Needler | The Armory

[@Jedi_Spartan]

"Fear the pink mist!" Seriously, there are times when I use it and think "Why don't the AI use it on full auto?" Then I go to multiplayer or high difficulty Halo 4 missions where enemy players/AI can do that and I remember why.

[@Viviana088]

Elites in Halo CE can full auto the Needler.....

[@Jedi_Spartan]

@@Viviana088 Ok, never noticed

[@Viviana088]

@@Jedi_Spartan No worries, the reason you rarely notice it, is because there are very few sections of the game were elites spawn with needlers (even on legendary).

[@Jedi_Spartan]

@@Viviana088 Ok, where are some of the areas?

[@Viviana088]

@@Jedi_Spartan Halo - Past the drop pod with a sniper rifle. There should be an elite with a needler near the forerunner structure. Keyes - Should be 1 or 2 elites with needlers in the caverns after you jump into the fluid (Not 100% sure about this though). Also, after punching keyes head out covenant spec op units will arrive on the ship (Colored Black, White or Gray). There should be 1 elite with a needler near the end. The Maw - Not sure specifically but I know 1 Elite has a needler. I think it's the hallway that connects the armory room (the one actually filled with ammo) and engine room. He should be with two hunters. These are some areas that I can remember, but there may be more. I think in Two Betrayals there is an Gold elite (Zealot) that spawns with a needler as well.

[@BoisegangGaming]

Imagine a Needle Shotgun that fires off enough to cause a supercombine if all the shards hit. That would be terrifying. Bonus points if its a double-barrel. I just want to see more Needle weapons.

[@PoisoningShadow671]

@chilled viper When you instakill a dude with a needle shotgun, but also turn his remains into a supercombine bomb.

[@Stratonetic]

I felt that the needler was the equivalent to the shotgun in CE, lots of random spray at long distance but absolutely devastating in close quarters, imagine if it shot all those needles at once like a shotgun. Edit: Spell check.

[@commandercoltstarfucker1886]

I used to mod Halo 1 on PC back in the early-to-mid 2000's, and a needle shotgun was one the first weapons I made. I also made a "grunt launcher" that shot screaming grunts which explode like a plasma grenade when they hit something. (All of this was back when I still used to be smart). Also had a Covenant flamethrower that used the plasma grenade's particle system effect for the blue flames..... and it (unsurprisingly) slowed the frame-rate to a crawl.

[@generalvictorironraven.1347]

Or a master key type weapon. That would make it possible to use as a bayonet/shot gun/grenade launcher.

[@windbeneathmywings4884]

@@generalvictorironraven.1347 Yes! If it's a sangheili weapon then why not an energy sword-type bayonet? Thatd be interesting

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

The needler has always been one of the more iconic weapons in Halo. The needle rifle was another variant it that I really liked. It's a shame we don't get to see more of it anymore.

[@Viviana088]

Brutes + Needler rifle = Field day

[@kaihamza4710]

BRO YOU ARE EVERYWHERE

[@dutch_asocialite]

*Coughcough* Blood of Suban *Coughcough*

[@shilopnamreg6468]

I’m starting to wonder if this guy is a bot, or it’s just a cosmic-level coincidence that he and I share ALMOST EVERY GODDAMN INTEREST ON KZbin.

[@kaihamza4710]

Shilop Namreg its really freaking me out man

[@Stratonetic]

"This is gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better."

[@Viviana088]

Humans: So how does this thing work? Sangheili: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@nweasels]

Humans: .... let's figure out how it works then.

[@Stratonetic]

Hierarchs: "HERESY!"

[@nweasels]

Humans and Sangheli: It's not forerunner tech so nyeh! *rude gestures*

[@Armageist]

Wouldn't Jackals know? The damn thing literally looks like a Jackal head.

