of the coolest weapons in a video game I've seen for a long time.

[@Stribog1337]

I agree. What are yours? the favorites i remember now are AR2 (Half-Life 2) Bastard SMG (Metro 2033)

[@_KillerD_]

Gluon Gun

[@therm0alfred448]

I say every techno-weapon in Half Life series looks cool anyways.

[@BLUESHYGUY8000]

I mean Cod zombies, Metro and the new Doom weapons look great as well, but that's my opinion

[@clandestine736]

Love the Combine pulse rifle in HL2. The bouncing orb secondary that disintegrates anybody in the way is spectacular.

[@ElliFong]

Man I wish they would let you unfold that underfolding wire stock lol.

[@engijack]

You'd think they'd use a virtual stock system for it, would make a lot more sense for a shotgun

[@stiky5972]

WAIT, THEY DON'T?!

[@Ichibuns]

They found that pistol style works best in VR. Weapons that need to sit on the shoulder are clunky and break immersion.

[@engijack]

@@Ichibuns H3VR seemed to do pretty well with it

[@IgorUsePro1347]

@@Ichibuns Again with the excuses, stop it guys. H3VR has like the best guns, stocked and dual handed, foldable and adjustable, with every button functional, with all sorts of freedom for attachments, guns work just fine in VR, shame Valve doesn't realise that yet.

[@fenrirsrage4609]

I love the HL1 Spas-12 reference with the double shot upgrade.

[@deusvult5124]

That grenade launcher looks more like a measuring tape.

[@TwistedEgg]

Yeah I though I was the only who noticed that

[@Psychoangel-d23]

Combine has one of my personal favourite sci fi techs. The minimalistic design with a flawless working mechanism is awesome in it´s own right. The autoloader is a perfect example of that.

[@ZenithVal.]

4:11 Alyx can pick up loads of 3 shells with the right hand before you get he upgrade already.

[@FalbereChan]

i was never able to do that! how do i pick up 3 shells and load them before getting autoloader?

[@ZenithVal.]

@@FalbereChan You can't load them sadly since it's only with the right hand when your weapon is un-equiped, it's just a little thing for scavenging.

[@tamasperci4168]

@@ZenithVal. Does the game have a left-handed mode? And if yes, can that be exploited?

[@BioHazardAlBatros]

@@tamasperci4168 Yes and no.

[@horizont6883]

@@tamasperci4168 just a heads up, left handed mode is the same thing as right handed mode but its swapped to your left hand instead, so instead of your left hand showing your health and ammo and resin, its your right hand instead

[@shadowdragon1059]

5:16 This does not look like a shotgun anymore! xD

[@gamesgo6724]

its now looks like gun for ripping and tearing.

[@qiif3434]

really love how you do some "animations" that usually on regular games, a nice touch of style

[@GeorgeCowsert]

Something to note: basically every weapon in Alyx is either a pistol or SMG of some kind. Even the shotgun is designed to be as small and compact as possible and even has a similar operating system to a typical pistol. And this makes perfect sense when you realize that in VR, you can't shoulder a rifle or hold onto a physical handguard to keep your ingame weapon steady, making long range accuracy impossible.

[@itsraventm]

i absolutely LOVE the design of the shotgun. its like, a sawn off pump action but you kept the front half of the barrel instead of the, y'know, actual shotgun, and just kinda threw together a working shotty out of the barrel and some spare parts.

[@stanislav_skorobogatov]

That autoloader kinda reminds me of the Alof single-shot shotgun conversion, looks really neat

[@CallMeAlex]

I saw the pistol video last night and I went to go find a video with the fully upgraded shotgun, nothing appeared but then you uploaded this one and I was like oh that's awesome mind as well watch this now.

[@Neo2266.]

That grenade ain’t aerodynamic at all XD I’m glad they fixed the “Fire both Barrels” thing from other HL games, and yet still kept it in

[@Psychoangel-d23]

From what i´ve seen the grenade is round. The yellow thing is actually just a casing that pops off when you press the primer.

[@valerieschenkel940]

Yes it's like a bullet

[@El-Burrito]

Wasn't sure if you mentioned it in the video, but if you have the laser sight and grenade launcher then the laser site will change to a blue arc when you activate the grenade launcher. Super handy!

