Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades news & patch notes

Howdy folks! Just a quick patch for y'all to fix a few things that slipped through the cracks for the 1.0 update!

Update 120 - Patch 1

Fixes:

• Fixed internal pStats system not initializing on load, causing random overwrite of last played accrued data. Note this will mean that any ‘Do X of Y’ achievements that were not achieved in a single play session since the 4th will need to be done ‘from the beginning’ internally, and you will not see the Steam achievement progress until your internal data takes you past the highest previous registered number. It SHOULD accrue past that point correctly from now on though.
• Fixed TNH gun recycler and ammo reloader detecting disabled objects (e.g. objects inside a closed weapons case).
• Sosig Spawn Point and Sosig Squad Spawner now clear their spawned Sosigs when they are destroyed.
• Sosig Squad Spawner now actually saves its properties.
• Corrected the RoundType and UsesRoundTypeFlag properties of several objects
• Since TNH no longer uses CompatibleSingleRounds for determining what rounds to spawn with an object, some objects needed their RoundType set.
• UsesRoundTypeFlag now determines whether or not TNH will spawn ammo with the objects spawned as initial equipment (as opposed to always spawning ammo for all 'weapon' entries, and never spawning ammo for any other entries).

API Notes:

• SosigWeapon: Added lines at 586 to pass IFF data to GrenadeExplosion
• MainMenuScreen: Moved SteamVR_LoadLevel call to before the code for adding level name to visited hashset in case permissions or string issues causes halting errors.
• TNH_SupplyPoint: Removed bool param from SpawnLoadoutEntry coroutine

Greetings!

1.0

A moment I wondered if would ever come. I have many times this past year imagined Zeno's paradox, and wondered if the journey to 1.0 would end up as such, a never ending series of halved reductions eternally approaching but never reaching the moment that I could flip the switch and say "THERE, NOW it is no longer Early Access". A preposterous feeling to have about something after 10 years. H3VR has been 'Absurdly Late Access' for a very long time. To be incredibly candid with you all, this project has been a sort of comfort blanket for me for many years. Through familial loss, through COVID, injury and health challenges, anxieties about the world, and simply getting older. The idea of changing anything about the status quo of the game was for a very long time utterly terrifying to me. My compatriots would lovingly poke me about it every 6 months or so "you know you should really think about wrapping this up", "when do you think you'll go out of Early Access". These are conversations I would find the most expeditious exit to every time. How do you give up the thing that's been the constant? Your bedrock. The foundation of your tenuous sense of control over your life? I'm grateful that a combination of new opportunities, creative collaborators ready to rally to our banner for bigger challenges, and the support of friends and family have managed to drag/push/kick/cajole/lead/support me to this moment, of sitting here at 11pm staring at the 'Prepare for release' button on the Steam backend, and excited to push it.

Update 120

Update 120 was conceptualized as the answer to the question "how do you bring to a close a project that started with no plan, and never really developed a plan other than 'experiment with the next interesting thing, one at a time'. This spirit of play and openness has attracted a truly huge community of other creators over the years, and so it seemed right to focus this Update on ensuring that the creator community had the best options moving forward with a solidified codebase, tools and toys. Anyone who has followed my devlogs for the past year likely knows the details of everything going live today on the main branch, but for everyone else, please allow me a quick review:

Take & Hold

Take & Hold, our signature game mode, has gotten a huge facelift this past year. We've added several new ways to play. Blitz, a mode all about attacking points with dense patrols. Rampart, a mode focused purely on hold defense that rapidly teleports you from tier to tier. Both modes compress and focus the Take & Hold experience allowing folks who prefer one modality of the mode to baste in it. Sandbox mode is present as well for anyone who wishes to just enjoy and mess around on any map. A late addition this year has been the Lucky Looter character, and associated underlying systems. This significantly more 'loot goblin' mode dispenses with the Token + Purchase systems of Take & Hold and runs entirely on loot drops from enemies. The underlying systems are more flexible than the character itself even uses, allowing for all sorts of User-created characters that I'm sure I couldn't even imagine.

H3VR Studio

Speaking of authorship, we launched H3VR Studio into beta several months ago, our authoring app for making a bunch of the underlying data modules H3 runs on. Take & Hold characters and challenges, Equipment Pools, Sosig Outfits, and Saving/Sharing custom guns and scenarios. The Workshop is now fully activated for sharing this sort of content, and I look forward to seeing what you all make with it! We'll have to whip up a community contest or two in the future...

Gameplanner

The Gameplanner system finally got dragged into realization this year, thanks to the diligent work and keen design of Nathan, pillar of the H3 Mod community and one of our cherished collaborators. GP allows for wiring objects together to make devices, scenario moments, gadgets, and whatever your imagination might come up with. H3's toolbox and tool panel system got a huge facelift along with this, making it one of the most robust set of sandbox tools in the medium.

New Content

And lastly we've squeezed a last bit of content in that is H3 through and through. You might be asking, of all the scenes to 'end' with, why the BBQ Range? I'll be honest, there's a deeply sentimental angle to it for me. The Sosigs, our wibbly wonderful little meaty friends, and the creation of mine that I love the most. The idea of moving on from this iteration of them is made easier, knowing that I've given them a little home of their own, eternally hanging out for a backyard party of plinking, fireworks, and horseshoes. In their place, one couldn't wish for more :-)

The Future

As mentioned in the devlog above, this release isn't the END end. There are still bugs to fix. We are bringing creation tools to a wider audience that I am SURE will reveal things in need of fixing. We have a Steam Frame coming soon? that needs some support hooks and controller models for. And we have a Credits scene that MUST be done. And of course, and entire second sosig-ee adventure to bring into the world. This is the end of a chapter/act of a larger story, and I'm crazy excited about what's to come despite the melancholy of this particular moment.

Thank You

Well the clock moves ever onward towards midnight and I have a bunch of other things to stage and double-confirm are correct for this transition tonight. Before I go I just wanted to extend my deepest thanks to all of you, who've been with us on this journey. I think back to those earliest days of this project, when our 'game' was just a couple scenes held together with gum and gumption, building something a week at a time that none of us had any clue in the world could ever grow to a project like what now exists. So many of you gave us a chance to grow, the game, in the medium, as people. I will forever be grateful to you all. It has been the greatest privilege to bring y'all a decade of our weird art. I wish you all a Wonderful, Safe and Happy Holiday weekend. Peace, Anton Changelog Note: The full changelog for Update 120, being the sum of almost a year of builds, exceeds the maximum text length for a Steam post, by a great deal. Rather than collating and reproducing it here, please consult the prior announcements from this one, back to October 10, 2025 for the complete lists of changes. Apologies for the inconvenience :-)

Final Build Additions - Update 120

Additions:

• Added New Scene: BBQ Range
• Added New Firearm Grocket Launcher
• Added New Ammo Type: 67mm Garage Rocket (HE, Tesla, Starburst)
• Added New Gameplanner Tool: Signals Sosig Squad Spawner
• Added New Attachment: H3VR2 Wishlist now flag (at the request of DDRandom)

Changes:

• Backpack and ButtBackpack reclassified in FVRObject in Category
• Updated Sound Mixing for Bangsnap
• Changed Object Table filtration for Take & Hold characters to make it no longer filter included characters, and to filter exterminal character more accuratlely
• A bunch of tiny last minute things I wasn’t keeping track of because there was so much to get done in this last week.

Fixed:

• ObjectTables: Fixed an issue where tables using VaultFiles might cause errors during validation

API Notes:

• TNH_CharacterDef: Added SecondaryWeaponCopiesPrimary
• When set to true the character's secondary weapon is forced to be a copy of whatever was spawned as the primary
• TNH_CharacterDef: Added RoundClassBlacklist
• Round classes in this list will not spawn in TNH or be purchasable at the ammo reloader.
• ObjectTableDef: Added NumSpawns and SpawnsAreTheSame
• Works only on the TNH object constructor, when NumSpawns is set greater than 1 it will spawn that many objects from the table. If SpawnsAreTheSame is true, those objects will all be the same.
• ObjectTableDef vault file spawning now works in TNH as both initial equipment and from the object constructor. Both of these allow for spawning the whole file as-is on its own, or spawning just the first object out of the file and receiving a random magazine like a normal spawn would.
• TNH_CharacterDef: Added AllowConstructorUnlock fields to disallow players from being able to unlock and cycle through pools
• TNH: Initial equipment that spawns with bare rounds will now always give you the base round of that type, instead of spawning with AP or something else.

For Those Running With Mods

- Make sure to get the latest version of them, from wherever you get your mods. Please note that some may take a day/week etc. to migrate over to the new 1.0 - If you wish to go back, the Update119 Beta Branch was the build that was 'mainline' as of yesterday. Do note that if you've run H3VR in its 1.0 update, your vault (saved guns/scenarios) have been one-way converted to the new format. - Please be patient with the WONDERFUL folks who make mods during this transition. It might be a little bumpy, and we're all doing our best.

Howdy folks! Well here we go, we're nearing the finish line on this, what's been our longest Update Cycle ever. Granted a good deal of that length is due to the substantive breaking changes involved, and wanting to rip the band-aid off ONCE for the modder folk, and not half a dozen smaller times. But here we are. Update 120. 1.0 H3. Nearly here. I don't really know what to say if I'm being honest. I've been writing these little blurbs for updates for over 10 years now. I honestly don't know how many folk even read them vs. just watch the devlog. I used to write a lot more, in the early days, explaining my thought process with updates. Granted it felt like the internet was much more text driven back then relative to our video soaked current. For any of you who do indeed read these, and have over the years, I wanted to extend you a thank you as well. I know this Steam forum has always been something a bit more close to a utilitarian space, but it's still part of the community, and I've always loved checking it for messages and going back and forth with folk. My announcement posts here will end up being a bit less frequent, and no longer on a metronome once we hit 1.0. The plan is to, instead of doing patches exactly at the same time on Fridays, to do them specifically when it makes sense to for the magnitude of the change. Ie. if there's a big problem, we'll patch it right there, if its a slow accrual of minor bug fixes, we'll probably wait to do something closer to a monthly bug fix release, along with more detailed API changelogs to help modder folk update their stuff faster, when needed. We don't plan to make use of the Alpha/Experimental branches from here-on-in unless we have to make a very scary change due to say... something changing with SteamVR or some equivalent. Anywho, enough rambling for now. I think the longer I spend typing this the longer I can pretend this whole rhythm in my life isn't about to seismically change. For those of your on the Experimental Branch, plz be prepared for a couple builds this coming week, in advance of the 4th, as I test some final things to make sure things don't explode when we flip over to Main Branch next Friday. I wish y'all the best, thanks as always, for being part of the H3VR Community. Peace, Anton

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 23

Additions:

• Added New Sosig Spawning Tool Panel
• Added New Orthogonal Encryption
• Added New Cascading Encryption

Changes:

• Adjusted Polymorphic Encryption to auto-recenter, and animate smoothly
• Added new FVRObject Object Categories: NVG, Locomotion Tool, FireSource, UtilityPanel, LightSource, Tripod, RangeFinder
• Changed all FVRObjects that below conceptually to above categories from ‘Tool’ to their more specific category. This should enable folks to make parametric Object Tables that included similarly classified Mod Objects without have to manually add them by ID name

Fixed:

• Fixed some Menu stuff
• Fixed Polymorphic Encryption being able to ‘glitch’ into the environment and get stuck
• Fixed spawning logic for stations that could have them sometimes double-spawn and not get cleared (i think?)
• Fixed Broken window resetting on Grillhouse At Night (finally)
• Fixed Broken metadata on 5.8x42mm API
• Did a bunch of misc. code cleanup in Return of the Rotwieners to prevent some edge case errors.
• Fixed incorrect round metadata on VP9 chamber

API Notes:

• Object Tables now have a ‘Blacklist’ array, that can be used to exclude specific FVRObjects that would normally be present
• Added New Options for HoldDefinition for defining max number of targets in limited ammo mode.

Howdy folks! Another week, another experimental build as we slowly edge closer to 1.0! This one is a mostly back-end tweaks, some long needed changes to the Take & Hold lobby menu systems, and the first of the Encryption redos I want to do as part of a final set of tweaks to Take & Hold. Hope you all have a WONDERFUL weekend, and we'll cya soon. Peace, Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 22

Additions:

• Added New Polymorphic Encryption

Changes:

• Rebuilt Take & Hold Main Menu Rebuilt to better display more maps, more characters
• Improved screenshot functionality; can select screenshot aspect ratio and resolution
• Save/load profiles for the global spectator camera settings
• Added (photo backdrop, holo capture)

Fixed:

• ‘HasNightVision’ flag in SosigConfigTemplate now works
• Fixed missing filtering by country in ObjectTableDefs
• Night Vision Goggles should no longer perma-change material colors on controllers
• Orientation of Flagtachments is now saved

API Notes:

• Implemented Gameplanner ‘Path’ internal data structure
• Vault files can now be used in ObjectTables (only in the TNH object constructor, with vault file usage set to "whole file")

Howdy folks! Just a quick update for y'all this week. I didn't post here for last week's update, as we were doing a mildly risky major update to the game (turning on the Steam Workshop for User Generated Content), and I wasn't sure if something was going to EXPLODE, so let folks trickle into that slower, just based on who was already watching the devlogs. But things seem to have mostly not exploded! So we're up and running! Make sure to check out the build 20 video above to see details on the Photo Studio scene. For those of you looking to use H3VR Studio (available in the tool section of Steam, you should all have it now), we'll be posting some tutorial videos very soon! Hope you all have a WONDERFUL weekend, and we'll cya soon. Peace, Anton

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 20 + 21

Additions:

• Added New Scene: Photo Studio (with Sosig Holo Capture, Photo Backdrop options)
• Added New Steam Tool App: H3VR Studio
• Added Holographic Display for Take & Hold characters (still WIP)

Changes:

• Improved screenshot functionality; can select screenshot aspect ratio and resolution
• Save/load profiles for the global spectator camera settings

Fixed:

• Fixed Take & Hold Rampart FINALLY
• Fixed exotic Object Constructor issue for active selections where all three central options didn’t have at least one option
• Fixed missing Safety sound for SoundCheck Pistol
• Fixed errant suppressor reference on Rosie

H3VR Studio Content:

• Added Data Validation System (WIP) for Custom Take & Hold characters. Attempts to determine if there are invalid elements in them prior to loading, and spits out (hopefully) useful errors.
• Fixed Icons for Custom Object Tables not showing up in T&H Object Constructor (literally was just missing half a system WHOOPS)

Howdy folks! Hope you're all having a pleasant week. We've got a patch update for y'all today that is mostly about back-end changes, but we've slipped in some balance tweaks to Lucky Looter, and some bug fixes you folks have helped me track down (thank you so much). We're moving with speed toward our 1.0 release, which we're now aiming for the 4th of July (what could be more appropriate). But we'll be getting the Workshop stuff all flipped on earlier, to make sure it's all working well on the Experimental branch, so our 1.0 day is more likely to go off without a hitch. More details in the devlog above. Anywho, we're gonna get back to work. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Peace, Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 19

Changes:

• Lucky Looter Weapon Tables now include more ‘big guns’ slightly fewer shotguns
• Looting characters no longer only get the base ammo when boxes of ammo spawn.
• Japanese Wiki is now linked on Splash page of Item Spawner

Fixed:

• Fixed issue in classic hallways that made Rampart break in supply rooms adjacent to Yellow Hallways
• Fixed issue where wearing NVGs crushes the two controller model colors into one.
• Fixed incorrect ammo box scaling for 9x36mm flares
• SosigSpawnPoint Signals device now saves the selected sosig template
• Removed ancient out of date warning messages in Winter Wasteland

Internal API Changes:

• Take & Hold Characters can now specify a Vault file to represent them in the TNH Lobby. This system is now present, but the actual Vault files for all the characters have not been made yet

UGC Internal Systems:

• Loading of TNH_SosigLootTable, TNH_LootPoolDef, and EquipmentPoolAdditionalSpawnTables.
• Custom TNH Characters no longer set a custom leaderboard table ID, it is inferred from the module/character id.
• Some misc. fixes for fields on SosigEnemyTemplate that were not loading correctly.

Howdy folks! Hope you're all having a WONDERFUL Friday so far! This week we've got a special H3VR + H3VR2 Questions & Answers devlog, as I've been BURIED in them the past couple days since the announce, and wanted to make a video to go into a deeper explanation on a bunch of the most common and pressing ones. I wanted to take a moment as well to thank you for your IMMENSE SUPPORT. We've been watching the wishlists numbers go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr in honest disbelief. We're about to crack the top 1000 wishlisted unreleased games on ALL of steam after like... 2 and a half days? We're 10th on steam new followers in the past 7 days. BANANAS. Just bananas. Y'all are the most incredible community, and it's going to be a pleasure and privilege to bring you all so much more meaty mayhem in the coming months on all fronts. Hope you all have an excellent weekend! Peace, Anton

Greetings! I’m happy to announce that, despite the fact that we are STILL getting H3VR’s 1.0 update ready for you folks (it’s almost here, we promise), we are announcing today that we’ve been working on a full-fledged sequel! That’s right, H3VR… 2! It’s not a simple add-on or expansion. It’s not a port. It’s a ground-up rebuild of everything you love about H3. We’ve got a huge team and we’ve been building this in secret for over two years now, and are finally ready to show you what we’ve been working on. Wishlist now right here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4632350 If you’d like to check out the first full-length featurette for the game, check out the video above! I’m sure many of you have questions. We’ll be hanging out all afternoon in the H3VR Community Discord here: https://discord.gg/NhPMvuJ6R2 Stop on by!

Howdy folks! We've got a couple things to talk about this week! Today's build contains the final additions and tweaks for the Lucky Looter Take & Hold character (as long as the underlying systems the character uses, that will support you folks making your own looting characters). Our devlog (above) has the first preview of H3VR Studio! This is the tool that our collaborator Nathan (author of the most important Mod frameworks for H3), has built for us, to enable you to make Custom Take & Hold characters and Share Vault files of the cursed guns and scenarios you've made. And lastly and MOST IMPORTANTLY, I want to STRONGLY encourage you all to check out an upcoming event that has a HUGE announcement from us, The Creature Feature. Tune in on Wednesday May 6th at 9:30am PT right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifeEDlxRJNo YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS IT! Peace, Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 18

Changes:

• Looting Characters now have all objects that contain ammo spawn with random ammo within the bounds of what is allowed by the valid ammoeras and valid ammosets arrays for that given character. This should result in significantly more varied and chaotic ammo availability.
• Tweaked the loot spawn incidence and Patrol respawn speed on Lucky Looter to make them more reasonable.
• Added internal functionality for ‘default loot pools’ to make it much MUCH faster for people to author custom TNH Characters that have all enemies use a single unified loot progression, without having to enumerate them.

Fixed:

• Fixed bug in Object Table initialization
• Fixed issue with submitting scores to a new scoreboard
• Fixed issue where renaming Vault files would cause them to temporarily disappear

Howdy folks! Have an iterative build for you all, responding to all the valuable feedback you've given us on how Lucky Looter plays. Give this new rev a shot and tell us what you think! Peace, Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 17

Additions:

• Added New Sosig Types: ScavRot Decayed

Changes:

• Lucky Looter Hold Waves changed (fewer rots, new rots, more scavengers)
• Lucky Looter Supply room Sosig Type changed
• Lucky Looter now starts with a backpack
• Lucky Looter bosses are now MUCH weaker when choosing Arcade Sosigs in the TNH Menu.
• Tweaked Lucky Looter boss health thresholds
• Looting Character’s Box Loot now has attachments, locomotion tools, power-ups, nvgs, and melee weapons.
• Looting Character’s Supply rooms can now have up to 4 loot spawns
• Looting Character’s Gun Recycler now rewards box loot instead of a token
• Flaccid Steak’s Bosses now tagged as such (Round ends when boss dies)

Fixed:

• Fixed issue in looting characters where the lack of a gun spawned in the scene would break looting from then-on.
• Fixed a bunch of scoreboard internal API issues
• Fixed a setting on Patterner that allowed invalid cyclic connections that could crash things.
• K98k Scope now properly listed
• Fixed incorrect metadata on Brown Bess Bayonet

API Notes:

• Major changes to Take & Hold Characters for Looting-centric characters is under way!

Howdy folks! We've got another Update for y'all this week. Lucky Looter, our new Take & Hold character, built around looting your gear (instead of buying it) is now ready to play and test out. Check out the devlog for more info on it, and the new Gameplanner tools! Cheers, Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 16

Additions:

• Added New Take & Hold Character: Lucky Looter
• Added New Take & Hold systems for Sosig/Box loot.
• Added New Gameplanner Tools: Signals Sosig Spawn Point, Signals Point Designator
• Added Functionality to Object Panel for Manipulating a saved point in space. Used by some devices

Changes:

• Signals Devices now auto-hide when Pointer Tool is put away.