[@matchesburn]

To be honest, that's pretty fitting with the canon. Sangheili have taken the role in the Covenant as warriors and embraced that role fully. Meaning that scientists weren't especially needed or valued. Meaning Sangheili understanding of their own tech was laughably bad. And why bother to learn when you can just kick a grunt and tell them to fix it or have a Huragok deal with it? That's why Sangheili like Kasha 'Hilot, who are intelligent and well-versed enough in things other than "HONOR! SMASH! KILL!" are working alongside humans/UNSC on a joint research project. And, of course, this benefits humanity greatly as well. We get access to Covenant tech we couldn't reliably get (and in pristine working condition) and the people that know how to use it and service them to a degree and the Sangheili get to learn their own tech and get benefits from human manufacturing technology (which apparently when the Sangheili artisans learned the full context of were very eager to investigate because mass production isn't their strong suit). Which is why ONI attempting to cause issues with the Swords of Sangheilios and the Arbiter pisses me off to no end because it's such short sighted stupidity to do so. Especially right after the war ended. Don't get me wrong, I'm not naive, I know ONI has to spy on everyone - including and especially allies - to remain ahead of the game, but... Don't rock the boat.

[@hermaeusmora345]

50% useless, 50% Overpowered. How is this possible? Ask Bungie

[@brawlgasm56]

The people saying its overpowered just havent learned how to dodge the projectiles

[@WatermelonEnthusiast9]

@@brawlgasm56 or, we just know that if you move the cursor to follow the goddanm target, so, you know, fight me in halo reach PC needler fight

[@matthewswart1845]

@@WatermelonEnthusiast9 FiTe Me KiD

[@thatsclassified1]

@@brawlgasm56 they could make the needles move faster while giving them bullet drop instead of rounds that hover and move at 10 mph

[@WatermelonEnthusiast9]

@@matthewswart1845 bitch

[@whee38]

I remember in high school for a time me and some of my friends called ourselves "children of the pink mist" after the needle. To this day I don't know if it was because we were good or sucked

[@thelonelyrogue3727]

Reading about how painful the crystals were in... Contact Harvest maybe? Made Needlers terrifying.

[@brawlgasm56]

The live action video for halo 3 had a similar puncture wound from a spiker. Same shit really

[@matchesburn]

@@brawlgasm56 Nah. Needler wounds are supposedly far worse than Spiker rounds by far because of the shattering and fragmentation effects of the crystal. If a Spiker round impaled you and blew into several thousand tiny pieces of shrapnel, you'd have a point. But as it stands, the Needler rounds are much more dangerous even if you don't take into the critical mass explosion mechanism if you get hit by enough of them. Because even a single crystal eventually shatters and explodes. Inside your body. Basically turning that localized area into ground chuck. And, to make matters worse... those pieces of shrapnel stay in your body. Someone has to go through and pick that shit out of your body, assuming you even live, so as to prevent infection/gangrene. And, if they don't, it's going to stay in there and cause issues because you have an alien crystal with unknown properties in your body with very, very sharp edges that is eventually going to do something terrible to your body or come out like some metal shrapnel does. And if you really want to see nasty stuff, look up the lore of the Covenant carbine. Getting shot with those rounds, which were high velocity irradiated rounds, were basically a death sentence even if a Medic was there to immediately remove it since the rounds were so heavy metal toxic and radioactive and would often spread it throughout the body material from the round got transmitted to the body tissue and blood it hit. Can you imagine how much it would suck to get hit in the arm and barely hurt by the round only to realize it was from a Covenant carbine and that you were basically almost doomed to certain death as soon as it hit? Ugh. And, oh yeah, radiation sickness is a very bad way to die, to make matters even worse. Look at those poor bastards that were part of the "Liquidators" crew. Horrific deaths.

[@WhatIsSanity]

All of the weapons from Halo are pretty horrifying with the damage they could do to a persons body, but the needler is at the top of that horrific list.

[@starhammer5247]

The fact that a Spartan such as Daisy-023 and a few others were able to shrug it off in some cases makes them seem even more impressive than they already are.

[@Phobos_Anomaly]

One of the most unique and bizarre weapons in all of gaming. Its alien-ness and strangeness is perfect for something wielded by genocidal extraterrestrials.

[@Zapzap3132jarek]

Imagine If there were a skull called Pink Storm Which had every enemy in the game have a needler while the ultras has dual Needlers

[@rcweasel4663]

Jarek [Zapzap] you better hope 343 doesn’t see this comment

[@ThatsTuff888]

Can you please do a detailed breakdown of the gravity hammer and energy sword?

[@thelonelyrogue3727]

He's doing a full series on all the Halo weapons. He'll get there eventually.

[@DeltaWolf1000]

You forgot to mention in the hands of a Spartan or Elite, it becomes a potent melee weapon in ultra-close CQB. It becomes almost a mace.

[@drekoolkid4582]

Would probably blow up

[@autumngottlieb3071]

Doesn't the Halo CE melee animation for this thing literally have you stab the target with the protruding needles?

[@DeltaWolf1000]

@The Great Destroyer yes, yes it does.

[@WolfeSaber]

"The bane of many defeats," is that a reference to one getting blown up in the air?

[@thelonelyrogue3727]

It's a purple haze of death.

[@rockhoggaming]

*iS tHaT a JoJo'S rEfErEnCe???*

[@thelonelyrogue3727]

@@rockhoggaming you're more annoying than the people who say that stuff unironically.

[@rockhoggaming]

;)

[@REIVAXMEELAS]

* pink haze of death

[@PackHunter117]

The Needler is OP in multiplayer but in the lore it’s even more OP. If you kill a target near a plasma battery you’ll blow it up. Do a video on the Needle Rifle!!!!!!

[@ethanwhitmore1081]

I've always thought of the needler as similar to the staff weapon in Star Gate, it is more of a weapon of terror than a weapon of war. The people who put it in wide spread use within the Covenant were simply impressed by it's potential destruction, not whether it is an effective weapon of war. 'why we don't see it used by Elites, and mostly Grunts, Brutes, and Jackals. And for Jackals, I think even they would see the overall ineffective nature of it, however, they wouldn't have a choice in what they were armed with unlike the Elites.

[@WhatIsSanity]

Exactly my thoughts. It's at best a niche specialist weapon, but probably just present as a display of power and fear.

[@Demon_Snake]

It's fun when you use it, but when someone else uses it's no longer fun.

[@Catman2123]

The outpost discovery prop was surprisingly large ngl.

[@ridgelock8035]

It has to be the hands of an elite are massive and strange

[@michaelmerritt7406]

The needler is a large gun

[@Chsae314]

I let out a little happy sound when I saw this pop up in my subscription feed, a nice surprise on a Saturday morning!

[@JoshdaKnight]

Among the most satisfying moments in Halo is mag dumping one on a grunt with grenades when he’s next to an elite. The explosions... oh man.

[@mwbgaming28]

This gun destroyed a lot of friendships back in the day

[@shingoji524]

"Blamite" hehehe

[@Armageist]

I rest my case...

[@totallyahuman.2955]

Okay we get it. You like to blow up shit, Gojira. Now take a breath mint and chill out, you mutated version of Hedorah.

[@matchesburn]

This and the Covenant carbine are my two most favored Covenant weapons. And, hey, isn't it interesting that they're both really effective weapons against the Flood? Hmm. Also, it's worth noting that while obscured targets (i.e. behind cover) and targets at range can't be tracked with projectiles... those projectiles can still hit them and do the same damage if you hit. If you have ammo to burn, just use the Needler's insane rate of fire to dump lead... er... crystal... in the direction of the enemy. You'd be surprised at how often you can hit more distance targets if adjust for "bullet" drop.

[@rcweasel4663]

I’ve been waiting so long for this video FEAR THE PINK MIST

[@gpaje]

"Can I use your gun if I find you a needler?"

[@z5m1k3]

"Keep your sword, keep your smg. Feel the pain of needle brain, Those nerds won't keep us down..."

[@bmxdude1337]

Such a cool weapon, the CE melee animation is the best

[@xx_wockyslush_xx9672]

1:30 hence why the marines hold them with both hands in CE, if not all of them

[@jonathanlivingstonseagull3062]

Probably my favourite weapon in game, honestly. Since it's the only one that isn't a generic firearm or plasma weapon.

