{"id":778097,"date":"2026-05-06T21:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/778097\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:05:16","slug":"sequel-to-acclaimed-vr-shooter-hot-dogs-horseshoes-hand-grenades-coming-to-quest-pc-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/778097\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequel to Acclaimed VR Shooter ‘Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades’ Coming to Quest & PC VR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades (H3VR)\u00a0is one of those silly, but surprisingly realistic PC VR shooters that kept on giving well after its release on Steam Early Access in 2016. Now, developer Rust Ltd<\/a> announced a sequel is coming, and it\u2019s a \u201cfull fledged\u201d extraction shooter.<\/p>\n

Revealed during the Creature Feature & Friends 2026 showcase, H3VR2\u00a0is coming to Quest 3 and 3S as well as PC VR headsets via Steam. Since the original is a PC VR-only game, this means Quest users will finally get a crack at operating the game\u2019s highly realistic gun models when it releases\u2014when, we still don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

Alongside the announcement trailer, the studio says the upcoming VR extraction shooter will challenge you to \u201cmaster an arsenal of the best guns in VR, fight your way through an endless procedurally generated megastructure, or just chill out and plink on the range.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

And like the original H3VR, you can of course expect hot dog-based enemies to battleagainst, as the game\u2019s \u2018Facility\u2019 mode sees you take on missions, extract resources and gain loot for subsequent runs.<\/p>\n

\u201cTest those skills against other players in the competitive Combat mode, giving each player the same run as you fight across online leaderboards. Combined with daily challenges, runs and leaderboards you\u2019ll find a ton of guns, gear, cosmetics and toys to unlock and collect as you go,\u201d the studio says.<\/p>\n

That means the sequel will not only include a tactical action roguelike, which comes with procedural-generation for endless runs, as well as guns, gear, cosmetics and toys to unlock and collect\u2014but also all of the sandbox stuff on the side too.<\/p>\n

We sat down with Rust founder and principal developer Anton Hand to learn a little more about the upcoming sequel, and why it\u2019s now targeting Quest after years of Hand maintaining H3VR\u00a0couldn\u2019t run on the standalone platform.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Image courtesy Rust Ltd<\/p>\n

To Hand, Quest 3 has finally crossed a critical threshold of processing power to make it possible. He tells Road to VR\u00a0however it isn\u2019t just raw processing power.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, Quest 3 is 100% an \u2018over the power threshold to be truly interesting\u2019 device. Granted, to make something as sophisticated as we have run on it, it\u2019s still taken a significant, absolutely top class engineering team to make it happen,\u201d Hand says.<\/p>\n

There were also several major \u2018ah ha\u2019 moments along the way to developing the sequel for Quest 3, which Hand reveals has been in development over the past two and a half years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI basically heard from dev friends once [Quest 3] came out \u2018yo you need to check this out, it\u2019s easy more powerful than you think. I think the stuff you\u2019re interested in making can (barely) run on this\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

To boot, Hand says the studio is targeting 72 fps on Quest 3, which means the game won\u2019t need to in constant space-warp to run.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Image courtesy Rust Ltd<\/p>\n

Although there are \u201cplenty of things about the Quest platform\u201d he thinks could be radically improved, to Hand, it\u2019s also about meeting users where they\u2019re at: Quest 3 and Quest 3S.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I]t\u2019s where the larger audience of customers are for sure, and shipping there for us is about targeting two modern devices that are for sale, as opposed to other contexts. In the end it\u2019ll probably end up being the least stressful platform to ship on, even if the technical constraints of standalone make things properly challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hand also revealed that Meta gave the studio \u201ca significant amount of support\u201d to build the H3VR2, which is notably\u00a0\u201cnot a port. It\u2019s not a \u2018mini\u2019 version of H3VR1 shushed down into standalone.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for H3VR1, which is still in early access,\u00a0Hand says\u00a0they\u2019re still working on the 1.0 release, which is \u201call about making sure modding and user generated content using our custom tools is setup to have the community make cool stuff for H3 for as long as they love to,\u201d Hand says.<\/p>\n

The studio will also continue supporting the original game with bug fixes, maintenance related to platforms and new devices \u201cfor the foreseeable future,\u201d noting there may be a \u201clittle holiday thing here and there,\u201d Hand says.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no specific release date yet for H3VR2, although you can wishlist it now on the Horizon Store<\/a> for Quest 3 and 3S, and Steam<\/a> for PC VR headsets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hot Dogs, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades (H3VR)\u00a0is one of those silly, but surprisingly realistic PC VR shooters that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":778098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[158,67,132,68,729,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-778097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116529668371977860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}