The Terrifying Reality of Halo's Needler

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The Needler is one of Halo's most fun weapons, but also, the most feared. Today, we look at the terrifying reality of Halo's Needler.
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0:00 - The Weapon Even Spartans Feared
4:50 - The Terrifying Reality of it
9:28 - Its Terrifying Alternate Uses
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[@thebrainbuiider]

HiddenXperia 343 should make a Blamite grenade, you know how strong it could be on vehicles, not saying officially in-game, but in mods!!!

[@rubengandara1567]

Mr. Halo youtuber that I used to say the name of your KZbin channel correctly but it's kind of hard to say imagine this the gravity hammer combine it with the technology of the kneeler so a gravy hammer combined with the parlor of the neighbor from Halo sorry I can't say words right now

[@neoluna1172]

anyone who has faced the halo reach needler knows very well how scary it is because holy crap did that thing kill fast.

[@KeyboardTarantula]

on halo 3, theres a purple laser on the front of the needler. this, i belive, charges the crystal (with what is unkown. maybe hydrogen particles like the beam rifle?) and makes it volitile, as seen in combat evolved, hitting something with the spiky end doesn't cause everyone nearby to go up in a pink/red/purple mist.

[@equinox873]

Cant wait for a blamite railgun or even a blamite hydra

[@EluTranBF]

Whenever you pull out that IRL needler, it always hits me how huge these things actually are. Terrifying as all hell

[@captainbloodloss1]

yeah its fascinating in the halo universe that humans are absolutely tiny, you think grunts are like 3 feet tall for how they exist in the game but theyre about the size and weight of an entire adult gorilla. you just dont notice this because youre in the gigantic overgrown eyes of a spartan 2 or a giant alien elite for most of it

[@HiddenXperia]

Same goes for the Plasma Rifle too, granted sizes aren't quite as exaggerated as say 40k's universe, but the average 'thing' in the Halo universe is huge

[@deeznuts23yearsago]

I’m used to it now due to cosplay but you also have to take into consideration the height difference between chief and Luc is a whole 1’7”

[@CoffeeCrowgasm]

Makes me giggle when I see the halo 3 odst needler lol

[@KeyboardTarantula]

rifle, or repeater?@@HiddenXperia

[@Esponea_482]

Chips Dubbo is such a weapon that even the precursors fear him

[@HiddenXperia]

Everyone knows the apex predator of the Halo universe is Chips, no force can match the power of that man's aura

[@ONI_Agent_Bobcat]

​@@HiddenXperia can confirm

[@OptimisticSturmmann]

Chips superior tactics dwarfs even the chaotic W'rkncacnter.

[@girthquake2390]

​@@ONI_Agent_BobcatOh no! Boys, the ONI spooks are already here!!!

[@ryan_1099]

Maybe he himself is some Precursor renegade.

[@axelramirez6201]

The needler is one of the most interesting sci fi guns i have ever seen

[@SacredBlaziken]

The Needler is by far the most powerful and the most fun weapon in Halo Infinite

[@obi5398]

​@@SacredBlaziken I raise you one shock rifle

[@Ostr0]

Halo 4 Needler is scary it wrecks faster than a Fuel Rod Cannon on Legendary Spartan Ops

[@Ostr0]

oh and this's on 4x the speed of 60 fps with increased tick rate and your character acts at 30 fps without increased tick rate.

[@Ostr0]

Honestly they should give every Grunt and Elite a Needler and every Jackal a Beam Rifle.

[@reportedbooch697]

Somewhere, in the distant reaches of space, James-005 is STILL uncontrollably spinning thanks to the needler round in his Jetpack.

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

Hopefully he fell back to Reach and there isn't a half ton corpse still floating around.

[@robertbetschman9499]

At least his hand doesnt hurt

[@dinodude6992]

Like agent Georgia

[@dr._breens_beard]

​@@robertbetschman9499forgot about that! Didnt a hunter's fuel rod detonation basically flash-vaporize it away below the elbow?

[@robertbetschman9499]

@@dr._breens_beard more or less, yea

[@drowzydullahan]

'Sir, I think they nicked me.' That line, that scene has ALWAYS stuck with me. That and Kurts sacrifice. Those two jump out to me more than almost anything Halo related.

[@SerathDarklands]

Anyone who has read the early Halo books knows exactly how dangerous the Needler is. Not only do the shards supercombine into explosions, but the explosions leave tiny fragments in the target, further exacerbating a victim's wounds.

[@rasenshuriken7771]

In theory if you're near multiple supercombines and get hit with enough shrapnel you could also explode

[@SerathDarklands]

@@rasenshuriken7771 So the way the book (I believe it was Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund) describes it is that when the shards detonate, they send tiny fragments into everything nearby, kind of like razor-sharp crushed glass, and that digs into uncovered skin and hurts like hell. Definitely not immediately lethal, but certainly painful enough to take a soldier out of the fight.

[@comancheclub3449]

And for those that don't know the carbine fire goddamn *radioactive* rounds. Even if you survive the initial damage from the impact you'll most likely succumb to cancer in a few weeks or something like that.

[@bryanuchiha6166]

Yup the descriptions in the books are detailed

[@PelemusMcSoy]

Contact Harvest also showed how terrified a Jackal was when he was stabbed by one of the needles. Johnson was surprised to see how desperate the Jackal was to get it out of his leg before it burst, destroying his leg in the process.

[@scorchik11]

I’m surprised there isn’t a needle variant of the spike grenade somewhere in the halo universe.

[@civicrider5556]

there is in spartan strike

[@HiddenXperia]

There is in Spartan Strike, my smooth brain just forgot to mention it 🙃

[@civicrider5556]

its understandable @@HiddenXperia

[@epicdude3659]

​@@HiddenXperianah, your not smooth brained, not many people really remember Spartan Strike or Assault

[@Ostr0]

The Needler Grenade is the scariest because properly used it can make you unstoppable

[@halocraft314]

There's also the Needle Pistol described in Ghosts of Onyx, and also a C4-like explosive used by the Banished in Shadows of Reach.

[@rasenshuriken7771]

I always pictured blamex as a chunk of blamite tapped to wall

[@Mayflower-Yev]

⁠@@rasenshuriken7771 Banished engineers creating blamex: Yo dude, so I was ripping apart this random Human for pointing at me, and uh I thought of a new uh boom device, you know those blue/purple circles that stick and then explode? What if we connect a big chunk of uh blamite to it? What do you think? Would it work? I mean it should, right?

[@josesanchezrodriguez1783]

I assume that needle pistol is just another way of saying Needler

[@nicolae-alexandruluca7853]

And what about the needle rifle from reach?

[@Ostr0]

Yeah the 3 scariest uses of it are Needler Grenade Needler Warthog and Needler Wraith.

[@saintdoot]

The moment you notice that Kat's head disappears completely for a split second at 10:08, it's game over.

[@Diabolical29]

If the needler shard didnt just pass all the way through, her head would have disappeared for a lot longer than that haha

[@AGleeBustHard69]

maybe that's why it was able to pass through cuz her head disappeared an it was an ONI ploy to get cat out of service and into their secret service and she is still actually alive hahaha

[@stingray-xf8mu]

That's crazy that they're actually hand-carved rounds for the needler. I always thought (or someone told me back in the halo 3 days) that the needler had ammo that looked like the stuff seen on the ground at 5:35 and when you reloaded the needler, it was essentially a small explosion where the crystal inside fragmented into the top holes. It is definitely one of those guns I pass up on most of the time, so I'm glad you made a full video about it!

[@eyeballpapercut4400]

yup kid me playing CE also tried to rationalise the oval ammo like that

[@dsdy1205]

Halo Custom Edition actually ran with that method of reloading, with animations for lifting the top case of the Needler, placing the Needler ammo pod inside, and closing it to cause the needles to poke out.

[@18videowatcher41]

I remember reading one of the Halo novels and seeing the Needler from the perspective of an average marine. Being close to a needle impacting on a hard surface (like the armor you’re wearing or the Warthog you’re riding in) or even worse a supercombine explosion can send microscopic fragments of the crystalline material into your flesh. And these shards can remain there for years, constructing tearing at surrounding tissues. Talk about horrifying.

[@General_C]

Something else to mention: if the needles stay in their target and don't explode, they still detonate inside the target in a MUCH smaller burst. I've had shield regens interrupted by this before. Now imagine that outside the confines of a Halo game. This gun is a war crime.

[@Mayflower-Yev]

I’ve always felt like that only happened because the shields were destroying the crystals while they were inside, because we see them not explode in Halo Wars while impacting Marines in one of the cutscenes. The super combine could be like crystals connecting to each other through conductivity or something? Like them destabilizing each other or something? But I’m not versed enough in the field of Needler lore or electrical to surely know if I’m correct.

[@KurstKensei]

In the Halo 2 collectors edition manual, a UNSC field medic talks about how stressful it is to remove needler shard fragments from wounds.

[@Cobbster92]

I think a character in the First Strike book mentioned that too. Can't remember who

[@SorcererAC0]

“It's only a war crime when you lose.”

[@Ostr0]

Even on PC MCC in Spartan Ops on Legendary it only needs One to Two combines to kill most ground units and guess what you can get two combines with a full mag so Category 2 Elites still die.

[@fireclaw9602]

The needler is easily one of the coolest and most unique weapons in all of sci-fi.

[@anthonylamonica8301]

I wouldn't be shocked if the Elites originally used Energy Pikes that had Subanese crystal tips, at least prior to the Covenant finding them.

[@AaronPlenske]

It honestly never hit home just how powerful the needler was until Forward Unto Dawn came out. The visual of the Colonel of the academy exploding in front of Lasky was way more visceral and jarring than anything I had seen up to then.

[@rattled4142]

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Dante G188 only temporarily survived the super combine explosion due to his Spartan III augmentations. There's no examples of this happening to an unaugmented person to my knowledge.

[@deepism]

He did. He thought he only took a light injury until he saw his ribcage was completely exposed, then he died.

[@DanteMan117]

Yeah i survived

[@DanteMan117]

@@deepism no I didn’t die

[@PBST_RAIDZ]

He didn't even notice it until he saw the wound because of the augmentations.

[@iris_15]

There's some inconsistency regarding the needles being able to penetrate MJOLNIR. Chief in Forward Unto Dawn was able to shrug off Needler rounds despite having no shields in the Mk IV. Yet Daisy in Halo Legends was pierced through.

[@shcdemolisher]

Ehhh, halo legends is hit or miss, so take that series with a pinch of salt.

[@tristanbackup2536]

Different armour systems, different material makeup.

[@iris_15]

@tristanbackup2536 They were both Mark IV. Only explanation is unless Chief was suited with a different and stronger Mark IV armor at Circinius IV.

[@bigl2328]

You know this kinda makes the Arbiter missions in Halo 2 more deeply impactful given that the prophets sent him to certain death with how many of the grunts there had nothing but needlers

[@shcdemolisher]

Yeah like they planned to shoot him in the back the second they had a good chance. Which…says a lot!

[@lucifermorningstar1476]

I'll say it now my friend I always enjoy how in depth you make your videos it makes everything easier to understand especially for someone like me lol

[@ryatt9365]

The Needler and Plasma Pistol are easily two of the most brutal Halo weapons. The Needler launches giant homing needles that embed themselves in your flesh and blow you apart, with enough power to go through Mjolnir. The Plasma pistol can melt a hole right through a person or even Spartan armor, which by extension means even just a plasma pistol could do some serious damage to a UNSC ship. The idea that any Marine or colonial law enforcement can, within an hour of a Covenant invasion starting, find themselves being swarmed by hundreds or thousands of Grunts and Jackals wielding these weapons is terrifying.

[@allent1152]

The grunts alone would do serious damage to marines on the ground. Its amazing that they even won fights on the ground at all.

[@Ostr0]

​@allent1152 Well one shot to the dome makes much easier to not die due to a needler.

[@HH_Stryker]

Blamite cluster munitions are extremely effective

[@akend4426]

Remember how Silvia died in the Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn webseries? How she slowly choked to death after a needler round shattered inside her chest? Or Colonel Mehaffy being damn near *liquified* by a supercombine? THAT’S the true horror of the Covenant Needlers.

[@MatthewYoink]

I actually enjoyed this, it was refreshing. A needler minigun is the type of suit we need in halo. Sounds like a chaotic weapon. 150 shots, med accuracy, etc

[@shcdemolisher]

I have in fact seen fan art of exactly this!

[@Anska5126]

I always quite liked the needler. It's cute, pink and easy to use and it's a rather fun and colourful switch up from the usual projectiles we fire in halo. That said how it tracks only the wielders enemies while leaving allies alone is a pure mystery to me but I came up with the head canon that the grip is actually some sort of DNA reader thing that scans you as you hold it and then somehow can read your memories or link up with your neural net in the armour or your suit and so uses that information to track although there is literally no proof of anything I just said. But I always respected it's role in the sandbox. A lot of people dis it because It's pink and isn't like a normal gun and so they think it's bad but in actuality the Covenant banned dual wielding it as a warcrime after the Arbiter used dual Needlers on Tartarus and stooped the firing of Delta Halo. Because that's how I always deal with the guy other than launching myself at him sword in hand and getting slapped into the ground with the force of a Star's gravity well. But back on topic, I took my ex girlfriend Olivia through her first Halo experience and I told her to pick up the Needler. It became one of her favourite guns. In my eyes the Needler's sandbox properties are that it was created to help players new to the FPS genre like Olivia get used to it so they can graduate to a normal rifle. Sort of like a gun with training wheels. It has great tracking, fires rapidly but moves slowly so you can see all guns in Halo are projectile based and move through the air, Explodes for a hard ping kill meaning there is no chance to survive it in game if it happens it happens and it explodes multiple times per clip and it's catchy and easy to identify As for your question at the end I always thought a Rocket Launcher Needler would be interesting to see. Able to reach places no one else can shoot at to deal with those guy who like to slide out of map boundaries. I haven't got anything against those guys myself but it can be fairly annoying to deal with in games like Infection when a guy with a magnum is in a place the sword zombies can't reach. Anyway. Imagine you are chasing a guy down and he turns a corner. Your bullet ricochets won't touch him, grenades are too slow and a rocket on the wall would only graze him and maybe take out his shields at best. But then you pull out a Pink Fuel Rod Cannon and fire a round at the wall. The round explodes like a normal fuel rod rocket but then enough Blamite shards for 1 supercombine fly out of the explosion in all directions and track the nearest targets in the direction it's facing. Fire a few of those and the guy running away to regen his shields and regroup with his squad is no more and you've also flushed out anyone waiting in ambush to get you. We could give it a range too so the rocket won't just keep going and going to the other side of the map, we can give it say... 30-50 meters of travel before it explodes in mid air and then fires shards out in all directions. It could be like the covenant version of a Breaching tool. A grunt blasts a door down and an Elite Pulls out a Pink Fuel Rod Cannon fires a round inside. Blamite shards everywhere as humans scream and the breach squad just walk off while the shards explode for more damage to finish off the rest of the humans in the room. Bring a Jackal Sniper style on anyone who might survive also. Perhaps instead of the Shock Ammo in infinite 343 should have made it the Blamite Ammo type and just have a range of Blamite weapons. Shock was a great idea but there was potential already there to use Another terrifying thought, what if that Needler Rocket thing was on a Hunter Arm? I would actually cry if I saw that in a campaign one day

[@CommanderButter]

I always enjoy videos like this for when I'm at work or doing homework or for when my professor is talking about Johnny Walker Black for upwards of 20 minutes

[@crispywater932]

Finally someone who appreciates the needlers horror. I didn't realize how scary it was until I read about it in the books

[@GaryThaScary]

A cool weapon they could make for the games are Blamite grenades. The initial explosion sends out needles similar to the spike grenade, but instead of ricocheting they home in on targets and once they impale the enemy they create a super combine explosion that kills the enemy and causes damage to nearby enemies from the exploding needle fragments.

[@djak19reaper]

The needler is such an interesting and scary gun. I've been always a fan of the needler and other needle weapons

[@jasiahhigh1869]

I miss the needle rifle. It needs to make a return, so underated.

[@atalcot1]

I would have welcomed that over the Bandit.

[@ryan_1099]

As much as I'd like it I think there should be a few not semi-auto weapons added before we get that.

[@jasiahhigh1869]

@@ryan_1099 Yeah, there's a shit ton of stuff missing from infinite it's ridiculous. Concussion rifle, fuel rod gun, OG DMR, SMG, etc. With half the enemies being unshielded in campaign and the fact that the banished are scavenges using old/new technology the needle rifle was just missed opportunity.

[@Mayflower-Yev]

@@atalcot1The DMR is better imo, I just like it more than the needler rifle.

[@ryan_1099]

@@jasiahhigh1869 Seeing as the Skewer is sorta a Splazer equivalent, the fuel rod would be a nice in-between from Ravager to Skewer. Also Brute Shot is best Brute weapon where Brute Shot ;>;

[@gilgameshthefool5516]

Man the Needle rifle was my favorite to use in Halo Reach especially in the Horde mode. I got so good with it that I developed a muscle memory to aim right where grunt and jackle heads would be and as soon as they ran in front of my scope it was lights out.

[@WolfeSaber9933]

I think I know a way to prevent the needles from entering, or going in too deep. And it involves how tanks protect themselves from sabot rounds. Composite and ERA armor, for a start. Active Protection Systems, or APS, could even destroy or severely crack the crystals before they hit the armor.

[@Ostr0]

Look at the Wraith obviously it won't matter once the cover gets destroyed making the driver also killable. But the armor around it remains mostly intact for a while longer.

[@WolfeSaber9933]

@@Ostr0 What are you talking about?

[@mechatech9897]

Now imagine blamite fragmentation grenades. The flying fragments contain blamite particles which on hitting the target super combine and blow up.

[@civicrider5556]

something similar exists in spartan strike called the needle mine, it explodes if the enemy comes in the range of it, primarily used by brutes

[@Ostr0]

Perhaps we may get a Halo Game or Update that adds Needler Grenades

[@logicplague]

Truly one of the most unique weapons in all of sci-fi.

[@brandonparson8821]

My theory on the Needler's homing ability, is that Blamite itself is possibly *naturally* attuned, or was *designed* (by the Precursors) to use *Neural Physics* . When anyone physically picks up a needler, it *establishes a connection* between the wielder's *mind* , and the *Blamite* inside of the needles. When the user aims their weapon at something *they* have designated as their target, the Blamite *concentrates* and locks onto it. Then once the Needle round gets fired out of the gun, the Blamite inside *steers* the needle at the target until it hits. It's not a perfect theory but it's the only one I can come up with honestly, since the Covenant themselves didn't know the full extent of how Forerunner tech worked, let alone how Precursor metaphysical science (that basically acts like fucking space magic) would work. *TLDR* Neelder rounds use Neural Physics to track onto targets.

[@shawnbissonnette8281]

Love all the new lore content. So good to hear back story to an amazing universe! Keep up the amazing videos.

[@lordwilfried117]

10:09 and apparently able to make a head go to another dimension for a millisecond

[@WolfeSaber9933]

The SPP-1 and the APS underwater weapons have similar sized ammo to the needler.

[@Ostr0]

Which is enough one combine per mag is usually instant death so yeah however if it was the same ammo as a needler you can get two combines in a row.

[@WolfeSaber9933]

@@Ostr0 ?

[@Matt-md5yt]

glad you been working hard my friend on these great videos. I always liked this weapon in game, crazy how deadly the bad boy is

[@Lokixero]

I'd love to see more like this. A while episode getting into the data and lore of a single weapon. Its interesting

[@jarrettbattle9295]

Glad to see you making lore videos again, man! Halo never died, it’s just missing in action.

[@williamfranklin6836]

Blamite used as the explosive filler in archer missiles would be cool. And possibly very effective since needlers shred shields

[@Ostr0]

Yes

[@sodium7127]

I feel like people have forgotten how devastating the needler is in Halo 4 as the AI actually have the ability to supercombine.

[@kyototheegamer7433]

10:09 I never noticed that Kat's head disappeared for a moment when she got shot.

[@aroventalmav888]

One thing I really liked about SPV3 was the reload animation. And the red needler. It opens up the idea of elemental blamite.

[@terrykrugii5652]

Ah, the needler. A weapon that would make the Geneva Convention weep bitterly from just how many things it violates

[@OperationRedFlag]

I think the shards have a chemical that’s causing a critical chain reaction, notice how when there’s only a few in your character they have a really small explosion doing a little damage when they break, the super combine is just a non controlled point of criticality

[@HeiwaHero]

Needler in-game: Happy doggo Needler in Lore: Terrifying monster

[@MegaKrayZay]

Let’s not forget that the UNSC also experimented with these crystals, as they fused them with the Warthog’s Mounted Turret to create a new hybrid Warthog

[@Ostr0]

Best Warthog Ever man I can do this all day Needler beats almost every ground unit.

[@MegaKrayZay]

@@Ostr0 even a Scorpion?

[@Ostr0]

@MegaKrayZay Possibly I could be wrong can you expose the driver If so yeah. But no it's the best vehicle besides the Ghost or Banshee both being the best Defense against Needlers obviously you can still die on a Ghost but the enemies in Spartan Ops differ they don't use Ghosts the same way as normal people. Also people on a Hornet can be needler'd as well however the driver might not but I could be wrong try to needler through the window.

[@MegaKrayZay]

@@Ostr0 You can, but the hit box is so small, and the only way to pop that cover off is a very powerful weapon like a well place sniper round, poor laser shot, tail gun, rocket that didn’t just blow it up, etc. and not to mention that if you try that, you’ll most certainly get the Scorpion’s attention. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Warthog, but “Best Ground Unit” is maybe a bit much. Now if we talking about the GaussHog, the passenger had a Rocket Launcher or Spartan Laser, now we’re talking.

[@neonanbu19]

Dude you should make a series going over the potency of the halo weapons!! I loved this man!

[@Venomfan88]

Love an entire video dedicated to one of my favorite weapons in the series--great work!

[@aPimpNamedSlickback4484]

You should make a vid about the fuel rod gun now or whatever the hell the hunters use, love the convenient weapon lore vids

[@jimmmmus]

To be fair Dante only survived the supercombine for maybe a half minute because of his Gamma-Company augmentations. His ribs were visible, yea, but there was just empty space and pooling blood beneath them. His organs were completely destroyed and he was just running on the oxygen and ATP his muscles and brain still had before they ran out and he died still standing. Like there was no chance of survival and him even making it to Kurt to say “I think I got nicked, sir.” was a complete fluke, and quiet a viscerally disturbing one.

[@GalacticChickenNO1]

No better way to end the school summer holiday than on a hiddenxperia lore video!

[@kyototheegamer7433]

Does this mean that the needles breaking when hitting our energy shields in the games is uncanny?

[@brettgill6065]

The regular needles explode in canon as well. It’s called a “supercombine” because the combined explosion of all the needles. Unless 343 retconned that too.

[@dSWISHm]

I think this video was really good. More lore videos about individual weapons would be awesome

[@alemachupichu6940]

I missed this halo lore videos, glard they’re back 🔥

[@dopedood11]

Glad to see you shed some light on the horrors of my favorite weapons in halo

[@deepism]

Really happy to see your excitement for Halo coming back

[@VikTobeyOfficial]

This was a great video I never knew that there was so much lore behind the Needler

[@witchofdread1875]

This is all very interesting but the most interesting thing I have learned from this video is that Kat's head pops off and swaps for a head with a needle hole in it mid-cutscene. My world is shattered and I will never see her death the same again.

[@UnintelligibleYT]

Imagine: a needle shotgun. Fire a shotgun shell full of flechete rounds carved out of Blamite, hit your target center mass, splintering their everything with little shards, then it explodes.

[@pandaispure2858]

Luke, these videos are just pure gold, keep up the work.

[@DJ_wukong]

A whole video about the needler, this is the real halo content we need.

[@Stormer13]

I love that Blamite is already so horrifying of a substance, the only way to make it even scarier is adding more to a situation: faster delivery or bigger payload.

[@m0urn1ng5tar5]

Dude getting an army of Vampires in Halo Wars was one of the best things about playing as the Covenant. Fuckers are deadly in packs.

[@tylerschofield]

As someone who read fall of reach in 2001 ive been telling (and surprising) people with just how nasty the needler is. Im also pretty sure that when a shard impales someone, its almost impossible to remove without causing further damage because like a serrated blade/barbed blade, it’s slips in smoothly, and shreds on the way out. Also it tends to splinter due to its glass like properties so your still left with micro shards of it embedded in the wound that are crazy hard to find and if left behind are super painful, literally like having glass sand rubbed into your muscles. Very nasty Its also definitely one of the most unique sifi weapons ive come across in my 32 years!

[@shcdemolisher]

You know, a thought occurred to me when I was playing Deep Rock Galactic: We never hear about Sangheili who mine! Like I can totally see mining clans who function like the Dwarfs to a degree. Big, muscled, booze (their version of it), singing work songs, still honorable, and with custom mining gear. So mining crystals, metals and other minerals.

[@isaachaubner2296]

This is the kinda video I love

[@RussianTeakwood]

Thank you for your efforts. Your videos are awesome and keep my love for halo alive.

[@atoriusv5070]

The Spiker and the Needler are the two weapons I would NEVER want to get hit by.

[@MyToastyToast]

There was a fan concept of a covenant needler shotgun that was really cool. It’s part of the armory in my head canon

[@kutz0341]

Dude...kudos on the trigger discipline handling the toy

[@mainboysmusic6985]

this was a video i never realized i needed to see so much

[@JohnPeacekeeper]

Reminder that Elites and Humans made a vehicle with a Needler Turret anyway for the Sword Warthog Can you imagine if, humans being humans and working with Elites, they created a Blamite missile as a bunker buster?

[@imperialguardproductions]

I love the pink mist gun. Been a big fan of your channel and lore videos btw. Keep up the great work king 🗿

[@zvolchen117]

I miss the Needle Rifle, Blood of Suban carbine variant from H5, and the Needle Warthog. Also, how have we not gotten a blamite grenade?!

[@Ostr0]

It's in Spartan Strike I think

[@LAV-III]

5:20 “Very thin but very long” is a term people use to describe me too often

[@bluephoenix7565]

The type 33 guided munitions launcher has been my favorite covenant weapon since halo CE

[@vladthedeathless9439]

Definitely learned something new! Those halo wars turrets totally went over my head. Thanks!

[@ZstackZip]

My headcanon is that Blamite expands when exposed to a high enough voltage, and can be guided by an electromagnetic waves That explains why it never needs to be truly reloaded, and how it’s fired and guided

[@Streygenmoment]

Y'know, learning more about the Covenant's war tech, it makes me believe more that the covenant and the banished could stand on equal footing with the different factions of 40k

[@ThePontiac001]

Look up pancreasnowork, he's has a trilogy of videos on how the different alien factions of halo (excluding the banished) would fare in 40k, keep in mind they will be biased but I think they're still intriguing

[@Streygenmoment]

@@ThePontiac001 I did watch those videos, and I wholeheartedly agree with them

[@ThePontiac001]

@deltadud agreed. Tbh I feel like 40k is getting overrated and it's refreshing to see if a different universe can knock 40k down a peg

[@Streygenmoment]

@@ThePontiac001 yeah, I think that people overestimate the power scale of 40k, especially in comparison to other sci-fi settings. Like, most of the factions in the Imperium are using what is basically WW1 tech that is built stupider. Like yeah, the Eldar are really strong, and the Orks and Space Marines are gonna give anyone who isn't them pause for thought when they're torn limb from limb either from strength or psychic powers, but if you shoot them in the head with a big enough round, they're gonna die no matter what

[@morgado117]

That clip of Kat boy I wasn’t ready for that 😂

[@Skirk5045]

This was awesome! I’d love to see more stuff like this!

[@karalarson7552]

I just noticed that in Halo: Forward Unto Dawn, they show what a needler can do to a human. Colonel Mehaffey gets shot by a needler to the chest and straight up evaporates in front of Lasky. It just adds to the chaos and panic of this part of the movie.

[@EliteBaal]

The Needler is my favorite weapon in Halo. Followed by the OG Plasma Rifle. Just beautiful and perfect for the hands of an Elite!

[@NotKameron]

Man I love these halo lore video Xperia you are one of the best

[@PapaPandasHasNoDad]

my personal headcannon is that Blamite is actually what mood rings are made out of and that's how it can do everything from lock on to supercombine. If pointed at an enemy you have either feelings of excitement of fear and the needles head to the cause. The supercombine? You've just been impaled 7+ times by big pink needles and it really fucking hurts, that feeling is concentrated through the needles causing them to rupture.

[@Soundwave119]

I have many bad memories of getting owned with my friends with the dual weilding needlers in Halo 2. On the other hand it's awesome owning enemies both in Halo 2 campaign or my friends in multi-player 😊.

[@cesarpedrazamartinezgarcia725]

It's such a fun weapon, in halo 2 you can dual wield it. There's a mission you play, the first one actually i think with arbiter where you fight ONLY grunts with needlers, meaning, infinite needler ammo!

[@ItatsuMagnatsa]

Blam-Hammer. A Modified Gravity Hammer infused with Blamite. Not only does it have its Iconic Gravity Swing, but it also releases Shards of Blamite for a Super Combine and the Gravity Swing also Propels the Shards at a Faster Rate akin to a Railgun.

[@lukeyluke117]

Only thing keeping my love for Halo alive at this point.

[@tuckerjohnson8617]

a blamite weapon i would like to see would be a blamite infused energy mace kinda like chainbreaker but instead of the energy blades on the sides, it would be carved shards of blamite or one with the same hilt but there are two, one would have an emitter which would release out gasses and make it into a flail, when not activated it could be a 2 handed weapon. hits with it would cause supercombines.

[@ratheonhudson3311]

I wonder if there's a delayed, sticky fragmentation grenade made with blamite? Throw it, the outer shell sticks to the target, the first stage explodes into fragments of smaller blamite that in turn stick to a surface and explode. A 2-stage sticky blamite grenade would be something else entirely.

[@windguild6933]

Needler rounds be chasing you like the Anchor chasing that poor judge from Spongebob.

[@Ariaelyne]

Probably my favourite needler ridiculousness was the old Reach novel where they made a giant needler ship as part of the assault fleet.

[@JustinAcosta-dd3bk]

I'm not a 343 employee, but how terrifying would it be to come in contact with a semi-automatic Blamite shotgun? Shooting 30 Blamite with one shell. And it has a 60-round magazine capacity. I don't even know if it takes magazines.

[@dsdy1205]

Right as you wwre talking about horrifying alternate uses of blamite I was like "Lol wouldn't it be funny if they tried to make an energy sword out of the stuff" and then you started talking about the energy cutlass

[@jmallas984]

The needler is by far the most alien good looking thing ive ever seen when halo combat evolve showed up man that was a long time ago. When chief is idle and that thing just glow and organic lookin