- SumoMafia
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- Noble Heroic Member
Horrible as in pants--blam!-ly terrifying. This is indeed a very creative weapon.
First of all, though perspective may be skewed in the game, the needles the gun fires are about a foot and a half long; about as long as your foream. That's not a little hypodermic needle; that's a sword.
Not only are the needles huge, they also track you. So they're like heat-seeking missile-swords. In addition to that, expanding on the "missile" aspect, they explode about a second after they hit you. If you were to get hit in the neck with one of these things and it exploded, it would sever your head clean off.
Add the fact that the weapon fires like a freaking machine gun, filling every square inch of space around you with heat-seeking exploding-missile-sword-needles, and the fact that if you get hit with enough of them, they'll all explode together, which is comparable to getting stabbed in the chest with a pipe bomb, and I'd never want to leave the safety of my Warthog.
The only drawback to the Needler is that it has stupid range. Oh, wait, what's that? There's now a RIFLE that shoots even bigger explosive-sword-missiles from a thousand miles away? I might as well just strap a bomb to myself and jump off a cliff. I'd probably be much less screwed.
Discuss the Needler weapons and their awesome-scaryness.