History Videogame / HotDogsHorseshoesAndHandGrenades

* 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.

* OffModel: Some of the older gun models are beginning to show their age compared to the newer, higher-quality ones made by professional artists. An example is the "[=MB500=]", which is actually a Remington 870 with a Mossberg-style safety switch.

** 2019 featured the Triple Regret, a three-bullet revolver that took the massive .50 BMG ammunition, and the Whizzbanger, a "minimalistic" gun that just consists of nothing but a frame to hold a single bullet and a pin that has to be manually hit in order to prime said bullet.

** 2021 readded The OG, formerly known as the Cartoon 8 Gauge for [[GunsDoNotWorkThatWay how badly proportioned it is]].
** 2022 put in the game the Uzi Nano, an adaption of the Uzi Mini and Uzi Micro with an even tinier profile, and the Baby's First Boomstick, a cross between a toddler's color pop-up toy and a shotgun that accepted its shells through the toy's pop-up compartments.
** 2023 brought about the [=MP5 Shadow=], a pump-action submachine gun, and the Rail Tater, a RailGun made from [[BlandNameProduct what is not a can of Pringles' potato chips]] and which launched [[AbnormalAmmo tungsten-plated potato chips]].

** While Anton will never add the [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Masterkey]] due to the nature of coding an attachable weapon with a magazine, in Alpha 4 he and Stefan instead modeled the fictitious [[IncrediblyLamePun Carkey and Housekey]] single-shot underbarrel shotguns.

** Anton has a notable distaste for garish, highly-customized competition "race guns", and has added two weapons to parody them. The "IPSICK 2011" resembles a brightly-colored M1911 with a hilariously long daisy chain of compensators and muzzle brakes and a "YOLOgraphic sight", but is actually a break-action single-shot firing a ''.50 BMG'' round. One-upping this is the "USPSAECIAL", which resembles an AR-15, but fires an absolutely ridiculous ''20x82mm'' anti-materiel round.

** Weapons will never jam, break, or fail to cycle outside of specific circumstances (like low-pressure 12 gauge shells being fired in a semi-automatic shotgun, giving the SPAS-12's dual-mode ability a purpose). Even weapons notorious for jamming such as the emergency STANAG magazine well on the M249 will work without fail.

** The [[GatlingGood M134]] is treated as man-portable (based on an [=AirSoft=] replica) even though the electrically-driven barrels require a significant power source such as from a vehicle that it would be mounted on. In this case, it's more for RuleOfCool.

''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 #101.

** Take And Hold: Containment is a big old love letter to both ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' and the Wiki/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.

** The [[RareGuns Pancor Jackhammer]] has this in play due to its "video game-y" implementation.

* RareGuns: All over the place, ranging from actually rare, to antique, to just obscure. Some weapons being so rare and obscure that they mark their first video game appearance or even first media appearance outright like the Bergmann [=M1901=] Simplex whose sole other documented appearance was in ''LightNovel/TheMysticArchivesOfDantalian''.

** Update #90 adds six new shotguns, including two unique weapons that required new scripting, those being the dual-magazine KSG and the [=Six12=] bullpup revolver shotgun with a detachable cylinder. The rest of July was also focused on shotguns, ending with the addition of the [[RareGuns C.A.W.S and Jackhammer]], which Anton took some artistic liberties such as implementing a detachable cylinder for the Jackhammer and having the C.A.W.S perform to the specifications H&K intended.

* TeleporterAccident: One of the reasons the Engineer's Teleporter isn't available in [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Meat Fortress]] is due to the fact that while players using them works just fine, Sosigs using them had a tendency to violently disassemble at the end point due to having to teleport the four joints of a Sosig simultaneously. Some people insist on it being added anyway because [[RuleOfFunny it sounds hilarious]].

** Completely new weapons, such as a semi-automatic battle rifle called the "All-Rounder", and a compact revolver for the Spy called "Le Petite Liaison".

* ShortRangeShotgun: Even though shotguns have much longer effective ranges than most games, shotguns chambering buckshot are more effective at closer ranges and point-blank blasts are more than enough to reduce an unarmored Sosig to sausage crumbles, making the shortened and sawn-off shotguns dominate in CQC.

** There's an ammo type called "10mm DSM" which stands for "Discarding Sabot Magnetic", used by the [[Film/BladeRunner LAPD 2019]] as well as the two secret weapons, [[spoiler:the Thompson [=Mk2=] and Cyber Handgun]].

** Break-action weapons like derringers and shotguns will load all of the barrels simultaneously when you insert the first round.

** Alongside the above update, weapons loaded via loose rounds will now have you only grab the required amount to top off the magazine rather than the entire stack of palmed ammunition, spawnlocked or not, and the last two shotgun rounds in your hand will be loaded in quick succession. The sound will also be noticeably deeper once the magazine is full.

** Alongside the above update, weapons loaded via loose rounds will now have you only grab the required amount to top off the magazine rather than the entire stack of palmed ammunition, spawnlocked or not, and the last two shotgun rounds in your hand will be loaded in quick succession. The sound will also be noticeably deeper when the last round is inserted.

* OneBulletClips: Continuing this game's trend of averting weapon tropes, ammo in a magazine is retained when ejected and you keep an extra round in the chamber if the weapon is closed-bolt. If you play using house rules for limited quickbelt ammunition, either you discard the magazine and lose the rounds in it or you have to consolidate them between magazines manually.

* MagneticWeapons: The [[Film/BladeRunner LAPD 2019]] can activate a "Railgun Assisted" mode once a battery is inserted, greatly increasing the velocity and force of rounds fired from it at the risk of {{Overheating}}. The [[Series/{{Firefly}} Moses Brothers Self-Defense Engine Frontier Model B]] is also a gauss gun.

* FreudWasRight: In a game with long, flopping pieces of meat, it comes up a lot if not outright invoked on Anton's part.

* SticksToTheBack: and your hips and chest as well. Anything that can fit in a quickbelt slot will stay there until you bring it back out again and most weapons even enable you to "harness" them to the slot where they'll return if you release your grip on them. [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality The lack of holsters and slings are fine]], as there's only so much Anton can do coding the game by himself a majority of the time.