Fixed:

• Fixed a bunch of subtle errors in Object Table pool system

API Notes:

• Major changes to Take & Hold Characters for Looting-centric characters is under way!

Howdy folks! We've got a special off-schedule update for you folks today! You can think of this as being a holiday update, that also happens to fall on a day special for another reason. It is the 10th Anniversary of the Early Access Release of H3VR! (You have no idea just how old typing those words out makes me feel). To celebrate, we've added a special new toy (Found in the Decorative Attachments category in the Item Spawner). If you'd like to go in unprimed, STOP READING NOW, and just go spawn it, turn it on, and play around! To make this update happen, I actually had to run around to all the various corners of H3, to do some changes, so a bunch of our very oldest scenes got a bit of love, polish, fixes. Was a trip down memory lane, that those of you who chose to play with the Huntachment will I'm sure follow.

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!

If you'd like to know what's going on because you play right now, are away for the holiday with family, etc., an explanation follows below . . . . . . . . . OK, spoiler time . . . . . . You sure you want to read instead of play? . . . . . . . Ok, here we go. The Easter Egg Huntachment is basically like a 3d metal-detector, for Easter Eggs. I have hidden -99- of them throughout the game. They are in almost every scene (minus a few where there is no way to access the Item Spawner in any way). Some scenes have 1, some have many more. The moment you turn on the Huntachment, you should hear it beeping. Trying point it around it see how it functions. It should guide you to eggs. If you hear nothing, there are no eggs in the scene. Make sure to check out the customization menu for it. It has some other important features in it. Also... you are not the only one... hunting for something. In fact, there's 99 waves of Sosigs, configured to come after you whenever the Huntachment is active. Yes they will assail you in every scene with eggs in it. Sandbox, Gamemode, all of it. It's a bit wildly jank. It may occasionally break, as layering on free-form defense gameplay ON TOP of whatever else is going on in a scene is well... a little mad. I'm hoping that it results in unconventional situations in familiar scenes in the game. If anything explodes, let me know and I'll do my best to fix it :-) Anywho, I wanted to end by saying just how much we appreciate all of you who've been with us, as the H3VR community for all these years. It's been a dream come true to be able to spend the last DECADE of my life making VR Hotdog Gun silliness to you all. Looking back, I wouldn't have rather spent that time making anything else. I wish you all a safe, healthy and WONDERFUL holiday, and I'll cya all soon. Happy Hunting! - Anton

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 15 - EASTER EGG HUNT

Additions:

• Added New SPECIAL Attachment: Easter Egg Huntachment
• Added Easter Eggs to hunt for in almost every scene in the game (if you can spawn the attachment, there’s prooobably eggs in that scene to find)

Changes:

• Rebuilt and optimized collision on environment
• Adjusted Canvas scaling to remove visual artifacts
• Removed collision that forced you to remain on center firing platform
• Added Navmesh & AI Manager
• Take & Hold characters can determine which supply point stations show up.
• Rebuilt, tuned and cleaned Collision
• Cleaned up side edge areas of barriers to allow easier movement from side to side
• Added Navmesh & AI Manager
• Added Navmesh & AI Manager
• Added Navmesh & AI Manager
• Tweaked some collision layer stuff
• Tweaked Canvas scaling to remove artifacts
• Replaced Item Spawner with modern one
• Added Navmesh & AI Manager
• Adjusted Collision in a bunch of places
• Adjusted layers on a few objects
• Adjusted layers on a few objects
• Added item Spawner
• Significantly Modified Navmesh to allow Sosig shenanigans outside of standard routes

Fixed:

• Fixed some object alignment issues
• Fixed incorrect Light Probe configuration
• Fixed a couple glitches with the Reward.
• Fixed some issues related to T&H Character and Object Table processing

API Notes:

• Major changes to Take & Hold Characters for Looting-centric characters is under way!

Howdy folks! We've got an EXPLOSIVE little update for y'all this week. Front and center is the brand new, hot off the presses, M111 Offensive Hand Grenade. Apologies if it ends up being ever so slightly off-spec from reality, as there've only been like 4 official photos of it released so far, we did the best we could :-) There've also been a bunch of explosives-related fixes and tweaks related to Bangers, Remote C4, and a few of the ridiculous ways you can deliver these to your desired target. Do let us know if you experience any bugs or glitches related to this, as physics-jointed-anything tends to be full of surprises in practice. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and we'll cya all next week! Peace, Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 14 - GRENADE DAY

Additions:

• Added New Grenade: M111 HOT OFF THE PRESSES
• Added New Signals Device: Comparer
• Added New Utility Object: Whizzbangadinger

Changes:

• Changed all falling block weapons to list their firearm action correctly in metadata
• Changed Girandoni air rifle to use ‘PreChargedPneumatic’ firearm action in metadata
• Cowwiener Calico’s Take & Hold tables now contain falling block weapons
• Girandoni has been added to the Bolt Action pool for Cowwiener Calico. I have NO idea if this is a good idea or not. Those of you who play the character, let me know what you think of this!
• Famas F1 and G2 now correctly have Bayonet Mounts
• Patterner's max value setting is now inclusive, rather than exclusive
• Changed C4 Remote sticky behavior relative to its arming state
• Made it possible to slingshot C4

Fixed:

• Fixed Delayer not re-connecting when loading a saved scene
• Fixed Router not saving the selected port type
• Fixed Muscle Meat buff and Weak Meat debuff not being applied to firearm recoil unless that firearm had a muzzle device
• Fixed Martini Henry and Khyber pistol missing muzzle effects
• Fixed Falling Block weapons not properly setting Gasout parameters based on block state
• Fixed Signals Indexer now saving/loading its properties
• Fixed Baseball not properly showing up in Thrown Melee in the Modern Item Spawner
• Fixed Baseball missing its AudioImpactController
• Fixed L85a3 hand poses
• Fixed slingshot breaking when you pulled an object back and it overlapped a quickbelt slot
• Fixed a bunch of state glitches related to the Slingshot and zero-length vectors.

API Notes:

• Added ‘FallingBlock’ and ‘PreChargedPneumatic’ enum option to OTagFirearmAction

Howdy folks! We've got an exciting Experimental Build for y'all this week, namely that the Gameplanner Signals System (for wiring objects together) now supports saving/loading. That's right, it's time for those of you who asked "Can I build a computer inside H3" to get an answer to that question! In all seriousness, the system is now ready for stress testing. We're fairly confident that things should all work, but if you run into any strange behavior saving and loading your creations PLEASE let us know in the bug reports section! Hope you folks have a WONDERFUL weekend. Peace, Anton

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 13 - Save/Load Signals System

Additions:

• Added New Signals Device: Laser Sensor
• Added New Signals Device: Signals Sequencer
• Added New Signals Device: Signals Patterner
• Added New Signals Device: Signals Router

Changes:

• Signals System Connections Now Save & Load!
• Signals Connections now dim when they are invalid connections using the Pointer tool
• Signals Connections are now drawn using 2d symbols with visual distinction between inputs and outputs

Fixed:

• Fixed some assorted Signals system bugs

Howdy folks! Just a quick Sunday Hotfix for you, to fix a couple oversights and glitches with the Signals Devices.

