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Subject: That Pink Mist.

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So... If needler crystals explode after prolonged contact with biological matter... What would happen if you rubbed your face all over a big hunk of crystal?

  • 12.11.2011 1:37 AM PDT

"I may not be perfect, but always been true."

You get an unhealthy pink tone to your skin...and cancer.

  • 12.11.2011 1:59 AM PDT
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I doubt it'll explode...I mean, marines can reload that thing, and I think the needles has to be embedded in your body for it to work.

  • 12.11.2011 2:19 AM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

It potentially has to be 'primed' by being fired/launched from the needler.
In a similar way that there's far less to fear from a grenade which still has a pin, than one without.

  • 12.11.2011 2:26 AM PDT

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Posted by: Guscon
It potentially has to be 'primed' by being fired/launched from the needler.
In a similar way that there's far less to fear from a grenade which still has a pin, than one without.


That makes sense then. Makes the needler that much cooler.

  • 12.11.2011 3:09 AM PDT
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Lol,the pink mist is teh bane of my enemies.

Now to seriousness: In the fall of reach book, it was said that they threw off a lot of microshrapnel after the explosion...
So all the covenant needs to do is make that blow up too1 :)

  • 12.11.2011 6:25 AM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

You get pink eye...and moon cancer.

  • 12.11.2011 6:53 AM PDT

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Posted by: SEAL Sniper 9
You get pink eye...and moon cancer.


Sounds brutal... I'll assume that those are terrible, terrible things that result in... Combustion perhaps?

  • 12.12.2011 5:26 AM PDT

Bit of a side note... the Halo Reach needler feels PERFECT, they finally got the balance of it perfectly.

Strafing and leading shots add such a perfect balance to a weapon that has always in my opinion never found itself until Reach.

Perfect.
Perfect.
Perfect.



EDIT: I said perfect alot so I went all out.

[Edited on 12.12.2011 9:14 PM PST]

  • 12.12.2011 9:13 PM PDT

It is a really sweet weapon. Its function and design is not entirely known. I believe the tracking and explosive system is not understood by human beings.

  • 12.12.2011 9:36 PM PDT

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Posted by: Sigma617

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It is a really sweet weapon. Its function and design is not entirely known. I believe the tracking and explosive system is not understood by human beings.


Also, incredibly it's been revealed that during the Needler's firing sequence, there are no moving parts throughout the mechanism. Remarkable.

Wow... The Covenant really went all-out for this kind of tech...
And then there's the added bonus that it just looks really cool :P

  • 12.13.2011 1:50 AM PDT
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I think X amount of force is involved. In contact Harvest, the Jackal had the Needler knife, so that makes me believe that if the Needle encounters X amount of force it is primed.

  • 12.13.2011 11:39 AM PDT