[@CharlesVanNoland]

They broke the shotgun laser sight with a recent update apparently. No longer projects a laser sight onto scenery, just draws the cone of laser light being emitted. Waste of 10 resin when I got the upgrade today (been playing very slowly through Alyx because it's too scary).

[@ahappyiguana2475]

I've seen just so many people load the shotgun once i don't even know what to think.

[@CeeHoff]

For some reason, i love the shotty. The sounds, the way you load and prime it, it just feels good

[@ravenatort]

Fully upgraded, that thing is an absolute beast of a shotgun that should be in every shooter game

[@MrScX]

Valve never fails to innovate. Such an amazing team. Best game of this generation? Could be very well. Great video btw!

[@neonsolace2748]

3:51 if half life alyx ever make to mouse and keyboard I wan't this to be the shotgun aim and reload animation

[@wasdwazd]

There's a mod for CSGO that has this weapon. So there's that.

[@Zack_Zander]

Night Wolf If Half Life Alyx is ever on PC, than it would be lacking on a lot of stuff Especially no point in the Gravity Glove either

[@stampylongcock3919]

the game wouldn't be that fun in pc as it's designed for a VR experience if it was on PC it'd be like a GMOD map or a tech demo

[@gisli9955]

@@stampylongcock3919 I 100% agree, the entire point of Half-Life : Alyx is to show the possibilities of what can be done with VR while still making an enjoyable game. (As Kliksphilip said, Half-Life : Alyx is VR's Half-Life 1. Showing what can be done with the technology while still making an enjoyable game, but I'm even more excited for VR's equivalent of Half-Life 2) But porting Half-Life : Alyx to desktop PC would be missing the entire point of the game.

[@Bruh-hq1hx]

Problem is combat in half life alyx is built around vr

[@謝宗佑-u1m]

The style feel exactly like the jeep in HL2, rebel style.

[@McStebb]

Grenade launcher is definitely the best investment in the game. It costs 40 resin, but it then enables you to use the Shotgun as another pocket for grenades, allowing you to carry 3 total.

[@ViperVenoM13]

some people carry a bucket with all extra stuff in it... since the game is physics-based

[@alephkasai9384]

@@ViperVenoM13 I have never seen that but wow that actually sounds pretty cool

[@Josh_isSlow]

I like the idea that every time you upgrade the gun becomes a little more combine.

[@blomgus]

Another pro for autoloader would be that you can reload with one hand if shells are already in the autoloader.

[@bschuler]

Many levels in the game deep and I just learned you can load more than 2 shells in the shotgun.. ugh.. lol. Thanks to these I now know I can load more shotgun shells and also how the handgun dual clip thing works (reason I was looking for these videos in the first place). Thank you so much!

[@sgt.nuclear]

I remember the first 3~ hrs of gameplay i was completely unaware that the capacity was more than 2... I found out by messing around and felt like a complete idiot afterwards.

[@alifismy5689]

oof

[@TransistorBased]

I love this weapon so much. It's definitely the best one I've used in VR

[@agustinrivero6324]

"Double Shot", Just like the old days.

[@dr.insecto7846]

Shotgun Name: unknown Ammo type: gauge Shell type: Buckshot Guage: 12 Shotgun type: Double barrel Attachments : laser sight, auto loader, grenade launcher, and double barrel, *Might be sawed off for easier movement* *combine manufactured* *unkown manufacturers who sell the models to the combine* *possibly same manufacturers as the Alyx gun* *is not manufactured by rebels* *is not manufactured by rebels*

[@alephkasai9384]

Ammo type gauge? Uh gauge is a measurement not a type of ammo.

[@eggofwah4852]

The cons for the laser sight are THAT YOU CANT SEE THE LASER UNLESS ITS DARK

[@VroodenTheGreat]

I just went online to look for a 2nd VR headset... my original Rift that I paid $350 for (18 months ago) is now going for 1100 new... You can order a Valve index for a thousand and have it (hopefully) in 2 months. I'm glad I bought a headset when I did.