Update 120 Experimental 12 - Hotfix 1

Changes:

• Indexer4, in UpdateAll mode, now ALWAYS sends a passthrough signal of input-4. This allows turning off things downstream that dont match the input index (as one would want)
• M1, M2, M3 carbines now have correct behavior when an empty magazine is ejected

Fixes:

• Fixed Pointer Toolgun control STILL being broken on some controllers
• Fixed Signals Dial 25 outputting incorrect numbers (whee math rounding logic error!)
• Fixed Some Steel Pop Targets not sending output signals
• Fixed Signals Clock IsOn input being ignored
• Fixed Signals Clock Parameter name Frequency -> Interval

Howdy folks! It's time for another Gameplanner centric testing build! This week we've added some tools for automatically generating a signal that you can use to control connected devices (like targets). Between the Clock, Randomizer and Indexer, it should now be possible to build cyclical, and fixed sequence Target Challenges. We've added support for this for all the pop-steel targets, and we'll be adding some new dynamic targets for the system soon! If you're interested in the Signals system, make sure to check out our Discord where we have a dedicated section just for Gameplanner, for folks to share creations, talk about what's working and what isn't so far, and contribute ideas for the system's expansion. Our goal in the end is something sophisticated enough that if you wanted to say... build an entire rail-shooter level, a defense game, or something entirely new genre-wise, you should be able to do so with Gameplanner. Thanks to everyone submitting feedback and bug reports as we put this together one piece at a time :-) Peace, Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 12 - More Gameplanner Modules

Additions:

• Added New Signal Controls: Dial25 and Dial32
• Added New Signals Devices: Clock, Randomizer, Indexer
• Added Bayonet Mounts to AR-18, AR-180, Stoner 63 Rifle

Changes:

• All Standing Steel Targets now configured as SignalsDevices
• Standing Steel Targets that receive a command to the down state auto-disable their spring

Fixed:

• Fixed a bunch of Signals Devices to prevent infinite-loop hangs
• Fixed incorrect round loading trigger on Uzi magazines
• Fixed P38 pistol ejection direction
• Fixed incorrect Fire Selector Behavior on VZ58 series
• Fixed SR-IC Mk.II naming
• Fixed SR-IC Mk.II magazine being unable to be upgraded in Take & Hold
• Fixed Ladies Companion Revolver geo hole
• Fixed Webley 1913 Slide behavior (now properly locks open when magazine not present)
• Fixed issue where Take & Hold target mode setting yielded inconsistent behavior when playing Rampart. ‘All Targets’ mode is now forced for Rampart.
• Fixed Pointer Pistool not being able to mode switch in some control schemes
• Fixed Standing Steel Targets not responding to input signals correctly
• Fixed Model 95 flick open/shut direction being inverted
• Fixed H416N and M27IAR not having functional bayonet lugs

WIP Notes:

• Gameplanner Wire connections CANNOT BE SAVED AND LOADED YET. Still working on it (next build most likely)

Howdy folks! It's with great excitement that I can finally present to you folks the first build of the Gameplanner Signals system! For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, basically think 'Redstone for H3'. The ability to hook objects up, controls, signal manipulators, widgets, remote guns, and eventually more complex game logics, sosig stuff, and more! This first build is just an initial test of the internal signals graph, and a bunch of starter objects. PLEASE NOTE that these are not yet fully saveable to scenes yet. It'll save the objects, but not the wiring. That'll be coming in the next build. As always, let us know if anything COMPLETELY EXPLODES (well.. unintentionally) in the bug reports section, and we'll integrate your feedback as we continue to work on this system. ALSO, for those of you into playing Take & Hold, the First2Wurst community just opened up signups for their new King Of Score Event here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdu493IAzPc90IcLeYbn8BW74Ngul8rEhRX7fGIxDb8V_RV8w/viewform?usp=dialog Anywho, hope you all have a WONDERFUL weekend playing with the new toys, and I'll cya all soon. Peace, Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 11 - Gameplanner

Additions:

• Added New Core System: Gameplanner Signal Wire System
• Added New Firearm: SR-IC MkII (thanks Coin!)
• Added New Firearm Attachment: SR-IC MkII Suppressor
• Added New Toolbox Pistool: Pointer (for wiring together Objects)
• Added New Gameplanner Signal Tools: Delayer, Monitor, Logic Gate
• Added New Gameplanner Widget: Light, Bleeper, Remote Gun
• Added New Gameplanner Controls: Button, Switch, Dial10

Changes:

• Tool Panel for Object Info can now modify available parameters on Gameplanner Objects
• One of the Pop Targets can now be wired up
• Thingflinger can now be wired up

Fixed:

• Fixed incorrect loading gate sounds in some circumstances on Single Action Revolvers.
• Fixed incorrect component placement on Webley Pistol

WIP Notes:

• Gameplanner Wire connections CANNOT BE SAVED AND LOADED YET. Still working on it (next build most likely)

Howdy Folks! We've got the first H3 Build of 2026 for you this week! Along with it a long-requested Utility item, called a Universal Tripod. In short, you can 'mount' any gun (really any object) to the Deployed tripod and gain a tremendous amount of stability while using it. Guns remain full functional while having their recoil totally controlled, and the game's position/rotation filtering are maxed out. This makes them perfect for those of you who are into ULTRA long range shooting. Alongside this are the standard raft of bug fixes and tweaks from the Meatmas toys and other bug reports that have piled up. I want to thank you all once again for your detailed and considerate bug reports. They are always appreciated! Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend! Peace, Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 10 - Tripods

Additions:

• Added New Utility Item: Tripod Modern (Under Utility Items)
• Added New Utility Item: Tripod M2 Style

Changes:

• EM-2 Magazine capacity corrected to 20 (Blame Pyr0m4n14c)
• During Take & Hold, auto cleanup systems will now ignore all objects that are kinematically locked, and pivotlocked

Fixed:

• Fixed Fallingblock weapons being unable to be loaded in some circumstances
• Breachspeed Bonus should NOW finally be fixed in Take & Hold (thanks to TakingFire and Droid_Qs for figuring this out)
• Fixed clipping on Bolthead on G12
• C77 Metadata connection fixed
• STX357 crane alignment fixed (Thanks Zonk!)
• G12 and L85A3 now properly spawn with sights in Take & Hold
• Fixed geo holes on 520 Hammerless
• Fixed height offset of RMR mounts on VRZ 1-6x24mm Scope
• Fixed geo holes in bottom of CQB870 mags
• Fixed broken HM Flare Launcher magazine functionality
• Fixed Decoy Grenade Smoke emitter erroring.

