If you’re any kind of avid VR fan, you’ll have heard the name Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (H3VR for short). This impeccable VR shooter has been around for more than a decade, and it’s still being updated (and planned to be pushed into 1.0) by its developer, RUST.
What you might not know is that the studio recently unveiled a sequel, ten years later. It’s simply called Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2, and aside from toting all the regular sandbox entertainment, it’s digging directly into the extraction shooter boom.
H3VR2 Will Partly Be An Extraction Shooter
If you’ve ever wanted to gun down hordes of anthropomorphic sausages while wielding some of the most realistically modelled weapons in gaming, then H3VR is the thing you want to step into.
This shooter has been around since April 2016, emerging as one of the first major VR shooters ever, but even after all these years, it’s still being kept updated by the team.
That’s because it’s still an early access game, which might sound strange, but it’s not the first shooter in the business to go that long in early access, right?
H3VR is so beloved that it has earned incredible accolades on Steam, including an all-time rating of Overwhelmingly Positive from tens of thousands of reviews. It’s one of the most-played VR-only games on the platform, and last year, it picked up a platinum award from Valve for being right up the top of the table in terms of hours played.
On Wednesday, RUST unveiled Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2, taking the VR community by surprise. The team wrote on social media alongside a new trailer:
I bet most of you didn’t expect THAT huh? Well, it’s out of the bag. Y’all know what we’ve been up to. PLEASE do take the time to watch the whole featurette before racing to comment below with a question I might have covered in the Q&A section at the end of the video.
Here’s that featurette:
The long-awaited sequel comes before the first game has managed to leave early access, but that is on the horizon.
In the videos uploaded to detail the impending arrival of H3VR2, the team explained that Meta has been a fountain of support in bringing the game to the Quest 3 platform, arguably the most popular and capable VR ecosystem in the business.
It might sound bizarre, but H3VR2 will have an extraction shooter component. Players will enter ‘The Facility’, a procedurally generated mega-structure with endless levels. They’ll fight enemies, loot whatever they can, and extract, taking their bounty back to their hideout to strengthen their armory.
H3VR2 doesn’t have a release window just yet, but it can be added to wishlists on Steam and the Meta Store, which folks have started doing in droves.
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Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.
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Been playing H3vr since April 2016 when I got my first HTC VIVE, and have well over 10,000 hours in it at this point, happy that now more people will be able to try it without having a dedicated VR PC, since this sequel will run on standalone headsets, like the META Quest 3 and, even better, the Steam Frame.