this is just speculation, I believe this is what becomes of weapon_proto1, an unused weapon that can be found in old leaks, where you can disintegrate props for ammo, it can be seen in the aftermath sourcemod. moddb.com/mods/hl2aftermath youtube.com/watch?v=7QcuRKbe2jI EDIT: I was talking to some people on the discord, and one of them said it might be that they split the elemental gun (icegun) into 2, the actual weapon and the model intended for the elemental gun (icegun) also, it was reused in portal 2's beta for the paintgun combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Paint_G…
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