Greetings! The day of the year many you of you have been waiting for has finally arrived! Meatmas Day 2025 is here, and with it our Yearly MEATMAS HOLIDAY UPDATE. We've got a tree full of goodies ready for you all. We're having to do things a bit differently this year, in that the new Meatmas Items are ONLY on the Experimental Branch. This is because we're in the midst of some major overhauls in preparation for 1.0, and won't be able to push to main branch until all of that work is done. SO, to check out your goodies, just do the following:

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!
• (You may need to restart steam to force the update to download)

NOW, I've got one request for you folks, that I ask every year, which is to please treat references to the specific items as SPOILERS through the end of the year. A lot of folks are travelling right now, or with family, and won't get a chance to open their gifts til later, and I'd like to give the maximum number of people a chance to do so while being surprised. SO, if you want to talk about any item, in the discussion threads here, comments, bug reports, please ensure your post titles and comments has "Meatmas Item" in them instead of the actual name of the item, and put spoiler tags around your text. All posts that do not adhere to this will be deleted, just FYI. ANYWHO, I hope you all have fun with the new gadgets, gats and toys, we put a bunch of fussy effort into them this year look forward to the hijinks you get up to with them. All of us here at RUST want to wish you all a MERRY MEATMAS, and a Happy and Healthy New Year! Peace, Anton

Howdy Folks! The march towards 1.0 continues with this latest Experimental build, focused on our Sosig Studio tools, Spectator Camera tools, and the underlying Vault File system infrastructure. Check out the latest devlog for all the details! In addition to all that, we have the return of the MEATMAS HOLIDAY CONTEST this year! Swing by the H3VR Discord for more info :-) Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend! Peace, Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental1!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 7

Additions:

• Added New Utility Object: StudioLight (Can be Spot, Linear or Point Light)
• Added Functionality to Spectator Panel: Studio Light Settings
• Added New Light Limit Options in Custom Quality Setting (8, 16 lights max). NOTE THIS IS FOR SCREENSHOTS and will not perform well in most cases.
• Added “Take Screenshot’ button to Spectator Panel. Screenshots are placed in the MyGames/H3VR directory

Changes:

• USAS-12 Now has AR-15 Carry Handle Sight Compatibility
• Scene Fight Panel now has Toggle Key Spawn Button
• Added feedback to the outfit panel when saving an existing outfit
• Separated the 'save' and 'save as new' buttons on the outfit panel so 'save as new' is also available for existing outfits
• Meatmas Snowglobe Updated
• Sosig Player Body Head now draws in ‘Shadows Only’ mode when in Default/HD Spectator mode
• Moved 'all' filter to end of cycle in vault file list filter button
• Migrated vault files now additionally include type and scene information in the filename
• Old vault files placed in the root of the Vault folder are now auto-migrated on launch (as opposed to being ignored)
• Item Spawner only lists scene configs for the scene you're in
• While 'all' filter is selected in Item Spawner, vault file names have their type prepended to them

Fixed:

• Fixed Vault file list was not sorting folders, resulting in non-deterministic ordering.
• Fixed Migration code was case-sensitive when it shouldn't be, causing some vault files to not get migrated. They will get migrated the next time you run the game
• Fixed Deleting a vault file doesn't refresh the file list in the vault
• Fixed Toolbox vault spawning loadouts at world origin
• Fixed New item spawner vault was not checking for file name conflicts when saving/renaming files
• Prevent the migration from erroring out if a file is migrated while a file of the same name already exists in the backup folder. This occured when using some mods that would copy a vault file into the folder on game start, if it didn't already exist

User Content Notes:

In the previous experimental build of H3 there were a couple issues with the automatic migration of vault files to the new format: 1. Some code was checking for case sensitive filenames when it shouldn't have been, which resulted in loadouts not being migrated and thus not visible in-game. In this new update that is resolved and loadouts will now be migrated. 2. Prior to Update 120, vault files of each type were stored in seperate folders (Vault/Objects/BareObjects, Vault/Objects/Loadouts, Vault/SceneConfigs) and had filenames that additionally included which type of file they were (_VFO.json, _VFL.json, VFS.json). To support the eventual loading of content from the Steam Workshop the migration code took that information and put it inside the file instead, and then placed those updated files all into the same folder (Vault/VaultFiles) using only the vault file name to differentiate them. This was problematic because prior it was possible to create many vault files with the same name, provided they were of different types (object, loadout, scene) or were scene configs for different scenes. This resulted in only one of such files getting migrated correctly, as the next one was overwriting the previous one. In this new update the migrated file names now additionally include this information which prevents the filename conflicts. If after running this new update you are still missing vault files, you can find backups of your pre-migrated files in Documents/My Games/H3VR/_VaultBackup. Copying these files into Documents/My Games/H3VR/Vault (sub-folder doesn't matter) will cause them to get migrated again the next time you run the game. Since the migrated file filenames differ with this update compared to the previous one, you may end up with duplicates. We recommend you only copy the files you are missing back into the folder, or if you know you haven't modified any of the files since the previous migration, you can opt to delete the entire Vault/VaultFile folder and let the game migrate them all again.

Howdy Folks HAPPY THANKSGIVING to you all. We've got an EXTRA SIZED devlog for you this week, and some preview tools for our User Content System. First up is the new Tool Panel - the Sosig Outfit Tool Panel, which will allow you to design your own Sosig Outfits. This is the 'lowest level' piece of a custom Take & Hold character, and the one part of it that NEEDS to be designed while one is inside H3, so it made the most sense to get into your folk's hands first. Right now you can't do a ton with the outfits (other than wear them yourself for Spectator Cam recording), so we've also given the Spectator Panel a facelift (more next week on that!). Check out the latest devlog above if you'd like to know more about it, changes to the Vault, our updated release window for H3 1.0, Meatmas plans, and a whole bunch more nonsense! Hope you all have yourselves a WONDERFUL weekend. See you soon! -Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental1!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 6

Additions:

• Added Tool Panel: Sosig Outfit Panel (Used for Designing Sosig Outfits and Configuring Sosigquins)

Changes:

• Rebuilt Vault Page for Item Spawner to use new save/loading flow, and support multiple locations of vault files.
• Rebuilt Spectator Panel to rearrange functionality and prepare for future functionality
• Spectator Panel now uses new internal ‘Sosig Outfit System’
• Added Metadata to All Sosig Outfit Profiles
• Clear Sosigs Button on Scenefight panel now all clears all dropped keys on the ground.
• Rebuilt Camcorder (now called StudioCamera Internally)
• Studio Cameras can now be Spawnlocked and Duplicated
• Spectator panel allows you to pick between camera views

Fixed:

• Fixed broken scope mount point on Sharps 1874 Cartridge Conversion
• Fixed Spas-12 mode toggle having doubled inputs in Streamlined control mode
• Fixed Outdoor Fight Panel lock button not toggling correctly
• M5 Pistol Safety Now functions

User Content Notes:

• Note this update auto-migrates Vault file locations to a new schema, that uses a different folder structures. Invalid vault files will NOT be migrated

