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Subject: Needler, Not too bad.
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I'm not going to say that it is a better weapon than the pistol or sniper rifle, but as I found through playing Two Betrayals on legendary, the needler is quite the killing machine. The semi-seeking little explosive shards make it a good weapon when you are in a fight with a pistol bullet dodging elite. Elites seem to be able to side-step everything you throw at it, but the needler rounds still tend to find their target, and can take them down fairly easily. In an open area with little cover, its a handy tool.

I don't know...

Everyone seems to think that the needler is so awful...

  • 08.21.2005 5:18 PM PDT

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I dont think the needler is so bad.... thats one of my main weapons on legendary, especially when going aginst the elites. If there behind cover then u can still hit them. Thats better then trying to take them out with an assult rifle from medium long range. Plus i found out its pretty good aginst the infection form cause it explodes(the needles) and the flood explode... i like it!!!

  • 08.21.2005 7:37 PM PDT
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It's the best covenant weapon against the flood.

  • 08.21.2005 10:28 PM PDT
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I find that one of the best places to use the needler is at the beginning of Two Betrails. First you kill the sentinals, go through the door, kill a grunt or elite with a needler, and use it in that tunnel place you are currently in. There is almost no cover, so you should have no trouble hitting things with it.

  • 08.22.2005 3:43 AM PDT
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Yeah, It can rock. If you are playing on legendary and are very low on ammo with a couple of red elites blocking the area up ahead then grabbing a needler is certainly the way to go. When all the little needles collect on the Elite sometimes the blast is powerful enough to kill them both. Halo's needler is quite decent.

  • 08.22.2005 6:24 AM PDT
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It's the easiest way to take down Elites.

  • 08.22.2005 7:05 AM PDT
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Yeah the needler..kills all elites.

  • 08.22.2005 7:50 AM PDT

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."- John F. Kennedy

They folded out of the system immediately
after I received the message, without so
much as a "Thanks for saving us from
becoming plasma on Tau Ceti, Durandal".

yeah!!!! we actually like the needler that rocks!!!!

  • 08.23.2005 2:35 PM PDT
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ya, i never really appriciated its beauty until playing legendary for the first time. its deffinatly somthing i needed to get through the last 3 levels in halo.

  • 08.23.2005 4:06 PM PDT