[@Ataximander]

That autoloader is a thing of beauty

[@zaelheimricht4978]

Vr studios: we will put two handed rifles even if we know they're impossible to handle in vr! Gabe: Fuck it.

[@uss_04]

Got to say it’s far more interesting to watch the hologram screen adding the ads on to the weapon that the spinning upgrade animation.

[@kentsmith8345]

Man I wish someone in /k/ would actually makes this thing.

[@ShenDoodles]

I was looking everywhere I could to find out how to turn on double shot because I accidentally put the shotgun back in the fabricator before I saw the message.

[@blushingralseiuwu2222]

I think Half Life: Alyx will be the only AAA vr game for a long while. This can only happen since Valve is swimming in money, and only concerned in making innovation regardless of profit (since they always have profit from Steam).

[@GizmoMaltese]

Facebook/Oculus also is swimming in money. Lone Echo, Lone Echo 2 are pretty close. They funded Asgard's Wrath and Stormland. Outside of that we have TWD: Saints and Sinners. It doesn't look as good as Alyx but it holds its own. This has been a good year for VR.

[@jasonlor9735]

So that's where the double-shot mech came from for Half life 2. Still can't explain how it works for the first Half life, though...

[@johnyonghwang6112]

HECU Customized

[@TheJosiahTurner]

Hl2's secondary fire shoots 2 at once, not 2 at high speed

[@Ihasnotomato]

It's interesting, I feel the laser sight is kinda pointless but knowing it has synergy with the grenade launcher actually gives it a really good use, might be interesting to do different runs with a build like that in mind?

[@FlyFlee07]

Congratulations! You've got an achievement: Terminator. Description:Fully upgrade all of your weapons

[@fenrirsrage4609]

Ngl I do love how the double-shot gives it some aspects similar to the SPAS-12 from the main HL games.

[@Hexx24]

They got to fix the shaky hands

[@ethanransom6444]

great detail in your upgrade demonstrations

[@TheKirkiman]

Excellent video, just got the shotgun and thought it only took 3 shells and not 7, that was until I watched this vid. The pistol mod video was also really good. Decided to spend the resin on the shotgun lasersight and doubleshot. I take it I will get grenades later in the game, not worth buying the shotgun grenade launcher yet.

[@LArbongo]

One thing I love about this game's weapon design is that gun mechanisms look like gun mechanisms. Guns are filled with pieces that look nonsensical on their own, but when you see them fit together and how they function, their shape makes sense. Too many games these days (looking at you Mass Effect. Thanks for ruining scifi aesthetics for the last two decades) think gun design is " block and block fit together" so it's refreshing to see the designers in Alyx actually make the weapons make sense.

[@unrealgaming528]

For a second I thought you were playing without VR. because the way you had the gun positioned.

[@CZProductions]

If the classic 2 handed weapons don't come back in Half-Life 3, we riot. Having only 3 weapons was such a bummer in this game, and them all being pistols was unfortunate as well. Hoping they talk to the guys that made Boneworks and figure out how to properly make some 2 handed weapons in VR.

[@northernnightmare7986]

I like how the laser sight changes from a ring to a dot when you are launching a grenade.

[@piyerus1153]

The laser sight is sort of weird in that it gets more useful if you're holding the gun wrong. If you're playing full immersion style and holding it like you're expecting some kickback, like you'd hold a real gun, it's not very useful because it's just gonna be in front of you the entire time. Unlike the other guns it doesn't help with pinpoint accuracy on far targets or anything. But if you're waving the gun around like a madman, and shooting in ways that would break your wrist in real life... well it's very useful! You can immediately see if the gun is actually pointing at what you THINK it's pointing at, and don't need to do silly things like AIMING before you pull the trigger.

[@GooberDunk]

the shotgun in this game is such a sexy weapon, it really is a good looking gun, i love having it with the grenade launcher and laser sight

[@HotaruZoku]

The autoloader and GL are great. Both because it's cool, but it also gives you something else to do with your hands. Badass.

[@ValenderAndPo]

The sound of the lazer sight sounded stupid, I didnt realize it showed weapon spread like that. Wow

[@masterzoroark6664]

I love how the weapon is designed and how the laser sight shows the area where the shrapnel hits.