[@joshuaneal2316]

The needler is my favorite Covenant weapon

[@_M27_]

Joshua Neal mine too! Love the it looks and shoots

[@aliesterus1.023]

2:43 I love this detail more than I should. "Hey, you guys were friends with the guys who used this, you have any idea how this works?" "Hmmm, lemme take a look... I have no fucking clue."

[@trashyhobo4957]

Came back to watch this again after my needler rounds came in the mail. Thanks 00

[@curcheesegaming8704]

Keep up the amazing work.

[@zhoufang996]

It's very nice of the covenant to have these guns configured to home in on "the enemy of the wielder", and not, say, "humans"

[@LDSG_A_Team]

Blamite is such a wonderful and straightforward name for the material :)

[@n111254789]

It's also the name of the Halo game engine. The Blam Engine. Blam is also what any curse word is changed to when you would name something for file-sharing in Halo3

[@xspatanx117x]

Dang my dude be pumping out videos. Nice! Really appreciate it!

[@Nathan-vt1jz]

The needler is my favorite weapon of the OG halo games.

[@Tucher97]

the needler, turn someone into a pincushion and they explode while the needle rifle is the exact opposite just if you lack shields you explode by 2 shots, but as of now 3 shots

[@jessejamesmanfred6319]

i wonder if the needler is lightly psyonic if it has no physical/electrical firing mechinism and can tell hostile from friendly. just holding it and pulling the trigger (if it even has one) is enough to form a link telling the needler when to fire and what your aiming at to a lesser effect

[@metalbass5]

I think that would likely be the official explanation. The practical explanation is more likely: "Because it looks cool and we didn't really bother to come up with the mechanics because vidya game"

[@thecomedygamingnetwork261]

Needlers always the coolest variant imo.

[@guardiangaming3697]

Here is a pretty good theory about the T33 SuperCombine GML "The Needler." Though the operation of the Needler is similar to it's larger predecessor the Needler Rifle the theory of operation and use couldn't me more different. The NR has a much faster projectile velocity than the GML, but the GML has tacking unlike the NR. The weapon has a module at the end of the barrel. My theory: 1. That the Needler uses a data link system, but doesn't require it in and uses magnetic fields in order to steer the projectiles towards it's intended target. 1a. Because it would use magnetism to steer it's range and speed are very limited. 2. The Needler atomizes the crystals and expels them as a hot gas that turn makes them predictably magnetic and can be accelerated with no moving parts. 2a. The crystals are Piezoelectric in a solid state, magnetic in a semi gas state and at high temperatures and are reactive to electricity which causes them to fragment due to the differences in tensile strength inside each or the following crystals. (Similar to Prince Rupert's Drops) 2a1. Between being piezoelectric the crystals feel an impact which starts the chain reaction. The electricity generated further turns some parts into a semi gas which causes the "pink mist" that you see. (Unrelated theory; the real reason why jackets carry shields and the reason why Elites and some brutes have personal energy shields.) Idk if this all is actually canonized 🤷‍♂️ not a lore expert. How it works with no moving parts or power theory; it uses magnets, a capacitor, a semi active data link system, and IR. When you push the button it sends power to a magnet that atomizes a small part of the crystal and gets sent down the barrel which the violent movement activates the Piezoelectric properties that simultaneously power the the tracking module and charges another capacitor, in a very specific order, to minimize recoil, and doesn't strain too much of the wielder's arms. In theory if we has access to a crystal like that, making a real life needler wouldn't me an issue, and the price for this ammo would be super cheap, which is why the Covenant used a ton of them. Another one of my theories on the Needler is that an Engineer seen a broken NR and "fixed" it and made it better, much better.

[@mxm23adregalusandmore62]

Hey, that's actually a pretty good theory, i'm no expert on the subject, but any explanation works better than none

[@guardiangaming3697]

I'm not either. When I first played Halo CE back in 2001 I was blown away with The Needler and was always fascinated by it's homing capabilities. I have went through a ton of lore as well and the few rgu fs that I know is that they are loosely based off of Forerunner designs like most Covenant technology. Which in the books stretching from 2526 to 2552 the humans has always been the underdog and never understood why because technically does dictate strategy and vice versa. The main reason why they lost that war was because they never truly understood the technology they had, and didn't truly appreciate it. One book that supports this is "Halo: Silent Storm." Great read, and it's on Audible if you don't have time. Troy Denning's work is probably some of the best Halo Books written... besides my peeve of him referencing the thing that contains ammo that goes into a weapon that is closed from all but the top end as a "clip" instead of the proper word which is a piece of metal that holds the back of the casings for ammunition that only covers the back... I can't help but to picture Spartan's and Marines with M1903s shooting aliens. 🤣

[@moguldamongrel3054]

Wonder if the crystals after impact have some sort of harmonic resonator that ramps up their frequency until it reaches such extreme vibrations that the crystals literally explode. Like the crystals start singing whenever a bunch get in proxi with each other until their are enough to attain explosive fragmentation. Idk about FoF but if you could get them attuned towards attraction to bioelectric fields you could get them to home in on biological target. A time dilation field (to grow the crystals in extreme acceleration), a ambient humidity extractor (as a medium to grow the crystals in), and a power core of some kind, to run the whole thing.

[@PMW3]

One of my favorite Halo weapons. It's just so unique

[@TheJedaiHero9000]

My younger brother really liked the Needler, he use it everytime he plays Halo.

[@Sanya6496]

My personal favorite weapon

[@thelonelyrogue3727]

Why doesn't humanity ever get lucky enough to fight smaller, weaker aliens, with smaller, less advanced empires? We're always the underdog...

[@Reyma777]

The Zetans in Fallout are small and weak; but they’re technologically advanced. However, there are a lot of weaker, less advanced aliens in the Star Wars universe.

[@Furzkampfbomber]

Because _"...and then the armed forces of Earth arrived, slaughtered the alien fleet, its entire army and half of their population in half a day, forced the survivors into reservations and then plundered the planet."_ really does not make a good story.

[@thelonelyrogue3727]

@@Furzkampfbomber the emotional, political, psychological, etc. repercussions of something like that would make a fantastic story. And who's to say we're hostile to these aliens?

[@punctuationman334]

Furzkampfbomber you can make interesting stories even when humanity are the strongest faction in the universe numbnut. It just gets boring to see humanity always be the underdogs in most stories.

[@Furzkampfbomber]

@The Lonely Rogue Well, I did not want to start a philosophical discussion, but assuming the techological gap between a visiting species and the natives of a planet is big enough, chances are good the culture of the native species would be most likely destroyed anyway. Just google for "cargo cult", an effect that could be just as devastating as a violent invasion. _"And who's to say we're hostile to these aliens?"_ When we talk about games, especially _FPS_ games, and story writing, well, then one party _has_ to be hostile, otherwise there would be no "S" in "FPS", since you would be lacking a reason to discharge your weapons towards anyone. And if we start from a scenario where the humans are the technologically advanced species, then _we_ would have to fill the role of the aggressor, since a species travelling lightyears only to attack a species that is way more advanced and could mob the floor with this attacker would not make that much sense. But to come back to your initial question, yes, of course you are right. There are millions of interesting, riveting and thought-provoking stories to find in such a scenario. You can even write stories for more traditional shooters that deliver all of that. One of the most fascinating shooters I have ever played and which is still sticking with me after years is "Spec Ops: The Line", which starts like a normal shooter and ends as a complete and utter mindfuck that was messing with the player all the time and tells a story about war and what it does to the human mind. Absolutely brilliant and also quite the rare exception. And when we talk about a franchise like "Halo", then the background scenario is pretty much a given. Humankind needs to be struggling and with the back to the wall, the enemy needs to look intimitading and almost impossible to defeat. Humankind needs to be the underdog here, simply because it makes the more interesting story _in the context of a shooter._ Sure, you could for instance tell the story of a soldier that is part of an invasion force and later in the game defects, but then again, I see nothing wrong with the classical "underdog vs. overwhelming odds // small Gallic village vs. entire Roman army" scenario as long as it is well told. :)

[@DeltaTwoNine]

Imagine being one of the militia men on Harvest, and seeing one of your buddies getting "supercombined" must have been fucking terrifying.

