- Weird guns in Hot Dogs Horseshoes Hand Grenades 2 include coupled "jungle mags" and a five-mag pentamag.
- Physics-driven melee lets karambits and revolvers spin, bounce, and collide mid-air.
- Mag palming enables holding two magazines during tactical reloads for faster swaps.
- Any weapon can be thrown — swords can impale sosigs from across the room.
- Muscle Meat power-up lets you punch, throw, and even tear sosigs in half.
The Weird Side of H3VR 2's Arsenal
While Hot Dogs Horseshoes Hand Grenades 2 is best known for its obsessively detailed firearm simulation, some of its strangest and most fun content lives at the edges of the arsenal. The game's designers have leaned hard into experimental weaponry: pre-configured coupled magazines, an absurd five-magazine "pentamag," spinning physics-driven karambits, and throwing systems that turn any weapon into a projectile. This guide breaks down every confirmed oddity and shows you how to actually use them in combat.
Video Highlights:
- Zach (creator of Vertigo 2) explains the brand-new physics-based melee system
- Live demo of spinning karambits and revolvers that bounce off objects
- The BB-ed-B pentamag nearly doubling capacity over a 30-round STANAG
- Full breakdown of mag palming and coupled magazine limitations
Don't dismiss these as gimmicks. Features like mag palming measurably reduce your reload downtime, and handful-grabbing throwing weapons removes the fiddliness of small-object VR interaction entirely.
Jungle Mags and the Pentamag: The Strangest Magazines in VR
Jungle magazines (more correctly called coupled magazines) are two or more magazines affixed together for faster reloads. In real life this can be factory-designed, clip-together like G36 magazines, or just duct tape. H3VR 2 now supports them, with a few caveats worth knowing before you build a loadout around them.
| Magazine Type | Description | Capacity Edge | Key Limitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard 30-round STANAG | Baseline rifle magazine | Baseline | None |
| Coupled Sterling mag | Two pre-configured mags joined together | Faster reload cycle | Pre-configured only |
| G36-style clip mags | Mags that clip together via built-in side clips | Tool-free coupling | Same authoring limits |
| BB-ed-B Pentamag | Five magazines joined into one unit | Nearly double a 30-round STANAG | Bulk and handling |
The standout oddity is the pentamag — five magazines coupled into a single unit that almost doubles your capacity compared to a standard STANAG, while letting you load a magazine while it is still inserted in the gun and being fired from.
Coupled mags cannot be inserted into multiple guns at once. The magazine animation system requires each magazine to be controlled by exactly one magazine well at a time. User-coupled custom mags are a hoped-for future feature with no launch promise.
Mag Palming: Retention Reloading Explained
Mag palming — also called tactical reloading or retention reloading — is the technique where your reloading hand grabs the fresh magazine first, holds both magazines during the reload, and retains the spent magazine afterwards. H3VR 2 implements this with pre-configured, hand-authored pose interactions.
Grab the fresh magazine
Start with your reloading hand holding the new magazine, not the empty one.
Engage the palm interaction
Bring the held magazine up to the other magazine, then hold the trigger and grip button simultaneously on the controller.
Hold both during the swap
The closest compatible palming interaction engages until you release either input, keeping both mags controlled.
Retain the spent mag
Keep the empty magazine in hand instead of dropping it or fumbling for a belt slot.
Compatibility is explicit and pose-based, so it helps to know what pairs together:
| Magazine Pair | Can Palm Together? | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 30-round P-Mag + 20-round M16 mag | Yes | Held nearly identically |
| 30-rounder + 10-round AR mag | No | Grip and well insertion too different |
| Drum magazine + anything | No | Hands are not big enough |
| Same-family rifle mags | Usually yes | Explicit cross-compatibility authored |
Each magazine now needs roughly three times the number of manually authored poses. H3VR 2's highly detailed hand-pose system made this feature harder to implement than it would be in simpler VR games — the tradeoff for what the devs call unparalleled excellence.
Weird Melee: Physics, Spins, and Sosig Carnage
The melee system in H3VR 2, built by Vertigo 2 creator Zach, is a huge step up from the original H3VR. Beyond the expected swords and axes, several interactions qualify as genuinely weird.
Spinning Karambits
- Fully physics-driven spinning state
- Collides and bounces off objects mid-spin
- Same tech now applies to spinning revolvers
Muscle Meat Power-Up
- Boosts all melee weapon effectiveness
- Strongest effect on punching and blunt damage
- Pick up, throw, and tear sosigs in half
Throwable Everything
- Any weapon can be thrown, physics included
- Swords can impale sosig heads across the room
- Throw requires good aim to pay off
Blade damage comes in distinct flavors, each with its own physics:
| Damage Type | Mechanic | Signature Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Blunt (fists, clubs) | Stuns, concusses, knocks down sosigs | Permanent denting on sosig bodies (visual only) |
| Stabbing | Physics joint simulates friction, blade sticks in place | Damage scales with depth; bleeding starts on removal |
| Cutting | Joint with fewer constraints; sawing motion overcomes static friction | Can slice sosigs in half at one to three joints |
| Short-edged blades | Cutting with bleeding wounds | Cannot fully bisect a sosig |
Stabbed blades create permanent wounds using the same technique as bullet holes, blades can stab multiple sosigs at once, and multi-blade weapons like the double-sided axe stab each blade independently. Clothing and accessories can even protect sosigs from blade damage — though soft objects can be stabbed straight through to the body beneath.
Throwing Weapons Without the Fiddliness
Small throwing weapons in VR are usually a chore to handle one at a time. H3VR 2 fixes this with handful-grabbing: just like cartridges, you can grab a whole handful of shurikens or throwing knives and store the entire handful in your pocket.
The team's stated goal: anything you could realistically hold many of in real life, you should also be able to hold in H3VR 2. This removes spawn-lock dependency for an infinite throwing supply and makes small weapons genuinely viable in combat.
Weird Weapon Mastery Goals:
- Try the pentamag and reload while firing from it
- Palm two compatible magazines in a tactical reload
- Spin a karambit or revolver and bounce it off cover
- Stab a sosig, then transition into a sideways cut
- Impale a sosig head with a thrown sword
- Activate Muscle Meat and tear a sosig in half
FAQ
Q: Can I create my own coupled jungle mags in Hot Dogs Horseshoes Hand Grenades 2?
Not at launch. Currently only pre-configured coupled magazines authored by the developers are supported. User-coupled mags are a desired future feature, but the developers have made no promises about timing.
Q: Can a coupled magazine feed two guns at the same time?
No. The magazine animation system requires that a magazine be controlled by exactly one firearm's magazine well at a time — this is a hard technical limit, not a design choice.
Q: Which magazines work with mag palming?
Only explicitly configured pairs. Magazines held nearly identically, like a 30-round P-Mag and a 20-round M16 magazine, can palm together. Magazines with different grips and loading motions, or drum magazines, cannot.
Q: Can melee weapons actually cut sosigs in half?
Yes, with cutting damage from an edged weapon you can slice a sosig in half, though it is not a fully dynamic slice — it can only occur at one to three pre-defined joints. Shorter blades cause bleeding but cannot bisect completely.