HECU SPAS-12

The SPAS-12 is a shotgun that fires buckshot in a cone-shaped pattern. In Half-Life and Half-Life 2, the SPAS-12 is closely based on the Franchi SPAS-12 Shotgun. In Half-Life, the player acquires the shotgun in the game's fourth chapter Office Complex.

Overview
The SPAS-12 is the most effective weapon at close to point-blank range. Its effectiveness decreases with distance as the buckshot pattern disperses wider at longer ranges. The SPAS-12 has an eight round capacity and two fire modes. The primary fire mode will shoot one shotgun shell and the secondary fire mode will shoot two shells in a rapid burst.

Using the SPAS-12 can be tricky at times – as well as having limited range, it can only be reloaded one shell at a time. It takes several seconds to fill the weapon with all eight shells, though in an emergency the player can interrupt the reloading process by simply pressing the fire button.

Although the standard shotgun weapon model is a SPAS-12, the weapon icon in the HUD depicts a different model of shotgun. The Half-Life High Definition pack remedies this by replacing the icon and making it look like a real SPAS-12.

Trivia
The Team Fortress Classic Super Shotgun uses the Half-Life SPAS-12 model.

List of appearances

 * Half-Life: Day One
 * Half-Life
 * Half-Life: Uplink
 * Half-Life: Opposing Force
 * Half-Life: Blue Shift
 * Half-Life: Decay
 * Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar