The Needle Rifle from Halo: Reach is among the added weapons in Halo: Campaign Evolved.
Campaign Evolved expands beyond Halo: Combat Evolved’s original arsenal by importing weapons associated with later games. The Needle Rifle is one of those additions, bringing Reach’s semi-automatic precision weapon into the remake’s reworked campaign.
The weapon is a Covenant firearm that fires crystalline Subanese shard ammunition. Repeated hits can trigger a supercombine explosion, a defining trait it shares with the Needler, although the Needle Rifle is designed for longer-range, more deliberate shooting rather than close-range automatic fire.
The alternatives are easy to confuse because they also belong to Halo’s broader weapon history. The Focus Rifle and Plasma Repeater are associated with Reach, while the DMR is another Reach-era precision weapon. However, the stored answer is the specific Reach weapon identified among Campaign Evolved’s additions.