[@kevinruddthestudrudd0074]

I don't want to even imagine the pain the needier would bring if such a gun existed in real life.

[@Kingdoms_and_Kobolds]

This weapon, if reverse engineered, would be awesome as an armor mounted weapon on the arm bracers, with the spikes oriented outward along the right side of the forearm much like Batman's bracer design and the barrel/emitter pointed frontwards along the same alignment like a sixth finger alongside the "pinkie" finger

[@WolfeSaber]

Imagine a shotgun that shoots needles.

[@thelonelyrogue3727]

No thanks.

[@WolfeSaber]

@@thelonelyrogue3727 A weapon for Infinite? Or you do not want to be on the wrong end?

[@Furzkampfbomber]

Well, flechettes exists.

[@thelonelyrogue3727]

@@WolfeSaber I DEFINITELY don't want to be on the wrong end of a Needler shotgun, and I refuse to imagine that happening, lol.

[@WolfeSaber]

@@Furzkampfbomber Using blamite

[@Furzkampfbomber]

I never thought about it, but now that you mention it - the IFF mechanism of the needler makes absolutely no sense. Covenant holds it, needler only targets humans. Covenant dies, human picks up needler, all of a sudden it only targets covenant. Human dies, covenant picks up weapon, needler suddenly only kills humans again. Hmkay.

[@thelonelyrogue3727]

Maybe it has a threat assessment program? Or links to the neural interface of its wielder?

[@Furzkampfbomber]

@The Lonely Rogue Okay, that would actually make a lot of sense. I hereby officially declare this to be the answer to my problems with the needler.

[@Furzkampfbomber]

@Usze 'Taham That could make sense as well, but then again this sounds a bit too advanced for the Covenant. I guess some threat assessment program calculating who is a danger/target for the wielder of the gun, as was suggested in the comments, would be more easy to achieve.

[@cnut7383]

i cant remember who it was but someone did a video about how the needler might work. the ammo is probably a gas the crystallizes when exposed to air. the video is a lot more scientific

[@johnhalo4438]

1:37 Me: *grabs tape measure* Also me: “what the fuck??? What the fuck!!! What the fuck? What the fuck.”

[@generalvictorironraven.1347]

I love the needler for so many reasons. The complexity the elegance. You can sit and think all day about the physics. Are the needles attracted to heat or are they guided along a magnetic field projected by the gun that is in turn locked on to the heat signature of the target?

[@shipmasterkent9176]

Imagine a covenant renamnt faction obessed with needlers and they are nearly only using needle weapons

[@Modelstl063]

Needler + jetpack = win

[@autumngottlieb3071]

"...brings a whole new meaning to the military term 'pink mist.'" What did that mean before?

[@autumngottlieb3071]

I see.

[@mastersergeantjojam8069]

Pow pow pow pow pow boom 💥

[@gl3472]

Just out of curiosity, are these videos based on actual but obscure canon sources or are they just theory crafting using real life science?

[@thelonelyrogue3727]

He tends to make a disclaimer when he's theory-crafting. The Halo novels tend to have a lot of detailed information on the tech, because of how they're written.

[@Installation00]

So far, the Armory playlist is sourced from ingame performance and the extended lore. No theory crafting thus far.

[@superheavyxd2684]

So even the ALIENS who use it doesn't understand completely how it works!? Needler: The most alien weapon in the game! Not even it's user/producer?, knows how it works! It just does! 😁👍

[@john01112]

Found your channel last night. dude, your videos are fucking great. keep it up.

[@bthsr7113]

My top 3 ideas for hybrid needle weapons 1 needle 'nade 2 needle shotgun shell 3 needle launcher (shove rocket engines and guidance systems into a giant crystal matrix)

[@everythingsalright1121]

I mean, it's a fire and forget infantry weapon. That's pretty good in my book...

