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The Needler is i of the three new Science weapons in The Outer Worlds latest DLC. As you lot work your way through the Murder on Eridanos, you'll start to learn more than well-nigh aetherwave star Halcyon Helen and her famous sidearm. Near the end of the tale, you'll finally have a chance to try out The Needler for yourself.

Information technology's of import to annotation that this guide will delve into some story spoilers for the Murder on Eridanos' end-game. We recommend running through the DLC yourself and coming back if you couldn't observe The Needler on your own.

Finding The Needler

To get The Needler, you need to reach the "Naked Hunch" quest. It unlocks after you tell Ludovico who you call back the killer is. The quest takes you over to Rizzo's Distillation Manufactory, where y'all'll meet up with Halcyon Helen and Ludovico. Nosotros won't spoil how or why she's alive, just she'll give you a pick to brand. Whether you choose to side with Helen or Ludovico, you lot can yet get the gun. You need to brand some specific choices if you want to do so.

Siding with Helen

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If you side with Helen, you'll need to run out of an exploding Distillation Factory. After escaping, yous'll run into upward with Helen back at your penthouse before heading into the adjacent story mission. There, you'll have the adventure to ask her to apply The Needler.

Once you've ran through her dialogue about the mission, you'll get the chance to persuade her to give you her sidearm. Just select "Not so fast. Let me borrow your Needler" and, if you have a high enough persuasion rating, she'll pass it along.

Side with Ludovico

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If you side with Ludovico, you won't become admission to The Needler equally quickly, merely you can still pick information technology up. Once you caput over to The Pilothouse to practise the next quest, you'll find yourself waylaid past enemies. After you deal with them, Helen will come to face you. Turn down her final chance pleas and murder her. And then, you tin can pick the weapon upwards off her corpse.

Regardless of how you acquired The Needler, you lot now accept one of the more fun guns in the game. The Needler doesn't crave you lot to reload. Instead, reloading changes the ammo blazon. In that location are three unlike ammo types for y'all to switch. Hither they are:

  • Rid O' Life – deals impairment over time.
  • Caustoleren – eats at shields over fourth dimension.
  • Debilerol – slows the target.

Swapping between the 3 ammo types lets you tear through enemies and quickly bargain with anything the game throws in your path. It's a worthy reward for finishing off the latest DLC.