Howdy folks! It's that same Experimental Build time again! This week we've got a brand new gun (The Martini Henry Khyber Pass Obrez), and a full rework of the falling block rifle code. The og Martini Henry and Sharps Cartridge Conversion have been rebuilt to run on it. Take & Hold scoring has gotten another pass (though we still have a few bugs in it). The final scoring ranges SHOULD be closer to what they should be now. Let us know what you think! As always let us know if you run into any bugs! Peace, Anton TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS: Right click H3 in Steam Go to Properties Click Betas Click The Dropdown Select Experimental1!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 5

Additions:

• Added New Weapon: Khyber Pass Martini-Henry
• Added New WIP Utility Prop: Sosigquin (poseable sosig)

Changes:

• Take & Hold Scoring Further Adjusted.
• Rebuilt Falling Block Firearm class to have a more natural interaction schema
• Rebuilt Martini Henry to use new Falling Block Class
• Rebuilt Sharps Cartridge Conversion to use new Falling Block Class

Fixed:

• Fixed Left Handed Quickbelt Orientation FINALLY
• TNH Ammo Reloader no longer detects flintlock weapons and tries to spawn cartridges for them (they have no cartridges that are compatible with the game’s core cartridge systems)
• Fixed M76 bolt drop when removing an empty magazine
• Fixed barrel smoke not following muzzle on Schofield Model 3, Webley Revolver, and MP412REX
• Fixed incorrect ammo mappings on some sosigguns
• Ammo Reloading Panel now correctly detected attachable weapons when held
• Fixed TNH Ammo reloader playing wrong sound when successfully reloading a clip
• Fixed TNH Object constructors not updating their visual lock state when one constructor unlocks a category
• Fixed (possibly very long running) bug in how Take&Hold selects a ‘safe’ supply point relative to a hold point. This may have been the cause of having hold phases start and sosigs ina nearby supply point shooting at one immediately, for ages. I don’t know how this didn’t break more things for a long time (maybe it was).
• Fixed some exotic errors in the Sentry Patrol system used by Northest Dakota (thanks O-Deka_K, i would have never found that)
• Fixed foresight direction for H416A5
• Fixed SW500 speedloader using incorrect model and cartridge poses
• Fixed sosiggun ammo array length that was causing like 6 bugs in seemingly unrelated places
• Fixed broken metadata on M76
• Fixed broken rail lengths on H416C
• Fixed issue where ammo reloader in tnh would sound spam from ammo box
• Fixed P38 Ejection Direction

WIP Notes:

• The Toolbox has a non-functional panel atm for setting clothing on the Sosigquin. It will be added in full in the next update.

Howdy all! We've got another Experimental build for y'all this week. Continued iteration on the new Take & Hold game modes, scoring, salvaging Sossiguns, and some advancements to the ammo counter attachments (to finish them). As always let us know if you run into any bugs! Peace, Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental1!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 4

Additions:

• Added UI Interface to Ammo Counter Attachments
• Added 4 new Typeface Options for Ammo Counter Attachments
• Added Change Interval and Frame Delay options to Ammo Counter Attachments

Take & Hold Scoring Changes:

• All ‘Alert’ based Scoring Bonuses (implicit penalties) have been removed
• Damage/Health Remaining bonuses are now ranges instead of binary bonuses
• Kill/Style/ Bonuses now apply to Hold Point Guard Sosigs as well.
• There is now an ‘execution time’ bonus between the first and last Hold Point Guard being killed, clamped between a 5 and 25 second time range. The min time clamp is to ensure sosigs dying to bleed-out (while being already effectively downed) doesn’t negatively impact an otherwise ‘perfect’ fast clear
• Hold completion time bonus increased
• Hold kill distance bonus removed (encouraged a stupid meta)
• Inflated the base Hold Completion by so new scores will slowly supplant old scores

Changes:

• Changed how Sosiggun Ammo Scavenging works. Magazines will only be retrieved up to the capacity of magazines that you already possess for a gun. They will only be loaded up to the amount of rounds in the Sosiggun being scavenged. And Sosigguns that do not visually have magazines cannot produce them.
• Adjusted the ammo capacity of some Sosigguns
• Configured all sosigguns to know whether they should produce scavenged magazines
• Changed the total number of targets one needs to destroy in Blitz mode. This amount increases (up to a limit) based upon the current Hold Phase.
• Tweaked a bunch of Take & Hold point sequences for Institution
• Ammo Counters should now save their settings

Fixed:

• Fixed incorrect capacity and round type configurations on a bunch of Sosigguns

Howdy all! Our experimental build cycle continues this week with some changes to ammo looting in Take & Hold, new Take & Hold Seed Progressions, and a whole bunch of bug fixes! Check out the Devlog for more info! Happy Halloween! Peace, Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental1!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 3

Additions:

• Added New Sosiggun Functionality. You can now convert a Sosiggun to Ammo for a gun you are holding, or that's in your quickbelt, if it is cross-compatible! (HUGE change for Limited Ammo Take & Hold Play)
• Added New Speedloaders (.410 bore, .38 special 5-shot, .454 Casull, .500sw) (Thanks Coin)
• Added 10 New Seed Progressions to Hallways and Institution (Thanks Mr. King)

Changes:

• Added ammo object references to revolvers to their new speedloaders
• Added Item Spawner secondary object references to appropriate revolvers for their new speedloaders
• Model 8 now correctly has a tappable bolt release, and firing hand bolt release button
• Ammo Counter now takes into account rounds on a gun’s belt

Fixed:

• Fixed missing suppressed firing sound for ARVolver
• Fixed missing sound on the C93
• Fixed issue where Take & Hold mag duplicator would error-sound spam on ammo boxes
• Fixed issue where dying in Take & Hold Blitz errantly plays a System Core Exposed line

Howdy all! Just a super quick release this week. Purely focused on back-end systems and bug fixes. Changelog below. See y'all next week! Peace, Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental1!

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 2

Changes:

• The back-end loading system for Vault Files has been replaced. Note that nothing should change-user side for this. Just let us known if the game isn’t seeing any of your Vault files now.
• While playing Take & Hold, the ‘Return to MainMenu’ button on the wrist menu is now set to “Return to Lobby’ and takes you back to the Take & Hold Lobby instead.
• Matchbox can now be harnessed.

Fixed:

• Fixed issue in modded maps where sometimes not enough attack points existed for Sosigs causing the level to error. Sosig spawning is clamped now.
• Correctly made Sosigs set to Ignore the Need for weapons no longer pick up items in the Equipment Scan Cycle
• Fixed Take & Hold Magazine upgrade display
• Fixed a prior Quickbelt rotation fix breaking left handed mode for them

API Notes:

• FVRScene Settings contains 3 new public parameters. They allow you to override the ‘Return to Main Menu’ button of the Wrist menu to have a custom ‘route’ back upward. This is used in Take & Hold, but could (for mod makers) be used for taking you back out to the ‘lobby’ scene of your game mode.