[@nuruddinshah684]

So....0:53 where did you get that scene?

[@xerthetvaoan]

Fuck yesss! I love the Needler!

[@DeanoStrengthWorx]

Only thing I don’t get is that, the needles does not use reversed engineered for runner tech witch is fine but why does the core of the covey army have no idea how it works?

[@dumbproductions2958]

I figured it was a pre-contact Kig-yar weapon

[@charchadonto]

They actually have either no idea or only a rudimentary understanding of how a lot of Their stuff works. it mostly comes from their religon, using the tech was fine, studying/altering it was however a nono becayse the forerunners were perfect right? so their tech is perfect too. heresy to try and modify/dissect it.

[@DissedRedEngie]

When I was younger I used wonder why master chief didn't melee by smacking the needles on the gun into enemies. Then I realised that to hit someone with *explosive crystals that make a bigger explosion when multiple hit a target* would be really stupid.

[@javiermitchell260]

My favorite halo weapon

[@420-V.T.L-Machinist]

I think the best needler death is in Ghosts of Onyx. Not sure of the Spartan 3s name but he has his chest blown out and still continues fighting for a while. Maybe it was Dante?

[@bradymenting5120]

BLAMITE that's really what it's called? I love it

[@joeyvitale24]

0 dislikes. You love to see it 🤘😁

[@wolfboy18]

Could you please do a video on the Needle Riffle and the Fuel Rod Canon/Gun?

[@SwiftGundam]

Maybe I missed it but I believe you forgot to mention that the explosion from multiple needles only occurs on organic targets and not on anything else.

[@markmulder9845]

Ah the needler. The only weapon that makes running around a corner for cover useless.

[@lonelypotato520]

Rocket launcher

[@dakotafogarty5901]

Fear the pink mist

[@Sapieteuthid]

It's not based on Forerunner technology? The Sentinel Enforcers if Halo 2 are armed with their own version of the Needler though.

[@Arkancide]

I would have vastly preferred a version of the Needler that has no homing effects, but has greatly increased velocity. The Dark Eldar from Warhammer 40k utilize toxin impregnated crystal shard projectiles to great effect. Replace the toxins with the mysterious explosive aspects of the Needler crystal and I'd be very afraid of such a weapon. Or just combine the toxins with the explosive crystals... Yeesh.

[@MarioTheLiopleurodon]

I think a needle shotgun would be an effective weapon. Needler with extended barrel, still tracks targets but the needles fly slightly faster. It would either fire a bunch at once or fire on a burst setting, shooting 7 needles at something upwards of 1,200 rpm. You could just shlcklhkclhkclhkclhk BOOM click click shlcklkclkclkclckclk BOOM

[@smangy5442]

My head canon is that the blamite crytal shards are electrically encoded with data gathered from a heat signature sensor at the front of the weapon this data makes the crystal decay/propel more quickly from specific sides of the shard guiding it to the position of the target where it was when the weapon was initially fired. But that doesn't explain how in game the needles track you when your moving. Maybe it receives constant signal from the needler as its mid air to its target? I'm not sure. If I was making the halo games I would ret-con most of the tracking stuff cause it doesn't make a lot of sense. Especially the charged plasma pistol bolt that doesn't make sense at all. Atleast with the needler you can say that its the exotic ammunition that does the tracking.

[@smangy5442]

@Usze 'Taham I think that's a bit more advanced than the covenants technological abilities. That would be something the precursors or maybe the forerunners could build but def not covies

[@smangy5442]

@Usze 'Taham I know they didn't make the crystals they were a natural mineral in one of Sanghelios's moons. All I'm saying is I don't think the covenant had any control or understanding of neural physics. "The workings of neural physics were completely beyond the conventional technologies of younger races, even the Forerunners"- From Halopedia And I thought the needler was originally developed by the San 'Shyuum after they made contact with Sangheili. Shyuums were more adept at building advanced tech at least more than the Sangheili

[@smangy5442]

@Usze 'Taham do you have sources for it being pure sangheili tech? I read on the wiki that both human and sangheili scientists were studying the needler and it's functionality post human-covenant war if they are still studying its inner workings then that doesn't sound like they designed it themselves. I think a better explanation is that its pure san-shyuum tech and that only they know the inner workings of it. However given that the San shyuum are pretty much extinct now, those secrets died with them. hence sangheili and humans studying it post war.

