Am I the only person who wants to see a Needle Grenade of some sort? It could be either a solid sphere or cube of the pink crystal that the Needler uses. I’m thinking somewhat similar to the Spike Grenade. It shoots little pink needles out everywhere and you can also stick people with it and they supercombine.
It’d be fun for Campaign, but I don’t know how it’d work in MP with out being over powered.
been wanting it since CE
Are you aware how a normal Grenade works?
> Are you aware how a normal Grenade works?
Yeah, but it would work more like a spike grenade, and it could supercombine. Instead of most of the damage coming from the explosion, it would be from the shrapnels.
ehhh, personally I’m not a fan of the idea. I miss the flame grenade to be honest 
I just like fire though…
> been wanting it since CE
I remember there use to be a Custom Edition map that had a Needle Grenade, along with a needle Shotgun, those things was fun, but they was also OPed.
> > Are you aware how a normal Grenade works?
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> Yeah, but it would work more like a spike grenade, and it could supercombine. Instead of most of the damage coming from the explosion, it would be from the shrapnels.
The only way it could work is if the needles homed in and caused an explosion. So it will only be useful against unshield opponent and can be used to throw around corners to chase fleeing, weakened enemies.
> > > Are you aware how a normal Grenade works?
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> > Yeah, but it would work more like a spike grenade, and it could supercombine. Instead of most of the damage coming from the explosion, it would be from the shrapnels.
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> The only way it could work is if the needles homed in and caused an explosion. So it will only be useful against unshield opponent and can be used to throw around corners to chase fleeing, weakened enemies.
Nah, you don’t need to have the needles home, they just need to go out in a omni direction, if a target gets hit by more than a certain number of needles, they go boom.
I like this idea very much.
> ehhh, personally I’m not a fan of the idea. I miss the flame grenade to be honest I just like fire though…
It would be awesome to see the fire effects with the new Halo 4 graphics.
The idea is fun, but it would need a really good tuning so that it does not get OP.
Also, as some people already said, I would really much like to see the pyro grenade back. This was awesome^^
They wuld be a cool replacement for the spike grenade saying as it looks like the brutes arn’t returning (in this game anyway)
If you think about it, when supercombined the Needler ammunition is basically a grenade only with tracking capabilities…
so essentially, the Needler is a Covenant counterpart of the grenade launcher.
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Nice, nice, this post is only a year old or so - well my thoughts on the matter is that I absolutely love the idea and here is what I said from my own thread and someone brought it (thank god he did!
> Hmmm cool innovative idea, that actually might play off the canon of Halo in which the Elites have taken the Brutes design from their Spike grenades and implement it onto their Plasma grenades. If you look up an HD shot of H4’s Plasma grenade you’ll see there’s a mix of organic and geometric shapes (I think the Covenants designs should be purely organic, but that’s another story) you can almost carve out those shapes and put in a clear panel, within the panel there can be needlers embedded the core of the grenade, so that, for the most part, it will still act like a normal sticky like in previous Halo’s but if an enemy player get’s stuck by two (which are rare and hilarious) the needles can be make an explosion by themselves, it just wouldn’t happen with one sticky. Point being is because the brutes have the upper hand with the technology than the elites because of years upon years of using it and therefore the effect of the Needle grenade (aka enhanced plasma grenade) is null. So it can be done, and even used in MP because it would act very,very similar to the traditional sticky (which it should still be called the plasma grenade).
so the thing is, it should still be called the Plasma grenade, but it’s enhanced (almost purely aesthetics wise)
Also, it would be cool when you throw it on the ground or the wall at an angle it’ll actually “stick” to it instead of slightly bouncing and roll before exploding. Although it would roll on a wall for a couple feet before dropping and detonating.
Also, I’m looking at these links for inspiration
Hedgehog grenade from Resistance: http://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/resistance-3/thumb/c/ca/Hedgehog.jpg/468px-Hedgehog.jpg
Renders of the Halo 4 Plasma grenade: http://halo4weapons.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/halo4plasmagrenade.jpg
Render of the Halo 4 Needler: http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/31000000/Halo-4-Needler-halo-31073821-1280-720.jpg
Ok, I went into this think you stole my idea, only to find out that this is completely different from my needle grenade idea. The similarities between the names is purely coincidental, as I wasn’t even on these forums a year ago.
This is thread in which I came up with the idea.
https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postst231628_How-loadouts-should-be-in-future-titles.aspx
Maybe for Campaign. I’m not a big fan of the Needler anymore.
How about it explodes dozens of small needles in all directions on a wide spread, dealing relatively low damage (unless you’re standing on the thing), but hitting (and therefore detecting via hitmarker) basically all enemies within a respectable radius?
Not the best for outright killing, but great for feeling out campers or finishing large numbers of weak enemies.
Useless against vehicles; no stick.
FYI guys, this was a necro-post.