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Subject: Needler Alterations
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I know that bungie altered the needler to make it better, but does anyone know what they changed? Like, does it fire faster now, or home better, or just do more damage?

  • 06.17.2004 4:00 PM PDT
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In the MP demos, the needles appear to fly faster and you need less of them to cause an explosion.

  • 06.17.2004 4:02 PM PDT

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It fires faster and I think it takes more to kill but it homes faster I don't really know but it fires faster.

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  • 06.17.2004 4:02 PM PDT
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I thought it did all of those.
In all the vids i saw it did, multiplayer demonstration when he shot it you can see the little needles hit the ground from a pretty good distance, almost instantly! And I've seen people actually get killed by the needler, which didn't really happen often in the first one on multiplayer.

-EDIT- And in one part on a vid this guy is shooting it at some guy playing an elite and it takes nearly a 90 degrees turn.(I said nearly so don't spaz out on me.)

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  • 06.17.2004 4:03 PM PDT
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If you watch the alternate zanzibar demo (not the one they released, the one at kikizo.com) they say that it is worth picking up because you don't need as many needles to cause an explosion.

  • 06.17.2004 4:04 PM PDT
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this has been posted before

  • 06.17.2004 4:06 PM PDT
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Its faster and stronger however to get the needles to explode you have to get almost the entire clip in but a single needle does more damage.

  • 06.17.2004 4:06 PM PDT
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OK here we go the needler still locks on but if a player is straight ahead of you it goes straight and really doesnt wave like it use to. The lock on it is better then the last and harder to dodge. The needler is key weapon why duel weilding due to the fact it doesnt take a long reload time. One possible bad thing about duel weilding with needlers is still the lack of ammo that will balance that out with other weapons. Needlers waste ammo fast.

  • 06.17.2004 4:08 PM PDT
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They might allow more clips this time.

  • 06.17.2004 4:09 PM PDT
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Could someone post links to the videos of the needlers being used?

  • 06.17.2004 4:14 PM PDT