[@noblesicks]

i heard that even the people that made didn't know how it works they just make it and accept that fact that is works

[@IndorilTheGreat]

It's almost like the weapon has some sort of sentience.

[@camerongraves8398]

Yes thank you i asked and you answered

[@joseignaciohileradorna5122]

Do certain types of Covenant weapons come from different races? Or were they just all developed by the the Covenant as a whole? The reason I ask is cuase theres a fair variety of different types of weapon, plasma, fuel rods, needles and spikes. We know the spike weapons are from Jiralhanae origins but where do the needlers or fuel rods weapons come from?

[@thitipongkasemwarit3560]

We need more Needler weapons in Halo: Needler Shotgun Needler Pistol Needler Assault Rifle Needler Carbine Needler Light Machinegun Needler Sniper Rifle(not the rifle one from Reach) Needler Grenade Needler Mortar Needler Rocket Launcher Needler Grenade Launcher

[@andrewisbetterthanyou]

Can we get a lore video on the grunt mechs? Warzone, Halo Wars 2. Seeing them in these games made me really curious about the lore behind them.

[@shitpostingdragon2370]

literally more advanced than most forerunner weapons and even most of the covinant dont know how it works hardly know how it works but its everywhere... haha type 33 go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@emilkaapola7191]

Love the channel and love the detailed content about rarely discussed topics. I'd love to see you do a video analyzing the blamite crystals themselves and your thoughts over how the material works. Hope you're doing good and keep up the great content!

[@ianl1253]

Is there any way you can cover a theory video of SPARTAN-Vs? I know that you mentioned them in your: "How Master Chief Should Die" video. I don't know if it was intentional or on accident, but I would like to know what you think S-Vs should be IF they ever do become a thing. Like for example, what would make them so different compared to the S-IV program? Or other previous Spartan programs? I thought long and hard about what a S-V program would be, but have ran into many problems. The big thing that I thought of was clone spartans. But, how would that go? Who will be determined to be cloned? Costs? Secrecy? Service number designation? How far has cloning technology come since the flash cloning of the S-II candidates? So many questions, hard answers, interesting theories. Love your videos.

[@acrustykrab]

The Halo 1 Needler was an Elite Killer!

[@Viviana088]

Elite: IIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE *Multiple explosions*

[@andreastveranger1331]

Can you do a detailed breakdown on all odst units?

[@avengerulsasuke5814]

I like Halo 1 needler the most. How about you guys?

[@charlesballiet7074]

I remember that was a really dangerous gun to your human alies and would require prioritization before they burst yr palls

[@chengzhou8711]

Covenant Glock

[@sunvro8341]

how does it reload? how do you put ammo in it? how do the neeldes feed into the top? good vid like always tho

[@scarclaw72]

Halo 3 onward only required 6 needles to supercombine

[@WatermelonEnthusiast9]

I used to hate the needler, but as donut said "... but i really started to warm up to it." or something, i dont think thats accurately quated

[@ThatsTuff888]

Breakdown of the pelican?

[@mewmew10milli]

I really hope we see newer more exotic weapons in the next halo human and alien. It's getting a bit annoyed that we just get the variants of the same weapons.

[@battlesheep2552]

I liked using in multiplayer, it’s al chchchchchchchchBOOM

[@oneoneseven3772]

Needler Go brrrrrt

[@generalinternet264]

Theres a video by Lockstien and Knoggin that tries to explain how a Needler works if your interested, it think its very plausable

[@mrcroob8563]

It's a good video to pause?

[@generalinternet264]

@@mrcroob8563 plausable*