[@pigsteel3342]

Buckshot* or any other shell projectile shrapnel would be fragments of some material destroyed by an explosion

[@Kratos_Messi7050]

I love how double shot make your shotgun look like a spas-12 people said spas-12 cant do double shots for me spas-12 was heavily modified in half life games

[@epiclifeross]

laser sight: you see it like a baseball box you gotta hit the inside if you wanna strike

[@darthgiorgi4990]

I love the fact that fully upgraded the gun looks kinda like son of Spas 12. They didn't strafe far from Half Life DNA.

[@loneranger7004]

Woah all these shotgun upgrade look so cool and helpful! I wonder what it will look fully upgraded- *holy fuck*

[@dennis_duran]

This game takes visual upgrades to a whole new level

[@drablord448]

Auto loader is nice but honestly the most fun thing about the shotgun is loading it and cocking the barrel back.

[@septiantripangestu9406]

there's almost zero drawback to the shotgun upgrade unlike the handgun it's insane

[@ThompYT]

Im glad you didnt spoil anything :D

[@rich1051414]

This game taught me to always reload with 1 in the chamber, to keep from fumbling when panicked :P

[@veryconcernedjesus2584]

You guys are talking about how it looks like a spas-12 while I’m over here thinking it looks like a Mag-7 that had a baby with a Spas-12

[@rara3538]

cons on laser sight: 10 resin spent on laser sight for a CLOSE RANGE SHOTGUN

[@randomstuff23453]

the weapon designs might actually work in real life except for the smg

[@saltyrooster197]

Honestly, when I first got the shotgun, I had no idea there was a magazine capacity, so I treated it like a double barrel.

[@MRVAST-op7sg]

That auto loader attachment is a pretty awesome idea for an attachment

[@a9dproduction64]

Sweeeet loving the game, thanks for the vid

[@saier1414]

The shotgun is perfect, the upgrades prove this

[@thomaschitham3487]

You only forgot one flaw with the Grenade Launcher. You have no separate storage space of Grenades like ammo. The best you have are two places in your wrist, but you do that at the expense of storing other items like health or key items like batteries or health station parts.

[@starburn3334]

Or you can bring a create and put all the goods in there

[@thomaschitham3487]

@@starburn3334 If you mean 'crate', then that would mean you would have to carry with you a large box in which, if you aren't careful, will either break, get in the way, or have all all your items fall out. Bad idea.

[@coffin7904]

@@thomaschitham3487 bucket

[@FalbereChan]

yes! however those are the downsides of the grenades themselves, and not the downsides of the shotgun with upgrades IMO.

[@Maxshark999]

Oh now that makes more sense for the double shot upgrade. I thought it was 2 at once and for some reason, you can't see an explanation of what upgrades do after you bought them.

[@jossgoyanko7006]

Y'know, if the whole "liberating Earth from the Combine" thing doesn't work out, Alyx would make a killing making and selling guns!

[@SenorRu]

Fun note: Xen grenades also work on the launcher.

[@Nasrul260]

Fun Fact: *_I haven't seen anyone use a fully upgraded shotgun in this game_*

[@НелиелОксингейл]

The doubleshot seems a bit of a waste. Same as buying the burst for pistol before ammo box.

[@Zixye]

It's a different kind of feeling of power when you have the shotgun with the autoloader and it can't fit any more shells in it.

[@elijahlucian]

another pro to the Grenade Launcher, is that you can carry 1 more grenade!! 💥

[@javierabreu956]

The concept of a laser for the shotgun is amazing

[@TacticalBaguette]

You can see a wire stock folded under the gun. They should have made it so you can unfold it and use it like a stock in H3VR

[@arathertallglassofwater1864]

Thought i would hate the pistol-like shotgun but its now my favorite half life shotgun

[@ah0t3r49]

By the way, the grenade launcher is resettable if you pull the thingy to make it armed backwards I think, try it.

[@alfredalfiesiv7082]

Reminder that this shotgun is basically a sawed down shotgun the combine chargers use. It's true! Look at the model!

[@grimgrahamch.4157]

I would always get the grenade launcher upgrade first since it gives you an additional carry slot.