Which Half-Life shotgun is better

[@toughorpheus263wproductions]

Even the shotgun in half-life 2 beta also had a loud bang noise when you trigger it

[@bshap495]

I like the HL1 shotgun's stylized look, but the HL2 shotgun feels better to use. But I think my favorite is the HL:A shotgun. It has a cool design, punchy sound effect, and satisfying reload.

[@mcsmartass8306]

Actually the hl2 shotgun has a pretty long range

[@Mal0Imperzia]

Just like real shotguns

[@generalderpscout5393]

For HD shotgun in Half-life, it sounds so brutal but damn that firing and pump sounds

[@peppermillers8361]

The firing sound is fine, but the pump sound is great, especially if you combine it with the unintended and deafening echo.

[@redTrickster]

i really like the faster shots of the hl1 shotgun, feels like youre dealing powerful yet also quick punches (if that makes sense), and the secondary fire makes sense to be so slow considering the first fire is already pretty good but idk the hl2 shotgun is less fun to me i get why they did it because hl2 is much more grounded than hl1 is but man the speediness of hl1 made combat encounters much more fun for me

[@desmondgreen3556]

I enjoyed using the Half-Life Alyx shotgun so much I spent half a year making a shotgun only combat map for it. Time well spent.

[@TaccRaccoon]

I really love how it sounds

[@Profkol0rado]

Do a video on which Revolver is better in Half Life

[@Just_Denis2006]

I like the second version, looks cool and works good

[@VirtualRyders]

The VR version is the best 😊

[@riseoftheepicscout454]

slam firing the shotgun lol

[@TimSosman]

How about the different difficulties? Does that change anything?

[@YoYo-em5sf]

I played through HL1 only once, like 2 weeks ago, and it was on hard. I thought the shotgun was the biggest piece of dogshit

[@squarecranium4592]

Hl2 shotgun is the goat

[@zackfrank751]

Yes

[@arshadashfareza1065]

I prefer the hl 1 hd pack shotgun i mean the sound and the stock its perfect

[@HeliodromusScorpio]

The worst thing about HL2 Shotgun is the lower ammo number, which also makes absolutely zero sense

[@Zylon1338]

good video!

[@zackfrank751]

I think the hl2 shotgun is much better cause it has much fastest reload then hl1 and also it can have both great long and close range and it has a much more higher damage

[@Usersisr]

the best is hl1 hd pack shotgun cuz how it looks and sounds

[@ioanluke3220]

Cant argue with that

[@trevorshark16]

That thing felt awesome in Blue Shift

[@trevorshark16]

The HL2 shotgun looks better but the first person view model is terrible. It looks like you're firing it one handed. I think the best compromise is the HL1 HD texture pack shotgun.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

I found the HL1 and BM shotguns to be underpowered. Especially when up with the HL2 beast.

[@dustypaint]

in both games you switch to shotgun to instant shoot double barrel and switch back to your main weapon of choice. But HL2 has insanely long weapon switch animation, you can't even use gravity gun as a grenade launcher unlike you can in HL2DM

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

@@dustypaint _in both games you switch to shotgun to instant shoot double barrel_ In the HL games one "double barrel" blast does slightly less damage than two sequential single barrel blasts. (As a freedom loving Murican this nonsense about barrels drives me nuts. The prompt could be perfectly fine if it says "Fire two bursts") It's not that much of a difference, but noticable during multiplayer when the double blast takes longer to cycle. (I think it has two or so less buckshot pellets than the regular shot which has 8.) In _Black Mesa,_ I frequently ran up to Xen Slaves and HECU Marines, and blasted point blank in their face. I see a huge blood decal cover their entire head but they still survive. _gravity gun as a grenade launcher unlike you can in HL2DM_ Ah playing hot potato. Those were the days.

[@lambdamodsdev8647]

hl1 shotgun holds 8 bullets and has a more realistic loading sound

[@lostsektor]

tbh i prefer how unique hl weapons look, this is why im not big fan of HD pack for half life 1 or even black mesa weapons. sure the spas 12 look more like the original, but i think part of hl identity is have different weapons from what is used in real world. like the mp5 with grenade launcher.

[@The_Smegma_Mastermind]

MP5 with a grenade launcher has been used in the real world. You can mount an M203 on an MP5.

[@tda8184]

mechanical-wise: half life 2's shotgun is better to use asthetically: half life 1's shotgun looked and sounded cooler

[@oldundead]

Shotguns are so nerfed in games.

[@NovaProspekt19]

For real they have the spread of you throwing a fistful of BBs

[@The_Smegma_Mastermind]

Bruh, they gave the SPAS twice the amount of barrels it has in real life and made it so that mouse2 instantly kills most of the enemies in the game. There are better games to use as examples of having a nerfed shotgun.

[@trevorshark16]

​@@NovaProspekt19 As they do in real life, depending on the choke. Shotguns are not area weapons

[@Marine_2010]

Black Mesa shotgun is better than both of them

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

On hard mode it requires two point blank headshots to down a Vortigaunt. It is severely underpowered.

[@sgtpieman]

I am really getting tired of "graphical limitations" being used as an excuse for everything. No it was not graphical limitations that made them model and texture a scifi shotgun to only vaguely resemble a Spas12 instead of an actual Spas. It was not graphical limitations that made them draw a completely different heatshield at the top texture, or a different style of grip on the pump, or any of the gibbles and nonsense modeled and drawn in going on towards the rear of the heatshield. It was not graphical limitations that made the HUD show an ithaca instead of something resembling the in-game shotgun. It was Valve deciding to make an original sci-fi shotgun vaguely based on the Spas12 and being incredibly indecisive on what they wanted. In earlier footage you can see the textures more closely resemble the real thing and they made a conscious effort later to redesign the shotgun even further into their own creation. It was Gearbox who would later make the HL1 Shotgun an actual Spas12 in their HD pack.

[@Antiscog]

Chill mate

[@DomesticViolenceShelterG-xz4ft]

fr

[@rysiukowal]

and on the box art and old menu background Freeman holds something completely different (it looks like a sci-fi shotgun, though)