Notes To Modders:

• Atlas has now been fixed to load custom levels with this version. I changed two methods which broke a patch Nathan had written to fix my terrible code. That fix has been integrated into the game thus making Nathan’s patch unnecessary, thus fixing this bug. Everything say ‘thankyou’ to Nathan.

Howdy folks! EXCITING NEWS. We've got some new Take & Hold modes ready for y'all to test RIGHT NOW. We've covered the details of them in this and last week's devlogs, but for those who'd like a TLDW, they are as follows:

• Blitz: A mode with increased patrols where you assault a System Node, destroy its shields first to expose it, then destroy it.
• Rampart: A mode focused on wave defense. No level exploration here. You just warp to your supply points and hold points. Encryptions are simplified but intensity and speed of waves attacking you are increased!
• Sandbox: Play any Take & Hold scene in Sandbox mode! Use the Toolbox, save and load configurations. Setup target sequences. Whatever you can imagine.

There's a bunch of other improvements and tweaks to Take & Hold along with this. Our work is ongoing though so you should expect even more in the next couple weeks! As always we'd love to hear your feedback, and bug reports are always useful and appreciated :-) Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend! Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!1

Full Changelog - Update 120 - Experimental 1

Additions:

• Added New Take & Hold Game Mode: Blitz
• Added New Take & Hold Game Mode: Rampart
• Added New Take & Hold Game Mode: Sandbox
• Added New Option for Take & Hold called Equipment Seed. This allows for playing deterministic sequences of equipment.

Changes:

• Made major Changes to Sosig Investigate Behavior that makes them move faster, more dynamically, and be a bit more curious when not suppressed.
• Changed a bunch of things in the Take & Hold main menu
• Made changes to Sosig investigate behavior while suppressed to make them more evasive sometimes
• Changed the way Sosigs are spawned in Take & Hold (via a coroutine). This attempts to spread out the cost of spawning so there isn’t as big of a single frame hitch.
• Take & Hold lobby Menu now remembers the last map and character you set correctly, and sets the character category automatically. This SHOULD be robust enough to not error if the selected map and character no longer exist.
• Take & Hold Magazine Duplicator/Upgrader now shows the capacity upgrade prior to purchase.

Fixed:

• Fixed a bunch of errors and design problems with Standard Take & Hold Progression
• Fixed Take & Hold not actually reliably teleporting you to the correct spot.
• Fixed Bounds in Supply Room 2 in Institution Level

Notes To Modders:

• Take & Hold Tweaker/Framework is HARD DEPRECATED by this version. There have been tremendous changes all throughout Take & Hold’s code. Any of the method replacements/patches of the above mods will cause exotic issues and full blown halting problems. We will be replacing the core functionality of TNH Tweaker with the official 120 release, and will be slowly integrating that functionality over the coming weeks.

Howdy folks! After a bit of a hiatus we are BACK with another devlog and another patch. I've been working away on 1.0 stuff, but along the way I've also been trying to clear some of the guns I've had partially implemented off my queue/todo list. This week is an extensive set of H416s, all made by our collaborator Ole. We've also got a bunch of bug fixes, thanks SO MUCH to the various community members who've reported them. We've still got a list of like... 100+ more we want to get through before our release. Please keep em coming in our Discord and Steam forum bug reports sections! Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend! Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!1

Full Changelog - Update 119 - Patch 5

Additions:

• Added New Firearm: H416A5
• Added New Firearm: H416C
• Added New Firearm: H416CQB
• Added New Firearm: H416D
• Added New Firearm: H416N
• Added New Firearm: M27IAR
• Added New Firearm: MS223A1
• Added New Attachment Set: H416 Folding Sights

Changes:

• Updated H416 Iron Sights

Fixed:

• Mp5SD2 and SD5 have their errant extra stock point removed. Please note that this means that their internal attachment array changed, which means prior saved Mp5 SD2/SD5s in your vault will probably no longer load. Sorry, nothing I can really do about this.
• Sustenance MP7 now correctly spawns with its Reflex Sight
• EM2 Virtual Stock point distance fixed
• VZ-58 Pattern rifles now correctly have stock sounds
• Fixed Item Spawner Spelling for Hiro Enki YT Prototype
• Fixed Clipping on cheek rest on Saiga 12 by making it rotated as stock collapses.
• Fixed Release latch on Quadruple Tap not animating
• Famas and Mini14 rail adapters now correctly categorized internally
• OTS-38 now flicks shut from the correct relative velocity direction
• Fixed Compound Pistol No longer overheating after being stored and returned to being enabled
• CX4 and PX4 magazine postures changed to better match the M9 mags
• Adjusted IPSICK2011 Ejection offset to prevent casing from glitching into the gun during violent ejection

API Notes:

• Added Functionality for animated end piece for FoldingStockYAxis Script
• Added EjectionOffset param to Flaregun.cs (defaults to its hardcoded prior value) to allow longer shells to eject without glitching

Howdy folks! Just a quick patch update this week, mostly centered on bug fixes and back end changes for future content :-) Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend! Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!

Full Changelog - Update 119 - Patch 3

Changes:

• Added Zero Distance options to ANPEQ and Perst3
• Changed the TERRIBLE Sights on the Schofield
• Moved, Sorted, and Added New Metadata to All Sosig Clothing Objects (for eventual User Tools)
• Changed how internal Projection works on Scopes/NVs to fix a number of corner cases and hopefully? have them work better with odd hmds.

Fixed:

• Fixed incorrect color options on Pyramus
• Fixed incorrect reticle options on ST6 scopes
• Fixed incorrect first chambered round in Compound Pistol
• Fixed 12.7x108 Double round having broken metadata
• Fixed Zfighting overlapping meshes on ARVolver
• Fixed missing stock point on ARVolver
• Fixed missing MagazineInOutOverride flag on AKM drum
• Fixed FiveSeven RMR plate always being visible errantly
• Fixed Muzzle affixment parentage on RG6
• Fixed Perst3 IR Laser + Illuminator Setting
• Fixed Quickbelt Slots not resetting their orientation
• Fixed Mp9 iron sight zeroing

Major API Change:

• Moved large amounts of code around in namespaces to work around a Unity editor bug related to the AddComponent Menu. Subfields in this menu spam errors that prevent builds when the element count exceeds 999 (apparently). Turns out when you add new things into a script menu for almost 10 years you run into this limit

Howdy folks! Have a minor patch for you all this week. MOSTLY this is a test to ensure that moving a whole bunch of internal data files for the game into a better configuration for our User Content Tools (coming this year). Let me know if anything explodes! Cheers, Anton

TO PLAY THE NEW BUILD FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• Right click H3 in Steam
• Go to Properties
• Click Betas
• Click The Dropdown
• Select Experimental!

Full Changelog - Update 119 - Patch 1

Additions:

• Added New Firearm: ARVolver (.500SW)

Changes:

• Moved a TON of Sosig Configuration Data files into a different directory to cause them to be bundled differently. This shouldn’t result in any changes to user-experienced behavior, but is necessary for things we’re doing with external content authoring.
• Added a number of FVRObject type categorization options, and reclassified all untyped FVRObjects (futureproofing).