User:JackVibe/Sandbox
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- "Anything stuck with enough needles will blow sky high—and if a Foxtrot is unlucky enough to be carrying grenades, those are gonna cook off too."
- — Anonymous serviceman
Type-33 Guided Munitions Launcher (T-33 GML), also known as the Needler, is the United Nations Space Command's type classification for six distinct patterns of a Covenant needle-based infantry automatic weapon.[1] Although the six distinct patterns of the needlers possessed aesthetic and functional differences, their shared UNSC type designation suggests that they were all catalogued and classified in 2533.
Nahle'hax-pattern needle launcher
- Main article: Nahle'hax-pattern needler
The Nahle'hax-pattern needle launcher is designated as T-33 GML.[2][1] It has multiple known chassis.[3] This variant was commonly employed by the Covenant and its remnants.[4][5][6]
The first chassis with blue lights on side of the upper cowling.
The second chassis with metallic braces on the channel braces.
The third chassis with no lights on the side of the upper cowling.
Battle of Installation 04 pattern
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This pattern designated as Type-33 Guided Munitions Launcher was manufactured by the Sacred Promissory.[1]
Design details
This needler pattern is characterized by an additional handguard around the grip between the cowlings. It also possesses a longer handguard extending from the lower cowling,[1] though, unlike other needlers with this attribute, the handguard is angled downwards rather than curving upwards.[9]
The HUD icon for this T-33 GML pattern.
Scattered Needlers and their ammunition boxes.
Usage
This pattern of the needler was commonly employed during the Battle of Installation 04 by the forces deployed from the Fleet of Particular Justice.[8] It was particularly popular among Special Operations Unggoy combating the Flood.[10][11]
Two SpecOps Unggoy firing their needlers in the wreckage of UNSC Pillar of Autumn.
Captain Jacob Keyes notably used a needler after his recue.
Battle of Installation 05 pattern
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This pattern designated as Type-33 Guided Munitions Launcher was manufactured by the Sacred Promissory.[1]
Design details
This needler pattern is characterized by upper and lower cowlings of congruent lengths.[17]
Usage
This pattern of the needler was commonly employed by the forces deployed from the Fleet of Sacred Consecration during the Battle of Mombasa and Battle of Installation 05. Members of Sesa 'Refumee's heretic faction, especially the Unggoy, favored this needler pattern as well.[13]
A Stealth Sangheili wielding the Needler during the Harvest campaign.
Two Unggoy fielding the Needler in the Threshold gas mine.
Truth's fleet pattern
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This pattern designated as Type-33 Guided Munitions Launcher was manufactured by the Sacred Promissory.[1] It was nicknamed Pinkies and Shrimp Shooter.[20]
Design details
This needler pattern is characterized by upper and lower cowlings of congruent lengths. In addition, there are purple light fixtures around the barrel and its adjoining channel braces.[23]
Usage
This pattern of the needler was commonly employed by the forces deployed from the Prophet of Truth's fleet during the Battle of Voi and the Battle of Installation 00[21]
A Yanme'e Pupa (left) with the Needler during the Battle of Mombasa.
An Unggoy Major wielding a Needler.
Trivia
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- Instead of each needle on top of the Needler being pushed separately into the gun with each shot, every needle sinks into the weapon slightly for each shot fired. In Halo: Reach, a needle sinks into the weapon every time one is fired.
- It's never been shown how the Needler is reloaded, as ammunition is never seen being plugged into the weapon. Pressing the "reload" command merely causes the needles to extend from the holes, with no other action from the wielder's model. Grunts carrying the Needler may occasionally tap and shake the weapon as if to reload it.
- On the level Quarantine Zone in Halo 2, there is a lone Sentinel that fires Needler rounds and drops a Needler when it is destroyed.
- In Halo 3, regardless of how many needles are loaded in the weapon, none will appear in the Needler's shadow.
- Bungie.net's Halo 3 statistics page claims that the Needler has thirty needles per magazine instead of the actual nineteen.
