You’ll also need to physically slide the chamber back before you can fire.

Pistol at a time holds 10 bullets, with an additional 10 with a bullet reservoir upgrade. To reload it, you need to release the current mag by pressing the designated button, then physically grab a new one from your backpack or the environment and load it. It is initially modified with M1911 HUD to show the remaining bullets in the gun. The first weapon you get is a gift from a fellow resistance member, a Pistol. With this, we shall discuss the weapons, their upgrades and how to use the Combine Fabricator.

In addition to the weapons, for the first time, Half-Life allows you to upgrade weapons through Combine Fabricator.

Along with these, grenades and Alyx’s Gravity Gloves, it becomes pretty easy to take down all the enemies as we will explain in this detailed Half-Life: Alyx Weapons Guide. Half-Life: Alyx does not provide you with a massive arsenal of weaponry, only featuring the essentials that are a pistol, shotgun and SMG.