History VideoGame / HotDogsHorseshoesAndHandGrenades

* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: Some guns are classified into wrong categories from what they actually are. For example, the [=MP5K=] gets classified as machine pistol even though it's actually a submachine gun that's a subcompact version of standard [=MP5=].

** Some guns are classified into wrong categories from what they actually are. For example, the [=MP5K=] gets classified as machine pistol even though it's actually a submachine gun that's a subcompact version of standard [=MP5=].

* SmokeOut: Various items emit opaque orbs of smoke (an intentional design choice so it wouldn't affect performance and so the smoke can be affected in a physical manner such as being cleared by explosions or billowing out of confined spaces). You have the M18, both in red and U.S.A colors, 40mm grenade rounds that release ''CS gas'' (though it does nothing to the player) and, for a more silly variation, a ninja smoke bomb which looks like a giant bang snap and explodes on impact.
** The KS-23 shotgun can load "Siren-7" tear gas rounds.

* ArmorIsUseless: Averted, Soldier wieners can wear armor which stops projectiles until they break while elite, GunsAkimbo bots have special armor that takes a lot more punishment.
** This is played more realistically for the Sosig agents with the new ballistic system that can wear helmets, kevlar and armor plates that stop bullets and calibers up to a certain point depending on what they're wearing. They can, however, be stunned from enough blunt force which leaves them vulnerable to, say, a NeckSnap.

* ArtificialBrilliance
** The Sosig agents compared to the previous wienerbots. Anton is designing them to use cover based on level geometry, they can become suppressed from incoming fire and explosions and they not only react to and investigate gunshots and explosions but even so much as dropping objects like magazines or working a weapon's actions can alert them to your presence.

** Played straight with the temporary pieces of cover in the reworked Take & Hold; however they will break very quickly under fire.

** Update #87 is themed around ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' which coincided with the release of [[VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx another game during the same week]]. The update added several themed weapons like a USP Match in 9mm, an [=MP7=] with both the unique reflex sight and underslung GP-25 grenade launcher, a scrap-built crossbow that fires charred hot dog bolts, a jury-rigged [=AR3=] based on the famous conversation in ''Episode 2'' and even the "S.P.A.A.M." that's functionally identical to the S.L.A.M. from ''Half-Life 2: Deathmatch''. Capping it off is a "Welldone Freemeat" character for Take & Hold, complete with unique Sosig agents.

** In Take & Hold, it will always direct you to supply and hold points and by default it will only display enemies once you've achieved line-of-sight and will always show enemies during a hold phase, you can set it to be omnipresent to forfeit a score multiplier or you can turn off enemy detection entirely for a bigger score multiplier.

* HollywoodHacking: What the current Take & Hold is presented as where you acquire override tokens to spend on equipment and the hold points have "encryption" (read: targets) that must be neutralized to complete a hold.

** The Winter Wasteland map is filled with these, first in the form of junkbots that are literally made out of garbage and then the various drones based on the encryption types in "Take & Hold".

* {{Mooks}}: In the form of upright hot dogs called "Sosigs". The Take & Hold scene also has older "Wienerbot" models as an option. Both types are armed with simplified, movie prop-like variants of assorted StandardFPSGuns called "Sosiguns".

** The reworked Take & Hold allows you to use limited ammo, only allowing you to reload magazines at a specific panel as well as spawn loose rounds, speed loaders and clips for free. Another type of panel lets you duplicate magazines or upgrade them to higher capacities for Override Tokens.

* PainfullySlowProjectile: Once again averted with the RPG, which fires at a relatively realistic velocity- which is to say, almost faster than can be seen, and far faster than most other "realistic" games.
** The solider hot dogs fire these as well, regardless of weapon. The Take & Hold mode (Legacy, Containment and Rework) can have them be changed to realistic velocities.

** Take & Hold: Containment is a big old love letter to both ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' and the Website/SCPFoundation. The "Welldone Freemeat" Take & Hold character introduced in Update #87 likewise parodies ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', with Sosig variants of that game's enemies and weapons.

** Update #99 introduced "Flaccid Snake", a Take & Hold character based on ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', complete with Sosig equivalents of the game's bosses and a [[PlayerGuidedMissile Nikita launcher analogue]]. Coincidentally, the Northest Dakota map also released in the update resembles Shadow Moses Island.

* WinterWarfare: "Northest Dakota", the setting of the Meatmas 2020 scene and a Take & Hold map, is a massive snowy area littered with derelict armored vehicles, abandoned camps, and communication towers. It's designed for long-range combat, with plenty of hills and cliffs to use as sniper positions.

* {{Mooks}}: In the form of upright hot dogs called "Sosigs". The Take and Hold scene also has older "Wienerbot" models as an option. Both types are armed with simplified, movie prop-like variants of assorted StandardFPSGuns called "Sosiguns".

** Take And Hold: Containment is a big old love letter to both ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' and the Website/SCPFoundation. The "Welldone Freemeat" Take & Hold character introduced in Update #87 likewise parodies ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', with Sosig variants of that game's enemies and weapons.

* CoolGuns: The video game!

** If they spot you before you dive behind cover, they'll take potshots at where they last saw you to discourage peeking back out at them and they'll shoot through smoke clouds if you don't move after it obscures you.

** Break-action weapons like derringers and shotguns will load all of the barrels simultaneously when you insert the first round if you're holding additional rounds in your hand.

''Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades'' (often abbreviated ''[=H3VR=]'') is a Virtual Reality gun range simulator developed for multiple VR headsets (Creator/{{Valve|Software}} Index, UsefulNotes/HTCVive, UsefulNotes/OculusRift and Windows Mixed Reality) by developer RUST LTD. It's currently in early access and can be purchased on Steam [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/450540/ here]]. As of this writing, the game is at Early Access Update #105.