- In Halo 3, killing five enemies with a Needler, in a ranked free-for-all match or campaign will reward the player with the Fear the Pink Mist achievement. In Halo 3: ODST, killing ten Covenant soldiers with an explosion from the Needler in a single-player level or in Firefight will reward the player with the Pink and Deadly achievement. In Halo: Reach the player earns the A Spoonful of Blamite achievement for killing ten enemies with Needler explosions. Killing an opponent with a super-combine of the Needler's needles will grant the player a Super Detonation Medal in Halo 3, Needler Kill Medal in Halo 3: ODST and a Needle Combine Kill Medal in Halo: Reach.
- In Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, the Needler is referred to as a pistol. This may be because in the large hands of a Sangheili, it seems proportionally smaller.
- In Halo: Combat Evolved level 343 Guilty Spark and the Halo 2 Vista map Uplift are the only levels to feature Needler ammunition outside the Needler.
- When using Anniversary mode in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, dropped Needlers are always depicted as either being fully loaded or empty with no middle ground. However, when playing Classic mode, the number of needles can be seen indicating how many remained in the clip prior to the weapon being picked up.
- In the video Enemy Weapon at 0:22 in left side of the screen is a Type-33 Needler in a glass case with needles still visible on the weapon, indicating that it is still loaded.
Gallery
Halo: Combat Evolved
Concept art of the Needler.
Concept art of the Needler.
A Sangheili Minor wielding a needler in an early build.
First-person view of the needler.
An Unggoy Major wielding the needler.
A SpecOps Sangheili wielding the needler.
Halo 2
A profile view of the needler from Halo 2.
First-person view of dual-wielding needlers in Halo 2 multiplayer Capture the Flag.
First-person view of dual-wielding needlers in Halo 2.
First-person view of single-wielding a needler in Halo 2.
Halo 3
First-person view of the needler in Halo 3.
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A needler shard in mid-flight in Halo 3.
Close-up preview of a needler shard in Halo 3.
The needler in Halo 3.
Another shot of the Halo 3-era needler.
An in-game profile view of the needler from Halo 3.
Halo: Reach
Concept art for the Reach depiction of the needler.
A profile view of the needler in the Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta.
A first-person view of the needler during the Halo: Reach Beta.
First-person view of the needler in the final build of Halo: Reach.
The final in-game side preview of the needler from Halo: Reach.
First-person view of the needler in Halo: Reach.
The needler in Halo: Reach.
An exploded view of a needler, drawn by Dr. Halsey.
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
First-person view of the needler in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary.
HUD of the needler in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary.
A needle embedded in Chyler Silva's stomach in Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn.
Halo 4
Render of the needler in Halo 4.
First-person view of the needler in Halo 4.
The needler viewed in the HUD in Halo 4 Forge.
HUD icon of the needler in Halo 4.
A needler shard in mid-flight in Halo 4.
Closeup detail of the needler shard in flight in Halo 4.
Reference model sheet of the needler in Halo 4.
Orthographic views of the needler in Halo 4.
Halo 2: Anniversary
First-person view of the needler in Halo 2: Anniversary campaign.
First-person view while dual wielding.
John-117 duel-wielding needlers during the Battle of Installation 05.
First-person view of the needler in Halo 2: Anniversary multiplayer.
A Spartan using a needler on Stonetown.
First-person view while dual wielding.
A Spartan dual wielding needlers.
A Spartan using a T-33 needler on Shrine.
A needler on Diamondback in Halo Online.
Prop of the needler for Halo: The Television Series.
List of appearances
Sources
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 128
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 294
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedh4gameplay - ^ Halo: Combat Evolved, Game manual
- ^ a b c d Halo: Combat Evolved, Gameplay
- ^ Halo: Combat Evolved, In-game model
- ^ Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level Keyes
- ^ Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level The Maw
- ^ a b Halo 2, Game manual
- ^ a b c d e f Halo 2, Gameplay
- ^ Halo Wars, campaign level Relic Interior
- ^ Halo 2, campaign level The Arbiter
- ^ Halo 2, campaign level The Oracle
- ^ Halo 2, In-game model
- ^ a b c d e f g h Bungie.net, Type-33 Guided Munitions Launcher - 9/6/2007 (Retrieved on Jan 16, 2021) [archive]
- ^ Halo 3, Game manual
- ^ a b c d e f Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition), page 323
- ^ a b c d e Halo 3, Gameplay
- ^ Halo 3: ODST, Gameplay
- ^ Halo 3, In-game model
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